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WHAT'S ON - 26/08/2024

AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS: SAFE

Although certain themes recur across his body of work, Todd Haynes’s mercurial choices have ensured that his films elude easy categorisation. He has created a suitably gnomic biopic of Bob Dylan (I’m Not There, 2007), shown an unfamiliar side of... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 18.20
KNEECAP

When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed ‘low-life scum’ Naoise & Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, KNEECAP fast become the unlikely figureheads of... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 15:50, 17:30, 20:50
LONE STAR 4K RESTORATION

Following the discovery of human remains in the desert surrounding a windswept Texas town near the Mexican border, Sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) is drawn into investigating a forty-year-old disappearance, that of Charlie Wade, the town’s corrupt and brutal former... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 13:00
MRS ROBINSON

A reforming constitutional lawyer and senator in her early career, Mary Robinson detonated an electoral earthquake by winning the Irish Presidential vote in 1990. Later, as a crusading UN High Commissioner, she built a lasting legacy; fearlessly challenging perpetrators of... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 14:00, 16:10, 18:10
ONLY THE RIVER FLOWS

Adapted from Yu Hua’s novel Mistakes by the River, the third feature from Chinese writer-director Wei Shujun is set in the 1990s in the rural town of Banpo, Southern China. Ma Zhe (Zhu Yilong), chief of police (and father-to-be) investigates the... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 20:20
PULP FICTION 4K RE-RELEASE

A genuine gamechanger, Pulp Fiction, just director Quentin Tarantino’s second feature, has had an inestimable influence on American cinema over the last thirty years. Following his blistering debut with Reservoir Dogs (1992), his sophomore effort, co-written with Roger Avary (Killing... Read More

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BOOK NOW Times: 14:10, 20:00