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WHAT'S ON - 25/01/2013

DJANGO UNCHAINED

The slave plantation era of the pre-Civil War South gets an epic re-write in Tarantino’s talky, blood-splattered Spaghetti Western, which owes much to both Sergio Corbucci’s original Django (1969) and Richard Fleischer’s lurid melodrama Mandingo (1975).

Part homage, part pastiche, [...]

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Times: 13.20|16.40|20.00
THE SESSIONS

In this witty and touching true-life story we meet the remarkable Mark O’Brien, who’s graduated from university, works as a journalist and writes poetry – notwithstanding the childhood polio which has left him paralysed from the neck down, and spending [...]

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Times: 13.00|15.10|17.20|20.50
THIS IS WHERE WE TAKE OUR STAND

Inspired by 1971’s ‘Winter Soldier Investigation’ which sought to publicise war crimes committed by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War through the testimony of veterans, the documentary This Is Where We Take Our Stand examines the conduct of U.S. forces in [...]

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Times: 19.30
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE ARTIST

Wild Strawberries is our bimonthly film club for the over 55s.

Start off the year with a skip in your step at a screening of The Artist, a charming tribute to silent cinema and last year’s Oscar-sweeper and worldwide hit. [...]

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Times: 11.00
ZERO DARK THIRTY

Director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal, the team behind The Hurt Locker, expand their ambitions in this epic account of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. Forget any notions of triumphalism now however, since the film offers a bracing [...]

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Times: 13.20|16.40|20.00