The Fencer (2015)

November 23rd 2018 “The Fencer” 7.30pm Dir: Klaus Härö Estonia 2015 Cert: PG 96 mins Genre: Drama | History | Sport Märt Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere Sr. * Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer Endel Nelis is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a […]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

November 9th 2018 “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” 7.30pm Dir: Martin McDonagh USA 2017 Cert: 15 115 mins Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell * From the director of ‘In Bruges’ this darkly comic drama is the story of Mildred, (McDormand) a force of nature and her attempts to get […]

Mary Shelley (2017)

October 26th 2018 “Mary Shelley” 7.30pm Dir: Haifaa Al-Mansour UK 2017 Cert: 12A 120 mins Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Ben Hardy * The true story of Mary Godwin (Fanning) and her love affair with Percy Shelley. The director Al-Mansour (Wajda) sees the bohemian affair through a feminist lens, exploring the […]

The Shape of Water (2017)

October 12th 2018 “The Shape of Water” 7.30pm Dir: Guillermo del Toro USA 2017 Cert: 15 118 mins Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon * From the director of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’, ‘The Shape of Water’ deservedly won Best Film and Best Director at this […]

The Divine Order (2017)

September 28th 2018 “The Divine Order” 7.30pm Dir: Petra Biondina Volpe Switzerland 2017 Cert: 12A 96 mins Genre: Comedy | Drama Marie Leuenberger, Maximilian Simonischek, Rachel Braunschweig * It’s 1971 and Nora lives a quiet life in a small Swiss village. She is respectable and retiring and well liked until she decides to campaign publicly for the […]

The Post (2018)

September 14th 2018 “The Post” 7.30pm Dir: Steven Spielberg USA 2018 Cert: 12A 116 mins Genre: Biography | Drama | History | Thriller Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson * At her husband’s death, quiet and unassuming Kay Grahame (Streep) becomes the owner of the male-dominated and conservative Washington Post. Her editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) comes into […]

The Death of Stalin (2017)

May 25th The Death of Stalin Dir: Armando Iannucci UK 2017 Cert: 15 106 mins Genre: Historical Drama /comedy Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea Riseborough, Jason Issacs * Armando Iannucci (Inthe Loop / The Thickof It) turns his hilarious satiric gaze on to the death of Stalin, one of the 20th Century’s political […]

Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

May 11th “Goodbye Christopher Robin” 7.30 @ Colinsburgh Town Hall Dir: Simon Curtis UK 2017 Cert: PG 107 mins Genre: Biography / Drama Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly MacDonald, Will Tilston * Goodbye Christopher Robin tells the story of author A.A.Milne and the inspiration that led to the creation of the world’s most […]

Last Night’s Poor Sound:Apologies

Our apologies for the sound quality on last night’s film “Film Stars don’t Die in Liverpool”. Regular patrons will know that we take sound quality very seriously, and have, over the years, researched and made improvements to equipment, speaker positioning and amplifier and decoder calibration. We’re always going to be fighting the Town Hall’s basic […]

Film Stars don’t Die in Liverpool (2017)

April 27th “Film Stars don’t Die in Liverpool” 7.30 @ Colinsburgh Town Hall Dir: Paul McGuigan UK 2017 Cert: 15 134 mins Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance Jamie Bell, Annette Bening, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham * Gloria Grahame was one of the great Hollywood movie stars of the 40s and 50s. By the late 70s her […]