Spring/Summer 2024 Season (provisional program)

Wednesday 22nd May – THE LONGEST DAY (1962) PG (WAR/DRAMA)

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the U.S.,
Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defences being
established as part of the Reich’s Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the
Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. “For the Allies as well
as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The longest day.” Click here for trailer

Wednesday 19th June – NEXT GOAL WINS (2023) 12A

IFrom Taika Waititi, who directed the wonderful Hunt for the Wilderpeople, comes
this story of the American Samoa soccer team, who suffered the worst loss in
World Cup history, losing to Australia 31-0 in 2001. With the 2014 World Cup
approaching, the team recruits a down on his luck, maverick coach (Fassbender)
to help turn their fate around. Click for trailer

Wednesday 17th July – WICKED LITTLE LETTERS (2023) 15 (CRIME/COMEDY)

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark, absurd 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 start 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 might not be the
culprit after all. Click here for trailer

Wednesday 21st August – ONE LIFE (2023) 12A (DRAMA)

The true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who visited
Prague in December 1938. He found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in
Germany and Austria, living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and
food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. How many children could he and the team
rescue before the borders closed? Fifty years later, Nicky is still blaming himself
for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ‘That’s Life’, surprises
him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally
begins to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carried for five decades. Click here for the trailer

Matinee, Saturday 31st August – WONKA (2023) PG (FAMILY/COMEDY)

Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of Roald Dahl’s beloved
children’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka tells the wondrous story
of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the
Willy Wonka we know today. Young Willy Wonka is full of ideas, and determined
to change the world one delectable bite at a time – proving that the best things in
life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka anything
is possible. Click here for the trailer