Programme
(Click on the image to be taken to a short YouTube trailer)
Our Saturday Specials are shown on Saturday afternoons starting at 3pm (doors open 2.30pm). Tickets £5. There is an interval halfway through the film for tea and cake for which a small charge is made.
Saturday Dec 7 Meet Me in St Louis
Classic Christmas musical stars Judy Garland
Dec 13 note date
The Holdovers
Comedy/Drama 2023 USA Cert R 133 min
A cranky history teacher at a private school is forced to remain on campus over Christmas with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
This is a film that is as achingly sharp as it is funny.
Saturday Jan 11 Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage Wars
Pauline Collins rebels after being put in a Home.
Jan 22
One Life
Biography 2023 UK/Czech Rep 12A 109 min
Nicholas Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 vulnerable children from Czechoslovakia. You will be touched by this extra-ordinary historical story and the simple and direct way it is told.
Saturday Feb 8 Taste of Things
Juliette Binoche stars in historical cooking drama
Feb 26
Past Lives
Romance 2023 USA/S Korea 12A 105 min
Hae Sung and Nora, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny. A beautiful film quietly stated. There are some subtitled parts.
Saturday Mar 8 Mrs Harris Goes to Paris
1950s cleaner falls in love with a Dior dress
Mar 26
Limbo
Comedy/Drama 2020 UK Cert PG 104 min
Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. Despite an elegant dead-pan style, you invest deeply in the characters.
Apr 23
Typist, Artist, Pirate, King
Drama 2022 UK Cert12A 108 mins
Carol Morley’s warm and sympathetic film imagines the artist Audrey Amiss on a tragicomic road trip to exhibit her work. This film is a likable, generous, imaginative response to the work of this neglected artist whose mental illness curtailed her ambitions.
May 28
Incendies
Drama 2010 Canada/Jordan 15 131 min
Twins journey to the Middle East to discover their family history and fulfil their mother's last wishes. The journey takes them into a world of brutality. Though a hard watch at times, this is a thoroughly gripping film with a startling finish.
Jun 25
Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Comedy/Drama Aus 1994 Cert 15 104 min
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret. The film delivers its fair share of laughs but it is also a surprisingly tender road movie.
Jul 23
The Colour Purple
Drama/Musical USA 2023 12A 141 min
A woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the un-breakable bonds of sisterhood. Based on the modern classic novel by Alice Walker
Aug 27
Scrapper
Comedy/Drama UK 2023 12A 84 min
Georgie, a dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives happily alone in her London flat, filling it with magic. Suddenly, her estranged father turns up and forces her to confront reality. The film is a fizzing, vital exploration of the father-daughter relationship.