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Wine - £4/glass (or £15/bottle)
Beer - £4/pint
Soft drinks £1 apart from J2O £2
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Friday 15 November 2024
The Carol of the Bells (Sub titles - Ukrainian film) RUNNING TIME 122 MINUTES START TIME 7.30 PM |
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Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy, and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting
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Friday 22 November 2024
Old Oak CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 113MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it's also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. TJ Ballantyne, the landlord, hangs on to The Old Oak by his fingertips, and his predicament is endangered even more when the pub becomes contested territory after the arrival of Syrian refugees who are placed in the village without any notice. In an unlikely friendship TJ meets a curious young Syrian woman named Yara, who is always carrying a camera. Can they find a way for the two communities to understand each other? So unfolds a deeply moving drama about their fragilities and hopes
A film as fired up and human as you'll see this year Time Out 4* Ken Loach's fierce final call for compassion and solidarity The Guardian 4* |
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Friday 6 December 2024
A Haunting in Venice CERTIFICATE 12 RUNNING TIME 99 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. He soon gets thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets when one of the guests is murdered.
A darker and spookier spin on Branagh's Poirot, A Haunting in Venice is a decent Halloween snack whose undemanding mystery gets a lift from nifty visuals and an all-star cast. 77% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes |
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Friday 13 December 2024
The Holdovers CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 133 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti) -- not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains -- a trouble-making 15-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled. Joining Paul and Angus is head cook Mary (Randolph)- who caters to sons of privilege and whose own son was recently lost in Vietnam. These three very different shipwrecked people form an unlikely Christmas family sharing comic misadventures during two very snowy weeks in New England. The real journey is how they help one another understand that they are not beholden to their past-they can choose their own futures.
Cute and touching if not laugh-out-loud hilarious, The Holdovers is a thought-provoking dramedy for viewers seeking a dialogue-driven movie with a throwback feel. 77% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes A Charming comedy The Guardian 4* |
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Friday 17th January 2025
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny CERTIFICATE 12A RUNNING TIME 142 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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Finding himself in a new era and approaching retirement, Indiana Jones wrestles with fitting into a world that seems to have outgrown him. But as the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more as he races against time to make sure a legendary dial that can change the course of history doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Accompanied by his goddaughter, he soon finds himself squaring off against Jürgen Voller, a former Nazi who works for NASA.
Indy’s final date with destiny has a barmy finale that might divide audiences — but if you join him for the ride, it feels like a fitting goodbye to cinema’s favourite grave-robber. Empire People who love this series, and even those who don't, will find all two and a half hours to be enjoyable and often elegant. Rotten Tomatoes |
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Friday 31st January 2025
The End We Start From CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 106 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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When an environmental crisis sees London submerged by flood waters, a young family is torn apart in the chaos. As a woman and her newborn try and find their way home, the profound novelty of motherhood is brought into sharp focus in this intimate and poetic portrayal of family survival as a new mother embarks on a dangerous journey to find a safe refuge, all the while trying to protect her baby from the surrounding chaos.
Jodie Comer is phenomenal in this end-of-days survival thriller...I can think of few other films that get into the skin of new motherhood, with its formless terrors and fierce, furious primal love, as inventively and effectively as this one. The Guardian The End We Start From offers a thoughtful, haunting look at the end of the world. Rotten Tomatoes |
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Friday 14th February 2025
Man Up CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 88 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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A 34-year old single woman, Nancy exhausted by the fruitless set-ups by her friends, travels up to London to toast another 10 years of her parents' successful marriage. She runs into a 40-year old divorcee, Jack, who mistakes her for his 24-year old blind date. Nancy, deciding to go with it, happens to hop on the most chaotic yet hilarious journey of her life which neither of them will ever forget. There is drinking, competitive indoor sports, an old stalker classmate with a long-standing crush, lost divorce papers, lost hopes, and Jack finding out the truth. "Man Up" is a romantic comedy about taking chances, being yourself, making decisions, and rolling with the consequences.
Ultimately, if taken with the same pinch of salt that surely all rom-coms have come to require upon watching, this film will prove to be enjoyable, funny and endearing. The Indiedependent Even a second-rate farce like Man Up can be a jolly pick-me-up. Its momentum alone made me very happy. Vulture |
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Friday 28th February 2025
Parasite (Korean with subtitles) CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 132 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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The struggling Kim family sees an opportunity when their son starts working for the wealthy Park family. Soon, all of them find a way to work within the same household and start living a parasitic life. But greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Thrillingly played by a flawless ensemble cast who hit every note and harmonic resonance of Bong and co-writer Han Jin-won’s multitonal script, it’s a tragicomic masterclass that will get under your skin and eat away at your cinematic soul. The Guardian Parasite is both darkly hilarious and delightfully shocking, setting a new sky-high standard for black comedy. Rotten Tomatoes |