March films are on sale now!
Our March film programme is here!We’re just about to head into a new season, and what better way to start than with a film programme packed full of new releases! Family-friendly animations, thrillers, dramas, comedies – there’s a little bit of everything for everyone.
We’ve also got some classics in the mix for those who are seeking a bit of nostalgia. Steven Spielberg turns 80 later this year and to mark the occasion, we’re screening a selection of titles from his decades-long career! See Saving Private Ryan, E.T the Extra Terrestrial and A.I. Artificial Intelligence on the big screen, as well as Jurassic Park for our special screenings in collaboration with Shetland Foodbank.
6 - 12 March
Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up
That’s not all folks! Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, one of the greatest comedic duos in history, make their hilarious return to the big screen in this delightful sci-fi comedy adventure.
From Warner Bros. Animation, director Pete Browngardt, and the creative team behind the award-winning Looney Tunes cartoons, Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up sees Porky Pig and Daffy Duck become unlikely heroes and Earth’s only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion. A Porky and Daffy story that fans have never seen before, this buddy comedy of epic proportions sees them race to save the world – delivering all the laugh-out-loud gags and vibrant visuals that make Looney Tunes so iconic, but on a fabulous new scope and scale.
Send Help
Sam Raimi (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead) is back with a diabolical psychological thriller and black comedy starring Oscar-nominated actress Rachel McAdams (Spotlight).
The only survivors of a plane crash, talented researcher Linda (McAdams) and her sexist, overbearing boss Bradley (Dylan O’Brien) find themselves stranded on a deserted island. Stuck together, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive – but ultimately find themselves locked into an unsettling and darkly humorous battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.
The Testament of Ann Lee
Powered by a transformative, Golden Globe-nominated performance from Amanda Seyfried (The Housemaid, Mamma Mia), award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold’s (The World to Come, The Brutalist) exhilarating epic tells the story of radical preacher Ann Lee, founder of the Shaker movement.
In 18th-century England and America, visionary leader Ann Lee (Seyfried) rises from obscurity. Haunted by tragedy but driven by her beliefs in gender and social equality and ecstatic devotion, she gathers followers who come to see her as the female embodiment of Christ. The Testament of Ann Lee captures all the agony and ecstasy of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and original songs and score by Oscar-winning composer Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist).
Iron Lung
Writer-director and beloved gaming influencer Mark Fischbach’s (Markiplier) acclaimed Iron Lung, adapted from David Szymanski’s 2022 video game, is a grisly, daring sci-fi horror.
Set in a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as the quiet rapture caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon using a small submarine nicknamed “the iron lung”.
An ocean of blood. The only hope left after the quiet rapture. In the rusting halls of crumbling space stations, the last remnants of humanity craft a submarine to explore the bleeding depths… and weld one soul inside to pilot it.
Nouvelle Vague
Reimagining the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless, Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is a playful, poignant love letter to cinema and an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative tumult that shaped the French New Wave.
Newcomer Guillaume Marbeck plays Godard at the dawn of his career, directing Jean Seberg (Zoey Deutch) and Jean-Paul Belmondo (Aubry Dill) as star-crossed lovers, filming with unorthodox spontaneity on the streets of Paris. Working alongside other key players, friends and creative collaborators like Francois Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard) – who’s shooting The 400 Blows – Claude Chabrol (Antoine Besson), Roberto Rossellini (Laurent Mothe) and Jacques Rivette (Jonas Marmy), the pressure to produce a masterpiece is impossible to escape…
Beautifully shot in monochrome, Nouvelle Vague is an ode not just to Breathless, but to a transformative period that spawned modern cinema and the intense, cross-pollinatory creativity of the personalities behind it.
OTHELLO
Shakespeare’s Othello rages to life like never before. Tony Award-winning director Tom Morris’s (War Horse, Dr Semmelweis, The Grinning Man) captivating West End production stars David Harewood (Homeland), Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Detectorists) and Caitlin FitzGerald (Succession, Masters of Sex).
Stylishly designed, backed by music from PJ Harvey, and immaculately performed by Harewood, Jones and Fitzgerald, Shakespeare’s classic study of power, jealousy and desire touches on new notes of toxic masculinity. Filmed live at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London especially for the big screen, this is an electrifying and thrillingly contemporary Othello.
Wuthering Heights
Oscar-nominee Margot Robbie (Barbie) and Jacob Elordi (Priscilla) star in Oscar-winner Emerald Fennell’s (Saltburn) electric reimagining of Emily Brontë’s Gothic masterpiece.
On the wild Yorkshire moors, the forbidden passion between Cathy (Robbie) and Heathcliff (Elordi) turns from romantic to intoxicating in an epic tale of lust, love and madness. Backed by striking cinematography, original songs by Charli XCX and supporting turns from Oscar nominee Hong Chau (The Whale), Shazad Latif and Alison Oliver, Fennell promises a provocative, boldly stylised take on a timeless literary classic.
Little Amélie
Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature, Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han’s astoundingly beautiful animation is driven by the joy and confusion of a little girl’s discovery of the world and her place within it.
Japan, late 1960s: toddler Amélie finds the world a peaceful, perplexing mystery until a rapturous encounter with chocolate (relatable) ignites her wild sense of curiosity about, well, everything. Exploring the wonders of nature, Amélie also grows a bond with her family’s housekeeper Nishio-san, and begins to understand the painful history beneath the surface of her life in post-war Japan.
Adapted from the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb, bringing a toddler’s experience brilliantly to life, Maïlys Vallate and Liane-Cho Han’s Little Amélie is a poignant and wondrous story about the healing power of connection.
I Swear
Funny, heartfelt and emphatically moving, with a triumphant, BAFTA-winning performance from its star Robert Aramayo, I Swear dramatises the true story of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson.
Diagnosed aged 15, John’s Tourette’s made him the target of huge misunderstanding in 1980s Britain, and he faced hostility, bullying and violence for much of his youth. Aged 16, he was the subject of BBC TV documentary John’s Not Mad and subsequently became one of the UK’s most passionate advocates for greater acceptance of Tourette’s, for which work he received an MBE in 2019.
Written and directed by Kirk Jones (Waking Ned, Nanny McPhee) and featuring a deeply committed performance from Aramayo (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power) supported by Maxine Peake, Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullan, I Swear explores the wit, grit and resolve that saw Davidson define himself on his own terms.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Steven Spielberg turns 80 later this year – to mark the occasion, we’re screening a selection of titles from his decades-long career!
Oscar winner Tom Hanks (Philadelphia) leads an all-star cast in Spielberg’s superb, multi-award-winning World War II combat epic, joined by Matt Damon, Ed Burns, Tom Sizemore, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel and more. Darker and more pessimistic than many other of Spielberg’s treatments of the conflict, it’s filled with unflinching battle sequences which were hailed by veterans as being the most realistic they had ever seen.
Normandy, 1944: Captain John Miller (Hanks) takes his men behind enemy lines on a mission to locate Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose three brothers have already been killed in action, and bring him home safely. Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, while searching for Ryan, each man embarks on a personal journey, discovering their own strength in hopes of meeting an uncertain future with honour, decency and courage.
13 - 19 March
Crime 101
Chris Hemsworth (Thor, Avengers series), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight), Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin), and Oscar winner Halle Berry (X-Men series) headline Bart Layton’s (American Animals) slick crime heist thriller adapted from Don Winslow’s acclaimed novella; joined by Barry Keoghan, Monica Barbaro, Corey Hawkins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Nick Nolte.
In sun-bleached LA, an elusive jewel thief (Hemsworth) has mystified police with a string of robberies along the 101 freeway. While planning his next score, he meets a disillusioned insurance broker (Berry) at a crossroads. Meanwhile, a relentless detective (Ruffalo) is closing in. As the heist of a lifetime approaches, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. All three are faced with life-defining choices – and the realisation that there can be no turning back.
Scream 7
Hello Sidney… the iconic Scream horror franchise returns with Kevin Williamson’s new slasher flick, featuring returning stars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and Matthew Lillard alongside some fresh new faces.
When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott (Campbell) has built a new life, her darkest fears are realised as her daughter (Isobel May) becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Elvis Presley sings and tells his own story like never before in this extraordinary cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Elvis, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge) – the next best thing to seeing the King of Rock and Roll live on stage!
Thrillingly immediate, and hailed by critics as “one of the most exciting concert films you’ve ever seen”, this innovative, bombastic showcase was born of previously unseen performance footage derived from Elvis’s Vegas residency and tours. Archived by Warner Bros (in Kansas salt mines!) and uncovered by Luhrmann while prepping his award-winning 2022 biopic Elvis, it’s here lovingly remixed into a dazzling testament to his intoxicating late-period greatness.
Hamnet
Nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (for Jessie Buckley), Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s (Nomadland) Hamnet - based on Maggie O’Farrell’s acclaimed novel – is a magnificently crafted story of love, grief and the restorative power of art.
1580 England. Impoverished Latin tutor William Shakespeare (Mescal) meets free spirit Agnes (Buckley), and they begin a passionate affair that leads to marriage and three children. As Will’s theatre career takes off in London, Agnes anchors the family’s domestic world alone. When tragedy strikes, the crucible of their shared suffering sets the stage for the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet – the most famous of his tragedies, and one which bears a name interchangeable with that of his son.
“Pure exhilaration” ★★★★★ The Telegraph
“Jessie Buckley is extraordinary in Chloé Zhao’s tender act of Shakespearean catharsis” ★★★★★ Time Out
“Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley beguile and captivate in audacious Shakespearean tragedy” ★★★★★ The Guardian
Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience
Featuring the global K-Pop sensation Stray Kids and a live performance from their record-breaking dominATE world tour, alongside exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and intimate interviews with the band, Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience is an epic concert film that gives fans both a spectacular front-row seat and unique access to their favourite pop stars.
Join Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, HAN, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. as they take part in sold-out shows in Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium.
The President's Cake
Reminiscent of classic works of neorealist cinema, Iraqi writer-director Hasan Hadi’s outstanding debut is a portrait of life under dictatorship as seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl. Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, it was Iraq’s submission for Best International Feature at the upcoming Oscars.
Iraq, 1991: Lamia (Baneen Ahmed Nayyef) lives in poverty with her ailing grandmother, Bibi (Waheeda Thabet Khreiba). Disaster strikes when she’s asked to supply the cake for her school class’s mandatory celebration of Saddam Hussein’s birthday. Bibi and Lamia can’t afford the ingredients — and the last family that didn’t comply was dragged through the streets…. Hadi’s compassionate, tragicomic film balances light and dark in its child’s eye view of the moral collapse resulting from scarcity and authoritarianism.
Exhibition On Screen: Turner & Constable
Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable documentary explores J.M.W. Turner and John Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies, bringing you exclusive and privileged access to the groundbreaking new Tate exhibition.
Two of Britain’s greatest painters, Turner and Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both changed landscape painting in innovative new ways to reflect the world as they saw it, Turner via blazing sunsets and dreamlike scenes from his travels, Constable via idealised depictions of beloved places from home; and were compared by critics of the time to ‘fire and water’ for their starkly different styles. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side on the big screen for the first time.
The Scarecrows' Wedding + The Smeds & the Smoos
Enjoy two short films in this fantastic, family friendly double-bill!
The Scarecrow’s Wedding:
From multi-Oscar-nominated producers BBC and Magic Light Pictures, The Scarecrows’ Wedding is the latest animated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s bestselling children’s books. Featuring the voices of Rob Brydon, Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley, Domnhall Gleeson and Sophie Okonedo, it’s the enchanting story of two devoted scarecrows, Betty O’Barley and Harry O’Hay, who are planning a wedding to remember. When Harry insists on leaving the farm to collect one last thing for their big day, a smooth-talking scarecrow named Reginald Rake swoops in with plans of his own. Chaos follows, and soon Betty’s in danger and everything’s at risk. Can Harry get back in time and save the day? Full of heart, humour and adventure, The Scarecrows’ Wedding is a joyful tale about loyalty, love and learning that the most important thing isn’t a grand gesture – it’s simply being together.
The Smeds & The Smoos:
Another wonderful Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler adaptation for the screen from Oscar-nominated producers BBC and Magic Light Pictures. With an all-star voice cast including Sally Hawkins, Bill Bailey, Adjoa Andoh, Rob Brydon and Meera Syal, it’s the story of Bill and Janet, two aliens from warring clans who’ve been taught to loathe their neighbours. When they fall in love and elope, their families are forced to come together and set their differences aside in order to find them and bring them home. Along their journey across the galaxy searching for Bill and Janet, the Smeds and the Smoos unexpectedly become friends…
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Steven Spielberg turns 80 later this year – to mark the occasion, we’re screening a selection of titles from his decades-long career!
Spielberg’s 1982 sci-fi has lost none of its entrancing mythic power. Warm, inventive, beautifully performed and soundtracked by a magnificent John Williams score, E.T. is a classic cinematic fairytale.
A gentle alien stranded on Earth is befriended by a young boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas). Hiding the extraterrestrial into his suburban California home, Elliott introduces E.T. to his brother and his little sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), and the children plan to keep its existence to themselves. But when the secret gets out and the government intervenes, Elliott must embark on an epic, high stakes race to help E.T. get home.
20 - 26 March
How To Make A Killing
Glen Powell and Margaret Qualley lead an all-star cast in this razor sharp, blackly comic thriller. Based on Robert Hamer’s Ealing comedy classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, it transposes the action to modern-day America.
From the director of Emily the Criminal, How to Make a Killing introduces us to blue-collar Becket Redfellow (Glen Powell). The lowliest member of a veritable dynasty, disowned at birth by his obscenely wealthy family, Redfellow will stop at nothing to reclaim his inheritance – no matter how many relatives stand in his way.
The Bride!
From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Oscar-nominated writer-director of The Lost Daughter) and starring Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley (Hamnet) and Oscar winner Christian Bale (The Fighter) comes The Bride!, a bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories.
A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to make him a companion. They revive a young woman and The Bride (Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A radical cultural movement! Outlaw lovers in a combustible romance!
Also featuring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler) and Oscar winner Penélope Cruz (Volver), Gyllenhaal’s expansion of the Frankenstein story draws inspiration from James Whale’s 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein and is backed by sumptuous cinematography, scoring and design.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man
Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) returns as the iconic Tommy Shelby in Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, directed by Tom Harper and written by series creator Steven Knight. He’s joined by series regulars Sophie Rundle, Emmy Award-winner Stephen Graham (Adolescence) and newcomers Oscar-nominee Barry Keoghan (The Banshees of Inisherin), Rebecca Ferguson (Dune) and Oscar-nominee Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs).
Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, he must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…
The Moment
Pop singer Charli XCX stars in Aidan Zamiri’s art vs commerce mockumentary satirising her epic Brat summer and the pitfalls of stardom.
As Charli XCX’s first arena tour looms, she finds herself caught inside the afterglow of her iconic Brat summer, questioning what it will cost her (and if it’s cringe?) to want to stay on top. Joined by an eclectic who’s who of cast members including Rosanna Arquette, Alexander Skarsgård and Kylie Jenner plus comedians Kate Berlant and Jamie Demetriou, The Moment is a wry, sharp take on celebrity, the music industry, internet culture and the precarity of fame.
Shetland Foodbank x Jurassic Park (1993)
We’re teaming up with the Shetland Foodbank for another special charity film screening! Bring a donation of non-perishable food items and swap it for a ticket to see a classic film on the big screen. This time, we’re screening one of Steven Spielberg’s most popular titles to coincide with our celebration of his 80th birthday later this year.
Spielberg’s awe-inspiring, game-changing 1993 action adventure is now a beloved modern classic, regularly voted one of the greatest films of all time.
Adapted from Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel and brilliantly utilising CGI, it sees eccentric industrialist John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) invite a group of experts – chaotician Ian (Jeff Goldblum) and palaeontologists Alan (Sam Neill) and Ellie (Laura Dern) to visit his theme park of cloned dinosaurs. But after a power failure, the intelligent, lethal creatures run loose – putting everyone’s lives, including his grandchildren’s, in grave danger.
How it works: Simply bring your donation to the cinema (the more you bring, the bigger the impact!) and exchange it for a ticket to the screening of your choice. Donations will be accepted from Tuesday 17 March if you’d like to pick up your ticket in advance, or you can turn up and donate on the night. Then all that’s left to do is enjoy the movie while helping support our community – your contributions will go directly to The Shetland Foodbank to help those in need. You can find a list of items the Foodbank accepts here: Donate food | Shetland Foodbank
GOAT
He’s about to change the game! From the animation team behind K-Pop Demon Hunters and Spider-Man: Across the #SpiderVerse, and produced by basketball legend Steph Curry, GOAT is an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world with a voice cast including Gabrielle Union, Nicola Coughlan, Aaron Pierre and Nick Kroll.
A small goat with big dreams, Will (Caleb McLaughlin) is delighted when he gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball, a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will’s new teammates aren’t thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but Will is determined to revolutionise the sport - and prove once and for all that “smalls can ball!”
Stitch Head
Asa Butterfield, Rob Brydon and Alison Steadman lend their voices to this elegant Tim Burton-esque animation. Adapted from Guy Bass’s children’s book, Stitch Head is a warm-hearted story about loneliness, purpose and self-discovery that’s cloaked in humour and Gothic style.
It’s monster time! In the eerie castle laboratory of Grotteskew, perched high above the town of Grubbers Nubbin, a Mad Professor (Brydon) spends his days creating strange, stitched-together creatures and bringing them to “Almost Life” (registered trademark, patent pending). So who takes care of these creations? Meet a little fellow called Stitch Head (Butterfield) – the Professor’s very first experiment, long forgotten and quietly devoted to keeping the castle’s monsters safe from the fearful townspeople below.
The Shepherd and the Bear
Set high in the majestic Pyrenees, Max Keegan’s visually and aurally ravishing documentary explores the conflict set off by the controversial reintroduction of wild bears into a traditional shepherding community.
An ageing shepherd struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock. Meanwhile, a teenage boy becomes obsessed with tracking the bears. Through breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, The Shepherd and the Bear is a spellbinding modern folktale about tradition, community and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.
27 March - 2 April
Hoppers
Haven’t you ever wanted to talk to animals and understand what they’re saying? In Disney and Pixar’s all-new animation Hoppers, scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals!
This delightful, animated adventure introduces us to Mabel (Piper Curda). An animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, Mabel uncovers mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined.
Mother's Pride
Martin Clunes (Doc Martin), Mark Addy (The Full Monty) and James Buckley (The Inbetweeners) star in new comedy drama Mother’s Pride, a love letter to the nation’s pubs.
From the filmmaking team behind Fisherman’s Friends and Finding Your Feet, Mother’s Pride follows a failing pub and a divided community. The Harley family are grieving the loss of their matriarch, but come together to try and save both their pub and their village through the art of brewing real ale when they enter the Great British Beer Awards.
The Secret Agent
Nominated for Best Picture, Best International Feature and Best Actor (for Wagner Moura – Narcos, Civil War) at the upcoming Oscars, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s (Neighbouring Sounds, Aquarius, Bacurau) rich, arresting thriller is the recent winner of Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor at the Golden Globes.
Brazil, 1977: Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in vibrant, violent Recife. A technology researcher who finds himself an unwitting target at the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is on the run from mercenary killers and the ghosts of his past. A fascinating and shape-shifting epic, The Secret Agent pays tribute to the cinema of Filho’s youth while depicting a world of everyday corruption, threat and political turmoil that speaks to the current moment.
Sinners
Winner of three BAFTAs (Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score and Best Supporting Actress for Wunmi Mosaku) and nominated for a stunning 16 awards at the Oscars – the most of any film in history – including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, Sinners sees Black Panther and Creed collaborators Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan deliver a new vision of fear. Set in the pre-war South, it dances between genres, incorporating elements of folk horror, Western, Southern Gothic, blaxploitation thriller, musical and vampire movie into one superlative whole.
“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.” Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (both played by Jordan) return to their hometown to start again – only to discover an even greater evil waiting to welcome them there.
Brilliantly conceptualised and crafted by Coogler, Sinners is a masterful entertainment that’s full of ideas about America’s past and present.
“A global sensation” ★★★★ The Independent
“Ryan Coogler’s sexy southern gothic horror is a blast” ★★★★ The Independent
“Gory and glorious” The Los Angeles Times
One Battle After Another
BAFTA winner for Best Picture and Best Director and nominated for 13 Oscars – including Best Picture, Best Director and four acting nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benecio del Toro and Sean Penn – Paul Thomas Anderson’s (Phantom Thread, The Master) sensational One Battle After Another has been hailed a masterpiece and his most entertaining film to date.
Washed-up revolutionary Bob (DiCaprio) lives off-grid with his spirited daughter Willa (Infiniti). When his nemesis (BAFTA Best Supporting Actor winner Sean Penn) resurfaces after 16 years and she goes missing, the former radical scrambles to find her, both of them separately battling the consequences of his past. Part political satire, part black comedy, part action thriller, loosely adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel Vineland, Anderson’s richly engaging epic must be seen on the big screen.
“An instant classic” ★★★★★ Empire
“A ferocious American masterpiece” ★★★★★ The Independent
The Land of Sometimes
From the producers of Toy Story and How to Train Your Dragon comes a magical, musical animated adventure with an all-star voice cast led by Ewan McGregor and Helena Bonham Carter and songs from EGOT-winning songwriter Sir Tim Rice.
Twins Alfie and Elise get more than they bargained for after summoning the mysterious Wish Collector, an enigmatic character who whisks them away to The Land of Sometimes – an incredible place where all four seasons pass in just one day. Granted with a total of six wishes, the pair soon learn that they’ll need to be careful what they wish for, embarking on an epic journey filled with fantastical creatures and a truth that shines brighter than any wish: the power of family.
The North (Preview)
We’re bringing you this special preview screening of The North, from Tull Stories, ahead of its national release on on Friday 24 April.
Two former best friends and roommates Chris (Bart Harder) and Lluis (Carles Pulido) meet up after a decade to hike Scotland’s West Highland Way and Cape Wrath Trail. Having taken the same 350-mile walk in their youth, the pair hope to rekindle their once-strong friendship by spending 30 days together in the majestic, raw beauty of the Scottish Highlands.
While Chris is preoccupied with work and life back at home, Lluis is determined to finish the trail to prove he can still do it. Amidst the sweeping landscapes, harsh weather and chance encounters with other hikers, the solitude and silence of the trek force the pair to confront truths about themselves and their friendship – and find out what it truly means to stand still and listen. Shot entirely on the route of the walk, The North is not only a poignant and powerful drama, but a brilliant hiking film, allowing us to take in the stunning majesty of the Highlands shoulder-to-shoulder with Lluis and Chris as they reconnect with each other and with nature.
“A majestic drama…purifying and uplifting” ★★★★ The Guardian
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Steven Spielberg turns 80 later this year – to mark the occasion, we’re screening a selection of titles from his decades-long career!
Spielberg’s 2001 sci-fi odyssey hits differently in the age of actual AI. One of the director’s darkest and most exploratory films, it was adapted from a Brian Aldiss story originally optioned by Stanley Kubrick and blends Spielbergian warmth with Kubrick’s chillier, more analytical style.
In the 22nd century, society is in collapse. A robotic boy – the first programmed to love – David (Haley Joel Osment) is adopted by Henry (Sam Robards) and Monica (Frances O’Connor). But a series of unexpected circumstances make David’s new life impossible, and eventually he must embark on a journey to discover where he truly belongs.
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