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EYE IN THE SKY
(15) 102mins
Mon 23 - 2pm - Tickets Available
Mon 23 - 7.30pm - SOLD OUT*
*There will be a raffle for house seats available on the door. Names can be put on the list at the box office 30 minutes before the start time. Names are drawn out of a hat 25 minutes later. There are approximately 12 pairs of tickets available in the house raffle for each film.
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Helen Mirren is at her vulnerable-absolute, controlled bossiest, long-anxious-looks-acting best in Gavin Hood’s drone warfare thriller, starring Barkhad Abdi.
Colonel Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of a classified drone operation to apprehend a terrorist cell in Kenya, is put through her paces when surveillance discovers suicide preparations. As the mission escalates from ‘observe’ to ‘capture’ to ‘kill’, a nine-year old girl enters the target zone, forcing a heated international debate between US and British government officials, raising the usual political and moral issues of modern warfare.
Big cast, there is much on display here, notably the power-presence of Alan Rickman, in what has become his final screen role.
“A provocatively tense thriller negotiates the moral minefields of its thorny subject in crowd- pleasing fashion.” (Observer)
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THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY
(12A) 109mins
Tue 24 - 2pm - Tickets Available
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Based on the true story, Dev Patel portrays the mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose journey takes him from the slums of Madras to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Through a surprising cross-cultural friendship with his mentor (Jeremy Irons) Ramanujan works to overcome the racist attitudes of early 20th century England while battling with chronic homesickness and despair at the loss of the life and family left behind.
He attributes the origin of his mathematical theorems to divine intervention, something mocked by his peers but proven triumphant as his work goes on to revolutionise the world of academia.
With elements of both The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything, this period drama adds a heartfelt undertone to a story of logic.
“It’s handsome, revelling in both India’s chaotic colour and Cambridge’s wood-panelled formality, and tells its story fluently.” (NME)
“It’s a film with its heart in the right place, but the problem of how to represent mathematical problems on screen is not really solved” (Guardian)
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DEMOLITION
(15) 101mins
Tue 24 - 7.30pm - Tickets Available
Wed 25 - 7.30pm - Tickets Available
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s life is on the mend in this plucky (complete screwball) comedy-drama.
Following the tragic loss of his wife in a car crash, investment banker Davis Mitchell is in complete free-fall. In an attempt find release from his struggles, Davis takes to writing a series of letters to a vending machine’s customer services department. In them are the meticulous details of not only the accident but his entire life story leading up to that point.
Davis’ letters soon catch the attention of Karen (Naomi Watts) a customer service rep with parallel emotional burdens of her own. With the aid and support of Karen, he takes a hammer, literally and figuratively, to his former life and begins slowly to rebuild.
Following on from the heights of Dallas Buyers Club and Wild, director Jean-Marc Valee will no doubt find he is measured against past successes. Luckily here he has Gyllenhaal to turn to. His reliability as a sturdy, dependable lead is in reality, a saving grace.
“That ‘Demolition’ isn’t always annoying is a credit to Gyllenhaal’s hilarious tension and direction by Jean-Marc Valee” (Metro)
‘Hilarious’…? “Offbeat, exuberant and occasionally quite hilarious.” (Hollywood Reporter)
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ROOM
(15) 118mins
Wed 25 - 2pm - Tickets Available
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The room in Emma Donoghue’s Room, a worldwide publishing (and book club) smash, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2010, is a garden shed, locked from the outside, in which a brutalised young mother and her five-year-old son are kept permanently imprisoned.
The story is told from the perspective of Jack, a five-year-old boy who knows nothing outside the small room he and his mother have lived in for his whole life. Jacob Tremblay is a startling revelation in this role, a long-haired boy completely oblivious to the everyday struggle his mother goes through to find the will to live. In the lead role, Brie Larson registers as numb to the pain she’s been forced to endure since being kidnapped and held captive by a menacing man only known as Old Nick.
For exercise, Jack tumbles back and forth between two walls. For sanity, Joy tells her son that “room” is all that separates them from the infinity of outer space, and for survival she’ll eventually begin to teach him the truth.
“Too grim and heartbreaking for some viewers, Room is nevertheless an extraordinary film so powerful and unforgettable that it must be seen.”
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THE HUNTSMAN:
WINTER'S WAR
(12A) 117mins
Thu 26 - 7.30pm - Tickets Available
Sat 28 - 2pm - Tickets Available
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Snow White has gone AWOL from her own franchise, leaving Chris Hemsworth to do battle with golems, witches, and an unreliable Scottish accent.
Emily Blunt emerges with honour, offering more nuance than the film deserves, as Freya, tragic sister to Charlize Theron’s wicked witch queen. Turning her back on love, Freya repairs to the northern wastes to rule a land of snow and ice, and presumably to lie low in case Disney’s lawyers question the resemblance to Frozen.
Playing squeeze to Hemsworth’s Huntsman, Jessica Chastain dons a leather jerkin and wields a bow and arrow, solemnly channeling a touch of Red Sonja, for you older sword-and-sorcery fans. In the end it’s hard to see the wood for the enchanted trees.
Allegiances switch back and forth, obvious twists come lolloping over the horizon and it all starts to resemble stray fantasy elements cynically thrown into a whirring blender with the lid off. If you’re too young to watch Game of Thrones or not a fan of gratuitous amounts of extreme violence – then Winter’s War’s fantasy-lite-helping will pass the time.
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CAPTAIN AMERICA:
CIVIL WAR
(12A) 146mins
Fri 27 - 7.30pm - Tickets Available
Sat 28 - 7pm - Tickets Available
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It was only a matter of time before they turned on each other. Opposing ideals leave the Avengers divided, Capt in the blue corner, Iron Man in the red.
After the accidental death of innocents during a battle in Nigeria, Captain America (Chris Evans) draws the ire of the world’s governments, who want the Avengers to sign an accord that puts them under the jurisdiction of the United Nations. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) agrees, adamant that their powers need to be checked.
But Capt is convinced that the Avengers’ independence is the only way to address trouble before it’s too late. The catalyst for this civil war is Capt’s old friend Bucky a.k.a. the Winter Soldier, who is believed to have been behind a bombing of a UN meeting. He enlists the aid of Falcon, Scarlett Witch, Ant-Man, and Hawkeye.
Iron Man has the rest of the team on his side, including newcomer Black Panther, and old favourite Spider- Man. This raises an interesting quandary; we don’t understand either side’s reasons for fighting, and it’s that grey area that makes Civil War feel thematically weighty. The resulting punch-ups aren’t bad either.
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THE JUNGLE BOOK
(PG) 106mins
Sun 29 - 1.30pm - SOLD OUT*
Sun 29 - 6pm - SOLD OUT*
*There will be a raffle for house seats available on the door. Names can be put on the list at the box office 30 minutes before the start time. Names are drawn out of a hat 25 minutes later. There are approximately 12 pairs of tickets available in the house raffle for each film.
Now this is a revival I can get behind; allow for a good few decades to pass, and then use the latest technology to show Kipling’s classic in a dynamic new light. All the while retaining the magic of the original.
After the murder of his father, Mowgli (newcomer Neel Sethi) is found in the jungles of India by the panther Bagheera (Ben Kingsley) and left in the care of his wolf parents. A water shortage has persuaded different species of animals to come together in peace and sharing.
The truce is disrupted by the hostile Shere Khan, a Bengal tiger growled by Idris Elba in a voice guaranteed to induce fear and trembling. Blinded in one eye by fire that the tiger blames on man, Shere Khan demands that the wolfpack turn over Mowgli to him for certain death.
This Jungle Book is a natural response to the technological era we are in. Love it or loath it, computer wizardry is here to stay, so why not see how far it can be pushed?
Like Avatar, a magical and wholly convincing world has been created.
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