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Films Previously Seen

January 2024

ONE LIFE

Directed by James Hawes and starring Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter, ONE LIFE tells the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the Nazis in Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised rescue was a race against time before the borders closed. (12A, 110 mins)

November 2023

NAPOLEON

Napoleon, a biopic directed by Ridley Scott, is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking the movie captures Bonaparte's relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine (15, 158 mins)
September 2023

THE MIRACLE CLUB

Directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan and starring the indestructible Maggie Smith, this film tells the story of a hard-knocks community in outer Dublin rooted in traditions of loyalty, faith and togetherness. There is one tantalising dream for the women of Ballyfermot to escape the gauntlet of domestic life: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes. And with a little help from their rebellious priest, close friends Lily, Eileen, Do

August 2023

BARBIE

With always-blue skies, pastel pink houses, and all the fashionable fun a doll could desire, life is perfect in Barbie Land – unless you’re having an existential crisis. Barbie is, and is expelled from Barbieland for not following its regulations of being perfect enough! She and Ken go on a journey of self-discovery, to the real world! (114 mins, 12A)

July 2023

OPENHEIMER

The story of the man who masterminded the building of the first atomic bomb. (180 mins 15)

June 2023

MAD ABOUT the BOY

More documentary than drama, this biopic of the most successful multi-talented artist of the Twentieth Century is subtitled ‘The Noel Coward Story’ and is directed by Barnaby Thompson starring Coward as himself in archive material with many famous artistes of his era. Having grown up in poverty, and left school at 9, he became a world renowned songwriter and performer who wrote, directed and acted in some of the finest plays and movies of all time. A fascinating portrait of the man and the era (91 mins 12A)

May 2023

1. STILL

Directed by Davis Guggenheim, ‘Still’ follows the life of American actor, advocate and fund raiser, Michael J. Fox, (Back to the Future, Casualties of War) exploring his personal and professional triumphs and travails in the face of Parkinson’s Disease, and what happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease. Diagnosed at the early age of 29, Fox refuses to be beaten and has raised millions of dollars for research into the condition. (15, 95 mins)

2. THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY

Starring Jim Broadbent and directed by Hettie Macdonald, this film tells the story of recently retired Harold Fry who, now in is his 60s, is content to fade quietly into the background of life. Harold’s life with his wife Maureen is uneventful and their marriage frozen, due to an unspeakable conflict relating to their son, until one day, Harold learns that his old friend Queenie is dying. He sets off to the post office to send her a letter and decides to keep walking: all the way to her hospice, 450 miles away. (12A, 108 mins)

March 2023

WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?

This romantic comedy, directed by Shekhar Kapur, from a screenplay by Jemima Khan and staring Emma Thompson, among a star cast, combines romance, comedy, and family drama in a way that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. It is a celebration of Asian culture and identity, and a testament to the power of love and family to overcome even the most daunting of obstacles. Zoe decides to film her neighbour's journey from London to Lahore, where he is to marry the woman of his parents' choice. Zoe experiences a different approach to finding love. (12A, 108 mins)

January 2023

EMPIRE OF LIGHT

Written and directed by Sam Mendes, and starring Olivia Coleman (nominated for ‘Best Actress’ at last year’s Golden Globes awards), and Colin Firth, among others, this romantic drama pays homage to the big screen and its place in society. The film is set around the nondescript, seaside cinema in Margate, Kent where its employees battle with the usual banalities of provincial life including mental health, illicit sex, and racism and through which the characters seek redemption.(15, 113 mins)

December 2022

CORSAGE

Written and directed by the acclaimed Marie Kreutzer, this mischievous take on the period drama is set in 18th century Austria where, on the cusp of turning 40, relentlessly laced into corsets by her ladies in waiting, the last thing on the mind of the Empress Sisi is the demands of the Austrian monarchy. Decadence is far more exciting – so she heads off on a grand trip across Europe to call on old friends (and old flames). But the grasp of royal duties continue to tighten, and her continued indiscretions turn into acts of rebellion. (15. 114 mins)

October 2022

TICKET TO PARADISE

Written and directed by Ol Parker, and starring Georgre Clooney, Julia Roberts and Sean Lynch this rom com tells the story of David and Georgia, two divorced parents who can't stand each other, but head to Bali after their daughter, Lily, announces her plans to marry a local islander she just met while on holiday. They decide to put aside their differences and work together to stop the wedding, believing that doing so will keep Lily from making a dreadful mistake similar to their own. (12A, 104 mins)

August 2022

Fisherman's Friends - One and all

Some of you will remember seeing the first ‘Fisherman’s’ film a couple of years ago. Following the unexpected success of their debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues” we rejoin the world's oldest ‘buoy band’ a year later struggling to navigate the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their new found fame. Directed by Nick Moorcroft, the film follows the celebrated shanty singers through highs and lows as lifelong friendships are put to the test and they battle the dreaded ‘curse of the second album’. (12A, 112 mins)

July 2022

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

From the eponymous best-selling 2018 novel by the wildlife biologist Delia Owens, it tells the story of a young girl, Kya, who, abandoned by her parents and isolated from the local community, finds solace in the brooding marshlands of North Carolina. The film, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, (Normal People) is produced by Reese Witherspoon. Drawn to two young men from town, Kya opens herself to a new world; but when one of them is found dead, she is soon cast as the main suspect. As the case unfolds, the truth as to what actually happened becomes increasingly unclear, revealing the many secrets that lie within the marsh. (15, 30mins)

June 2022

ELVIS

Who was Elvis Presley? Look through the dazzling lens of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Baz Luhrmann and discover the man behind the music – and the man behind the man. The film delves into the complex relationship between Elvis (Austin Butler) and his enigmatic, Svengali-like manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) over the course of 20 years, charting Presley’s meteoric rise to fame, the loves and losses he endures along the way, and the American music culture he helped transform. (12A, 160 mins)

May 2022

DOWNTON ABBEY-A NEW ERA

In the much-anticipated sequel to the hugely popular 2019 film based on the TV show, Dowager Countess Violet Crawley (Dame Maggie Smith) has some news to share with her son Robert (Hugh Bonneville): a mysterious man she met long before he was born has left her a villa. The entire family, along with some new arrivals, sets out on a grand journey to the South of France, to uncover the secrets and lies behind their newly inherited home. As hammy, silly, and, undeniably, entertaining as ever. .(PG 128 mins)

April 2022

OPERATION MINCEMEAT

Operation Mincemeat (2021) starring Colin Firth & Kelly Macdonald, is a WW II drama directed by John Madden and based on Ben Macintyre's book of the same name, is a remake of Ronald Neame’s successful 1956 film ‘The Man Who Never Was’ which some of us may remember seeing. It tells the story of high-level espionage and ingenious fiction, where the stakes could hardly be higher for Britain’s war effort, and of the soldiers we seldom hear about, who fight the war in shadows and deception, haunted by the knowledge that certainty and success can never be guaranteed.(PG 128 mins)

March 2022

THE DUKE
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first, and only, theft in the Gallery’s history. The late Roger Michell directed an all-star cast, including Helen Mirren & Jim Broadbent, in this wonderfully uplifting tale of an essentially good man, determined to change the world, and save his marriage, and how and why he used the Duke to achieve this. (95 mins 12A)

February 2022

DEATH ON THE NILE

Death on the Nile, a murder mystery directed by Kenneth Branagh, is the sequel to 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express, also directed by Branagh, to wide acclaim, and is the third movie adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel of the same name. Branagh also returns as Christie’s fictional hero Hercule Poiro, the renowned Belgian detective, who, when the calm aboard the Nile cruiser S.S. Karnak is shattered by the suspicious death of one of the passengers, is tasked with finding the murderer before they attack again. (127 mins 12A)

January 2022

BELFAST
Adapted from memories of growing up in 1960s Ireland, Sir Kenneth Branagh’s widely acclaimed, ‘Belfast’, shot in sombre monochrome, follows young Buddy (Jude Hill) and his heart warming, working class Irish Protestant family (Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds, and more) who find themselves living in a world suddenly turned upside down by ‘The Troubles’. But despite the family’s struggles, joy, laughter, and music and the magic of the movies, remain.
(12A, 98 mins)

December 2021

LATE NIGHT

This 2019 light and spiky office comedy, directed by Nisha Ganatra, stars Emma Thompson as a middle aged New York late night talk-show host, the brittle and very ‘British’ Katherine Newbury, who’s been doing her show for 28 years and has got herself into such a rut that her ratings are plummeting. Her writing staff consists entirely of white males, because she doesn’t care for women writers. She’s in dire need of a shake-up, and she gets it when Molly Patel, an Indian-American efficiency expert, is hired as the show’s attempt at workplace diversity. She worships Katherine, and she’s going to update her show even if she has to get fired to do it. (15, 102 mins

November 2021

S P E N C E R

For those of you who are not sated with the Diana story by watching ‘The Crown’ on Netflix, or re-reading Her True Story, Pablo Larrain’s ‘Spencer’, offers a new take on the tragic heroine and her royal tormentors that feels more like Nightmare on Elm Street than Christmas at the House of Windsor for Kristan Stewart’s note perfect Diana Princess of Wales. Playing out over the three excruciating days of a fictional Christmas at Sandringham, the film is part ghost story, part social satire and part psychodrama, while remaining a celebration of motherhood. Underpinning it all is Jonny Greenwood’s magnificent score. (117 mins, Cert 12A)

UP IN THE AIR

Jason Reitman’s comedy drama and brilliant satire on business travel and elite privilege, gives George Clooney the perfect vehicle for his talents. He plays Ryan Bingham whose job is to fire the employees of people who are too cowardly to do it themselves He prides himself or his efficiency and on being able to condense his life into the contents of a piece of carry-on luggage, but his superficial charm appears to mask a gaping hole where his soul should be, and two women, his female counterpart and a young work colleague, threaten to change all that. (105 mins, Cert 15)

October 2021

NO TIME TO DIE

Unless you attended the film's recent premier (I don’t believe you) I’m afraid you will have to wait for the plot details until you have seen the film as they have not been published. Suspense, violence, intrigue, daredevilry and voluptuous women are pretty much guaranteed. What we do know is that James Bond has left active service, but his peace is short-lived when an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology (12A,160 mins)

August 2021

ONLY YOU

This romantic drama directed by Harry Wootliff, and starring Laia Costa and Josh O'Connor premiered at The London Film Festival in 2018 winning several awards and a BAFTA nomination. A chance encounter between two complete strangers, Jake and Elena, results in them sharing a taxi ride home on New Year’s Eve that sparks a movie-spanning relationship. But from thereon what seems like a classic boy-meets-girl tale, is scarred by the appearance of insidious fracture lines that irreparably change this couple for ever. It is not an easy watch.(15, 118 mins)

July 2021

I CAPTURE THE CASTLE

Tim Fywell’s gentle romantic drama from 2003 is an adaption of Dodi Smith’s 1948 novel of the same name and stars Romola Garai and Bill Nighy. The film follows 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain (Garai), and her eccentric family, struggling to survive in genteel poverty in a decaying English castle. The characters include her father James (Nighy), a failing writer, her sister, Rose, who hopes to marry into money, and their bohemian stepmother, Topaz, an ex-model. The possibility of salvation arrives with their wealthy American landlord Simon and his brother. Rose takes full advantage while Cassandra appears to be left on the side-lines, but events spiral out of control, (PG, 117 mins)

June 2021

SPOTLIGHT

this 2015 American biographical drama, directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer, follows The Boston Globe’s "Spotlight" team, the longest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalism unit in the USA, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Boston, USA. This is controversial stuff and not for the faint hearted but it received widespread critical praise, lauding the performances of the cast, historical accuracy and screenplay. It won numerous awards, including an Oscar, and was named one of the best films of 2015. (15, 129 mins)

May 2021

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

This 2016 American tragedy, written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, stars Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler, a grief stricken loner who, on the death of his brother, finds himself with the awesome responsibility of being guardian to his 16 year old nephew, Patrick (Lucas Heges). It is not a task Lee warms to and the film explores his difficulties in coping with his own grief and the repairing of shattered family relationships. The film won awards for best actor and best screenplay at both the BAFTAs and the Oscars. (15, 137 mins)

April 2021

SUFFRAGETTE

Sarah Gavron’s stirring 2015 epic centres on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life, in the early part of the 20th century, is forever changed when she is recruited into Britain's growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause, alongside women from all walks of life. When increasingly aggressive police action forces Maud and her dedicated fellow suffragettes underground, they engage in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the authorities, who are shocked as the women's civil disobedience escalates and sparks debate across the nation. (12A, 106mins)

March 2021

PETERLOO

Mike Leigh’s 2018 Peterloo, about a notorious episode of political history in 1819 Manchester, is, for most of its long running time, a riot of verbal eloquence. Punctuated by Gary Yershon’s musical score, you can hear the currents of history moving. Radicals rouse the rabble with vivid images of oppression, and fiery exhortations to revolt, which eventually see the British Tory government ordering a brutal military charge into a working-class crowd of peaceful protesters. It’s a stately, paean to the people, setting the past in stone while cocking a snoot at the present-day political order. (12A, 153 mins)

February 2021

STAN & OLLIE

Directed by Jon S Baird, this gently elegiac 2019 portrayal of Laural and Hardy’s final comic collaboration, a low-rent music hall tour of the U.K in 1953, charts the declining years of the famous Hollywood comedy duo with a wry acknowledgement of its subjects’ fading relevance and audience appeal. Well-rehearsed performance chemistry is merely a veneer behind which the two veterans, played by Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly, find themselves struggling to click. The film earned three BAFTA nominations
(PG, 97 mins)

January 2021

THE WIFE

Based on the book by Meg Wolitzer (2005) and directed by Björn Runge, The Wife is a 2017 movie starring Glenn Close (Joan) and Jonathan Pryce (Joe) that follows a woman who questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, who is to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. After nearly forty years of marriage, the Castlemains are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace and charm into the private role of Great Man's Wife. The story interweaves the couple's youthful passion and ambition with the portrait of a marriage of compromises, secrets, betrayals, and mutual love. (15, 100 mins)

December 2020

BROOKLYN

A 2015 romantic drama directed by John Crowley and based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Colm Tóibín. The film stars Saoirse Ronan , with Julie Walters in a supporting role. Set in 1951, the plot follows Eilis Lacey, a young Irishwoman who emigrates to Brooklyn, USA, to find employment. There she meets and marries an Italian plumber called Tony, before the unexpected death of her sister, in Ireland, forces her to choose between her home town of Enniscorthy and her new life in Brooklyn. Returning home, Eilis has difficulty deciding where her true future lies. (12, 100 mins)

THE MERCY

In 1968, English businessman Donald Crowhurst (Colin Firth) inspired by Sir Francis Chichester, decides to compete in a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Though only an amateur sailor, Crowhurst believes that technology and gumption will enable him to succeed in his custom built trimaran, thus ensuring financial security for his family As delays and costs mount, Crowhurst is forced to pledge his company and home to Best. Crowhurst must complete the race or lose everything he holds dear. (12, 105 mins)

November 2020
LYNN + LUCY
This 2019 full length film debut from writer-director Fyzal Boulifa is a working class melodrama set in a midlands social housing estate that tells the story of two lifelong friends, domesticated Lynn (Roxanne Scrimshaw) and wayward Lucy (Nichola Burley). In the wake of a catastrophe, Lynn steps in to defend the woman who has been her wilder half since school; but when local gossip turns firmly against Lucy, Lynn’s loyalties shift and the relationship gradually falls apart. It is a taut study of individual judgment and responsibility and the perils of losing one’s own course. (15, 110 mins)

October 2020

BELLE

This 2013 period drama, directed by Amma Asante, was inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle beside her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, at Kenwood House, Hampstead. Very little is known about Dido Belle, who was born in the West Indies and was the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a British aristocrat. Found living in poverty, she is entrusted to the care of William Murray, Earl of Mansfield and his wife. The film centres on the fictitious relationship between Dido and an aspiring lawyer and is set at a significant time in the course of the abolition of slavery in 1807. (12, 125 mins)

August 2020

GRAVITY

This 2013 Sci-Fi thriller directed by Alfonso Cuarón, stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts stranded in space after the loss of their spaceship. It follows their increasingly frantic and, it seems, doomed attempts to return to earth via the ISS and other countries’ satellites. It was widely acclaimed for the innovative and realistic visual effects (produced entirely in the UK) winning 7 Oscars and 6 BAFTAs. The film incorporates existential themes, such as the resilience to survive in the face of overwhelming odds, and ends with an allegory of the dawn of mankind (think Kubrick’s ‘2001 – A Space Odyssey’) (92 mins, 12)

A ROOM WITH A VIEW

This 1985 film of E. M. Forster’s eponymous romantic novel is directed by James Ivory and stars Helena Bonham Carter as Lucy and Julian Sands as George, with other British stars in supporting roles. Set in England and Italy, in the repressed culture of the Edwardian era, it tells of a young woman’s developing love for a free-spirited young man, and the ensuing prolonged emotional upheaval for both. The film received universal acclaim and won three Oscars, five British Academy Film Awards and a Golden Globe. It is considered among the Top 100 British films of the 20th century. (PG 117 mins)

July 2020

SWEET COUNTRY

This 2017 Australian ‘Western’ drama, directed by Warwick Thornton. is set in 1929, in the sparsely populated outback of the Northern Territory and is based on a series of true events. It tells a harsh story against the backdrop of a society divided (between the European settlers and Aboriginal Australians) in the interwar period in Australia. It went on to win several international awards (15, 104 mins)

June 2020

ON CHESIL BEACH

This 2017 British drama directed by Dominic Cooke and written by Ian McEwan (with whom, incidentally, I went to school), from his own 2007 Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name, tells the story of virgin newlyweds, Florence and Edward, and their first disastrous attempt at consummating their marriage. The initial experience and their differing responses to failure have lifelong consequences for both. (15*,110 mins)

HAMPSTEAD

Directed by Joel Hopkins and starring Diane Keaton, James Norton and Simon Callow, this 2017 romantic comedy drama is based on the life of Harry Hallowes the so called ‘Hermit of Hampstead’, who successfully claimed ownership of a ridiculously expensive half-acre plot of Hampstead Heath and finds romance with a wealthy but disillusioned American widow. (12, 103 mins)

May 2020
A WALK IN THE WOODS

Author Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) is living quietly in New Hampshire with his wife Catherine (Dame Emma Thompson) and family. He decides to hike the two thousand mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Catherine insists he not go alone, so Bryson searches for someone to accompany him. An old friend, Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte), volunteers. Though Katz is unfit and a liability in Bryson's endeavours, the two set off on an adventure of a lifetime. (15, 104 mins)

May 2020
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY

In an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, a young woman fakes her own death but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband, Martin, despite fleeing to a new town and a new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her. (98 mins. 15)

DADS ARMY

Dad's Army is a 2016 British war comedy film, based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Oliver Parker, set in 1944, after the events depicted in the television series. Catherine Zeta-Jones plays an elegant German spy, posing as a journalist, reporting on the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon.

April 2020
WONDER

A 2017 American drama directed by Stephen Chbosky and based on the 2012 novel of the same name by R. J. Palacio about a boy with Treacher Collins syndrome trying to fit in to school and society. It received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with many praising performances, direction, writing and musical score. (PG)

UNBREAKABLE

This 2000 American thriller written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, and starring Bruce Willis, is the first instalment in the Unbreakable film series a.k.a. Eastrail Trilogy. In Unbreakable, a security guard named David Dunn survives a horrific train crash with no injuries, leading to him discovering that he harnesses superhuman abilities, which in turn introduces him to comic book store owner, wheelchair-bound Elijah Price. He goes on to struggle with and survive the problems of superheroship.(12)

March 2020
ATOMIC BLONDE

Atomic Blonde is a 2017 American action thriller spy film based on the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City, which revolves around a spy who has to find a list of double agents who are being smuggled into the West on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The film is directed by David Leitch, in his first solo directorial credit, and stars Charlize Theron as Lorraine Broughton. (112 mins, 15)

January 2020
1917
Golden Globe winner and nominee for BAFTA and OSCAR,Sam Mendes’ visceral vision of the First World War battlefields tells the story of two young British soldiers, Schofield (George MacKay) and Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman), given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop hundreds of soldiers – Blake’s own brother among them – from walking into a deadly trap. (119 mins, 15)

November 2019
THE AERONAUTS
Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones star in this thrilling adventure on the edge of the earth’s atmosphere, directed by Tom Harper and based on the real lives of James Glaisher and Sophie Blanchard in the mid 1800s. Wealthy widow and headstrong scientist mount a dangerous balloon expedition to try and fly higher than anyone in history. He wants to discover how to predict the weather, and she’s the only one with the skill and experience to succeed in the perilous assent. (100 mins PG)

October 2019
JUDY
30 years after global stardom in 'The Wizard Of Oz', showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in London in 1968 for a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town where she battles with management, charms musicians, and reminisces with friends and fans, Even her dreams of romance seem undimmed as she courts Mickey Deans, her soon-to-be fifth husband. And yet Judy is fragile. After working for 45 of her 47 years, she is exhausted and haunted by memories of a childhood lost to Hollywood. Directed by Rupert Goold. (118 mins 12A

September 2019
DOWNTON ABBEY
Like the TV series ‘Downton Abbey’, the film, directed by Michael Engler and starring National Treasure Maggie Smith, follows the lives of the Crawley family and the servants at the turn of the 20th century in an Edwardian English country house. Over 6 seasons, the TV series garnered 3 Golden Globes & 15 Primetime Emmy Awards, making it the most nominated non-US TV show in the history of the Emmys and the highest critically rated TV show along the way.(PG 122 mins)

August 2019
MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE
Marianne & Leonard: Words Of Love is the beautiful yet tragic love story of the singer, Leonard Cohen (‘Hallelujah”), and his Norwegian muse, Marianne Ihlen. They met on the idyllic Greek island of Hydra in 1960 as part of a bohemian community of foreign artists, writers and musicians. The film follows their relationship from the early days on Hydra, a humble time of ‘free love’ and open marriage, to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician. (102 mins, 12A)

June 2019
ROCKETMAN
Dexter Fletcher (Bohemian Rhapsody) directs this epic musical fantasy about the breakthrough years of larger-than-life superstar Elton John (Taron Egerton). Set to John’s most beloved songs it tells the uncensored human story of how small-town boy and shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight became one of the most iconic figures in pop culture. Also staring Jamie Bell as John’s long time lyricist and writing partner Bernie Taupin, (15, 121mins)

May 2019
TOLKEIN Directed by Dome Karukoski, TOLKIEN explores the formative years of the legendary author, J. R. R. Tolkien (played by Nicholas Hoult) as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts at school. The bond strengthens as they grow up, especially with his beloved Edith Bratt. But when the First World War breaks out, it threatens to tear apart their fellowship and everything they’ve built together. (12A 112mins)

March 2019
FISHERMANS FRIENDS This British feel-good film, directed by Chris Foggin, is the uplifting true story of a part-time band of Cornish fishermen singers who hit the big time. A cynical London music executive (Danny Mays) is persuaded to sign up the group, but, in the face of a community who value friendship and family over fame and fortune he’s forced to re-evaluate his own integrity and ultimately question what success really means. Behind the wit and warmth of the story, lie the
stark facts of a tragedy. (112 mins Cert 12A)

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