Tim Key and Tom Basden write and lead a small, warm-hearted comedy about a tired musician brought to life by his millionaire fan.

Herb McGwyer is a folk singer far from his ex-bandmate, partner, and glory days, and obliged to play a concert just for Charles, a double lottery winner, on a remote private island. Awkwardness mounts when said partner is invited, just as a storm traps them all there – but Charles’s adoration, their beautiful surroundings, and an old spark might inspire one of Herb’s best performances yet. Based on their award-winning short, Key, Basden, and director James Griffiths tell a stirring story of renewal, backed by a lovely soundtrack and beautiful Welsh settings. They also balance first-rate English sitcom humour with surprising emotional depth, enhanced by Carey Mulligan’s performance as the ex.

The profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline – with Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs starring in the lead roles.

After being forcibly removed from their home, they make the desperate decision to keep walking in the hope that, in nature, they will find solace and a sense of acceptance. With depleted resources and only a tent and the bare essentials between them, every step along the path is a testament to their growing strength and determination. The Salt Path is a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure. A portrayal of home and how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.

Based on the prize-winning bestselling book of the same name – with over 2 million copies sold worldwide – you’ll be glad you caught this one on the big screen.

NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire

By Tennessee Williams

Directed by Benedict Andrews

Gillian Anderson (Sex Education), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Ben Foster (Lone Survivor) lead the cast in Tennessee Williams’ timeless masterpiece, returning to cinemas.

As Blanche’s fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace – but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

From visionary director Benedict Andrews, this acclaimed production was filmed live during a sold-out run at the Young Vic Theatre in 2014.

★★★★★

‘An absolute knock-out. Raw, emotional and deeply unsettling’

Telegraph

★★★★

‘Gillian Anderson gives a shatteringly powerful performance’

Independent

★★★★★

‘A First-rate performance from Vanessa Kirby as Stella’

Guardian

Ralph Fiennes lends gravitas to the new Robert Harris adaptation: an operatic, thoughtful thriller on the race for the papacy.

Cardinal Thomas Lawrence wishes to leave the murky machinations of the Vatican, but is asked by the Pope to stay on, just before his death puts Lawrence in charge of choosing a replacement. Among candidates greatly differing in ideology and character, he must guide the electorate to a peaceful solution – but few will budge easily and every one has secrets.

Director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front) and writer Peter Straughan (Wolf Hall) adapt a standout entry in Harris’s halls-of-power political dramas, matching its gripping, intricate melodrama with cinematic flair and detail. Among spectacular supporting turns from Stanley Tucci, Isabella Rossellini and John Lithgow, Fiennes provides a welcome centre of nuance, thoughtfulness, and much-tried faith.

Before becoming a prestigious Shakespearean actor and seven-time Oscar nominee, Richard Burton was Port Talbot schoolboy Rich Jenkins.

Widely considered one of the greatest actors of his generation, Richard Burton was a global star with formidable talent and inescapable fame. Whilst studying at Port Talbot Secondary School, he was taken under the wing of teacher Phillip Burton, who helped to oversee Jenkins’ transformation into the stage and screen legend he will forever be remembered as.

This delightful film shines the spotlight on Mr Burton (played by ever-reliable Toby Jones), who takes a shine to his talented pupil and endeavours to help him have the theatre career he also sought for himself. Up-and-comer Harry Lawtey (Joker: Folie à Deux) stars as the young Richard Burton profoundly impacted by his schoolmaster’s tutorship. The film is also beautifully scored by composer John Hardy, nephew of Robert Hardy, a lifelong friend of Burton’s.

Newly arrived in the United States, from 1971-73 John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in a tiny apartment in Greenwich Village, where they consumed an enormous amount of television and in the process developed a new form of protest.

This led to the legendary ‘One to One’ benefit concert held at Madison Square Garden in August 1972 to raise funds for Willowbrook, an institution in Staten Island for children with intellectual disabilities. This landmark performance was Lennon’s only full-length, post-Beatles concert. The film features remastered and restored footage and audio from the show, alongside video and audio recordings from the period, tracking the development of Lennon and Ono’s politicization against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and the Nixon administration.

Directed by legendary documentarian and filmmaker Kevin Macdonald (Touching the Void, The Mauritanian), the film is an immersive and intimate tribute to one of music’s most famous couples.

Wes Anderson loads an alternate-1960s spy caper with his usual flair, soul, and whimsical wit.

By his tenth near-fatal plane crash, Zsa-zsa Korda is ruling a massive arms, air, and infrastructure empire stretching across Europe – but nine grasping sons, and threats to his business from all corners, make his position uneasy. Settling everything on his nun daughter and with a dotty tutor for protection, he embarks on an epic journey to reconnect with her and protect his business. Writer-director Anderson harks back to the adventure films of yesteryear (e.g. Charade, Topkapi) in tandem with his regular style: intricate chocolate-box visuals, tightly controlled farce, and unexpected emotional depth. He also remains beloved by first-rate actors, with Benicio del Toro backed by a cast ranging from Tom Hanks as a rival tycoon to Willem Dafoe as “Knave”.

Celebrated actor-director duo Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite for their fifth collaboration, a dark supernatural horror set in the Jim Crow-era American South.

Ryan Coogler is one of the most adventurous big-budget directors working today. Having reinvented the Rocky franchise with Creed, and adapted Marvel’s Wakandan king to billion-dollar heights with Black Panther, Sinners is his first original directorial effort since his poignant debut, Fruitvale Station.

This ambitious, genre-crossing film boasts an impressive cast, including Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as twin brothers Smoke and Stack. Fleeing a gang war in Chicago, they return to their hometown in the deep South, to start anew. Purchasing an abandoned mill from a white supremacist to set up a music hall, they soon find their lives consumed by a different kind of terror.

Shot on 65mm film and featuring gorgeous cinematography, this is not one to miss!

A documentary finally puts the story of the screen’s most famous Superman, and his incredible life after acting, in cinemas.

A gifted Juilliard student with classical aspirations, Christopher Reeve became a global icon early, even as fame isolated him from his family and other paths. When a horse-riding accident left him paralysed from the neck down, he found new life through the support of his loved ones – and through activism for the disabled, the chance to be an even bigger hero. With the support of those who knew him, directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui (McQueen) craft a thorough, polished retrospective for the actor and activist. Archive recordings of him and interviews with his family and friends leave no doubt that he possessed incredible strength and generosity, and in no film more than this one.

Ethan Hunt will stop at nothing to prevent a malicious AI program from falling into the wrong hands.

Under the adrenaline-fuelled direction of Christopher McQuarrie, the Mission: Impossible franchise has been revolutionised into an extraordinary series of unprecedented scope and death-defying spectacle. Now arrives the eighth entry in the series, in which Tom Cruise yet again willingly and gleefully returns to perform in-camera stunts no other major star would dare to attempt.

The Final Reckoning promises to be the most ambitious and adventurous mission yet. Shot across the globe in Malta, South Africa, Norway and the UK, its production budget quickly spiralled to over $400 million, making it one of the most expensive films ever made. Despite the series’ long history, the film can be enjoyed by fans and newcomers alike, and promises to be a thrilling adventure worthy of the big screen, should you choose to accept.

NT Live - Dr. Strangelove

Co-adapted by Armando Iannucci

Co-adapted and directed by Sean Foley

Seven-time BAFTA winner Steve Coogan takes on four roles in this world premiere stage adaptation of Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece. Directed by Emmy Award-winner Armando Iannucci and Olivier Award-winner Sean Foley, this explosively funny satire follows a rogue U.S. general who triggers a nuclear attack. It really is a must-see for both fans of the original and newcomers alike.

Press quotes

‘Steve Coogan is stellar’

Independent

‘A fun, adventurous adaptation’

Guardian

‘Coogan displays boundless energy and impeccable comic timing’

The Stage

‘Coogan is terrific, making each of Seller’s roles his own’

Financial Times

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NARRATED BY JESSIE BUCKLEY

In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote a sexually frank debut novel, The Country Girls. She became a literary sensation, writing for The New Yorker, delivering provocative interviews, and authoring screenplays.

Her success enraged her writer husband and made her a pariah in her native Ireland, where her books were banned and burned. She would make her home in London, where she conducted numerous love affairs, hosted star-studded parties, and made and lost a fortune.

In July 2024, Edna passed away and this film provides a final testimony from her, aged 93, as she reflects upon her extraordinary life for filmmaker Sinéad O’Shea’s camera.

Granting the director access to her personal journals — read aloud in the film by the Oscar-nominated Irish actress Jessie Buckley — and with additional perspectives offered from Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosley, Anne Enright and an array of renowned writers, Edna does not shy from any subject.

Blue Road is as candid, dark, and enchanting as O’Brien’s wonderful novels.

The next terrifying chapter in the Final Destination saga takes audiences back to the origins of Death’s cruel design.

Plagued by a violent and recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie returns home, convinced her visions are a warning. When a chilling pattern of fatal accidents begins to emerge, she sets out to find the one person who might help her unravel the truth and stop the deadly chain reaction. As long-buried secrets surface and fate closes in, Stefanie must confront the horrifying possibility that escaping Death was never an option. Each moment counts, and every near miss is just another turn in Death’s twisted plan.

Final Destination: Bloodlines is a fresh, blood-soaked return to the franchise’s roots – where the past is fatal, and the future isn’t promised.

Following a prize-winning turn at Cannes last year, Louise Courvoisier’s sunny, rough-edged coming-of-age story in rural France arrives at the Odyssey.

18-year-old Totone’s days of drink and brawling are cut short when tragedy befalls his family, leaving him responsible for his younger sister and a failing dairy farm. Noticing a cheese competition with a lucrative cash prize, he plans to get rich using a rival’s award-winning milk – but as they grow closer, he starts to see more valuable things in his life.

A first-time writer-director, Courvoisier draws from her upbringing in Jura to deliver an authentic but large-hearted dramedy: one full of warmth, humour, and insight for its characters without ignoring their awkwardness and pain. They also come to life through an ensemble of first-time actors, led by Clément Faveau as the maturing protagonist.

Steven Spielberg’s timeless story of universe-spanning friendship returns for its 40th anniversary. 

In 80s suburban California, young Elliot feels alienated among his pushy siblings and abandoned mother, only to find the best friend he could ask for when a stranded alien hides in his shed. In teaching him about Earth and helping him call home, the two find a connection beyond words - but homesickness and the government closing in may force Elliot to sacrifice it.

Spielberg rooted the story in his own childhood and need for an imaginary friend during his parents’ divorce, creating a natural base for this spellbinding fantasy. The film establishes a nostalgic but convincing childhood setting through great performances, before elevating it through the magical special effects and score, all combining to make a classic, and devastating, tale of childhood connection.

Toni Collette is outstanding in the film that brought Abba back! – here at The Odyssey to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

Socially awkward Muriel Heslop (Toni Collette) wants nothing more than to get married. Unfortunately, thanks to her oppressive politician father (Bill Hunter), Muriel has never even been on a date. Ostracised by her more socially adept friends, Muriel runs into fellow outcast Rhonda (Rachel Griffiths), and the two move from their nowhere town of Porpoise Spit to the big city of Sydney, where Muriel begins the arduous task of redesigning her life to match her fantasies.

Haven’t seen Muriel’s Wedding? Come experience it on the big screen at the Odyssey Cinema — and if you’ve seen it and love it, join us for a night of celebration, because “you can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life!”

The Penguin Lessons is a heartwarming adaptation of Tom Michell’s bestselling memoir.

Set in Argentina in 1976, the film follows English teacher Tom Michell (Steve Coogan) as he arrives at a prestigious boarding school, only to find himself struggling with a nation in turmoil and a class of unruly students. His life takes an unexpected turn when he rescues a small penguin from an oil-slicked beach. Naming it Juan Salvador, Tom soon realises the bird is more than just a pet – it becomes a source of wisdom and transformation for him and those around him, including the school’s headmaster, Buckle (Jonathan Pryce).

Directed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty) and adapted by Jeff Pope (Philomena), The Penguin Lessons is a poignant tale of friendship, resilience, and the surprising ways we find hope in difficult times.

From The World of John Wick: Ballerina

A ballerina-assassin seeks brutal vengeance for her father’s death.

Having previously demonstrated her action chops in a Havana rendezvous with James Bond in No Time To Die, Ana de Armas is a worthy lead for the first John Wick spinoff. Developed from a spec script by Shay Hatten, and directed by Len Wiseman, with additional scenes shot by franchise regular Chad Stahelski, the film features all the dynamically shot and intricately choreographed action that made the previous John Wick films so entertaining.

Ana de Armas plays Eve Macarro, a ballerina training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma. Offering insight into as-yet-unexplored corners of the John Wick world, the film promises to be a thrilling action adventure that won’t pull its punches or withhold a single bullet.

The upcoming Lilo & Stitch live-action remake, brings a fresh and heartwarming take on a beloved classic.

Staying true to the core themes of family, belonging, and love, this new adaptation brings stunning visuals and a vibrant Hawaiian setting. With updated effects and a new cast, it offers a unique way to experience the story for both longtime fans and newcomers. The bond between Lilo and Stitch is as powerful as ever, reminding us that Ohana means family—and family means no one gets left behind. This exciting remake is a perfect blend of nostalgia and new energy. Whether you're reliving cherished memories or discovering it anew, Lilo & Stitch is a must-watch adventure for all ages.

Agathe, a charmingly clumsy Parisian, dreams of Jane Austen-style romance but feels stuck — single, uncertain, and working at the iconic Shakespeare & Co instead of writing her own novel.

When she's unexpectedly accepted to a Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England, everything changes. As Agathe confronts her fears and explores her creative, romantic, and sexual identity, she realises it’s time to stop waiting and start living — and writing — her own love story. Jane Austen Wrecked My Life stars Camille Rutherford (Anatomy of a Fall), Pablo Pauly (The French Dispatch), and Charlie Anson (Death on the Nile), and marks the directorial debut of acclaimed screenwriter Laura Piani.

A heartwarming, modern tribute to classic romance.

Slow West’s writer-director John Maclean finally returns to cinemas, with the story of a puppeteer samurai’s coming-of-age in 18th-century Scotland.

In 1790, a young girl helps her father with a travelling show across the lowlands, amazing crowds through dance, martial arts, and surreal marionette displays. Their travels lead them to stolen gold, and a criminal gang angling for it by any means, and so the girl must grow up and defend them by extreme measures. A decade after his last film, Maclean once again delivers a spectacularly idiosyncratic and exciting western, this time with Britain’s most otherworldly landscapes and bloody, elemental visuals. Crisp action and a strong multicultural cast, including Takehiro Hira (Shogun), Tim Roth, and Jack Lowden, bolster a sharp, simple, Kurosawa-esque story of a young woman forced into becoming a ruthless warrior.

British Invasion icons The Zombies reflect on paving 60 years and counting of their musical path from teenage friends to legends in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

This captivating documentary explores the band’s formation in the 1960s, their groundbreaking hits like “She’s Not There” and “Time of the Season,” and the enduring influence of their lush, genre-defying sound. Through rare footage, intimate interviews, and reflections on solo careers and reunions, the film offers a deeply personal look at the highs and lows of a remarkable musical legacy.

More than just a chronicle of a band, it's a tribute to resilience, artistry, and timeless harmony. Following the screening, join us for a special live Q&A with guests (full details to be announced) which will offer fans a chance to engage directly with this iconic story.

Having been rejuvenated on the small screen in the Emmy-nominated Cobra Kai, the Karate Kid franchise returns to cinemas in the biggest and boldest adventure yet!

When kung fu prodigy Li Fong relocates to New York, he is challenged by a local champion, prompting him to enter the ultimate karate competition. Mentored by Mr Han (Jackie Chan) and the legendary Karate Kid, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio), Li learns to adopt both their unique styles as he prepares for an epic showdown.

Set three years after the events of Cobra Kai, the film honours its enduring legacy whilst championing a new challenger for Karate Kid title. It promises to maintain all the heart and humour of its predecessors, whilst also pushing the series forwards to daring new heights that deserve the big-screen treatment!

For its 50th anniversary, the Odyssey hosts Kubrick’s masterful reimagining of the 18th century, and a self-serving Irishman’s struggle to thrive in it.

As Britain and Ireland are convulsed by the Seven Years War, Redmond Barry’s life collapses through duels and deceit, and he winds up fighting in it on the enemy side. Luck and further deception in Europe wins him an aristocratic marriage – but climbing English high society is more than his pride and temper can handle. After A Clockwork Orange and a failed Napoleon biopic, Kubrick transformed Thackeray’s rambling novel into a world of unprecedented detail and beauty, reviving the light, compositions, and cruelty of the setting to a flawlessly immersive degree. His impeccably atmospheric and incisive vision also boasts a once-in-a-lifetime cast: from Love Story’s Ryan O’Neal to Reggie Perrin’s Leonard Rossiter.

Step into a night of music, romance, and celebration with André Rieu’s Waltz the Night Away! An all-new summer concert captured live from the stunning Vrijthof Square –  in his beloved hometown of Maastricht – is coming to cinemas!

Each night, the Vrijthof transforms into a grand ballroom as André and his Johann Strauss Orchestra invite audiences of all ages to waltz under the stars. With timeless melodies and beautiful waltzes, this concert will take you on a journey filled with joy, love, and heartfelt emotion.

Let yourself be swept away by one of the most romantic events of the year, bigger and more dazzling than ever, on the big screen. Bring someone special and create cherished memories as you Waltz the Night Away with André Rieu — only in cinemas this summer!

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie.

Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright?

Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.