THE IDES OF MARCH, Wednesday 1st February, 7.30pm
Directed by: George Clooney | Starring: Evan Rachel Wood, George Clooney, Jeffrey Wright, Paul Giamatti, Ryan Gosling | Cert (UK): 15, Running time: 100 mins
George Clooney's impressive thriller about corruption among America's Democrats is intelligent and consistently involving, with the kind of unexpected melodramatic events that crop up in all US elections….
The Ides of March is a serious film that reveals Clooney as a director capable of welding his fellow performers into a superb ensemble while sustaining both dramatic tension and moral focus.
| WUTHERING HEIGHTS, Wednesday 8 February, 7.30pm
Starring: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson | Director: Andrea Arnold | Run time: 2 hours 9 mins
A Yorkshire hill farmer on a visit to Liverpool finds a homeless boy on the streets. He takes him home to live as part of his family on the isolated Yorkshire moors where the boy forges an obsessive relationship with the farmer’s daughter. | “Andrea Arnold's adaptation of the Emily Brontë classic strips away all the period-drama cliches to create a passionate, elemental drama…” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
| MY WEEK WITH MARILYN, Wednesday 15 February, 7.30pm
Starring: Dame Judi Dench, Dougray Scott, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh, Michelle Williams, | Director: Simon Curtis
When Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe worked together as the stars of The Prince and the Showgirl, their relationship was, to say the least, tense....a relationship explored in this film by a great cast. | "The stand-off between Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier ... is recreated wonderfully in this entertaining film" - Peter Bradshaw,The Guardian
| THE DEEP BLUE SEA, Wednesday 22 February , 7.30pm
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Karl Johnson, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston | Dir: Terence Davies. | Running time: 98mins
There couldn't be a better fit for playwright Terence Rattigan than film-maker Terence Davies, in his adaptation of The Deep Blue Sea, one of Rattigan's most touching plays....The film taps into the emotional thrust of the play, aided by an understated but eloquent and finally very moving performance from Weisz that's “one of the best she has accomplished on screen”
"Davies dares to fillet the play of some of its extraneous characters, and not all the dialogue is Rattigan's. He collapses most of the first act into a 10-minute wordless sequence and occasionally adds his own take on the affair between Rachel Weisz's Hester, married to Simon Russell Beale's High Court judge, and Tom Hiddleston's Freddie, an RAF pilot who scarcely deserves her love.”
| HUGO, Wednesday 29 February, 7.30pm
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baren Cohen , Asa Butterworth | Directed by: Martin Scorsese | Running time: 2 hours 6 mins
Martin Scorsese leaves his mean streets behind for this exhilarating family tale inspired by the birth of cinema. Hugo is the astonishing adventure of a wily and resourceful orphan boy whose quest to unlock a secret left to him by his father will transform Hugo and all those around him.
“What an exceptionally un-Martin Scorsese-like film ‘Hugo’ appears to be on the surface: a 3D festive kids’ adventure with a boo-hiss baddie set on the not-so-mean streets of 1930s Paris. And yet it is possible this is one of the director’s most personal films: a love letter to cinema, to the magical emotional imperfection of celluloid just as its days are numbered. It’s a film about making films, about losing your heart – and finding yourself – in a pitch-black movie theatre.” - Time Out London
| THE IRON LADY, Wednesday 7th & Thursday 8th March
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant | Directed by: Phyllida Lloyd | Running time: 1 hour 45 mins
A surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century's most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.
| WAR HORSE, Wednesday 21st & Friday 23rd March
Starring: Emily Watson, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan | Directed by: Steven Spielberg | Cert 12A
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, "War Horse" begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets-British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter-before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land.
| Tickets £4.90 / £4.50 concessions