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MAY TICKETS ON SALE
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View the May programme below:
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CINEMA PARADISO
(PG) 124mins
Mon 2 - 5pm - Tickets Available
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If ever a film came from the heart, it is Giuseppe Tornatore’s nostalgic Cinema Paradiso (1988). We are taken back to a Sicilian childhood with a cheeky scamp called Toto/Salvatore played by to perfection by Marcus Leonardi. Learning to love the magic of cinema, he gets in the way of the reluctant old projectionist, Alfredo (Philippe Noiret, France’s most faultless actor with the gentlest eyes. He died in 2006 aged 76).
In the dark confines of the Cinema Paradiso, young Toto and the other townsfolk escape grim post-war Sicily to crowd into the tiny cinema in the town square. Funny, affectionate, nostalgic, heart-breaking, and winner of the ‘Best Foreign Language’ Oscar in 1989, Cinema Paradiso is a love letter to the power of cinema, always in the top 10 best International films lists.
“It is a wonderful and open-hearted tribute to the beauty of cinema… one of the finest films about innocence ever made, a perfect picture of a time when cinema was the only source of laughter and joy. The roaring, spitting, smoking, groping scenes in the old Paradiso might come from any culture at any time, but just not now, not ours…” (CL ST Culture)
A second Odyssey outing 18 months after our opening.
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EDDIE THE EAGLE
(PG) 106mins
Tue 3 - 7.30pm - Tickets Available
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Witness the extraordinary tale of Great Britain’s most unlikely of heroes in Dexter Fletcher’s feel- good dramedy. The story of Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards is one of British folklore.
It’s 1988. Take one failed downhill skier, a never-say-die attitude and an impending Winter Olympics, throw them together and you have the first ever British competitor in the ski jump. Taron Egerton who excelled in 2015’s Kingsman plays the loveable underdog whose implausible appearance at Calgary captured the hearts and minds of a nation and beyond.
“I was ready to lift Eddie up on my shoulders and parade him through the streets myself. There’s a reason mainstream film-makers stick to the formula: it works.” (Guardian)
“Eddie The Eagle turns a long-running joke of British sport into a crowd-pleasing story of inspiration. It’s a solid gold winner.” (Empire)
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SPOTLIGHT
(15) 129mins
Wed 4 - 2pm - Tickets Available
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Director Tom McCarthy puts together a wonderful ensemble in this gripping true-life drama. Michael Keaton is in peak form as Walter Robinson, an editor with determination and Spotlight’s stalwart who leads a team including Michael Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams) and researcher Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James).
Robinson is skeptical that his newspaper, whose readers and staffers are largely third/fourth generation Irish-Catholic, can tackle the Boston Archdiocese. The harsh lesson for the folks at Spotlight comes from outsider: Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) the paper’s new editor-in-chief; a Floridian and the first Jew to call the shots at the Globe.
Baron rightfully suspects a conspiracy by the church to cover up the abuse of young boys. McCarthy’s televisual approach means that, while not having the cinematic panache of All The President’s Men (ATP’sM) it allows the narrative to take centre stage: no flashy camerawork or over-editing.
No over the top performances or forced dramatic tension. Spotlight naturally builds to its eventual, disturbing revelations.
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ROOM
(15) 118mins
Wed 4 - 7.30pm - 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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10 CLOVERFIELD LANE
(12A) 103mins
Thu 5 - 7.30pm - Tickets Available
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As is typical with a JJ Abrams produced feature, nothing is quite what it seems. And in the case of 10 Cloverfield Lane, all bets are off.
The mystery box opens with Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) chained to a wall. After surviving a car crash, she finds herself waking in a dank room, leg braced and chained to the wall. John Goodman’s Howard claims he ‘rescued’ her from the wreckage, and brought her to his underground bunker, demanding gratitude.
Naturally, Michelle requests to be taken to a hospital, but Howard explains that he saved her from a potential world-ending catastrophe: terrorists… aliens? He isn’t sure. Either way, Michelle doesn’t trust him (can’t imagine why) Is Howard lying about what’s outside or telling the truth? Goodman, grabbing his juiciest screen role in years, plays it for every tingling note of mirth and menace. And that’s all you need to know.
Dan Tratchenberg crafts a taut, claustrophobic thriller. In the back of your mind you’ll be thinking ‘what on Earth is causing this?’ Patience will be rewarded with well, weirdness. It does veer off into the Strange at the end, but it’s all part of the fun.
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BATMAN V SUPERMAN
(12A) 151mins
Fri 6 - 7.30pm - Tickets Available
Sat 7 - 7pm - Tickets Available
Sun 8 - 1.30pm - Tickets Available
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It's been nearly two years since Superman's (Henry Cavill) colossal battle with Zod (Michael Shannon) devastated the city of Metropolis.
The loss of life and collateral damage left many feeling angry and helpless, including crime-fighting billionaire Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck). Convinced that Superman is now a threat to humanity, Batman embarks on a personal vendetta to end his reign on Earth, while the conniving Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) launches his own crusade against the Man of Steel.
"Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice provides celebration and euphoric material, especially for fans of the graphic novels that serve as inspiration. It delivers a story with flaws and an uneven development for its characters."
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ET: THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL
(U) 114mins
Sat 7 - 2pm - Tickets Available
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There was a queue around the block outside the Rex for eleven weeks when ET first came out in 1982. Alun Rees, our chief projectionist at the time, remembers being shoved by the crowd telling him to get to the back of the queue, as he pushed his way through to unlock the doors for them to get in! Imagine, there were no mobile phones and DVDs hadn’t been invented…!
Steven Spielberg’s magical sci-fi classic about a little lost visitor from another planet who is befriended and protected by a boy and his friends. The film remains a perennial favourite for children and adults, who are entranced by the legendary moments such as the moonlit bike ride, and the unbelievably moving finale for which there will not be a dry eye in the house.
Whether seeing it for the first time or the hundredth, many of you won’t have seen it on the big screen. It is a big screen film you mustn’t miss. It’s a May afternoon in 2016, what else are you going to do, go in search of an Extra Terrestial? Come instead and find the one and only ET at the Odyssey, and for the most exciting bicycle chase on earth.
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