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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 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 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 |
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Friday 10 January 2020
YESTERDAY CERTIFICATE 12A RUNNING TIME 116 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM |
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Jack Malik is a frustrated musician whose musical career is going nowhere despite the faith that his friend/manager has in him.
However, on the night Jack decides to give up, the whole world is momentarily hit with a massive blackout during which Jack is hit by a bus. Upon regaining consciousness, Jack learns to his astonishment that he is apparently now the only one who knows the music of the Beatles. Realizing this improbable opportunity, Jack begins playing the music of the greatest of the rock bands, claiming it as his own. It pays off quickly and Jack becomes a worldwide musical sensation. Now, Jack must make a fundamental moral decision about his music to satisfy his conscience as he decides what he truly needs. A glowing tribute to The Beatles and their music, this is both a toe-tapping pleasure to watch and a smart, occasionally scathing look at how we get things wrong. Empire Yesterday may fall short of fab, but the end result is still a sweetly charming fantasy with an intriguing -- albeit somewhat under-explored -- premise. Rotten Tomatoes |
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Friday 17 January 2020 THE GUILTY CERTIFICATE 15 RUNNING TIME 85 MINUTES START TIME 8 PM (In 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
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, 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 ...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 |
