Welcome to our Autumn season


picture 1
Pearl
Thursday 28th September - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
picture 1
Allelujah
Thursday 5th October - 7:30pm  |  Cert 12A
John Clare Theatre
picture 1
Neptune Frost
Thursday 12th October - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
picture 1
Enys Men
Thursday 19th October - 7:30pm   |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre

picture 1
Return To Seoul
Thursday 26th October - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre

picture 1
Still: A Michael J Fox Movie
Thursday 2nd November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre

picture 1
Do The Right Thing
Thursday 9th November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 18
John Clare Theatre
picture 1
One Fine Morning
Thursday 16th November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
picture 1
The Beasts
Thursday 23rd November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 15
John Clare Theatre
picture 1
Asteroid City
Thursday 30th November - 7:30pm  |  Cert 12A
John Clare Theatre

Full details:


picture 1

  Pearl   

This event will be introduced by author and film critic Nanni Cobretti.    Visit our News & Events page for more information

Showing:  7:30pm - Thursday 28th September     Venue:John Clare Theatre

Director: Ti West   Stars: Mia Goth, David Covenswet, Tandi Wright
Certificate: 15   Duration: 102mins    Country: US   Year: 2022

Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year's most acclaimed horror film. Trapped on her family's isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X's iconic villain.

Back to top             Watch trailer             Read film notes
picture 1

  Allelujah   

Showing:  7:30pm - Thursday 5th October     Venue: John Clare Theatre

Director: Richard Eyre   Stars: Jesse Akele, Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Lorraine Ashbourne
Certificate: 12A   Duration: 99mins    Country: UK   Year: 2022

Allelujah is a warm and deeply moving story about old age. When the geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital is threatened with closure, the hospital decides to fight back by galvanizing the local community: they invite a news crew to film their preparations for a concert in honour of the hospital's most distinguished nurse. What could go wrong? Allelujah celebrates the spirit of the elderly patients whilst paying tribute to the deep humanity of the medical staff battling with limited resources and ever-growing demand

Back to top             Watch trailer             Read film notes
picture 1

  Neptune Frost   

Showing:  7:30pm - Thursday 12th October     Venue: John Clare Theatre

Director: Anisia Uzeyman, Saul Williams   Stars: Cheryl Ishega, Elvis Ngabo, Diogene Ntarindwa
Certificate: 15   Duration: 105mins    Country: Rwanda   Year: 2021

In the hilltops of Burundi a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective. From their camp in an otherworldly e-waste dump, they attempt a takeover of the authoritarian regime exploiting the region's natural resources - and its people. When an inter-sex runaway and an escaped coltan miner find each other through cosmic forces, their connection sparks glitches within the greater divine circuitry.

Back to top             Watch trailer            
picture 1

  Enys Men   

Showing:  7:30pm - Thursday 19th October     Venue: John Clare Theatre

Director: Mark Jenkin   Stars: Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe
Certificate: 15   Duration: 96mins    Country: UK   Year: 2021

Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is nightmare.

Back to top             Watch trailer             Read film notes
picture 1

  Return To Seoul   

Showing:  7:30pm - Thursday 26th October     Venue: John Clare Theatre

Director: Davy Chou   Stars: Park Ji Min, Oh Kwang-rok, Guka Han
Certificate: 15   Duration: 119mins    Country: South Korea   Year: 2022

After an impulsive travel decision to visit friends, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted and raised in France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country she knows so little about, taking her life in new and unexpected directions.

Back to top             Watch trailer             Read film notes
picture 1

  Still: A Michael J Fox Movie    

Showing:  7:30pm - Thursday 2nd November     Venue: John Clare Theatre

Director: Davis Guggenheim   Stars: Tracy Pollan, Sam Fox, Aquinnah Fox
Certificate: 15   Duration: 95mins    Country: US   Year: 2023

Fox's extraordinary story in his own words -- the improbable tale of an undersized kid from a Canadian army base who rose to the heights of stardom in 1980s Hollywood. The account of Fox's public life, full of nostalgic thrills and cinematic gloss, will unspool alongside his never-before-seen private journey, including the years that followed his diagnosis, at 29, with Parkinson's disease. Intimate and honest, and produced with unprecedented access to Fox and his family.

Back to top             Watch trailer             Read film notes
picture 1

  Do The Right Thing   

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

Director: Spike Lee   Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee
Certificate: 18   Duration: 112mins    Country: US   Year: 1989

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighbourhood local, Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito), becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighbourhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighbourhood, and tensions rise.

Back to top             Watch trailer             Read film notes
picture 1

  One Fine Morning   

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

Director: Mia Hansen-Love   Stars: Lea Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud
Certificate: 15   Duration: 112mins    Country: France   Year: 2022

Sandra, a young mother who raises her daughter alone, pays regular visits to her sick father. While she and her family fight tooth and nail to get him the care he requires, Sandra reconnects with Clément, a friend she hasn't seen in a while. Although he is in a relationship, the two begin a passionate affair.

Back to top             Watch trailer            
picture 1

  The Beasts   

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

Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen   Stars: Marina Fois, Denis Menochet, Luis Zahera
Certificate: 15   Duration: 135mins    Country: France   Year: 2022

An expatriate French couple (Denis Ménochet and Marina Foïs) operate an organic farm in the Spanish countryside. However, their earnest enthusiasm reeks of patronizing privilege to the handful of "hill people" families who have toiled on the land for generations. Tensions between locals and foreigners boil over in this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

Back to top             Watch trailer             Read film notes
picture 1

  Asteroid City   

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

Director: Wes Anderson   Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks
Certificate: 12A   Duration: 105mins    Country: US   Year: 2023

Following a writer on his world famous fictional play about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to small rural Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his world view disrupted forever.

Back to top             Watch trailer            

  Tickets

Admission Prices:

Non-members - £8.50

Members - £7.00
A code will be given which can be used to book tickets online via the Ticketsource link below.

Annual Membership - £20.00
Membership fee can be made by contactless payment on the night of a film.

We will be taking membership payments on the night and these will be applied to your first ticket purchase. Thereafter you can use your membership code at the online checkout to obtain your membership discount.

Advance Purchase from:

Facebook


  Refreshments

Next Presentation

Sadly, owing to changes in the availability of our venue, we are currently unable to offer refreshments prior to our film showings.