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After despairing businessman George Bailey wishes he had never been born, an angel is sent to earth to make George’s wish come true. As he sees what life would have been like if he had never existed, George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and impacted…
“Capra’s Christmas cracker shines anew” – Guardian ★★★★★
Directed by Frank Capra
With James Stewarts
2hrs 10 mins // US 1946
This towering, fearless love story chronicles the lifelong relationship of conductor-composer Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
Telegraph ★★★★★ Independent ★★★★ BBC ★★★★
Directed by Bradley Cooper
With Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan
2hrs 9 mins // US 2023
The Bonington players return with a comedy by Guy Bolton and PG Wodehouse!
Mischief, mishaps and mayhem abound in this high-spirited comedy which brings PG Wodehouse’s larger-than-life characters to the stage. Perhaps none more so than Jeeves, the most superb “”gentlemen’s gentlemen”, who acts as butler and bookie to an impoverished nobleman.
Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.
Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.
Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End, Vanya will be playing exclusively in cinemas in 2024.
“The performance of the year” The i ★★★★★
Vanya
adapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhov
directed by Sam Yates
designed by Rosanna Vize
1hr 57 mins | No Interval
*Additional screenings may be added at a later date
The top organ players from across the country play at The Bonington Theatre on the first Monday of each month!
Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the chequered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film captures Bonaparte’s relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his one true love, Josephine, showcasing his visionary military and political tactics against some of the most dynamic practical battle sequences ever filmed.
“Joaquin Phoenix makes a magnificent emperor in thrilling biopic” Guardian ★★★★★
Telegraph ★★★★ Independent ★★★★ Times ★★★★
Directed by Ridley Scott
With Jaoquin Phoenix
2hrs 38 mins // US 2023
Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Wish is an all-new musical comedy welcoming audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force: a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe, King Magnifico, to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Empire ★★★ Independent ★★★
Directed by Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
Voiced by Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine
1hr 38 mins // US 2023
Jazz in the Bar’s guests this month are John Sanderson and Sue Benson. John plays fluently on all the saxes and flute with a silky smooth swinging sound on ballads and jazz standards. Sue adds her expressive vocals to the mix, and joins Bob for a couple of vocal duets.
With the fab Bob Hudson Trio accompanying and doing their own feature numbers it will be a night of toe tapping finger snapping jazz!
After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.
“Terrific David Fincher thriller about a philosophising hitman.” Guardian ★★★★★
Directed by David Fincher
With Michael Fassbender
1hrs 58 mins // US 2023
Behold Ye Ramblers! is the story of the Clarion Ramblers, their contribution to the Right To Roam and to the health and wellbeing of working people after its formation well over a hundred years ago.
The Clarion Movement itself was made up by readers of the ‘The Clarion’ newspaper that formed clubs dedicated to leisure and educational pursuits – Clarion cyclists, Clarion Ramblers, Scouts, Clarion Vocal Unions (choirs), and so on – and to the promotion of Socialism.
Songs from “The Clarion Song Book” will provide much of the backdrop for the show.
80 mins + interval