Welcome to our Autumn 2025 season


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The Phoenician Scheme
Thursday 9th October - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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Chicken Town
Thursday 16th October - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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Hard Truths
Thursday 23rd October - 7:30pm  |  Cert 12
John Clare Theatre
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Sinners
Thursday 30th October - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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Slade In Flame
Thursday 6th November - 7:30pm  |  Cert PG
John Clare Theatre
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Holy Cow
Thursday 13th November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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Small Things Like These
Thursday 20th November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 12
John Clare Theatre
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Four Mothers
Thursday 27th November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
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The Life of Chuck
Thursday 4th December - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
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The Ballad of Wallis Island
Thursday 11th December - 7:30pm  |  Cert 12
John Clare Theatre

Full programme details:


  The Phoenician Scheme   

Showing:  Thursday 9th October - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Wes Anderson   

Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera

Certificate: 15    Duration: 97mins     Country: USA    Year: 2025

Wealthy businessman, Zsa-Zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.

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  Chicken Town   

Showing:  Thursday 16th October - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Richard Bracewell   

Stars: Ben Fredj, Hugo Carter, Michael Dalton

Certificate: 15    Duration: 90mins     Country: UK    Year: 2025

Two school-friends join forces with a green-fingered granddad to fence a shed of weed that the old man has accidentally grown on his allotment.

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  Hard Truths   

Showing:  Thursday 23rd October - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Mike Leigh   

Stars: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber

Certificate: 12    Duration: 97mins     Country: UK    Year: 2024

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us.

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  Sinners   

Showing:  Thursday 30th October - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Ryan Coogler   

Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton

Certificate: 15    Duration: 132mins     Country: USA    Year: 2025

Just in time for Halloween! Set in 1932, Jim Crow era Mississippi, the film follows two twin brothers known as Smoke and Stack as they return home to try and leave their troubled lives behind, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

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  Slade In Flame   

Showing:  Thursday 6th November - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Richard Loncraine   

Stars: Don Powell, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder

Certificate: PG    Duration: 91mins     Country: UK    Year: 1975

Described as the "Citizen Kane of rock musicals" by Mark Kermode, this film from 1975 charts the history of 'Flame', a fictitious group (played by members of the band Slade) in the late 1960s who are picked up by a marketing company and taken to the top, only to break up at their zenith. The Guardian describes the film as "mixing the madcap comedy of A Hard Day’s Night with the brutal nastiness of Get Carter...".

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  Holy Cow   

Showing:  Thursday 13th November - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Louise Courvoisier   

Stars: Clément Faveau, Maïwene Barthelemy, Luna Garret

Certificate: 15    Duration: 92mins     Country: France    Year: 2024

After the tragic death of his father, 18-year-old Totone must look after his younger sister and their failing family farm. He assumes even more responsibility when he enters a cash competition for the best Comté cheese made in the western part of the French Alps.

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  Small Things Like These   

Showing:  Thursday 20th November - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Tim Mielants   

Stars: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Fairley

Certificate: 12    Duration: 99mins     Country: Ireland    Year: 2024

In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own, forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

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  Four Mothers   

Showing:  Thursday 27th November - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Directors: Darren Thornton   

Stars: James McArdle, Fionnula Flanagan, Dearbhla Molloy

Certificate: 15    Duration: 89mins     Country: Ireland    Year: 2024

An author is saddled with caring for his mother after she suffers a stroke. His plans for a book tour are thrown into disarray when three more elderly women arrive on his doorstep in Dublin.

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  The Life of Chuck   

Showing:  Thursday 4th December - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: Mike Flanagan   

Stars: Karen Gillan, Tom Hiddleston, Matthew Lillard

Certificate: 15    Duration: 110mins     Country: USA    Year: 2025

Based on the Stephen King novella,this powerful tale celebrates the life of Charles 'Chuck' Krantz as he experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

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  The Ballad of Wallis Island   

Showing:  Thursday 11th December - 7:30pm    Venue: John Clare Theatre

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Director: James Griffiths   

Stars: Tim Key, Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan

Certificate: 12    Duration: 100mins     Country: UK    Year: 2025

An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.

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