Oliver's Battery Community Films

“ALLELUJAH  ”  (2022) (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.

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“MATILDA THE MUSICAL ” (PG)

Doors open at 7.00pm

An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical, based on the book by Roald Dahl. Matilda (Alisha Weir), the precocious child of unloving parents, is sent to Crunchem Hall where she is nurtured by the delightful Miss Honey (Lashana Lynch) but must face the terrifying head teacher Agatha Trunchbull (Emma Thompson). Armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, she dares to take a stand with miraculous results.

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2pm Doors open at 1.30pm

A Man Called Otto (15)

A remake of the Swedish film A Man Called Ove. Otto is a curmudgeonly widower with staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People think him bitter, and he thinks they are idiots. Ove’s well-ordered, solitary world gets a shake-up one November morning with the appearance of new neighbors, a chatty young couple and their two boisterous daughters, who announce their arrival by accidentally flattening Ove’s mailbox with their U-Haul. What follows is a heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unlikely friendships, and a community’s unexpected reassessment of the one person they thought they had figured out.

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The Whale (15)

Charlie (Brendan Fraser) is an incredibly reclusive, very fat teacher, struggling to connect with his students via video-calls, while processing past trauma. When friend and nurse Liz (Hong Chau) tells him his health is rapidly deteriorating, he attempts to strike up a relationship with his estranged teenage daughter, Ellie (Sadie Sink).

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“The Fablemans‘” (12A)

New Jersey, 1952. Entranced by his first visit to a movie theatre and haunted by the powerful imagery of Cecil B. DeMille’s The Greatest Show on Earth, young Sammy Fabelman returns home seeking to recreate it. Encouraged by Mitzi, his doting mother, Sammy discovers an irresistible passion for making home movies, and his creative projects become increasingly ambitious. However, when he discovers a shattering family secret, Sammy has to embrace the slow process of growing up while pursuing his dream to become a storyteller.
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Do come along and share in the community spirit. The ticket price is just £6.00 raffle tickets at £2.00 We will be offering card payments at the door.

“She Said” (15)

Two-time Academy Award® nominee Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, An Education) and Emmy nominee Zoe Kazan (The Plot Against America, The Big Sick) star as New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke one of the most important stories in a generation–a story that shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood and impelled a shift in American culture that continues to this day.
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Do come along and share in the community spirit. The ticket price is just £6.00 raffle tickets at £2.00 We will be offering card payments at the door.

“Living” (12A)

In 1950s London, a humorless civil servant decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.

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Do come along and share in the community spirit. The ticket price is just £6.00 raffle tickets at £2.00 We will be offering card payments at the door.

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“Where the Crawdads Sing” (15)

In Abandoned by her family, Kya Clark, otherwise known to the townspeople of Barkley Cove as the Marsh Girl, is mysterious and wild. “Where the Crawdads Sing” is a coming-of-age story of a young girl raised by the marshlands of the south in the 1950s. When the town hotshot is found dead, and inexplicably linked to Kya, the Marsh Girl is the prime suspect in his murder case.

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Do come along and share in the community spirit. The ticket price is just £6.00 raffle tickets at £2.00 We will be offering card payments at the door.

2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics. THE LOST KING is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England’s history.

Under 18’s go FREE

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Please join us at 7.30pm (doors open at 7.00pm) on Wednesday 15th February 2023 at St Marks, Oliver’s Battery

Leonard (Mark Rylance), a master English tailor who’s ended up in Chicago, operates a corner tailor shop with his assistant (Zoey Deutch) where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters. One night, two killers (Dylan O’Brien, Johnny Flynn) knock on his door in need of a favor – And Leonard is thrust onto the board in a deadly game of deception and murder.

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Do come along and share in the community spirit. The ticket price is just £6.00 raffle tickets at £2.00 We will be offering card payments at the door.