Join us for the second of our Throwback Thursday screenings with the classic 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the buddy film with this western classic. Sundance (Redford) is a mighty quick draw, and his partner Butch (Newman) is a gifted get-rich-quick schemer. With the law on their trail, the two pack their guns, and, along with Sundance's girlfriend (Katharine Ross), head for Bolivia, away from the men trying to bring them to justice – and death.

In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing's most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who develops the power to see the future… and realizes she can use that insight to change it. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women bound for powerful destinies...if they can all survive a deadly present.

Vindication Swim dives into inspirational true story of Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became thefirst British woman to swim the English Channel. The film depicts Mercedes’ upstream struggle inovercoming both the cold waters of the English Channel and the oppressive society of 1920sEngland. However, after a rival comes forward claiming to have accomplished the same feat,Mercedes is forced into battle to retain her record and her legacy.

Written and directed by Elliott Hasler.
Cast: Kirsten Callaghan (debut performance), John Locke (Poor Things, The Favourite,Darkest Hour), Victoria Summer (Saving Mr Banks, Transformers), James Wilby(Gosford Park, Maurice) and Douglas Hodge (Joker, The Great).

Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, Disney and Pixar’s “Luca” is a coming-of-age story about a young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer. Luca shares these adventures with his friend, Alberto, but all the fun is threatened by a deeply-held secret: they are sea monsters from another world below the water’s surface. “Luca” is directed by Enrico Casarosa and produced by Andrea Warren.

Director: Enrico Casarosa
Starring: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Maya Rudolph, Marco Barricelli, Jim Gaffigan

The saga continues as award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve embarks on “Dune: Part Two,” the next chapter of Frank Herbert’s celebrated novel Dune, with an expanded all-star international ensemble cast. The film, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2021’s six-time Academy Award-winning “Dune.”

The big-screen epic continues the adaptation of Frank Herbert’s acclaimed bestseller Dune with returning and new stars, including Oscar nominee Timothée Chalamet (“Wonka,” “Call Me by Your Name”), Zendaya (“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” “Malcolm & Marie,” “Euphoria”), Rebecca Ferguson (“Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning”), Oscar nominee Josh Brolin (“Avengers: End Game,” “Milk”), Oscar nominee Austin Butler (“Elvis,” “Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood”), Oscar nominee Florence Pugh (“Black Widow,” “Little Women”), Dave Bautista (the “Guardians of the Galaxy” films, “Thor: Love and Thunder”), Oscar winner Christopher Walken (“The Deer Hunter,” “Hairspray”), Léa Seydoux (the “James Bond” franchise and “Crimes of the Future”), Souheila Yacoub (“The Braves,” “Climax”), with Stellan Skarsgård (the “Mamma Mia!” films, “Avengers: Age of Ultron”), with Oscar nominee Charlotte Rampling (“45 Years,” “Assassin’s Creed”), and Oscar winner Javier Bardem (“No Country for Old Men,” “Being the Ricardos”).

“Dune: Part Two” will explore the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

Dynamic duo Maggie and sidekick Sweetie are leaping into action in Combat Wombat Double Trouble.

Life for Maggie and Sweetie has hit a speed bump! From thwarting crime to battling blocked drains – Not quite the hero’s journey they envisioned! But when a tech genius threatens to imprison the city in a ‘perfect’ digital world, the inseparable superhero duo must unite to foil his plans and keep reality intact.

Cast

Deborah Mailman (Combat Wombat), Ed Oxenbould (The Visit, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day), David Wenham (Lord of the Rings franchise, 300)

What is it that makes you...YOU? Pixar Animation Studios’ “Soul,” Oscar® winner for best animated feature film, introduces Joe Gardner (voice of Jamie Foxx) – a middle-school band teacher who gets the chance of a lifetime to play at the best jazz club in town. But one small misstep takes him from the streets of New York City to The Great Before – a fantastical place where new souls get their personalities, quirks and interests before they go to Earth. Determined to return to his life, Joe teams up with a precocious soul, 22 (voice of Tina Fey), who has never understood the appeal of the human experience. As Joe desperately tries to show 22 what’s great about living, he may just discover the answers to some of life’s most important questions. Directed by Academy Award® winner Pete Docter (“Inside Out,” “Up”), co-directed by Kemp Powers (“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” “One Night in Miami”—Oscar® nominee for best adapted screenplay) and produced by Academy Award winner Dana Murray, p.g.a. (Pixar short “Lou”), Disney and Pixar’s “Soul” also won the Oscar for best achievement in music written for motion picture (original score by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste), as well as Golden Globes® for best motion picture—animated and best original score—motion picture (Reznor, Ross, Batiste), and GRAMMY® for best score soundtrack for visual media (Reznor, Ross, Batiste).

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women - led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) - begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

DIRECTED BY:
Thea Sharrock

STARRING:
Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall, Hugh Skinner, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan

A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a farcical and occasionally sinister scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, WICKED LITTLE LETTERS follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and rowdy Irish migrant Rose Gooding (Jessie Buckley). When Edith and fellow residents begin to receive wicked letters full of unintentionally hilarious profanities, foul-mouthed Rose is charged with the crime. The anonymous letters prompt a national uproar, and a trial ensues. However, as the town’s women - led by Police Officer Gladys Moss (Anjana Vasan) - begin to investigate the crime themselves, they suspect that something is amiss, and Rose may not be the culprit after all.

DIRECTED BY:
Thea Sharrock

STARRING:
Olivia Colman, Timothy Spall, Hugh Skinner, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan

BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. On the big screen for the first time, discover Bob’s powerful story of overcoming adversity and the journey behind his revolutionary music. Produced in partnership with the Marley family and starring Kingsley Ben-Adir as the legendary musician and Lashana Lynch as his wife Rita.

Director(s) Reinaldo Marcus Green
Cast Includes: Kingsley Ben-Adir, James Norton, Michael Gandolfini

From Alice Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro), a tale of lost love and an ethereal spiritual journey. Arriving in Riparbella, Tuscany, in the early ’80s, Arthur, a melancholic British archaeologist in a grimy linen suit, is fresh out of prison. Yearning for his dead lover, the daughter of a local aristocrat, he falls back in with a group of tombaroli (tomb robbers), a rowdy, Fellini-esque crew of twentysomethings who pilfer the area’s ancient burial sites for Etruscan treasures to sell on the black market. Continuing Rohrwacher’s project of mining and mythologising her country’s past, La Chimera creates its own wild, improbable fictional space, halfway between the dead and the living, and draws you into its spell.

“A joyous, masterful work of folk magic” Jessica Kiang, Sight & Sound

Preview courtesy of Curzon Film

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Starring: Josh O’Connor, Carol Duarte, Alba Rohrwacher, Isabella Rossellini
Italy/France/Switzerland, 2023, 2 hours 13 minutes, Italian/English + English subtitles

From Vietnamese director Trần Anh Hùng (The Scent of Green Papaya) comes a mouth-watering ‘gastromance’, superbly concocted by leads Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.

France, 1885: Celebrated gourmet Dodin lives on an idyllic Loire Valley estate alongside Eugénie, his cook for over 20 years. Adapted from a 1924 novel by French epicure Marcel Rouff, this intimate, humorous and sensual story about love and food is executed with detail and practical precision but without a hint of sickliness. Opening with a bravura 40-minute sequence of preparation and indulgence in one epic meal, it’s a deep tribute to the closeness of collaborative work. A veritable feast.

Best Director, Cannes Film Festival 2023

Shortlisted for International Feature Film Oscar

Director: Trần Anh Hùng
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire
France, 2023, 2 hours 25 minutes, French + English subtitles

Loosely based on the novel by Martin Amis, this bold, surgical probe into our capacity for zoning out on genocide is chilling indeed. Rudolf, Hedwig and their children live a pastoral idyll, in a bright villa with a cultivated garden full of roses and hothouse fruit. But the backdrop is a high wall with chimneys beyond, and behind the birdsong are other persistent but indistinguishable sounds. Rudolf Höss is the commandant of Auschwitz. Eschewing the conventions of Holocaust drama, Jonathan Glazer’s (Under the Skin) film penetrates the too bright surface of bourgeois domesticity with visual and aural precision to reveal the horrors beneath.

Shortlisted for International Feature Film Oscar

Director: Jonathan Glazer
Starring: Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel
US/UK/Poland, 2023, 1 hour 46 minutes, German/Polish + English subtitles

Andrew Haigh follows 45 Years with a sublime, uncommonly perceptive and moving film.

Adam (Fleabag’s Andrew Scott), a screenwriter living in a spookily empty London high rise, strikes up a relationship with his mysterious neighbour Harry (Mescal). At the same time, he makes a miraculous discovery at his old family home in the suburbs – one that keeps him returning. Using a metaphysical conceit to meditate on love, grief and profound loss, Haigh’s carefully modulated ghost story revisits the fears and traumas of a specific generation of gay men while illuminating the human condition more broadly.

Paul Mescal, Joint Best Supporting Performance, British Independent Film Awards 2023

Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell
1 hour 45minutes

Please note: This film contains flashing images that may be unsuitable for viewers with photosensitive epilepsy

Wry, endearing, thoughtful, this tale of a late-blooming heroine awakened by intimations of romance and mortality is utterly refreshing. 48-year-old Etero, single by choice, lives in a small Georgian village where she runs a toiletry store. Commanding and intelligent, possessed of a stoic independence and a dry wit, she cherishes her freedom as much as the mille-feuille she repeat-orders at her local café. But when a passionate encounter brings a new recklessness into her life, she must decide whether to pursue love or continue alone. Adapted from a first-person novel by Georgian author Tamta Melashvili, funny and sad by turns, Eka Chavleishvili is magnificent as the redoubtable Etero.

Preview courtesy of New Wave Films

Director: Elene Naveriani
Starring: Eka Chavleishvili, Temiko Chichinadze, Lia Abuladze
Switzerland/Georgia, 2023, 1 hour 50 minutes, Georgian + English subtitles

Outwardly simple, beautifully nuanced and utterly heartbreaking, Ozu’s Tokyo Story remains, even after 70 years, one of cinema’s most enduring masterpieces. Elderly couple Tomi and Shukichi decide to visit their grown-up children in bustling post-war Tokyo. The experience is bewildering; it’s a sweltering summer and they do not receive the welcome they deserve from their own offspring. A wealth of domestic detail reveals a compelling contrast between the dignity of age and the insensitivity of a younger generation. Stylised and restrained though it is, this is a film that manages to evoke exactly how fragile and ephemeral life is.

Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Chieko Higashiyama, Toru Abu, Setsuko Hara
Japan, 1953, 2 hours 16 minutes, Japanese + English subtitles

Andrew Haigh follows 45 Years with a sublime, uncommonly perceptive and moving film.

Adam (Fleabag’s Andrew Scott), a screenwriter living in a spookily empty London high rise, strikes up a relationship with his mysterious neighbour Harry (Mescal). At the same time, he makes a miraculous discovery at his old family home in the suburbs – one that keeps him returning. Using a metaphysical conceit to meditate on love, grief and profound loss, Haigh’s carefully modulated ghost story revisits the fears and traumas of a specific generation of gay men while illuminating the human condition more broadly.

Paul Mescal, Joint Best Supporting Performance, British Independent Film Awards 2023

Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell
1 hour 45minutes

Please note: This film contains flashing images that may be unsuitable for viewers with photosensitive epilepsy

From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.

Directed by: Yorgos Lanthimos

Screenplay by: Tony McNamara

Produced by: Ed Guiney p.g.a., Andrew Lowe p.g.a., Yorgos Lanthimos p.g.a., Emma Stone p.g.a.

Cast: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Suzy Bemba, Jerrod Carmichael, Kathryn Hunter, Vicki Pepperdine, Margaret Qualley, Hanna Schygulla

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Hopes, dreams, and regrets are thrust into sharp focus in this one-man adaptation which explores the complexities of human emotions.

Filmed live during its sold-out run in London’s West End, Vanya will be playing exclusively in cinemas in 2024.

Ddapted by Simon Stephens, after Anton Chekhov
Directed by Sam Yates
Designed by Rosanna Vize

The End We Start From, from director Mahalia Belo presents a haunting tale set against the backdrop of a water submerged London. Jodie Comer stars as a resilient new mother, navigating the chaos of a cataclysmic flood that separates her family. Alongside her partner, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and their infant, they embark on a poignant journey to find sanctuary in the English countryside. Adapted by Alice Birch from Megan Hunter's novel, the film delves into the profound nuances of motherhood amid an impending apocalypse.

Cast: Jodie Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston, Mark Strong, Joel Fry, Gina McKee, Nina Sosanya, Ramanique Ahluwalia, Ansu Kabia, Alexandria Riley

Director(s): Mahalia Belo

In The Beekeeper, one man’s brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after he is revealed to be a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as “Beekeepers.”

CAST: Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Bobby Naderi, Minnie Driver, with Phylicia Rashad and Jeremy Irons
WRITTEN BY: Kurt Wimmer
DIRECTED BY: David Ayer

The End We Start From, from director Mahalia Belo presents a haunting tale set against the backdrop of a water submerged London. Jodie Comer stars as a resilient new mother, navigating the chaos of a cataclysmic flood that separates her family. Alongside her partner, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, and their infant, they embark on a poignant journey to find sanctuary in the English countryside. Adapted by Alice Birch from Megan Hunter's novel, the film delves into the profound nuances of motherhood amid an impending apocalypse.

Cast: Jodie Comer, Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston, Mark Strong, Joel Fry, Gina McKee, Nina Sosanya, Ramanique Ahluwalia, Ansu Kabia, Alexandria Riley

Director(s): Mahalia Belo

Come on everybody it’s time for Peppa’s Cinema Party! This year Peppa Pig celebrates her 20th anniversary and to mark such a HUGE occasion she is throwing the MOST EPIC PARTY EVER – and all of her friends are INVITED! (That’s YOU!) Featuring the voices of Katy Perry as Ms. Leopard and Orlando Bloom as Mr. Raccoon in an episode of the 3-part Wedding Party story, the whole family can enjoy 10 never-before-seen Peppa Pig episodes! And with 5 brand new songs, as well as 11 interactive entertainment shorts with Peppa and her friends playing, dancing and singing in the real world, you and your little ones will be moving and grooving with Peppa in a whole new way! So grab your coat and jump into your boots, let’s be on our way to the Peppa Cinema Party!

Come on everybody it’s time for Peppa’s Cinema Party! This year Peppa Pig celebrates her 20th anniversary and to mark such a HUGE occasion she is throwing the MOST EPIC PARTY EVER – and all of her friends are INVITED! (That’s YOU!) Featuring the voices of Katy Perry as Ms. Leopard and Orlando Bloom as Mr. Raccoon in an episode of the 3-part Wedding Party story, the whole family can enjoy 10 never-before-seen Peppa Pig episodes! And with 5 brand new songs, as well as 11 interactive entertainment shorts with Peppa and her friends playing, dancing and singing in the real world, you and your little ones will be moving and grooving with Peppa in a whole new way! So grab your coat and jump into your boots, let’s be on our way to the Peppa Cinema Party!

The eagerly-anticipated new film from iconic writer-director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette), PRISCILLA is a moving, nuanced and visually ravishing exploration of the dark side of celebrity, delicately retelling and re-examining one of history’s most complicated love stories.

West Germany, late 1950s. Teenage Priscilla Beaulieu (Golden Globe nominee Cailee Spaeny) receives an invitation to a party with Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi, Saltburn). Already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar at this time, Elvis becomes someone entirely unexpected in their private moments together: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Coppola presents the unseen story of their long courtship and turbulent marriage: a great American myth spanning decades and oceans, from the army base where they met to his dream-world estate at Graceland.

Faithfully adapting Priscilla’s own memoir, and anchored by Spaeny’s Venice Best Actress winning performance, this is a mature and masterful cinematic feast for the senses that sees Coppola at the very top of her game.

Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “Wish” is an animated musical-comedy welcoming audiences to the magical kingdom of Rosas, where Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.

Directed By: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
Written By: Jennifer Lee, Allison Moore
Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk

From the comedic mind of Tina Fey comes a new twist on the modern classic, MEAN GIRLS. New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneeě Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

This film contains flickering or flashing lights that may affect those with photosensitive epilepsy.

The eagerly-anticipated new film from iconic writer-director Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette), PRISCILLA is a moving, nuanced and visually ravishing exploration of the dark side of celebrity, delicately retelling and re-examining one of history’s most complicated love stories.

West Germany, late 1950s. Teenage Priscilla Beaulieu (Golden Globe nominee Cailee Spaeny) receives an invitation to a party with Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi, Saltburn). Already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar at this time, Elvis becomes someone entirely unexpected in their private moments together: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a gentle best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Coppola presents the unseen story of their long courtship and turbulent marriage: a great American myth spanning decades and oceans, from the army base where they met to his dream-world estate at Graceland.

Faithfully adapting Priscilla’s own memoir, and anchored by Spaeny’s Venice Best Actress winning performance, this is a mature and masterful cinematic feast for the senses that sees Coppola at the very top of her game.

Directed by Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok), NEXT GOAL WINS follows the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team, known for a brutal 2001 FIFA match they lost 31-0. With the 2014 World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping he will turn the world’s worst soccer team around in this humorous and heartfelt underdog story.

Directed by: Taika Waititi
Screenplay by: Iain Morris, Taika Waititi
Produced by: Jonathan Cavendish, Garrett Basch, Taika Waititi, Mike Brett and Steve Jamison

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Oscar Kightley, David Fane, Beulah Koale, Lehi Falepapalangi, Semu Filipo, Uli Latukefu, Rachel House, Kaimana, Will Arnett, and Elisabeth Moss

The Boys in the Boat is a sports drama based on the #1 New York Times bestselling non-fiction book written by Daniel James Brown. The film, directed by George Clooney, is about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. This inspirational true story follows a group of underdogs at the height of the Great Depression as they are thrust into the spotlight and take on elite rivals from around the world.