In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her... Read More
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Cat is a solitary creature, but when his woodland home is devastated by a great flood, he is obliged to seek allies in the animal kingdom in Gints Zilbalodis’s animated and dialogue-free adventure for all ages, a captivating, utterly disarming... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 16:55
“It’s a love story, but it’s also not a love story”, says Edward (James McArdle), when asked by interviewers about his soon-to-be-published novel. The same is true of Darren Thornton’s follow-up to A Date For Mad Mary (2016), a comedy... Read More
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Walter Salles, the Oscar-winning director of Central Station and the Motorcycle Diaries, returns with his finest work in many years; I’m Still Here focuses on the true-life story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), whose terrifying experience under Brazil’s military dictatorship... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 15:10
Amidst the lunchtime rush at The Grill, a beloved Manhattan restaurant, a series of events threaten to bring the kitchen to a crashing halt in Alonso Ruizpalacios’s gripping, dynamic adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s acclaimed stage play. While food orders flood... Read More
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The all-too-relatable dilemma of what to do about noisy neighbours is the engine that fuels Jed Hart’s tense, lean, blackly comic debut film that delves into themes of personal space invasion, and the lengths to which one might go to... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 13:40, 18:30 (w/ intro)
This month’s Bigger Picture choice is from the GALPAL Collective’s Lulit Luis who will present this dark supernatural horror comedy by US feminist writer-director Anna Biller. It’s the story of Elaine, a modern-day witch, who concocts potions in her apartment... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 18.10
During World War II, a French Jewish family is deported to Auschwitz. On the train to the concentration camp, the father, desperate for any chance to save her life, throws one of his twins out into the snow, where she’s... Read More
BOOK NOW Times: 13.00, 18.50
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