HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Celebrating the release of film director Jordan Peele’s Black horror anthology paperback ‘Out There Screaming’ we screen Peele’s underrated middle feature made between his breakout hit ‘Get Out’ and IMAX style blockbuster ‘Nope’. ‘Us’ is a fascinating secret code of a horror movie filled to the brim with hidden clues, messages and ideas. […]
HALLOWEEN SPECIAL Before Robert Pattinson's take on 'The Batman' another winged avenger ruled the gothic grunge roost. Long held as a bona-fide cult classic, the 1994 version of The Crow has recently begun to be re-evaluated for just how much influence it has had on modern cinema (especially Pattinson's Batman/HBO's Penguin). Starring Brandon (son of Bruce) Lee in his final […]
25 ANNIVERSARY SCREENING On the day millions of Americans cast their votes at the ballot box we offer a little light relief with this special 25th anniversary screening of this savagely funny sophomore film from Alexander Payne, director of The Holdovers, Sideways, About Schmidt, The Descendants, Nebraska and more. When high school teacher Jim McCallister […]
Speaker: Amber Shepherd, University of Sussex There is still a lot that we do not understand about our universe, such as dark matter and dark energy. Much of our understanding of dark matter comes from observations made from far out galaxies. We are building a very sensitive tabletop device to gather data which may help […]
+ LIVE Q&A WITH CORRINA ANTROBUS AUTHOR OF ‘I LOVE ROMCOMS & I AM A FEMINIST’ Join us for an evening celebrating and reappraising one of cinema’s most beloved but misunderstood genres, the Romantic Comedy. On the night we’ll be hosting a special in person Q&A with author and film critic (Empire, BBC Radio, Huffington Post, Total […]
With Dr Matt Pope La Manche is the name we give to the Ice Age landscapes of the English Channel, southern Britain and northern France. It has a record of early human behaviour which varies from isolated and difficult-to-interpret single artefacts through to rare sites preserving deep and rich accumulations of many thousands of finds. […]
Perhaps Scotland’s greatest ever director, Bill Forsyth is best known for his smash hit British films Gregory’s Girl and Local Hero, but it’s perhaps his first American film that is his masterpiece. Based on the novel of the same name by Marilynne Robinson, Housekeeping tells the story of two young girls who, after the suicide […]
Nominated for 10 Oscars with a searingly sensational Oscar winning screenplay named by The Writer’s Guild of America as one of the 10 best ever written, Paddy Chayefsky’s story of a TV news anchor who one day appears to have a nervous breakdown live on air whilst going on a fanatical rant, and the subsequent […]
Matt Haig is the the beloved author of titles such as 'The Midnight Library' and 'How to Stop Time' and now brings us another beautifully wrought and inspiring novel, 'The Life Impossible' Meet Grace, a retired maths teacher who has been left a run down house on a Mediterranean island by a long lost friend. With […]
One of the funniest, most heartfelt and enjoyable documentaries of all time now celebrating it's 25th anniversary 'American Movie' (winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival) centres on young Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt who along with friend Mike Schank are attempting to make low budget horror movie 'Coven'. […]