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Thank you to all our members and guests for your continuing support and we hope to see you again for the start of Season 8 later in the year - click on "COMING SOON IN SEASON 8 in the top menu bar for a selection of films and events planned for future screenings
On Fridays the bar is open 30 minutes before the film starts
On Fridays the bar is open 30 minutes before the film starts
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Available from 6pm and will end for 7.30pm to allow you to get to the film:
Starters (choice from) Vegetable spring rolls Duck rolls Chicken satay Mains (choice from) Vegetable or chicken Fat Buddha Pa-nang curry with rice Vegetable or chicken Pad Thai noodles Vegetable or chicken special fried rice |
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Friday 17 January 2020 THE GUILTY CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 85 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM (Danish with English sub-titles) |
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A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Alarm dispatcher Asger Holm answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman. When the call is suddenly disconnected, the search for the woman and her kidnapper begins. With the phone as his only tool, Asger enters a race against time to save the endangered woman. But soon he realizes that he is dealing with a crime that is far bigger than he first thought. Echoes of Dog Day Afternoon and Locke reverberate around this claustrophobic thriller, which is tautly plotted, precisely paced and grippingly played by Jakob Cedergren and his unseen co-stars. Empire Gustav Möller’s nerve-jangling thriller about an emergency police dispatcher and one fateful call uses minimal ingredients to devastating effect. The Observer |
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Friday 24 January 2020
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 106 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and '80s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. When Lee is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception, abetted by her loyal friend Jack. An adaptation of the memoir "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" relays the true story of the best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats).
This film takes an altogether different view of the imitation game. By embracing frauds and failures, it achieves greatness on the sly. Evening Standard Melissa McCarthy is magnificent as an odious literary forger abetted by Richard E Grant as her lounge-lizard drinking buddy The Guardian |
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Friday 31 January 2020
THE WHITE CROW CERTIFICATE 12A RUNNING TIME 127 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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Director Ralph Fiennes captures the raw physicality and brilliance of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet's most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
Part thriller, part meditation on life and art, and part portrait of a man on a tightrope, The White Crow may be juggling more themes than it can handle, but Fiennes makes the result a thing of bruising beauty and an exhilarating gift. Rollingstone [The White Crow] cleverly suggests Nureyev’s mixture of courage, hauteur, emotional damage and cool self-appraisal; the Soviet authorities cannot threaten him through his family because he long ago left them behind. An athletic, confident, undemanding film. The Guardian |
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Friday 7 February 2020
TOLKIEN CERTIFICATE 12A RUNNING TIME 112 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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As a young student, J.R.R. Tolkien finds love, friendship and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts. Their brotherhood soon strengthens as Tolkien weathers the storm of a tumultuous courtship with Edith Bratt and the outbreak of World War I. These early life experiences later inspire the budding author to write the classic fantasy novels "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
it’s a well acted, enjoyable biopic that sheds overdue light on an until now rather shadowy figure. Empire The Lord of the Rings author’s family have already disowned the film but it’s hard to see quite why. If it has taken liberties with its subject’s life, it has done so in order to make the film richer. Tolkien’s main dilemma is whether to concentrate on his studies at Oxford or to marry Edith. Father Francis refuses to allow him to do both. On its own, this wouldn’t make much of a story but the flashback structure and the continual shots of him during the Battle of the Somme add an extra layer of drama and pathos. The Independent |
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Friday 14 February 2020
Late Night CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 102 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM Emma Thompson nominated for Best Actress in 2018 Golden Globe Awards |
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A late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her first and only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision brings about unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women who are separated by culture and generation become united by their love of a biting punchline.
The film is bolstered by classic humor, a smart script, and winning performances by its entire cast. “Late Night” smartly sends up not just the cloistered world of late night television, but a cultural climate struggling to evolve in a changing world. Indie-Wire Mindy Kaling stirs up the stale, male writing team behind Emma Thompson’s talk show in this warm and witty comedy The Guardian |
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Friday 21 February 2020
Lion King CERTIFICATE PG RUNNING TIME 118 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny on the plains of Africa. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother -- and former heir to the throne -- has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is soon ravaged with betrayal, tragedy and drama, ultimately resulting in Simba's exile. Now, with help from a curious pair of newfound friends, Simba must figure out how to grow up and take back what is rightfully his.
Jon Favreau’s photorealistic copy of the classic 1994 animated feature is a virtual triumph The Guardian |
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Friday 28 February 2020
Mrs Lowry & Son CERTIFICATE PG RUNNING TIME 92 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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Beloved British artist L. S. Lowry lived with his overbearing mother, Elizabeth, until her death in 1939. Bed-ridden and bitter, Elizabeth actively tries to dissuade her bachelor son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, whilst never failing to voice her opinion at her disappointment in him
Vanessa Redgrave shines in a ponderous study of the artist’s relationship with his mother The Guardian Although the film is quite basic the acting of Timothy Spall and, to a degree, Vanessa Redgrave makes the film great. Spall now seems to be able to morph into any different British character, whether real or fiction, and completely make them his own [Film site editor comment - his Lancashire accent is superb]. He must be one of the most understated great actors of our time. From IMDb |
