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Brooklyn

• 
• 2015
• Ireland / UK / Canada
• 1h 52min
• 12

• Directed by: John Crowley
• Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Michael Zegen, Fiona Glascott, Julie Walters
• UK release: 6 November 2015

Eilis (Ronan) leaves her hometown in 50s Ireland to start a new life in New York City, falling for dashing local Tony (Cohen), but when tragedy strikes back home she has to return. Ronan is outstanding as the quietly strong Eilis but the supporting cast is tremendous, notably Glascott as Eilis' sister and Walters as her…

Brother

• 2022
• Canada
• 1h 59min
• 15

• Directed by: Clement Virgo
• Cast: Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Kiana Madeira, Lovell Adams-Gray

Set against the backdrop of Toronto's early hip-hop scene, two brothers are faced with the trials of growing up.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

• 1968
• UK
• 2h 25min
• U

• Directed by: Ken Hughes
• Written by: Roald Dahl, Ken Hughes, Richard Maibaum (additional dialogue)
• Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall, Heather Ripley, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill

Lengthy, effects-filled children's adventure conceived in the wake of Mary Poppins' huge commercial success but with a charm (and great songs) all of its own. Dick Van Dyke is the mad inventor whose flying car propels his children and romantic interest Howes to a far-off land of adventure.

Fences

• 
• 2016
• US
• 2h 19min
• 12A

• Directed by: Denzel Washington
• Cast: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson
• UK release: 10 February 2017

Troy (Washington) is a proud, tight-fisted, ageing working stiff in 50s Pittsburgh, full of bitterness that God, poverty and segregation ruined his youthful dreams of sporting success. Beautifully shot family drama, superbly acted (especially by Washington and Davis), but it suffers a bit from heavy self-importance and a…

Flesh and the Devil

• 1926
• US
• 1h 52min
• PG

• Directed by: Clarence Brown
• Cast: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson

After winning the affection of a young woman, Leo is requested to serve five years in Africa. In his absence he asks his best friend to watch over her until he returns, but while Leo is away his friend marries the girl, creating a deadly love triangle on his return.

Fremont

• 2023
• 1h 31min
• 12A

• Directed by: Babak Jalali
• Cast: Anaita Wali Zada, Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Turkington, Hilda Schmelling

A worker in a Chinese fortune cookie factory puts a special message in a cookie.

Frozen

• 
• 2013
• US
• 1h 48min
• PG

• Directed by: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
• Cast: Voices of Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina Menzel
• UK release: 6 December 2013

Princess Anna (Bell) is disturbed to find that her sister Elsa (Menzel) can create ice and snow, but when Elsa goes into exile the kingdom freezes, and Anna and friends must find her. With no celebrity voice-overs or pop culture gags, just a venerable story, good songs and classic characters, it's an old-fashioned delight.

A Haunting in Venice

• 2023
• US
• 1h 43min
• 12A

• Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
• Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan, Michelle Yeoh, Kyle Allen, Camille Cottin, Jude Hill, Ali Khan, Emma Laird, Kelly Reilly, Riccardo Scamarico
• UK release: 15 September 2023

Kenneth Branagh returns as Poirot who, now retired, attends a séance at which one of the guests is murdered. Based on Agatha Christie's novel, Hallowe'en Party.

Hello, Dolly!

• 1969
• USA
• 2h 19min
• U

• Directed by: Gene Kelly
• Written by: Ernest Lehman
• Cast: Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Louis Armstrong

Harshly reviewed in the era of Easy Rider and M A S H, *Hello, Dolly! just keeps improving with age and now looks like the last of the great old school Hollywood musicals. Gene Kelly proves himself a masterful director expertly juggling the pressures of a hefty studio budget, the expectations built by a legendary Broadway…

Hellraiser

• 1987
• UK
• 1h 34min
• 18

• Directed by: Clive Barker
• Cast: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence

The solution to a puzzle box invites cenobites from another dimension in Clive Barker's directorial debut. A grisly low-budget British horror classic.

High Society

• 1956
• US
• 1h 47min
• U

• Directed by: Charles Walters
• Written by: Philip Barry (play), John Patrick
• Cast: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Celeste Holm, Louis Armstrong, John Lund

Classic musical entertainment from the MGM studios, in which a rich bitch plays hard to get with a string of suitors. The plot of Philadelphia Story goes out the window, but with stars like these, style is everything.

Killers of the Flower Moon

• 2023
• 3h 26min
• 15

• Directed by: Martin Scorsese
• Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone

At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. After members of the tribe are found dead, a murder investigation begins, in order to find the culprits.

The Lesson

• 2023
• UK
• 1h 43min
• 15

• Directed by: Alice Troughton
• Cast: Richard E. Grant, Julie Delpy, Daryl McCormack, Stephen McMillan, Crispin Letts, Tomas Spencer, Joseph Meurer

A young writer seeks tutorage from a renowned author.

Meet Me in St Louis

• 
• 1944
• US
• 1h 53min
• U

• Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
• Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main

Released during wartime, this 1903-set musical was an optimistic attempt to emphasise family values, but Minnelli never wallows in nostalgia. Instead he combats it with sparky and sarky family dynamics. The put-upon father wants to move his family from St Louis to New York but faces resistance from his gaggle of girls who…

Ninotchka

• 
• 1939
• US
• 1h 50min
• U

• Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
• Written by: Melchior Lengyel, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch
• Cast: Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas

'Garbo laughs!' proclaimed the posters and indeed she does in this sparkling vintage Hollywood comedy romance, in which she plays a stern Russian diplomat worn down by Melvyn Douglas' inestimable charm and the attractions of Paris into an eventual, grudging, touching, emotional submission. Acerbic one-liners betray the…

No Country for Old Men

• 
• 2007
• US
• 2h 2min
• 15

• Directed by: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
• Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

The Coen Brothers return to form with this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel. When Llewelyn Moss (Brolin) takes a bagful of cash from a drug deal that goes wrong he sets off a chain of events that lead psycho-killer Chigurh (pronounced sugar) to vow to do anything to get the money back. Though based on McCarthy's…

The Old Oak

• 2023
• UK
• 1h 53min
• 15

• Directed by: Ken Loach
• Cast: Debbie Honeywood, Trevor Fox, Laura Lee Daly, Neil Leiper, Jordan Louis, Reuben Bainbridge

The Old Oak Ken Loach | UK, France, Belgium | 2023 | 113m | 15 New drama from director Ken Loach. The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for the…

The Princess and the Frog

• 
• 2010
• US
• 1h 37min
• U

• Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
• Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody, Jim Cummings, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, John Goodman

Set in 1920s Louisiana and featuring Disney's first African-American Princess, this culturally important, beautiful and evocative (of a New Orleans that no longer exists) film may not have the standout musical numbers of some of its stablemates but is an old fashioned treat all the same.

R.M.N.

• 2022
• 2h 5min
• 15

• Directed by: Cristian Mungiu
• Cast: Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Barladeanu

Award-winning director Cristian Mungiu's (4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days) gripping portrait of ethnic and economic resentments tearing at the fabric of a small mountain town

Royal Opera House: Andrea Chénier

• 2024
• UK

Jonas Kaufmann headlines David McVicar's spectacular staging of Giordano's epic historical drama, conducted by long-time collaborator Antonio Pappano. Co-production with China National Centre for Performing Arts, Beijing and San Francisco Opera.

Royal Opera House: Carmen

• 2024
• UK

Aigul Akmetshina and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya share the title role in Damiano Michieletto's sizzling new production of Bizet’s ever-popular opera. Co-production with Teatro Real, Madrid and La Scala, Milan.

Royal Opera House: Don Quixote

• 2023
• UK

Teeming with comedy, wit and an abundance of bravura choreography, Carlos Acosta's production brings the Spanish heat and romance of Cervantes' classic novel to life.

Royal Opera House: L'elisir d'amore

• 2023
• UK

Expect sun, fun and vocal acrobatics in Laurent Pelly’s much-loved staging of Donizetti’s intoxicating and witty comedy. A co-production with Opéra national de Paris.

Royal Opera House: MacMillan Celebrated

• 2024
• UK

The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets, Danses Concertantes, Different Drummer and Requiem.

Royal Opera House: Madama Butterfly

• 2024
• UK

Puccini’s devastating tragedy about a young geisha who falls in love with an American naval officer.

Royal Opera House: Manon

• 2024
• UK

Torn between her desire of a life of splendour and riches and her devotion to her true love Des Grieux, the feckless and capricious Manon pays the ultimate price.

Royal Opera House: Message in a Bottle

• 2024
• UK

The iconic songs of Sting. The electrifying choreography of Kate Prince. This is a tale of hope.

Royal Opera House: Rusalka

• 2024
• UK

This poetic, contemporary new staging of Dvořák’s lyric fairy tale reveals our uneasy relationship with the natural world and humanity’s attempts to own and tame it.

Royal Opera House: Swan Lake

• 2024
• UK

Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage.

Royal Opera House: The Nutcracker

• 2023
• UK

The Royal Ballet The Nutcracker ​ Running time 170 minutes (including one interval) Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s score, as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker fight the Mouse King and visit…

Royal Opera House: The Winter's Tale

• 2024
• UK

Shakespeare’s profound story of love and loss, artfully adapted into a contemporary three-act narrative ballet by Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, returns to the Main Stage. A co-production between The Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada.

Sátántangó

• 
• 1994
• Hungary / Germany / Switzerland
• 15

• Directed by: Béla Tarr
• Written by: Screenplay:, Béla Tarr, Novel:, László Krasznahorkai
• Cast: Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László Lugossy

Bleakly comic portrayal of the effects of the decline of Eastern European communism as felt in one struggling Hungarian agricultural collective.

Savage Waters

Big wave surfer Andrew Cotton features in this stunning and intimate portrait of modern adventurers in search of a mythical wave in some of the most dangerous waters of the Atlantic. How far would you go searching for something that may not exist? A 19th century treasure-hunter’s journal inspires a captivating journey to…

Scarface

• 
• 1983
• US
• 2h 49min
• 18

• Directed by: Brian De Palma
• Written by: Oliver Stone
• Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, F Murray Abraham, Harris Yulin

Tony Montana is back and loving it in a new digital print of the gangster classic.

Scrapper

• 2023
• 1h 24min
• 12

• Directed by: Charlotte Regan
• Cast: Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun, Cary Crankson

Following her mother’s death, a resourceful 12-year-old girl, Georgie (Lola Campbell), continues to live alone in their London-outskirts flat. She makes money stealing bikes with her friend, Ali (Alin Uzun), and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. It works like a charm until Jason…

Sensory-Friendly Cinema

See, smell, taste and touch cinema as never before at this sensory cinema event curated by Oxford University professor, author and neurogastronomist Dr Charles Spence.

Serpico

• 1973
• US
• 2h 10min
• 18

• Directed by: Sidney Lumet
• Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe

Pacino stars in this true story as an ethical cop who, unlike his partners, refuses to take money from the criminals he catches.

Singin' in the Rain

• 
• 1950
• US
• 1h 42min
• U

• Directed by: Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen
• Written by: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
• Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell

Hollywood undergoes the transition from the silent era to the talkies and reputations rise and fall. Absolutely wonderful musical entertainment, with the slickest of snappy dialogue, enduringly catchy numbers, a cast of genuine charisma, and an engaging picture of the industry in transition into the bargain. Quite splendid.

Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (15)

MWLDAN 1 | MWLDAN 2 | MWLDAN 3 ANNA HINTS | ESTONIA | 2023 | tbc’ This Sundance-winning documentary celebrates female solidarity and community through a group of Estonian women who continue an age-old tradition of sauna-based rituals carried out by the Voro community. Anna Hints’ captivating film places us at the heart of…

Stop Making Sense

• 1984
• US
• 1h 28min
• PG

• Directed by: Jonathan Demme
• Written by: Talking Heads, Jonathan Demme

There's plenty of quality in 'Stop Making Sense', the film of Talking Heads' 1984 stage show: the songs, the band's original musicians enjoying themselves tremendously and Demme, who has a radar-like eye for the little smiles and exchanges between band members. But the element of 'Stop Making Sense' that arrests the…

The Virgin Suicides

• 1999
• USA
• 1h 37min
• 15

• Directed by: Sofia Coppola
• Cast: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst
• UK release: 19 May 2000

The Lisbon sisters live a sheltered life under the control of over-protective religious parents in mid-western America. Following the suicide of one of the five sisters, the parents decide to keep a tighter grip on their daughters.A group of male friends become obsessed with girls, their lives and dreams seem to revolve…