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20,000 Species of Bees
- 2023
- 2h 8min
- Directed by: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
- Cast: Sofía Otero, Patricia López Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain
A daughter and mother have some earth shattering revelations while on holiday to a beekeeper's summer house.
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All That Heaven Allows
- 1955
- USA
- 1h 28min
- U
- Directed by: Douglas Sirk
- Written by: Story:, Edna Lee, Harry Lee, Screenplay:, Peg Fenwick
- Cast: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
93%Sun 26 Nov
Thu 7 Dec
Amarcord
- 1973
- Italy / France
- 2h 3min
- 18
- Directed by: Federico Fellini
- Written by: Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
- Cast: Bruno Zanin, Magali' Noel, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia
Fellini's joyous, autobiographical look back at life in Rimini in the 1930s is the work of the master in his most outgoing mood, a constant procession of remarkable images and memorable moments, despite the looming shadow of Italian Fascism.
91%Sun 19 Nov
The Apartment
- 1960
- US
- 2h 5min
- PG
- Directed by: Billy Wilder
- Written by: Billy Wilder, IAL Diamond
- Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Jack Kruschen
CC Baxter (Lemmon) sublets his bachelor pad to his philandering boss (MacMurray), only to regret it when Sheldrake gets designs on elfin elevator girl Miss Kubelik (MacLaine). Wilder and Diamond's breezy, sardonic approach to themes of infidelity and adultery ensure that the film shines as brightly as ever.
Thu 21 Dec
Tue 26 Dec
Army of Darkness
- 1992
- 1h 21min
- 15
- Directed by: Sam Raimi
- Written by: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi
- Cast: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz
The third instalment of Raimi's Evil Dead series, set in 1300 AD, naturally.
Sat 28 Oct
Batman Returns
- 1992
- US
- 2h 6min
- 12
- Directed by: Tim Burton
- Cast: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken
Batman must stop Penguin becoming Mayor of Gotham, all whilst deciding what he should do with the new Catwoman.
Thu 7 Dec
Tue 12 Dec
Mon 18 Dec
Beetlejuice
- 1988
- US
- 1h 32min
- 15
- Directed by: Tim Burton
- Cast: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Glenn Shadix, Sylvia Sidney
Recently deceased and very charming New England couple have difficulty in adjusting to the afterlife. They eventually call on freelance bio-exorcist Betelgeuse (pronounced 'Beetle-juice') to deal with the problem in his own inimitable fashion. A movie of exuberantly eccentric cartoonish capers, which creates its own comic cosmos where the unexpected is the norm.
Fri 20 Oct
Mon 23 Oct
Tue 24 Oct
Big Trouble in Little China
- 1986
- 1h 39min
- 15
- Directed by: John Carpenter
- Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun
A truck driver gets caught up in a supernatural battle of evil spirits and demons in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Thu 2 Nov
Wed 8 Nov
The Bishop's Wife
- 1947
- US
- 1h 45min
- U
- Directed by: Henry Koster
- Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
An almost classic holiday film about a bishop (Niven) who neglects his wife and parishioners to save his cathedral, until an angel (Grant) intervenes.
Sun 10 Dec
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Sat 23 Dec
Carol
- 2015
- UK
- 1h 58min
- 15
- Directed by: Todd Haynes
- Cast: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler
Manhattan, 1952: young department store clerk and aspiring photographer Therese (Mara) meets sophisticated older woman Carol (Blanchett), and feels inexplicably giddy. Achingly beautiful, slow-burning study of lesbian romance and female strength in the face of adversity, with outstanding performances from Blanchett and Mara. Exceptional filmmaking.
Sun 10 Dec
Thu 14 Dec
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
- 2023
- UK / US / France
- 1h 38min
- Directed by: Sam Fell
- Cast: Thandiwe Newton, Zachary Levi, Bella Ramsey, Imelda Staunton, Lynn Ferguson, David Bradley, Jane Horrocks, Romesh Ranganathan, Daniel Mays, Josie Sedgwick-Davies, Nick Mohammed
Sun 15 Oct
Christine
- 1983
- US
- 1h 50min
- 18
- Directed by: John Carpenter
- Cast: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton
A nerdish boy buys a strange car with an evil mind of its own and his nature starts to change to reflect it.
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Christmas in Connecticut
- 1945
- US
- 1h 42min
- U
- Directed by: Peter Godfrey
- Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
After building her career on lies, a food writer is forced to put on the ultimate charade when a returning war hero and her boss invite themselves for Christmas dinner.
Sat 16 Dec
Tue 19 Dec
Sat 23 Dec
A Christmas Story
- 1983
- US
- 1h 34min
- PG
- Directed by: Bob Clark
- Written by: Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, Bob Clark
- Cast: Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon
Christmas is coming and our young hero desperately wants a certain type of toy gun from Santa. Appealing 1940s-set memoir, with a witty first person narration and a great performance from the bespectacled child star.
Tue 12 Dec
Tue 19 Dec
The City of Lost Children
- 1995
- France
- 1h 52min
- 15
- Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro
- Written by: Gilles Adrien, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
- Cast: Ron Perlman, Daniel Emilfork, Judith Vittet.
On a mist-shrouded oil rig, mad scientist Krank ages prematurely because he cannot dream, and so he kidnaps children from the local port and steals into their sleeping hours. A visually wonderful, wacky fairytale from the makers of Delicatessen, that brims over with cinematic imagination.
Thu 23 Nov
Thu 30 Nov
Comfort and Joy
- 1984
- UK
- 1h 46min
- PG
- Directed by: Bill Forsyth
- Written by: Bill Forsyth
- Cast: Bill Paterson, Clare Grogan, Eleanor David, Alex Norton, Rikki Fulton
After his wife leaves him over Christmas, a DJ (Paterson) ends up mediating in an ice-cream war between two local factions, a process which helps rebuild his self-esteem. One of Forsyth's best films, notable for a fine early performance from Paterson in the central role.
Tue 5 Dec
Coraline
- 2009
- US
- 1h 40min
- PG
- Directed by: Henry Selick
- Cast: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, John Hodgman, Ian McShane
After her family moves to Pink Mansions, Coraline (voiced by Fanning) quickly becomes bored with the large dusty house, and in particular with her hardworking parents (Hatcher and Hodgman). The fantasy kicks into top gear when she discovers a secret door that leads her into an alternate version of her home. A lush, visually imaginative and freshly entertaining stop-motion adaptation of Neil Gaiman's children's novel.
Sat 14 Oct
Kids
Wed 18 Oct
Tue 24 Oct
Die Hard
- 1988
- US
- 2h 11min
- 18
- Directed by: John McTiernan
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Alexander Godunov
Willis plays a cop who attends a tower block Christmas party with his estranged spouse. The building is raided by terrorists, so it's left to Willis to bump off the baddies and save the hostages while the police and FBI languish ineptly on the sidelines. Unbearably tense actioner that gets good mileage out of yawning lift-shafts and flying bullets, while Willis is convincing as an ordinary guy trying to cope with it all. Watch out for Brit Rickman as a villain with a sense of humour.
Mon 4 Dec
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Sat 23 Dec
Die Hard 2
- 1990
- US
- 2h 4min
- 15
- Directed by: Renny Harlin
- Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler
John McClane returns to save the day when terrorists hold an entire airport hostage.
Mon 18 Dec
Die Hard Double Bill
Die Hard (15)
USA 1988 131 mins
Dir: John McTiernan
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas if Crossing The Streams didn't show Die Hard!
NYPD cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) takes a trip to LA to see his estranged wife and spend Christmas with his kids. He didn't count on getting stuck in a skyscraper with a bunch of German terrorists headed up by the well spoken Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). Yippe-Ki-yay, Mother Hubbard!
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Die Hard 2: Die Harder (15)
USA 1990 117 mins
Dir: Renny Harlin
Terrorists. Check. Single Location. Check. John McClane. Check. Christmas. Check. All the ingredients for another go on the Die Hard rollercoaster are here as Bruce Willis's McClane is waiting for his wife's plane to arrive in Washington DC when he gets word that all is not as it seems with the delayed flights. Terrorists have taken over the airport and the planes are circling the airport running out of fuel. It is up to McClane to stop the bad guys and save the planes from crashing.
Sat 9 Dec
Double Bill: The Evil Dead / Evil Dead 2
- 1981 / 1987
Calling all Deadites! April 21st sees the long-awaited release of Evil Dead Rise, the latest film in the beloved horror franchise that sees Sam Raimi - series creator and director of the three original films - reunite with Ash himself, Bruce Campbell, to take on executive producing duties.
To celebrate this momentous horror event, The Assembly Hall Film Club is screening a delectable double-bill of terror, splatter and slapstick comedy comprising of Raimi's original 1981 classic - one of the films that kicked off the 'video nasties' debacle here in the UK - and his perhaps even more celebrated 1987 sequel that goes for broke with the comedy and gory mayhem and gave rise to the term 'splatstick'.
As ever, the bar will be open throughout. There will be a 15 minute interval between films. Don't forget your boomstick.
This is an 18 and over event. No one under 18 will be admitted.
Sun 29 Oct
Double Bill: The Snowman / The Snowman & The Snowdog
- 1982 / 2012
- UK
- U
A double bill of Raymond Briggs' animated classics.
'The Snowman' weaves a spell of magical enchantment as a young boy's snowman comes to life and escorts him on a magical flying visit to the North Pole.
In 'The Snowman and The Snowdog' a young boy moves into the house in whose backyard the snowman was built. Finding a photograph of the snowman the boy rebuilds him, fashioning a snow dog out of the excess snow. The trio fly off in a plane to meet Santa, who gives the boy a magical dog collar which will make it the happiest Christmas ever for him.
Sun 17 Dec
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Kids
Sun 24 Dec
Elf
- 2003
- US
- 1h 36min
- PG
- Directed by: Jon Favreau
- Written by: David Berenbaum
- Cast: Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, Ed Asner, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel, Mary Steenburgen
Buddy (Ferrell) is a big Elf who, though accepted in his Elvish community at the North Pole, manages to wreak havoc on a daily basis. Fed up and confused by his charge, Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) sends him to the US in search of his true identity. Hilarious and puerile Yuletide comedy.
Sat 9 Dec
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The Evil Dead
- 2013
- US
- 1h 31min
- 18
- Directed by: Fede Alvarez
- Cast: Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Jessica Lucas
The aptly-named Diablo Cody joins Sam Raimi and others in penning this remake of the 1981 horror classic.
Sat 28 Oct
Exhibition on Screen: Klimt & The Kiss
- 2023
- 1h 30min
- Directed by: Ali Ray
Klimt and The Kiss. The Kiss by Gustav Klimt is one of the most recognised and reproduced paintings in the world. It is perhaps the most popular poster on student dorm walls from Beijing to Boston.
Painted in Vienna around 1908, the evocative image of an unknown embracing couple has captivated viewers with its mystery, sensuality and dazzling materials ever since it was created. But just what lies behind the appeal of the painting – and just who was the artist that created it? Delving into the details of real gold, decorative designs, symbolism and simmering erotica, a close study of the painting takes us to the remarkable turn of the century Vienna when a new world was battling with the old.
From the director of ‘Frida Kahlo’ and ‘Mary Cassatt – Painting the Modern Woman’ comes a powerful, gripping and passionate new film.
Mon 30 Oct
Wed 1 Nov
Tue 7 Nov
Eyes Wide Shut
- 1999
- US
- 2h 39min
- 18
- Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
- Written by: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael
- Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack
Had Kubrick chosen to stage his adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 'Dream Novel' in its original 'fin de siecle' Viennese setting, audiences might have found the whole primitive Freudian mess easy to stomach. Transposing the would-be decadent psychosexual shenanigans to contemporary Manhattan, however, proves disastrous. What makes 'Eyes Wide Shut' just about watchable is the screen presence of its two stars.
Thu 14 Dec
Tue 19 Dec
Fanny and Alexander
- 1982
- Sweden
- 3h 9min
- PG
- Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
- Written by: Ingmar Bergman
- Cast: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Börje Ahlstedt, Anna Bergman, Gunn Wållgren, Erland Josephson, Mats Bergman, Jarl Kulle
Many of those familiar Bergman themes - religious doubt, a puritanical father, the materialisation of God - are present in this turn-of-the-century family saga, which was 300 minutes long in its original TV format. The harsher semi-autobiographical references are softened by the fact that it captures some of the childish joy of its young protagonist, particularly in the dazzling Christmas scenes.
Wed 6 Dec
Mon 18 Dec
The Fog
- 1980
- US
- 1h 29min
- 15
- Directed by: John Carpenter
- Cast: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh
Horror classic set in a California seaside town as a mysterious fog drifts in. What lurks within the mist?
Sun 15 Oct
Thu 19 Oct
Friday the 13th
- 1980
- US
- 1h 35min
- 18
- Directed by: Sean S. Cunningham
- Cast: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby, Laurie Bartram, Mark Nelson, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan, Kevin Bacon
Classic cabin in the woods slasher action.
59%Fri 13 Oct
Sun 29 Oct
Frozen
- 2013
- US
- 1h 48min
- PG
- Directed by: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
- Cast: Voices of Kristen Bell, Josh Gad, Idina Menzel
Princess Anna (Bell) is disturbed to find that her sister Elsa (Menzel) can create ice and snow, but when Elsa goes into exile the kingdom freezes, and Anna and friends must find her. With no celebrity voice-overs or pop culture gags, just a venerable story, good songs and classic characters, it's an old-fashioned delight.
Sat 14 Oct
Kids
Gangs of New York
- 2002
- US / Italy
- 2h 47min
- 18
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis
Scorcese's violent historical saga explores the turbulent birth of the United States. DiCaprio faces off against Day-Lewis as the fearsome Bill the Butcher.
Sun 8 Oct
Thu 12 Oct
The Green Knight
- 2020
- US / Ireland
- 2h 5min
- 15
- Directed by: David Lowery
- Written by: David Lowery
- Cast: Dev Patel, Alicia Vikander, Joel Edgerton, Sarita Choudhury, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Barry Keoghan, Ralph Ineson
Fantasy adaptation based on the Arthurian legend.
Tue 5 Dec
Mon 18 Dec
Gremlins
- 1984
- US
- 1h 46min
- 12A
- Directed by: Joe Dante
- Written by: Chris Columbus
- Cast: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Corey Feldman
Cute and cuddly little mogwais become malevolent monsters if not properly cared for and wreak havoc in idealised small town America. A tongue-in-cheek Yuletide romp filled with in-jokes.
A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.
Fri 8 Dec
Fri 22 Dec
Double Bill: The Gruffalo / The Gruffalo's Child
THE GRUFFALO + THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD
THE GRUFFALO - A cunning mouse goes for a walk in the forest, and outwits a succession of predators.
Dir: Max Lang & Jakob Schuh UK 2009 27 mins Cert: U
THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD - A little Gruffalo ignores her father's warnings and tiptoes out into the snow in search of the Big Bad Mouse.
Dir: Uwe Heidschötter & Johannes Weiland UK 2011 27 mins Cert: U
For Cinemagic screenings/events in the Museum Lecture Theatre there is a group booking maximum of 15. Children aged 2 and under do not require a paid for ticket.
Please give surname of person who booked the tickets to Cinemagic staff on arrival.
The event takes place in the Lecture Theatre in the Ulster Museum. Ticket holders will enter the museum through the main front doors and enter Lecture theatre through the double doors in the Stranmillis corridor. Exit will be at the Stranmillis Rd exit of the building.
The capacity of the performance space will be limited due to government guidance on social distancing.
For Ulster Museum safety and visitor journey information: https://www.nmni.com/…/Ulster-Museum…/Your-Visit.aspx
Enjoy your visit.
Sat 9 Dec
Kids
Sun 17 Dec
Sun 24 Dec
Halloween
- 1978
- US
- 1h 31min
- 18
- Directed by: John Carpenter
- Written by: John Carpenter, Debra Hill
- Cast: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, PJ Soles, Nancy Loomis
The first and best of the series – and one of the best of all slasher movies. Escaped psycho Michael Myers returns to the town where he killed his sister several years before and picks up where he left off with remarkable ease. Pleasence is the obsessive psychiatrist on his trail, convinced he is to blame for the escape. A scary reminder of what a blood-soaked genre could achieve if only it recovered from sequelitis.
Tue 31 Oct
Hellraiser
- 1987
- UK
- 1h 34min
- 18
- Directed by: Clive Barker
- Cast: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence
The solution to a puzzle box invites cenobites from another dimension in Clive Barker's directorial debut. A grisly low-budget British horror classic.
Fri 6 Oct
Sun 8 Oct
Hocus Pocus
- 1993
- US
- 1h 37min
- PG
- Directed by: Kenny Ortega
- Written by: David Kirschner/Mick Garris
- Cast: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw
Three 17th century witches are brought back to life in modern-day Salem, and go searching for young blood to keep them immortal. Max (Katz) is our hapless hero, helped out of one predicament to the next by resourceful heroine Allison (Vinessa Shaw). The story cracks along, the effects are moderate, the gags good, but it's for the younger end of the teen market.
Sat 28 Oct
Kids
Sun 29 Oct
Sun 5 Nov
The Holiday
- 2006
- US
- 2h 16min
- 12A
- Directed by: Nancy Meyers
- Written by: Nancy Meyers
- Cast: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Jack Black, Shannyn Sossamon, Eli Wallach, Edward Burns, Rufus Sewell
Two ladies with guy trouble swap homes. Amanda (Diaz) ends up with Iris' brother (Law) in the UK, and Iris (Winslet) befriends funnyman Miles (Black) Stateside. This fairly repellent life swap romantic comedy was written specifically for these actors, but you wouldn't think it.
Fri 8 Dec
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Home Alone
- 1990
- US
- 1h 43min
- PG
- Directed by: Chris Columbus
- Written by: John Hughes
- Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O'Hara
An alternative Christmas treat chosen by you. When Kevin is accidently left Home Alone he is forced to protect his house from a pair of bungling burglars.
Peter and Kate McCallister (Heard and O'Hara) have an eight-year-old brat and wisely – albeit accidentally – leave him behind in Chicago when they go on holiday to Paris. Left to his own devices young Kevin (Culkin) has to deal with two bungling burglars (Pesci and Stern) who threaten to invade his peaceful haven. Jolly, if sadistic, scare-comedy antics produced by teen flick veteran John Hughes.
Sun 3 Dec
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- 1992
- US
- 2h
- PG
- Directed by: Chris Columbus
- Written by: John Hughes
- Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Young Kevin McAllister is once again left alone for Christmas (this time in the Big Apple), with two crooks to contend with.
Tue 19 Dec
Thu 21 Dec
Home Alone Double Bill
- 1990 / 1992
- Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Back-to-back screenings of Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Sat 16 Dec
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
- 2000
- US
- 1h 44min
- PG
- Directed by: Ron Howard
- Cast: Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon
Surprisingly, The Grinch is the first live action feature to be adapted from the work of the world's best-selling children's author, Dr Seuss. And beneath sfx magician Rick Baker's green costume Carrey, – the world's highest paid comedian – wreaks glorious havoc on his cloying sweet neighbours, the Whovians of Who-ville. Howard lays the book's moral – Christmas is about family not presents and the sickly sweet sentiment on pretty thick. Toy Story 2 got the cross generational appeal right – golly gosh Howard's Grinch hasn't. Carrey's great though.
Sun 10 Dec
Sat 16 Dec
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- 1978
- US
- 1h 55min
- 15
- Directed by: Philip Kaufman
- Written by: W D Richter
- Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright
Excellent remake of Don Siegel's archetypal exercise in sci-fi paranoia turns away from the McCarthyite dread of its 1950s predecessor to concentrate on 1970s lifestyle angst, but a host of knowing cameos and sparse use of special effects make it more than worth a look.
Sat 28 Oct
The Irishman
- 2019
- US
- 3h 30min
- 15
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin
The story of mob enforcer and union official Frank Sheeran (De Niro) and his relationship with Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino) and Mafia string-puller Russell Bufalino (Pesci). The de-aging technology is easy to forgive thanks to the masterly filmmaking, and although there’s no room for a complex female character it’s gripping, sombre and builds to a shattering conclusion.
Sun 19 Nov
Wed 22 Nov
It's a Wonderful Life
- 1946
- US
- 2h 9min
- U
- Directed by: Frank Capra
- Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers
Frank Capra’s 1946 Christmas Classic follows the tribulations of small town everyman George Bailey (James Stewart), who, at the end of his luck and deep in dept, contemplates suicide one snowy, bleak Christmas Eve. But when George wishes that he had never been born, his guardian angel Clarence (Henry Travers) takes a trip from the heavens to persuade him otherwise. After a nightmarish journey through an alternative Bedford Falls, George realizes the difference he has made to the people around him, learning lessons of love, loyalty, and what it means to lead a wonderful life.
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- 1988
- US
- 1h 28min
- 15
- Directed by: Stephen Chiodo
- Cast: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
Clown-like aliens invade a small American town. A small group of youths to attempt to save their home using only an ice-cream truck.
Sun 29 Oct
Killers of the Flower Moon
- 2023
- 3h 26min
- 15
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone
At the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. After members of the tribe are found dead, a murder investigation begins, in order to find the culprits.
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Lifeforce
- 1985
- UK
- 1h 56min
- 18
- Directed by: Tobe Hooper
- Cast: Steve Railsback, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
On a mission to Haley's Comet, a team of astronauts inadvertently bring back a race of alien vampires who turn the population of London in zombies. The remaining survivors must find the source and destroy it before it's too late.
Sat 28 Oct
London Film Festival: All Of Us Strangers
Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter living in London. He strikes up an uneasy acquaintance with his mysterious neighbour Harry (Paul Mescal), which edges towards something more intimate. At the same time, on visiting his old family home, he discovers something quite strange and beautiful, which keeps him returning time and again. But as the days continue, Adam begins to question the turn his life has taken and whether it is to his detriment.
Andrew Scott’s central performance once again shows why he is regarded as one of our finest actors. Paul Mescal is sublime as Harry, while Jamie Bell and Claire Foy’s performances elicit some of the film’s most striking emotional notes. Andrew Haigh’s script sprinkles a sense of foreboding lightly over the proceedings, while his searching portrait of relationships is everything we have come to expect from the exceptional writer-director of Weekend and 45 Years.
Sun 8 Oct
London Film Festival: Birth/Rebirth
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein gets a new lease of life in this chilling morality tale from debut director Laura Moss. Pathologist Rose and nurse Celie work at the same hospital, but they are strangers to each other. Brusque and antisocial, Rose is the antithesis of Celie, a natural caregiver. However, when her daughter’s death leads Celie to discover her colleague’s sideline in reanimation, the two women are thrust together. This inspired female-centric revision of a horror classic offers an emotional resonant and morally complex meditation on creation and motherhood.
Sat 14 Oct
London Film Festival: Housekeeping For Beginners
A queer Macedonian woman goes to drastic measures to hold her makeshift family together following a tragedy, in idiosyncratic director Goran Stolevski’s new film.
Despite lacking maternal instincts, Dita is head of a found family and helping to create a ramshackle safe space. But sexuality and caste are thorny issues in Macedonia, so she must fight to keep them together. Reuniting Stolevski with You Will Not Be Alone star Anamaria Marinca, this drama reminds us that navigating life while queer is still a complex issue around the world.
Sat 7 Oct
London Film Festival: Saltburn
Struggling to fit in at Oxford University, Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. International rising star Jacob Elordi shines as the dashing, young aristocrat while Barry Keoghan gives a remarkable career-best performance as Oliver. Alongside them are Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant and Carey Mulligan – each inhabiting their roles with gusto – and an impressive array of new British talent that includes Alison Oliver and Archie Madekwe.
Wed 4 Oct
London Film Festival: The End We Start From
Mahalia Belo’s confident feature debut brings Megan Hunter’s acclaimed 2017 dystopian novel to the screen as a disaster movie, whose immense power derives from the intimacy of its performances.
An excellent Jodie Comer, playing the young mother, is joined by a uniformly superb cast, including Joel Fry and Katherine Waterson, who convey the emotional gravity of this poignant and unsettlingly prophetic tale of survival against the odds, which has echoes of The Road and Children of Men.
Sat 14 Oct
London Film Festival: The Holdovers
As the students of New England prep school Barton Academy excitedly depart for the winter holidays, a ragtag bunch with nowhere to go are forced to stay behind. Making things worse, their appointed ‘babysitter’ is the cantankerous Professor Hunham (Paul Giamatti). But as the days pass, the grumpy professor forms an unexpected bond with smart-but-troubled student Angus (Dominic Sessa), and Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), the school’s cook, who is grieving the loss of her son.
Alexander Payne reunites with his Sideways star Paul Giamatti in a film that strikes the perfect balance between pathos and playfulness. The Holdovers is just the kind of warm-hearted and thoughtful work we have come to expect from one of contemporary cinema’s great humanist filmmakers.
Sun 15 Oct
London Film Festival: The Royal Hotel
Backpackers Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick find themselves in uncharted territory in this taut Outback thriller from the director of The Assistant.
When Liv and Hanna run out of money whilst travelling through Australia, they take the only gig they can find: a live-in bar job in a remote mining town. They quickly pique the interest of the rowdy locals and while Liv looks to fully embrace her desire for adventure, Hanna is uneasy in navigating their increasingly precarious situation. Kitty Green’s tightly coiled social thriller expertly examines male-female power dynamics in a microcosm of Australian society.
Fri 6 Oct
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.
Fri 1 Dec
Sat 9 Dec
Mon 11 Dec
Fri 22 Dec
The Magic Flute
- 1975
- Sweden
- 2h 15min
- PG
- Directed by: Ingmar Bergman
- Cast: Ingmar Bergman, Alf Henrikson, Emanuel Schikaneder
A fantastical opera dealing with the initiation ceremonies of the Masons. Based on Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.
Sun 3 Dec
Wed 20 Dec
Mean Streets
- 1973
- US
- 1h 52min
- 18
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Written by: Screenplay:, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin, Story:, Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus, Cesare Danova
Tony's Bar is the base for four young Italian-Americans, whose increasingly illegal activities lead to tragedy. Vividly observed character study which combines breathtaking technique with a pervasive sense of corruption. Keitel and De Niro give among their very best performances, an earthly prayer from young Scorsese to faith and films - a rugged masterpiece.
Sat 14 Oct
Fri 20 Oct
Meet Me in St Louis
- 1944
- US
- 1h 53min
- U
- Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
- Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main
Released during wartime, this 1903-set musical was an optimistic attempt to emphasise family values, but Minnelli never wallows in nostalgia. Instead he combats it with sparky and sarky family dynamics. The put-upon father wants to move his family from St Louis to New York but faces resistance from his gaggle of girls who have romances to get on with, and the fast-approaching World Fair to enjoy. Perfect casting and performances, along with songs like 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' add to the warm glow.
Tue 12 Dec
Fri 22 Dec
Metropolitan Opera: Dead Man Walking
- 2023
- US
American composer Jake Heggie’s compelling masterpiece, the most widely performed new opera of the last 20 years, arrives in cinemas in a haunting new production by Ivo van Hove. Based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer, Dead Man Walking matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Tony and Emmy Award–winner Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The outstanding cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and legendary mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother.
Sun 22 Oct
Metropolitan Opera: Florencia en el Amazonas
- 2023
- US
Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of Manaus—and to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. The performance stars soprano Ailyn Pérez as Florencia Grimaldi, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to lead a spellbinding new production by Mary Zimmerman that brings the mysterious and magical realm of the Amazon to the Met stage. A distinguished ensemble of artists portray the diva’s fellow travelers on the river boat to Manaus, including soprano Gabriella Reyes as the journalist Rosalba, bass-baritone Greer Grimsley as the ship’s captain, baritone Mattia Olivieri as his enigmatic first mate, tenor Mario Chang as the captain’s nephew Arcadio, and mezzo-soprano Nancy Fabiola Herrera and baritone Michael Chioldi as the feuding couple Paula and Álvaro.
Sun 10 Dec
Metropolitan Opera: X - The Life and Times of Malcolm X
- 2023
- US
Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera which premiered in 1986. Theatre luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, sings Malcolm X, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis as his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson as Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto.
Sun 19 Nov
The Miracle Club (12A)
Our Maggie Smith series reaches its grand finale with this heartwarming and inspiring story of forgiveness, friendship, and family set in the late ‘60s.
Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Agnes O’Casey star as three close friends from Ballygar, Dublin, who have always dreamt of going to Lourdes. When a chance to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town arises, Lily (Smith), Eileen (Bates) and Dolly (O’Casey) seize the opportunity to escape.
Having never even left Dublin - let alone Ireland - the journey provides them with an opportunity to let their hair down, celebrate life and delight in some sweet independence. The trip also gives them a chance to reflect on their own lives, with each of the women in search of their own personal miracles.
But when they are joined by Chrissie (Laura Linney), recently returned from a decades-long exile in the USA, old wounds are reopened, and bitter truths exposed. Forced to confront each other and their pasts, the friends realise that the miraculous can be found closer to home than they had believed.
Dir. Thaddeus O'Sullivan
The screening on Monday 23 October at 7.30pm will be shown with subtitles (ST) for those with hearing loss.
Fri 13 Oct
Parent & baby
Wed 18 Oct
Senior
The Mission
- 1986
- UK
- 2h 5min
- PG
- Directed by: Roland Joffé
- Cast: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally
Joffé follows up The Killing Fields with this yarn about 18th century Spanish Jesuits trying to protect a remote South American Indian tribe from falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.
Mon 9 Oct
The Muppet Christmas Carol
- 1992
- US
- 1h 25min
- U
- Directed by: Brian Henson
- Cast: Michael Caine, Steven Mackintosh, Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, David Rudman, Steve Whitmire
It's Christmas time, and nasty old miser Scrooge (Caine) needs to be taught a lesson by three seasonal ghosts. Colourful version of Dickens' classic tale that will please the kids and keep the adults smiling with its little irreverent spices.
Sun 26 Nov
Autism-friendly
Sat 2 Dec
Sun 10 Dec
Mon 11 Dec
Thu 14 Dec
Sat 16 Dec
Kids
Sun 17 Dec
Mon 18 Dec
Tue 19 Dec
Sat 23 Dec
Sun 24 Dec
My Night With Maud (Ma Nuit Chez Maud)
- 1969
- France
- 1h 41min
- PG
- Directed by: Eric Rohmer
- Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francois Fabian, Marie-Christine Barrault.
New digitally restored print of quintessential bourgeois drama by late great French New waver Rohmer. The mighty Trintignant stars as a religious engineer whose belief that he will marry a woman (Fabian) he has only seen in church is sorely tested during one long evening. Beautifully shot in black and white by Nestor Almendros, this is the film that put Rohmer on the international stage as the king of Gallic loquacious pretension.
Wed 29 Nov
Fri 8 Dec
The Nightmare Before Christmas
- 1993
- US
- 1h 16min
- PG
- Directed by: Henry Selick
- Cast: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Ken Page
Jack Skellington, the skinny trickster king of Halloweentown, is restless with success and needs a new challenge, so he hatches a plot to kidnap Santa and creates a mixed-up Yuletide which isn't quite what the kids expected. Produced and based on a story and characters by Tim Burton.
Sat 2 Dec
Kids
Sat 9 Dec
Subtitled
Wed 13 Dec
Sun 17 Dec
Sat 23 Dec
Omen
- 2023
Koffi (Marc Zinga) receives a frosty reception when he introduces his pregnant fiancé to his family. An incident with his nephew convinces them that he’s possessed by an evil spirit and as Koffi struggles to find himself and return to normality, he stumbles upon a bizarre spiritual world that takes him upon a dizzying collision course with his culture.
A deserving winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard New Vision Award, rapper-turned-filmmaker Baloji’s magical realist drama is a dazzling debut.
Thu 12 Oct
Peter Doherty: Stranger in My Own Skin
- 2021
- Directed by: Katia de Vidas
An honest and emotionally charged account of British rock musician, Pete Doherty’s darkest moments, as he plunges into the depths of drug addiction
Thu 9 Nov
Sun 12 Nov
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- 1987
- US
- 1h 32min
- 15
- Directed by: John Hughes
- Written by: John Hughes
- Cast: Steve Martin, John Candy
Martin is a harassed Chicago businessman desperate to return home from New York for Thanksgiving. After missing the last flight home he undergoes a series of fraught misadventures, reluctantly enduring the accident-prone Candy as traveling companion. Predictable and sentimental 'odd couple' road movie which is nonetheless genuinely funny.
Sat 2 Dec
Mon 11 Dec
Tue 19 Dec
The Polar Express
- 2004
- US
- 1h 40min
- U
- Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
- Cast: Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, Eddie Deezen
A boy travels on a magical train bound for the North Pole and Santa Claus.
Sun 3 Dec
Kids
Sun 10 Dec
Kids
Sun 17 Dec
Kids
Sat 23 Dec
Sun 24 Dec
Kids
The Princess and the Frog
- 2010
- US
- 1h 37min
- U
- Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
- Cast: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, Keith David, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jennifer Cody, Jim Cummings, Peter Bartlett, Jenifer Lewis, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, John Goodman
Set in 1920s Louisiana and featuring Disney's first African-American Princess, this culturally important, beautiful and evocative (of a New Orleans that no longer exists) film may not have the standout musical numbers of some of its stablemates but is an old fashioned treat all the same.
Sat 7 Oct
Kids
Scrooge
- 1951
- UK / US
- 1h 26min
- U
- Directed by: Brian Desmond Hurst
- Written by: Noel Langley
- Cast: Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Dolan
One of the best screen adaptations of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. The story concerns the overly prudent businessman Ebeneezer Scrooge (Sim), who becomes a saint overnight. Dickens was never afraid to tackle the big issues: the threat to children's lives, whether they are privileged or poverty-stricken, is one of the main themes; but none of this darkness gets in the way of a cracking tale.
Sat 9 Dec
The Shining
- 1980
- US
- 2h 26min
- 18
- Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
- Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall, Philip Stone.
Kubrick's overwrought, overlong horror film dispenses with much of the psychic apparatus of Stephen King's novel to concentrate on the deeper horror of a family turning in on itself. Nicholson, with all the stops out, is bug-eyed and demonic as the writer cracking up violently in an isolated hotel, and the final scenes are, literally, chilling.
Fri 27 Oct
Mon 30 Oct
Tue 31 Oct
The Shop Around the Corner
- 1940
- US
- 1h 37min
- PG
- Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
- Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
A glorious romantic comedy by the great Ernst Lubitsch, teaming up Stewart and Sullavan as bickering shop assistants who gradually realise they've been having an anonymous romance by letter. Funny and touching, it's an absolute classic.
Thu 14 Dec
Sun 17 Dec
Fri 22 Dec
Sun 24 Dec
Shutter Island
- 2010
- US
- 2h 18min
- 15
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley, Mark Ruffalo, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson, Max von Sydow
Marking his fourth collaboration with Scorsese, DiCaprio plays US Marshall Teddy Daniels who arrives on the storm-drenched rock off the coast of Boston with his new partner to investigate the disappearance of a patient from a mental institution run by a suspicious shrink. Based on the 1954-set novel by Dennis Lehane, this is expertly cast and executed – and way over the top.
Sun 26 Nov
Tue 28 Nov
Sleepaway Camp
- 1983
- US
- 1h 28min
- 15
- Directed by: Robert Hiltzik
- Cast: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields
Classic slasher with one of the most shocking denouements of all time.
Fri 13 Oct
Q&A with PANEL
Tangerine
- 2015
- US
- 1h 28min
- 15
- Directed by: Sean Baker
- Written by: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
- Cast: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian
Sin-Dee (Rodriguez) and Alexandra (Taylor), two trans women who work as prostitutes, spend Christmas Eve walking the streets of downtown LA looking for Sin-Dee's cheating pimp boyfriend. Shot entirely on three iPhones, Baker's film is bombastic, organic, original and vital and the central pair are wildly entertaining.
Sat 2 Dec
They Live
- 1988
- US
- 1h 33min
- 18
- Directed by: John Carpenter
- Written by: John Carpenter
- Cast: Roddy Piper, Keith David, Meg Foster, Raymond St Jacques, Peter Jason, Sy Richardson, George 'Buck' Flower
Returning to his B-movie roots, Carpenter's classic is a sprightly sci-fi satire with a decidedly 1950s feel. As recession grips America, drifter Piper discovers that the yuppies controlling the economy are in fact aliens, and they're using subliminal advertising to keep the populace docile. Although the serious and political premise set up in the first half needs more of a follow-through, the knockabout action that follows is well handled, with entertaining results.
Thu 30 Nov
Mon 4 Dec
The Thing
- 1982
- US
- 1h 48min
- 18
- Directed by: John Carpenter
- Cast: Kurt Russell
Carpenter's excellent 1982 monster flick revived on digital big screen projection.
Sat 7 Oct
Tue 17 Oct
Sat 28 Oct
Tokyo Godfathers
- 2003
- Japan
- 1h 32min
- 12
- Directed by: Satoshi Kon
- Cast: Tōru Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Aya Okamoto
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo find a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
Tue 12 Dec
Tue 19 Dec
The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
- 1964
- France
- 1h 32min
- PG
- Directed by: Jacques Demy
- Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Anne Vernon, Nino Castelnuovo.
Romance between a shopgirl and a garage attendant is rekindled when they meet again after years apart. Delightful screen operetta using only sung dialogue, with deftness of camera movement and delicious production design maintaining the interest when the plot creaks.
Sun 12 Nov
Mon 11 Dec
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- 1989
- US
- 1h 37min
- PG
- Directed by: Jeremiah Chechik
- Written by: John Hughes
- Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Juliette Lewis
As you might expect, a Griswold family Christmas ends in disaster. Lightweight comedy instilled with heart by John Hughes' screenplay.
Wed 6 Dec
Sun 17 Dec
Wed 20 Dec
When Harry Met Sally
- 1989
- US
- 1h 35min
- 15
- Directed by: Rob Reiner
- Written by: Nora Ephron
- Cast: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby
Angsty wise guy Harry (Crystal) and neurotic kook Sally (Ryan) become friends, and their friendship lasts for years until one fateful New Year's Eve. A blueprint for the modern romantic comedy, thanks to Ephron's intelligent, savvy script, brilliant performance from the leads and Reiner's relaxed approach.
Sun 31 Dec
White Christmas
- 1954
- US
- 2h
- U
- Directed by: Michael Curtiz
- Written by: Norman Krasna, Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
- Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
Christmas staple starring Crosby and Kaye as a song-and-dance troupe who become involved with a sister act.
Sat 16 Dec
Wed 20 Dec
Sat 23 Dec
Sun 24 Dec
The Wolf of Wall Street
- 2013
- US
- 2h 45min
- 18
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Matthew McConaughey
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
Thu 9 Nov
Wed 15 Nov
Housing The Classic, an art deco screen, the cosy Roxy screen and The Electra - featuring a Peter Yates' mural. With a history dating back to the 1930s, the Tyneside is now the best preserved news reel cinema in Britain.
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