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Wednesday 17th April – AND THEN COME THE NIGHTJARS (2023) 12A
Adapted for the screen from Bea Roberts’ multi-award-winning stage play, And Then Come the Nightjars is a heart-warming story of friendship and survival set against the backdrop of the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak. An unlikely friendship develops between a Devon farmer and the vet who is assigned to cull his precious herd.
Wednesday 20th March – THE GREAT ESCAPER (2023) 12A
In 2014, near-nonagenarian Bernie Jordan (Michael Caine) is sad to miss out on an official group outing to the D-Day anniversary in France. Encouraged by wife Rene (Glenda Jackson), he sneaks out from his care home and goes on one last big adventure to cross the hannel, while reminiscing about his wartime experiences.
Wednesday 21st February – DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) PG
Celebrating the 80th birthday of this classic noir. Insurance salesman Walter Neff embarks on an affair with Phyllis Dietrichson, the seductive wife of one of his clients. Phyllis plans to murder her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept that it’s an accidental death. But Walter’s best friend and colleague Barton Keyes is not convinced…
Wednesday 17th January– A HAUNTING IN VENICE (2023) 12A
In post-World War II Venice, Hercule Poirot (Branagh), now retired and living in
self-imposed exile, reluctantly attends a séance. But when one of the guests is
murdered, the former detective must put his little grey cells to work one more
time to uncover the killer.
Wednesday 20th December – THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY(2023) 12A
Adapted from her own novel by Rachel Joyce. Learning that his old friend and colleague Queenie has terminal cancer, Harold (Jim Broadbent) sets out to post her a letter of condolence, but impulsively decides to visit her in person instead, walking from his home in Devon to Berwick-upon-Tweed, and leaving his wife Maureen (Penelope
Wilton) hurt and confused at home.
Saturday 9th December 2pm Matinee – Oppenheimer (2023) 15
Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus Christopher Nolan’s eagerly awaited feature is the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, “the father of the atomic bomb”, an enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
Wednesday 15th November
Barbie (12A)
“To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full on existential crisis. Or you’re a Ken.” Barbie (Margot Robbie) and Ken (Ryan Gosling) are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the
joys and perils of living among humans.
SATURDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2023
The Old Oak (2023) 15
Please join us at 2.00 (doors open at 1.30pm) on Saturday 11th November 2023
The Old Oak is set in a small town near Durham, whose focal centre is the titular pub. Landlord TJ Bannatyne (Dave Turner) is struggling to stay afloat during economic uncertainty. As the film begins, the town, previously a mining community that has now plunged into poverty, faces rising tension when Syrian refugees are placed in local homes. While this is met with hostility by the locals, Bannatyne forges a relationship with Yara (Ebla Mari), one of the refugees, and her family, as they organize a food initiative to help the town community.
Wednesday 18th October 2023 – WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? (2022) 12A
How do you find lasting love in today’s world? For documentary-maker and dating app addict Zoe (Lily James), swiping right has only delivered an endless stream of Mr. Wrongs, to the dismay of her eccentric mother Cath (Emma Thompson) For Zoe’s childhood friend and neighbor Kaz (Shazad Latif), the answer is to follow his parents’ example and opt for an arranged (or “assisted”) marriage to a bright and beautiful bride from Pakistan. As Zoe films his hopeful journey from London to Lahore to marry a stranger chosen by his parents, she begins to wonder if she might have something to learn from a profoundly different approach to finding love.