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Carlton Cinema

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29 St Mildreds Road, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, CT8 8RE
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Elemental

Elemental
  • 2023
  • US
  • 1h 49min
  • PG
  • Directed by: Peter Sohn
  • Cast: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie Del Carmen

Elemental is the latest Disney-Pixar feature, based in a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together. When Ember, a fiery young woman meets Wade, a go-with-the-flow guy, they discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. Directed by Peter Sohn (The Good Dinosaur), Elemental draws inspiration from Sohn's youth, growing up as the son of immigrants in New York City during the 1970s, highlighting the city's distinct cultural and ethnic diversity.

Sat 9 Dec
Sun 10 Dec

The Great Escaper

The Great Escaper
  • 2023
  • 1h 36min
  • 12A
  • Directed by: Oliver Parker
  • Cast: Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Wolf Kahler

The Great Escaper Oliver Parker | UK, USA | 2023 | Cert and running time tbc

In the summer of 2014 - the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings - octogenarian Bernie Jordan made global headlines. He’d staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades. It was a story that captured the imagination of the world - Bernie seemed to embody the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. It was the story we all tell ourselves to make war and old age bearable. The bitter-sweet script explores the reality with wit and a very big heart. Bernie’s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene – the story celebrates their love without sentimentality and with an eye to the lessons we can all learn from the Greatest Generation.

Free tea and coffee will be available before the film.

Thu 7 Dec

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
  • 2023
  • US
  • 2h 37min
  • 12A
  • Directed by: Francis Lawrence
  • Cast: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, Josh Andrés Rivera, Viola Davis

A prequel to the Hunger Games series.

Wed 6 Dec
Thu 7 Dec
Parent & baby
Subtitled

Love Actually

Love Actually
  • 2003
  • UK / US
  • 2h 15min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Richard Curtis
  • Written by: Richard Curtis
  • Cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy, Rowan Atkinson

Curtis aims to prove the anodyne point that love is actually all around us with a huge cast and several different story strands. So we see Nighy, Thompson, Grant, Colin Firth, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Andrew Lincoln and Laura Linney all pop up to play out their roles. Lightweight and over-populated romantic comedy.

Wed 6 Dec

Napoleon

Napoleon
  • 2023
  • UK / US
  • 2h 37min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Ridley Scott
  • Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim

Director Ridley Scott’s film takes a personal look at Napoleon Bonaparte's origins, and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor viewed through the prism of his addictive, and often volatile, relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine. Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Josephine.

Wed 6 Dec
Thu 7 Dec
Fri 8 Dec
Sat 9 Dec
Sun 10 Dec
Subtitled
Mon 11 Dec
Tue 12 Dec
Wed 13 Dec
Thu 14 Dec

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
  • 2023
  • US
  • 2h 30min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Mark Ritchie
  • Cast: Beyoncé, Blue Ivy Carter

Concert film of Beyoncé recorded on her Renaissance world tour.

Thu 7 Dec
Fri 8 Dec
Sat 9 Dec
Sun 10 Dec
Thu 14 Dec

Royal Ballet Live: The Nutcracker

Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
  • 2017

Live broadcast of the Royal Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. A young girl’s enchanted present leads her on a wonderful Christmas adventure in this classical ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score.

Tue 12 Dec
Sun 17 Dec

Royal Opera House: The Nutcracker

Royal Opera House: The Nutcracker
  • 2023
  • UK

The Royal Ballet

The Nutcracker ​

Running time 170 minutes (including one interval)

Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s score, as Clara and her enchanted Nutcracker fight the Mouse King and visit the Sugar Plum Fairy in the glittering Kingdom of Sweets. Peter Wright’s much-loved production for The Royal Ballet, with gorgeous period designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, keeps true to the spirit of this festive ballet classic, combining the thrill of the fairy tale with spectacular dancing.

Tue 12 Dec
Sun 17 Dec

Saltburn

Saltburn
  • 2023
  • UK / US
  • 2h 11min
  • 15
  • Directed by: Emerald Fennell
  • Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, Alison Oliver, Archie Madekwe, Carey Mulligan

A university student is drawn into the world of an aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's estate for the summer.

Wed 6 Dec
Thu 7 Dec

Wish

Wish
  • 2023
  • US
  • 1h 32min
  • PG
  • Directed by: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
  • Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama, Evan Peters, Harvey Guillén

Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

Wed 6 Dec
Thu 7 Dec
Fri 8 Dec
Sat 9 Dec
Sun 10 Dec
Autism-friendly
Mon 11 Dec
Tue 12 Dec
Wed 13 Dec
Thu 14 Dec
Subtitled

Wonka

Wonka
  • 2023
  • UK / US
  • 1h 52min
  • PG
  • Directed by: Paul King
  • Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, Hugh Grant

An origin story for Willy Wonka featuring an all-star cast and directed by Paddington's Paul King.

Fri 8 Dec
Sat 9 Dec
Sun 10 Dec
Mon 11 Dec
Tue 12 Dec
Wed 13 Dec
Thu 14 Dec
Parent & baby
Sun 24 Dec

A family run, independent cinema with a tearoom and a weekly film club, working towards incorporating more art house film screenings and special events.

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