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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
PRE-FILM CLUB MENU £12 CHURCHILL ARMS
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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 Vegetable tempura Chicken satay Mains (choice from) Vegetable or chicken red curry with rice Vegetable or chicken green curry with rice Vegetable or chicken Pad Thai noodles Vegetable or chicken drunken noodles |
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Friday 15 November 2019
FIRST MAN CERTIFICATE 12A RUNNING TIME 141 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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This is the riveting story of NASA's mission to land a man on the moon focussing on the life of the legendary American Astronaut Neil Armstrong from 1961-1969, and his journey to becoming the first human to walk the moon. It explores the sacrifices and costs on the nation and Neil himself, during one of the most dangerous missions in the history of space travel.
Damien Chazelle’s drama about Neil Armstrong and the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing is a moving tale of loss and peril. The Guardian Astonishing. The definitive take on a monumental moment in history — without ever losing sight of the man underneath the visor. Empire |
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Friday 22 November 2019
VICE CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 132 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.
From being a Yale University dropout doing odd jobs in early-1960s Wyoming, Dick Cheney decides to take back control of his life. As an intern during Richard Nixon's administration, Cheney grabs the opportunity to join the staff of his mentor, Donald Rumsfeld paving the way to rise through the ranks of the White House. Cheney reluctantly accepts George W. Bush's proposal to be his running mate, a decision that would grant him the power to pull the strings of foreign policy, especially after the fateful and devastating 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bale brilliantly captures the former vice-president’s bland magnificence in Adam McKay’s entertainingly nihilist biopic. The Guardian |
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Friday 29 November 2019
ALL IS TRUE CERTIFICATE 12A RUNNING TIME 101 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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The year is 1613, Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground, and devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationships with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as husband and father. His very personal search for the truth uncovers secrets and lies within a family at war.
A quiet and meditative portrait of the artist as a retiree, this lacks incident or high stakes but has an elegiac feeling of regret and reckoning that fits its subject’s twilight years. Empire Kenneth Branagh and Ben Elton might have played fast and loose with the truth but they have created something bold and contemporary. Independent |
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Friday 6 December 2019
AMAZING GRACE CERTIFICATE PG RUNNING TIME 113 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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The story of Amazing Grace, centring on Aretha Franklin’s two-night performance in 1972 which led to the biggest selling live gospel album of all time.
It was directed by Sydney Pollack but unfortunately, with his background in drama rather than music docs, Pollack failed to use clapperboards or markers, making it virtually impossible to synch the resulting picture with the recorded sound. Not even lip readers, who were reportedly enlisted to sift through hours of silent film, could solve the problem. Instead, the footage languished in the vaults for decades until producer Alan Elliott began working on a reconstruction using previously unavailable digital technologies. Several years after Pollack’s death in 2008, Elliott had managed to assemble a workable cut, only to have his efforts scuppered by lawsuits from Franklin claiming unauthorised appropriation of her likeness. Although she told the Detroit Free Press in 2015 that “I love the film itself”, Aretha continued to contest its release, and the legal issues have only now been resolved in the wake of the singer’s death So, after nearly five decades, does the film stand the test of time? Hallelujah, yes! The Guardian One of the greatest concert films of all time New Musical Express |
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Friday 13 December 2019
ROCKET MAN CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 121 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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Dexter Fletcher's rousingly good natured Rocketman is the authorised-version movie about the legendary singer-songwriter Elton John A sequin-encrusted delight. On paper it reads like a by-the-book biopic; on screen it explodes with the kind of colour and energy that only Elton John himself could invoke. Empire It's going to be a long, long time before a rock biopic manages to capture the highs and lows of an artist's life like Rocketman. Rotten Tomatoes - 88% audience rating It covers a fair bit of time – from early childhood to middle-aged rehab – and so has to race through some key milestones. But appropriately, the music is left to do the heavy lifting. Taron Egerton [Elton John] is brilliant, an electrifying presence Empire |
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Friday 20 December 2019
MARY POPPINS RETURNS CERTIFICATE U RUNNING TIME 126 MINUTES START TIME 6 PM *** EARLIER START TIME AFTER FATHER CHRISTMAS VISIT *** MULLED WINE & MINCE PIES |
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Now an adult with three children, bank teller Michael Banks learns that his house will be repossessed in five days unless he can pay back a loan. His only hope is to find a missing certificate that shows proof of valuable shares that his father left him years earlier. Just as all seems lost, Michael and his sister receive the surprise of a lifetime when Mary Poppins -- the beloved nanny from their childhood -- arrives to save the day and take the Banks family on a magical, fun-filled adventure.
It was always going to be hard to watch for a die-hard Poppins fan, but this sequel to the 1964 classic retains the magic The Guardian Against all the odds, this is a very worthy follow-up to the original movie. [Emily] Blunt [Mary Poppins] is pitch-perfect, as ever, in a film that all but insists you leave with a smile slapped on your face. Empire Cast also includes Julie Walters, Meryl Streep, Colin Firth and Dick Van Dyke |
