Cinema

Our guide to cinema, film premieres & new release tickets

Splendid Cinema presents “Rare Exports”

(Fin, 2010, Jalmari Helander) 84 min.
This wacky Finnish black comedy is about abducting Santa from his tomb and holding him for ransom. This film won the Best Film award at both Sitges and Abertoir film festivals in 2010. 15 cert.
Tickets £5, on sale from 7pm, film starts at 7.30pm.

Splendid Cinema presents “13 Assassins”

(Jap, 2010, Takashi Miike) 141 min.
13 Assassins is an out-and-out win; made by someone who knows their samuri films! A restrained (at least for Miike) adventure yarn that gives us exactly what we want! 15 cert.
Tickets £5, on sale from 7pm, film starts at 7.30pm.

Splendid Cinema presents “Dark Waters”

(UK, 2010, Andrew Gale) 76 min.
The Splendid Cinema is very proud to present this thriller about a young man, Niall(Dafydd Brooks), who had gone missing returning to his Welsh town to discover the world has changed in his absence.
Director Andrew Gale and screenwriter Andrew Stevenson are scheduled to be in attendance [...]

Splendid Cinema presents “I Saw The Devil”

Jee-woon Kim, is one of the hottest director working in South Korea today. Kim’s cat-and-mouse thriller sees a dedicated police officer hunt down the psychotic rapist/murderer who killed his fiancé. The killer is played by the great Min-sik Choi (Oldboy).
Warning: this film is seriously nasty! 18 cert.
Tickets £5 on sale [...]

Between the Silence The Movie

Based on the sell out play from The Soho Theatre in 2009 comes the movie adaptation of Luke Moss’ Between the Silence.
A hard hitting drama which sees seven strangers’ lives turned upside down through the twists and turns of each others lives. Linked together by a series of chain events, each story crosses [...]

Film Screening- The Beatles: Hard Day’s Night – 7:30 12 Oct 2011

A Hard Day’s Night stars The Beatles; John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr during the height of Beatlemania. It was written by Alun Owen and originally released by United Artists. The film was made in the style of a mockumentary, describing a couple of days in the lives of the group.
‘The film [...]

GROUP EXHIBITION: Mrs Darling’s Kiss

Where: Arch 402

Mrs. Darling’s Kiss
A group exhibition incorporating sculpture, print, painting, film and an artist-made outdoor cinema
8 July—5 August 2011
Opening View:
Thursday 7 July 6:00-9:00pm
Works by: Joan Ashworth, Louise Bourgeois, Steve Bunn, Tom Chamberlain, Stephen Chambers, Denise de Cordova, Kate Davis & David Moore, Dexter Dymoke, Jonas Grimas, Jane Harris, Tim Long, Rosa Loy, Lee Maelzer, Nicholas [...]

Ramchand Pakistani

Where: The Drum

A true story concerning the accidental crossing of the Pakistan-Indian border during a period of extreme, war-like tension between the two countries by two members of a Pakistani Hindu family belonging to the ‘untouchable’ (Dalit) caste, and the extraordinary consequences of this unintended action upon the lives of a woman, a [...]

Ghetto Dreamz

Where: The Drum

Ghetto Dreamz is the explosive true life story charting the personal struggles and rising popularity of Da Grin, who was to become one of Nigeria’s major contemporary rap artist. To the shock of his millions of fans Da Grin died following a horrific car accident on April 22nd 2010. The movie [...]

Ghetto Dreamz – Premiere

Where: The Drum

Ghetto Dreamz is the explosive true life story charting the personal struggles and rising popularity of Da Grin, who was to become one of Nigeria’s major contemporary rap artist. To the shock of his millions of fans Da Grin died following a horrific car accident on April 22nd 2010. The movie [...]