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Asteroid City

• 2023
• US
• 1h 44min
• 12A

• Directed by: Wes Anderson
• Cast: Maya Hawke, Margot Robbie, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Steve Carell, Rupert Friend, Jeff Goldblum, Sophia Lillis, Edward Norton, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Jeffrey Wright, Matt Dillon, Fisher Stevens, Hope Davis

Set in the 1950s where a small desert town's astronomy convention brings a wide range of people together.

Barbie

• 2023
• US
• 1h 54min
• 12A

• Directed by: Greta Gerwig
• Cast: Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell

To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken.

The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari

• 1920
• Germany
• 1h 30min
• PG

• Directed by: Robert Wiene
• Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover.

A landmark of expressionist cinema, feasting the eyes with bizarre, angular visuals despite its technical crudity. The acting and directing are superb, and the story of a fairground hypnotist who uses a sleepwalker to carry out murders still retains a unique sense of horror.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• 
• 2010
• US
• 1h 32min
• PG

• Directed by: Thor Freudenthal
• Cast: Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn, Devon Bostick, Connor and Owen Fielding, Chloë Grace Moretz, Grayson Russell, Laine MacNeil, Karan Brar

The inevitable adaptation of Jeff Kinney's illustrated novel about wise-cracking schoolchild Greg (Gordon) may not be able to transfer all the charm of the literary bestseller but it is likeable, bright and funny.

Double bill: Dracula / Dracula A.D. 1972

Jonathan Harker rouses the ire of Count Dracula after he accepts a job at the vampire's castle under false pretenses. Harker's friend, Dr. Van Helsing, then embarks on a hunt for the predatory villain when he targets Harker's loved ones. followed by after a 10 minute interval… Johnny Alucard raises Count Dracula from the…

The Drover's Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.

Enys Men

• 2022
• UK
• 1h 31min
• 15

• Directed by: Mark Jenkin
• Cast: John Woodvine, Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe
• UK release: 11 October 2022

Dir Mark Jenkin/GB 2022/91 mins. Mary Woodvine, John Woodvine, Edward Rowe Director Mark Jenkin’s follow-up to his debut Bait is a hand-crafted and enigmatic folk-horror tale capturing the unsettling experiences of a female researcher on the Cornish coast. As the days pass, mysterious manifestations cause her to doubt her…

Hocus Pocus

• 1993
• US
• 1h 37min
• PG

• Directed by: Kenny Ortega
• Written by: David Kirschner/Mick Garris
• Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw
• UK release: 29 October 1993

Three 17th century witches are brought back to life in modern-day Salem, and go searching for young blood to keep them immortal. Max (Katz) is our hapless hero, helped out of one predicament to the next by resourceful heroine Allison (Vinessa Shaw). The story cracks along, the effects are moderate, the gags good, but it's…

Home

• 
• 2015
• US
• 1h 34min
• U

• Directed by: Tim Johnson
• Cast: Rihanna, Jim Parsons, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Martin

Oh (Parsons) is part of an alien race who've colonised Earth by decanting humans to amusement parks in Australia, but he's forced to team up with lost little girl Tip (Rihanna). A grating experience, thanks to a confusing and uninteresting story, wall-to-wall Rihanna songs, twee dialogue and Parsons' annoyingly whiny voice.

The Innocents

• 2021
• 1h 57min
• 15

• Directed by: Eskil Vogt
• Cast: Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad, Sam Ashraf

"This beastly tale of supernatural gifts comes courtesy of writer and director Eskil Vogt (Blind, The Worst Person in the World and Oslo August 31). Ida moves into a housing block with her autistic elder sister Anna and becomes fast friends with Ben and Aisha. The four children roam in the hills near the estate…

Matilda

• 
• 1996
• US
• 1h 38min
• PG

• Directed by: Danny DeVito
• Written by: Nicholas Kazan, Robin Swicord
• Cast: Mara Wilson, Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Embeth Davidtz, Pam Ferris

Capturing the delicious wickedness of Roald Dahl's writing, director De Vito fully exploits exaggeration and playful camera work to tell the tale of a gifted child who uses her super brain to outwit her neglectful parents. Offsetting the loveable Matilda against a series of horribly inflated bad characters, the film's…

Medusa

In order to resist temptation, Mariana and her girlfriends try their best to control everything and everyone around them. However, the day will come when the urge to scream will be stronger than it ever has been.

The Nettle Dress

After the death of his beloved wife, textile artist Allan Brown embarks on a seven-year endeavor to weave a hand-spun dress from stinging nettles foraged in the woods surrounding his home.

The Polar Express

• 2004
• US
• 1h 40min
• U

• Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
• Cast: Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, Eddie Deezen

A boy travels on a magical train bound for the North Pole and Santa Claus.

Polite Society

• 2023
• UK
• 1h 43min
• 12A

• Directed by: Nida Manzoor
• Cast: Priya Kansara, Ritu Arya

Believing she must save her older sister from impending marriage, Lena attempts to pull off an ambitious wedding heist.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

• 
• 1975
• UK
• 1h 40min
• 15

• Directed by: Jim Sharman
• Written by: Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman
• Cast: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell, Jonathan Adams, Peter Hinwood, Meat Loaf, Charles Gray

The cult film to end all others, this rock spoof on old horror movies has created a breed of Rocky Horror crazies, and packs them in at late shows everywhere. The film has its moments, and Curry is splendidly camp as the bisexual Frank N Furter.

Saint Maud

• 
• 2019
• UK
• 1h 24min
• 15

• Directed by: Rose Glass
• Cast: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight

Maud (Clark) is an obsessively religious nurse, working in palliative care for retired dancer Amanda (Ehle), whose uninhibited lifestyle sets Maud on edge. Impressive first feature from Glass, which turns into a surreal nightmare of loneliness and doom: barnstorming performances from Clark and Ehle set the screen on fire.

See How They Run

• 2022
• US
• 1h 38min
• 12A

• Directed by: Tom George
• Cast: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Ruth Wilson, Reece Shearsmith, Harris Dickinson, David Oyelowo

A murder mystery begins in the West-End, as a group investigate the untimely death of a cast member.

The Shining

• 
• 1980
• US
• 2h 26min
• 18

• Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
• Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall, Philip Stone.

Kubrick's overwrought, overlong horror film dispenses with much of the psychic apparatus of Stephen King's novel to concentrate on the deeper horror of a family turning in on itself. Nicholson, with all the stops out, is bug-eyed and demonic as the writer cracking up violently in an isolated hotel, and the final scenes…

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

• 2023
• US
• 2h 20min
• PG

• Directed by: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
• Cast: Oscar Isaac, Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Issa Rae

Sequel to 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Till

• 2022
• US
• 2h 10min
• 12A

• Directed by: Chinonye Chukwu
• Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison
• UK release: 6 January 2023

Seeking justice over the murder of her child, Mamie Till becomes an activist. Her actions become a catalyst for the US Civil Rights Movement.

Typist Artist Pirate King

The growing friendship between two women as they hit the road in an electric car looking for endings and reconciliation.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

• 2023
• UK
• 1h 48min
• 12A

• Directed by: Hettie Macdonald
• Cast: Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton

Harold sets off on a walk from the south of England to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed where an old friend is dying.

Untouchable (Intouchables)

• 
• 2011
• France
• 1h 52min
• 15

• Directed by: Olivier Nakache/Eric Toledano
• Cast: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny
• UK release: 21 September 2012

When paralysed aristocrat Philippe (Cluzet) needs an assistant, he hires impoverished drifter Driss (Sy) who only turned up to the interview to authorise his benefit. Life lessons ensue. Despite some predictable plotting, Nakache and Toledano's movie (already a colossal hit) is genuinely funny and moving, thanks to deft…

Virginia Kettle

Folk at the Mill. A rare chance to see Virginia Kettle, frontwoman and songwriter of folk rock band Merry Hell, doing a truly solo acoustic gig. Leigh Spinners Mill, in collaboration with vinyl record store Sticky Black Tarmac and The Music Centre, Leigh, present Virginia Kettle performing a rare truly solo gig. Virginia…

Women Talking

• 2022
• US
• 1h 44min
• 15

• Directed by: Sarah Polley
• Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand

Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.