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Does sex make it impossible for men and women to be true friends? This is the dilemma Harry and Sally debate when they first meet in college. When they reconnect years later, they’re no closer to agreeing on an answer, but one fateful night is about to put their theories to the test…
“Still a treat!” Guardian ★★★★★
Directed by Rob Reiner
With Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher
1hr 32 mins // US 1989
This spring, for the first time in almost a decade, comedy icon Jack Black returns to his role as Po, the world’s most unlikely kung fu master, with a hilarious, butt-kicking new chapter in DreamWorks Animation’s beloved action-comedy franchise: Kung Fu Panda 4.
Directed by Mike Mitchell
Voiced by Jack Black
1hrs 34 mins // US 2024
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
“Funny, silly, and a little scary, the franchise finally returns to fun” Independent ★★★
Directed by Gil Kenan
With Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard
1hr 49 mins | US 2024
Join one of the UK’s favourite folk duos, husband and wife Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman for an evening of intimate and friendly songs and stories, based in tradition.
With a simple setup of guitar, piano and vocals, they present an evening of pure emotion, shared experience, and sheer joy in what they do. The duo has entwined their professional and personal relationship over two decades – delivering assured, distinctive performances that are always bold and innovative, mixing traditional song arrangements with their self-penned material which ranges from bitter to sweet, wry to sad, political to passive.
Together they are an enviable class act of imaginative song writing and musicianship, twice winning the coveted ‘Best Duo’ at the BBC Folk Awards (2013 & 2016).
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan (Dunkirk, Inception, Interstellar), Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
“Cillian Murphy dazzles as the destroyer of worlds.” Telegraph ★★★★★
Guardian ★★★★ Independent ★★★★
Nominated for 13 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) and Best Director (Christopher Nolan)
Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director
Directed by Christopher Nolan
With Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt
3hrs // USA 2023
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).
“Hilarious and heartfelt, it’s a tale to be treasured” Empire ★★★★★
Guardian ★★★★ Times ★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Giamatti) and Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph)
Winner of 1 Academy Award – Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph)
Directed by Alexander Payne
With Paul Giamatti, Dominic Sessa, Da’Vine Joy Randolph
2hrs 10 mins // US 2023
We would love you to join us for this once a month opportunity for adult members of the community to come together for fun, camaraderie, learning, sharing food and film.
Each month in the Bonington Theatre, we will meet at 10.30am for a 2-hour exploration workshop (discussions, exercises, some role play and improvisation for those brave enough!) examining the themes, context, characters, ideas and plot of a particular film. There will be a light buffet style lunch, teas and coffees before watching the film at 1.30pm. The event should finish 3.00pm – 3.30pm depending on the length of the film.
Tuesday 26th March – Wicked Little Letters
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, Wicked Little Letters follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley).
When Edith and fellow residents begin 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 may not be the culprit after all.
Directed by Thea Sharrock
With Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley,
N.B. The film is 1hr 40 mins
When her husband is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed.
The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of their complicated marriage. With conflicting evidence and inconsistent testimony, words are wielded like weapons and shocking truths come to light in this thrilling Cannes Palme d’Or winner.
“A sparkling, intellectual thriller” Telegraph ★★★★★
“A stroke of courtroom genius” Filmhounds ★★★★★
“A murder-mystery that touches on marital tensions” Empire ★★★★
Independent ★★★★ Guardian ★★★★
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including– Best Picture, Best Director (Justine Triet) and Best Actress (Sandra Hüller)
Winner of 1 Academy Award – Best Original Screenplay
*In French and English
Directed by Justine Triet
With Sandra Hüller
2hrs 30 mins | FRA 2023
Michael Sheen plays Nye Bevan in a surreal and spectacular journey through the life and legacy of the man who transformed Britain’s welfare state and created the NHS.
Confronted with death, Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead him on a mind-bending journey back through his life; from childhood to mining underground, Parliament and fights with Churchill.
Written by Tim Price and directed by Rufus Norris (Small Island), this epic new Welsh fantasia comes to our big screen.
The i ★★★★★ Times ★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★
Nye
a new play by Tim Price
directed by Rufus Norris
*Also screening in June, click here for times and tickets
Ever wondered how we decide what to screen? Why not come down and speak to our Film Programmer Jeremy, who will be taking questions on how the film programme is shaped and what factors we take into account when booking the films! It’s also a great chance to let us know what you’d like to see!
The Q&A will take place in the bar, and will last approximately 1 hour.