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Friday 27 September 2024
Wicked Little Letters CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 100 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark, absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story, "Wicked Little Letters" follows two neighbours: deeply religious local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents start to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town's women, led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan), begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss and Rose might not be the culprit after all.
Here’s a film that understands perfectly well that the two of them (Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley) are all we need to enjoy ourselves. The Independent 4 * 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes |
Friday 11 October 2024
One Life CERTIFICATE 12 RUNNING TIME 110 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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A true story of London broker Nicholas "Nicky" Winton helps rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in a race against time before the Nazi occupation closes the borders. Fifty years later, he's still haunted by the fate of those he wasn't able to bring to safety.
if you don't cry at this beautiful tribute you need medical help. By God this is a superb performance from Sir Anthony Hopkins The Standard 5* 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes |
Friday 25 October 2024
Miracle Club CERTIFICATE 12a RUNNING TIME 90 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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Ballygar, Ireland, 1967: a hard-knocks community that marches to its own beat, rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. There's just one tantalizing dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom and escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. And with a little benevolent interference from their cheeky and rebellious priest, close friends Lily (Maggie Smith), Eileen (Kathy Bates), Dolly (Agnes O'Casey) and her son Daniel are the 'lucky' few to win this ticket of a lifetime at their riotous local raffle night
Enjoyed this movie covering serious life issues No shootings, car wrecks and f words. Just an enjoyable movie Rotten Tomatoes reviewer 83% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes |
Friday 8 November 2024
Anatomy of a Fall (some subtitles) CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 152 MINUTES START TIME 7.45 PM |
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The story begins when Samuel is found dead in the snow outside the isolated chalet where he lived with his wife Sandra, a German writer, and their partially-sighted 11-year-old son Daniel. An investigation leads to a conclusion of "suspicious death": it's impossible to know for sure whether he took his own life or was killed. Sandra is indicted, and we follow her trial which pulls the couple's relationship apart. Daniel is caught in the middle: between the trial and their home life, doubts take their toll on the mother-son relationship.
Electric Palme d'Or winning courtroom drama The Guardian 4* 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes |
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* |
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 |
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* |