October Cinema Programme

Of course all our cinema listings are always available on our site but here is the low down on our October offerings.

Oct 7, 7.30pm
The Proposal
When high-powered book editor Margaret faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew, who she’s tormented for years.

Sandra Bullock is one of the most likeable and skilled comediennes in movies today, but she hasn’t had a comedy smash hit since the first Miss Congeniality nine years ago. That’s about to change with The Proposal, an engaging, well-crafted lark that proves “high concept” isn’t necessarily a tired tactic.

14 and 15 October, 7.30pm
31 North 62 East
A female Captain in the SAS who survives an attack on her unit in Afghanistan, later discovers that her unit was sacrificed for political reasons.

The conspiracy theories come bellowed at top volume in this galumphing British thriller, which plays out in a shadowy geopolitical terrain stuffed-full of colourful racial stereotypes (chain-smoking French mademoiselles; cackling Afghan terrorists). John Rhys Davies plays the evil prime minister who betrays a crack SAS unit in order to safeguard an £80bn arms deal - although the joke's on him, because he reckoned without Heather Peace's questing angel of vengeance. His fiendish scheme crumbles under an onslaught of machine-tooled plot twists and a barrage of expository dialogue.

Friday 16 October, 7.30pm
Brief Encounters (a Night Of Short Films)

28 Oct, 7.30pm
Coco Before Chanel
Audrey Tautou, returns as Coco Chanel in the biopic Coco Before Chanel, exploring the life and rise to fame of one of the great couturiers and fashion icons. Jodi Piccoult‘s novel My Sister’s Keeper is brought to the screen and in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Robin Wright Penn gives a spellbinding performance of the eponymous heroine with lustrous support from the likes of Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder.

Book tickets.