Tyneside Cinema

• 1997
• USA, Germany
• 2h 4min
• 15

• Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
• Cast: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close

Air Force One is taken hostage with the President on board.

• 65%
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• 2023
• US
• 1h 45min
• PG

• Directed by: Kelly Fremon Craig
• Cast: Rachel McAdams, Abby Ryder Fortson, Elle Graham, Benny Safdie, Kathy Bates

Coming of age comedy drama based on the much-loved book by Judy Blume. When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence.

Starring Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates and Abby Ryder Fortson.

• 78%
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• 2005
• US
• 2h 19min
• 12A

• Directed by: Christopher Nolan
• Cast: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman

Deeply flawed but satisfyingly dark and realistic adaptation of both Bob Kane's original strips and Frank Miller's Batman: Year One. David Blade Goyer's script is pretty awful but this is also a fairly substandard piece of work from Nolan as well. 'Batman Begins' does, however, need to be applauded for partly revitalising an ailing franchise.

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• 2023
• Canada / Finland / US
• 2h 59min
• 15

• Directed by: Ari Aster
• Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan

Hereditary and Midsommar director Ari Aster returns with the tale of an anxious man who embarks on a surreal journey following the death of his mother.

• 71%
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The Becoming celebrates 30 years of Newcastle's balletLORENT.

Shot at Boiler Shop in January 2023 in front of a live audience, it explores how performance and fashion can be used for self-transformation.

Taking place on a catwalk-inspired stage, the film features music by Dr Who composer Murray Gold, costumes from Nasir Mazhar and choreography by Liv Lorent. It is directed by Ben Crompton.

The 25 minute film is followed by a Q&A with the artists

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• 1982
• US
• 1h 57min
• 15

• Directed by: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy

A tough cop tracks down a group of malfunctioning androids in this gritty hi-tech retread of Raymond Chandler, executed with Scott's customary visual flair, and with strong performances, especially from Ford and Hauer.

• 81%
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• 2022
• 1h 48min
• 12A

• Directed by: Stephen Williams
• Cast: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton

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Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Saint-Georges was the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne, who rose to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and subsequent falling out with Marie Antoinette (played by Lucy Boynton) and her court. His complicated love life and the racism of the Ancien Régime highlight the need for change.

£7.70 (£5.90)

• 69%
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• 2022
• 1h 30min

• Directed by: David Bickerstaff

A thrilling encounter with one of the world’s great art capitals. Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-new artworks that were created on the streets.

The exhibition was a smash-hit five-star success and brought a younger and more diverse audience to the museum. The film uses the exhibition as a launchpad to travel to Tokyo itself, and explore the art and artists of the city more fully.

A beautifully illustrated and richly detailed film, looking at a city which has undergone constant destruction and renewal over its 400-year history, resulting in one of the most vibrant and interesting cities on the planet…

“Tokyo has a powerful engine that just doesn’t stop. There is an energy, a particular floating power in Tokyo. Whatever happens, this city gets rebuilt again and continues to move forwards.” Machida Kumi

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• 2023
• 1h 30min

• Directed by: David Bickerstaff

An exhibition featuring the most stunning works by Vermeer.

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• 2021
• US
• 1h 48min
• 15

• Directed by: Wes Anderson
• Cast: Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray, Owen Wilson

A collection of comedy-drama stories published in the eponymous fictional newspaper, The French Dispatch.

• 71%
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• 2014
• US
• 1h 40min
• 15

• Directed by: Wes Anderson
• Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Saoirse Ronan, Edward Norton, Jude Law, Owen Wilson, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel, F. Murray Abraham, Tom Wilkinson

Gustave H (Fiennes), the flamboyantly orderly concierge of the Grand Budapest Hotel, likes to romance the elderly guests, but when his wealthy lover (Swinton) dies mysteriously, he finds himself framed for murder. Perhaps Anderson's most uncompromisingly eccentric and perfectly realised film to date, with an astonishing and revelatory comic performance from Fiennes.

• 81%
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• 2023
• 1h 52min
• 12A

• Directed by: Coky Giedroyc
• Cast: Aisling Bea, Alice Lowe, Matthew McNulty

A musical based on the music of Take That follows five best friends who have the night of their lives seeing their favourite boy band in concert. Twenty-five years later their lives have changed in many different ways as they reunite for one more epic show by their beloved band, to relight their friendship and discover that maybe their greatest days are ahead of them.

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• 2006
• US
• 3h
• 15

• Directed by: David Lynch
• Written by: David Lynch
• Cast: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Harry Dean Stanton, Julia Ormond

Lynch and his digital camera venture into the excesses of split narrative, talking rabbits and an obscure storyline about a famous actress (Dern) who gets lost in a film role. You expect Lynch films to be confusing but only the most die-hard Lynch fan will find merit in this tedious celluloid rune.

• 68%
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• 2018
• US
• 1h 41min
• PG

• Directed by: Wes Anderson
• Cast: Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Greta Gerwig, Frances McDormand, Courtney B. Vance, Fisher Stevens, Mari Natsuki, Harvey Keitel, Koyu Rankin, Liev Schreiber, Bob Balaban, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton

When the corrupt Mayor of Megasaki City sends all the dogs to Trash Island, his 12-year-old ward Atari (Rankin) goes there to find out what happened to his beloved Spots (Schreiber). Sensationally rendered stop-motion tribute to Japanese cinema, rich in detail and full of deadpan heroism and epic ineptitude. Delightful.

• 78%
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• 1983
• UK
• 1h 47min
• PG

• Directed by: Bill Forsyth
• Written by: Bill Forsyth
• Cast: Peter Riegert, Burt Lancaster, Denis Lawson, Fulton Mackay

One of Bill Forsyth's most sure-footed ventures, and one in which his eye for charm balances with his love for whimsy. An ambitious executive of an American oil company is sent to buy an entire Scottish town for a future drilling project, but soon finds himself falling in love with the place, while being hoodwinked by the community.

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• 2023
• 1h 31min
• 12A

• Directed by: Barnaby Thompson
• Cast: Noël Coward

A documentary on one of the most acclaimed writers across stage and screen.

• 63%

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• 2022
• US
• 1h 41min
• 15

• Directed by: Thomas Hardiman
• Cast: Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle, Lilit Lesser, Debris Stevenson

Dir Thomas Hardiman/GB 2023/101 mins. Clare Perkins, Kayla Meikle, Lilit Lesser

A murder mystery set in a competitive hairdressing competition. Extravagance and excess collide, as the death of one of their own sows seeds of division in a community whose passion for hair verges on obsession.

Medusa Deluxe will screen on release from Fri 9 Jun.

Event/ The special preview screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Thomas Hardiman.

• 63%

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• 2012
• US
• 1h 34min
• 12A

• Directed by: Wes Anderson
• Written by: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
• Cast: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Harvey Keitel, Jason Schwartzman, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman

When 12-year-old orphan Sam (Gilman) convinces Suzy (Hayward) to run away with him, her parents (Murray, McDormand), the local scoutmaster (Norton), sheriff (Willis) and Social Services (Swinton) are soon in pursuit. Anderson's movie will delight his fans; others may consider it overlong, whimsical and emotionally lightweight.

• 78%
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• 2019
• UK
• 15

• Directed by: Vicky Jones
• Cast: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Live broadcast of Fleabag, written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

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• 2019
• 1h 28min
• 15

• Directed by: Oskar Lehemaa, Mikk Mägi
• Cast: Mikk Mägi, Oskar Lehemaa, Jan Uuspõld

In a remote Estonian village, three children from the city are forced to spend the summer on their grandfather’s farm. Determined to make them see the simple beauty of country living, he sets them to work, only to have them accidentally set loose his prized but thoroughly mistreated cow. Now they have only 24 hours to find and milk the rogue bovine before its exponentially expanding udders explode and unleash the Lactopalypse. To make matters worse, a decrepit, disgraced farmer and his chainsaw-wielding gang is also determined to catch the animal, with murder on his mind. On their epic journey, our heroes must face festival hippies, vicious forest dwellers, strange woodland sprites, heavy-metal rockers and other dangers commonly found in the Estonian countryside!

"If Jan Švankmajer and the South Park crew launched a joint takeover of Aardman Animation, they might come up with something as surreal and puerile as this madcap, very funny, yet somehow sweet-natured Estonian stop-motion comedy. Expanding on the Vanamehe Multikas web series of viral shorts starring the cheerfully sinister Old Man farmer character, the feature raises its narrative stakes to a potential ruminant apocalypse, while the bodily function and bovine-inspired clowning is arguably raunchier than ever. Call it Creature Discomforts." Sight & Sound

• 61%

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• 2022
• 1h 50min
• 15

• Directed by: Dionne Edwards
• Cast: Eliot Sumner, Ben Caplan, Maria Almeida

The story of a South London family told through the center of their lives: a little red dress.

• 74%

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• 2023
• US
• 1h 23min
• 12A

• Directed by: Tina Satter
• Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Marchánt Davis, Josh Hamilton

In June 3, 2017, 25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home. Based on true events, the film’s dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense, transfixing conversation.

Saturday afternoon, June 3, 2017. Twenty-five year old Reality Winner is confronted at her home by the FBI. A cryptic conversation begins and soon Reality's life starts to unravel. With all dialogue taken directly from the FBI’s transcript of the interrogation — alternately nail-biting and banal, darkly funny and surreal — we track one woman's experience of the U.S. government at work. And as more details of Reality’s life are revealed and more armed men arrive, a complex portrait emerges of an American millennial, yoga teacher, and veteran under siege. REALITY examines truth, power and the U.S. legal system through the lens of one intimate, disconcerting and very real encounter, provoking conversations that endure long after the final frame.

"In its elegant simplicity, its formal daring and superbly subtle and controlled performances, Tina Satter’s movie is surely one of the best at the Berlin film festival: an eerily gripping true-life drama concerning people who look like elaborately reanimated, hyperreal ghosts from the past." Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian

Director: Tine Satter Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Josh Hamilton, Marchánt Davis USA 2023 Run time: 1'23"

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• 2022
• Finland / UK
• 1h 31min
• 15

• Directed by: Jalmari Helander
• Cast: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila

During the last desperate days of WWII, a solitary prospector (Jorma Tommila) crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the Nazis steal his gold, they quickly discover that they have just tangled with no ordinary miner. While there is no direct translation for the Finnish word "sisu", this legendary ex-commando will embody what sisu means: a white-knuckled form of courage and unimaginable determination in the face of overwhelming odds. And no matter what the Nazis throw at him, the one-man death squad will go to outrageous lengths to get his gold back – even if it means killing every last Nazi in his path.

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• 2020
• UK / US
• 2h 30min
• 12A

• Directed by: Christopher Nolan
• Cast: Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Himesh Patel, Michael Caine, Kenneth Branagh

John David Washington is the new Protagonist in Christopher Nolan's original sci-fi action spectacle 'Tenet.' Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time. Not time travel. Inversion.

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• 2023
• UK
• 1h 48min
• 12A

• Directed by: Hettie Macdonald
• Cast: Jim Broadbent, Penelope Wilton

Harold sets off on a walk from the south of England to the hospice in Berwick-upon-Tweed where an old friend is dying.

• 68%

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• 2022
• 1h 55min
• 15

• Directed by: Gina Gammell, Riley Keough
• Cast: Iona Red Bear, Ta-Yamni Long Black Cat, Wilma Colhof

The stories of two Oglala Lakota men that grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

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