Cinema
Monday Night Cinema: A Bunch of Amateurs (2008) (15)
Monday 7th October 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
A fading LA action star (Burt Reynolds) finds himself caught between a rock and a Bard place after being duped into taking a gig as King Lear in Stratford, England. Problem is, this Stratford is not quite upon-Avon, but firmly placed in wet and muddy Suffolk. One-time Miss Moneypenny Samantha Bond is a firm but sweet director determined the play’s the thing in an undemanding comedy chosen for 2008’s Royal Film Performance. Also starring Imelda Staunton and Derek Jacobi.
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Thursday Night Cinema: The Nettle Dress (12a)
Thursday 10th October 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Textile artist Allan Brown spends seven years making a dress by hand from locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion but also his medicine and meditation.
Stunningly filmed by award-winning documentary maker Dylan Howitt, The Nettle Dress follows Allan’s journey through seasons and years, foraging, spinning, weaving, cutting and sewing the cloth, before finally sharing a healing vision of the dress back in the woods where the nettles were picked, worn by one of his daughters.
A labour of love in the truest sense, The Nettle Dress is a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing power of nature and slow craft. It’s one story representing a huge groundswell of people rediscovering the joys of making.
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Monday Night Cinema: Edie (12a)
Monday 14th October 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
When Edie’s husband passes away her daughter tries to send her to a care home. But she packs an old camping bag, leaves her life behind and embarks on an adventure she never got to have – climbing the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland. Edie is determined to prove to herself and everyone else that it‘s never too late.
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Thursday Night Cinema: Fremont (12a)
Thursday 17th October 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Formerly a translator for the United States military in Afghanistan, Donya struggles to rebuild her life in San Francisco and works for a Chinese fortune cookie factory. In a moment of sudden revelation, she decides to send out a special message in one of the cookies.
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Monday Night Cinema: Vindication Swim
Monday 21st October 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Vindication Swim dives into the extraordinary life of Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel. The film depicts Mercedes’ upstream struggle in overcoming both the cold waters of the English Channel and the oppressive society of 1920s England. However, after a rival comes forward claiming to have accomplished the same feat, Mercedes is forced into battle to retain her record and her legacy.
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Monday Night Cinema: Vindication Swim
Monday 4th November 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
THE BIKERIDERS captures a rebellious time in America when the culture and people were changing. After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy (Jodie Comer) is inextricably drawn to Benny (Austin Butler), the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny (Tom Hardy). Much like the country around it, the club begins to evolve, transforming from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club.
Starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer, Tom Hardy, Boyd Holbrook
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Exhibition on Screen: Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers (PG)
Thursday 7th November 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. “Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers” explores the misunderstood artist’s revolutionary years in the south of France. Witness how Van Gogh’s passion for storytelling transformed his art, turning his surroundings into vibrant, symbolic masterpieces. Explore this pivotal period and understand the genius behind the iconic works in this once-in-a-century show, made in close collaboration with the National Gallery.
Tickets £12 (Concessions £10)
Monday Night Cinema: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (PG)
Monday 11th November 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Based on the best-selling and critically-acclaimed young adult novel by Judy Blume, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Follows eleven-year-old Margaret who moves to a new town and starts to contemplate everything about life, friendship and adolescence. She relies on her mother, Barbara, who offers loving support, and her grandmother, Sylvia, who’s coming to terms with finding happiness in the next phase of her life. Questions of identity, one’s place in the world, and what brings meaning to life soon brings them closer together than ever before.
Starring Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates, Abby Ryder Fortson
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Thursday Night Cinema: A Story of Bones (12a)
Thursday 14th November 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
The moving documentary about Annina van Neel’s work to reclaim and honour the neglected history of St. Helena after the remains of thousands of enslaved Africans are uncovered on the island.
As Annina van Neel, the Chief Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m airport project, learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley. It is one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth.Annina fights alongside renowned African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde and a group of disenfranchised islanders – many of them descendants of enslaved people – for the proper memorialisation of these victims. The resistance they face exposes disturbing truths about the UK’s colonial past and present.
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Monday Night Cinema: Fly Me To The Moon (12a)
Monday 18th November 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, FLY ME TO THE MOON is a sharp, stylish romantic comedy set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA’s historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA’s public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis’s (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, the countdown truly begins
Starring Scarlett Johansson, Channing Tatum, Woody Harrelson
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Monday Night Cinema: The Favourite (15)
Monday 25th November 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. Queen Anne occupies the throne but is frail, so Lady Sarah governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. New servant Abigail arrives and while Sarah is caught up in the politics of war, she fills in as the Queen’s companion. Their friendship gives Abigail a chance to fulfill her ambition of returning to her aristocratic roots and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
Starring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weiszn
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Monday Night Cinema: Thelma (2024) (12a)
Monday 2nd December 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Inspired by a real-life experience of director Josh Margolin’s own grandmother, THELMA puts a clever spin on movies like MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, shining the spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero. When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.
Starring June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Parker Posey
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Monday Night Cinema: A Street Cat Named Bob (12a)
Monday 9th December 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
Starring Bob the Cat, Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas
Tickets £6 (Concessions £5)
Thursday Night Cinema: The Man in the Hat (12a)
Thursday 12th December 2024
7.30pm (bar opens 6.30pm)
The Man In The Hat sets off from Marseilles in a small Fiat 500. On the seat beside him is a framed photograph of an unknown woman. Behind him is a 2CV into which is squeezed Five Bald Men. Why are they chasing him? And how can he shake them off? As he travels North through France, he encounters razeteurs, women with stories to tell, bullfights, plenty of delicious food, a damp man, mechanics, nuns, a convention of Chrystallographers and much more. And always, on his tail, the Five Bald Men. Though largely silent, the film is interrupted by regular bursts of music.
Starring Ciarán Hinds, Sylvain Thirolle, Conor Lovett