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Jazz Steps: Tom Ollendorff Trio

Tom Ollendorff has a distinctive guitar sound, blending virtuosic playing with sophisticated harmonic and melodic ideas. With long-standing trio partners, drummer Marc Michel and bassist Conor Chaplin, they form a “…very classy” (The Guardian) outfit. Tom’s music elegantly mixes graceful grooving songlike themes, baroque-style etudes and headlong fast-bop swing.

Following on from their critically acclaimed (**4 Stars**) debut album A Song For You, their latest release Passing Ships – out in May – features New York Saxophonist Ben Wendel.

“…Ollendorff presents sophisticated, melodic music of seraphic beauty ” -All About Jazz

Don’t miss the Tom Ollendorff Trio at Jazz Steps performing sophisticated melodic tunes taken from both albums.

Tom Ollendorff – Guitar | Marc Michel – Drums |
Conor Chaplin – Bass

Presented by Jazz Steps

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry (12A)

Starring Academy Award® Winner Jim Broadbent as Harold and Penelope Wilton as his wife Maureen, The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry tells the story of a man who leaves his seaside town in South Devon to deliver a message to an old friend.

Harold Fry was never meant to be a hero. He’s an unremarkable man who has failed at all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. Now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade quietly into the background of life. But when Harold learns his friend Queenie is dying, he is moved to act. He leaves home, walking to the post box to send her a letter, until he realises a letter is not enough.

In that moment Harold decides to keep walking, all the way to her hospice, some 500 miles away in Berwick-upon-Tweed: as long as he walks, Queenie must live. Surprising himself as much as his wife Maureen, Harold embarks on a walk of hope, determined to travel the length of England to save his friend.

Directed by Hettie Macdonald
With Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton
1hr 48 mins // UK 2023

Oscar Best Picture Winner- Everything Everywhere All At Once (15)

Winner of a whopping 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, EEAAO will be back on our big screen for one night only. Don’t miss this truly original Oscar winner!

Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.

Winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director (Daniels)

Directed by Daniels
With Michelle Yeoh
2hrs 20 mins // US 2022

Allelujah (12A)

Based on the play by Alan Bennett, Allelujah is a warm and deeply moving story about old age. When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back by galvanizing the local community: they invite a news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital’s most distinguished nurse. What could go wrong?

Allelujah celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand.

“Alan Bennett’s NHS drama is a pot-banging success” Telegraph ★★★★

Directed by Richard Eyre
With Jennifer Saunders, Derek Jacobi, Judi Dench
1hr 39 mins // UK 2023

Magic Mike’s Last Dance (15)

The third instalment of the blockbuster Magic Mike film franchise sees Channing Tatum reprise his role as Mike Lane, starring alongside Salma Hayek Pinault.

‘Magic’ Mike Lane takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be one last hurrah, Mike heads to London with a wealthy socialite who lures him with an offer he can’t refuse…

Directed by Steven Soderbegh
With Channing Tatum
1hr 52 mins // US 2023

In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50 (15)

King Crimson is a band that people literally are dying to be in. In the Court of the Crimson King is a dark, comic film for anyone who wonders whether it is worth sacrificing everything for just a single moment of transcendence.

For over 50 years Robert Fripp, also famous for his work with Bowie and Eno, has overseen a unique creative environment in which freedom and responsibility conspire to place extraordinary demands on the band’s members – only alleviated by the applause of an audience whose adoration threatens to make their lives even harder. It’s a rewarding and perilous space in which the extraordinary is possible, nothing is certain, and not everyone survives intact…

“A rollicking workplace comedy” Guardian ★★★★

“As good as rock documentaries get” Variety

“Toby Amies’s fascinating documentary gets right inside the exacting world of Robert Fripp and co as they approach their 50th anniversary” Observer ★★★★

“This elegant, intimate, funny and surprisingly moving film covers every aspect of the group — from its thorny interpersonal history to the almost religious loyalty it inspires in fans — and lays out exactly what makes Crimson such a singular and enduring musical force.” Rolling Stone

Directed by Toby Amies
1hr 25 mins // UK 2022

Legally Blonde the Musical

Based on the smash hit motion picture, Legally Blonde The Musical is a fabulously fun journey of self-empowerment and expanding horizons. The show’s instantly recognizable songs are filled with humor, wit and sass — leaving cast members and audiences alike seeing pink!

Legally Blonde follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. When Elle’s boyfriend, Warner, dumps her and heads to Harvard, claiming she’s not “serious” enough, Elle takes matters into her own hands, crafting a showy song-and-dance personal essay and charming her way into law school. Befriending classmate, Emmett, and spunky hairdresser, Paulette, along the way, Elle finds that books and looks aren’t mutually exclusive. As Elle begins outsmarting her peers, she realizes that law may be her natural calling after all.

Performed by Copper Studios | Performing Arts School Nottingham

Nottingham Organ Society: Matthew Bason

Multi-instrumentalist Matthew Bason will be this month’s Organ guest!

‘‘Keyboard player of the Edison Lighthouse band, with his not-to-be-missed one man show with organ, piano, accordion and vocals and a few laughs too!’

Presented by the Nottingham Organ Society

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (PG)

From Nintendo and Illumination comes The Super Mario Bros. Movie, a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros!

A Brooklyn plumber travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find his brother and save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser.

“Silly, earnest fun” ★★★ The i

Directed by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Voiced by Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy
1hr 32 mins // US 2023

Preview Screenings: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (PG)

From Nintendo and Illumination comes The Super Mario Bros. Movie, a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros. Join us for these two special preview screenings, where you’ll get to see this brand new movie for the first time!

A Brooklyn plumber travels through the Mushroom Kingdom with a princess named Peach and an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad to find his brother and save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing Koopa named Bowser.
A stellar cast including Chris Pratt as Mario and Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach.

Directed by Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic
Voiced by Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy
1hr 32 mins // US 2023