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Wuthering Heights

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Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi front a bold, vivid new take on Emily Brontë’s timelessly stormy romance. In the late 18th century, Catherine Earnshaw finds warmth growing up on the Yorkshire moors through her friend, the mysterious outcast Heathcliff, but they are soon torn apart when a well-heeled family takes her in. Heathcliff’s attachment, however, will not die easily – and as time and clas...

Project Hail Mary

Showing from Sat 2 May

He’s on a mission to save the Earth with no idea how he got there. Astronaut Dr. Ryland Grace finds himself aboard the Hail Mary, a spacecraft dispatched on a last-chance mission to save Earth from interstellar catastrophe. Based on the bestselling novel by Andy Weir, the film shares a similar edutainment-meets-space-adventure tone to his previous work, The Martian. But here, the stakes are far...

Glenrothan

Showing from Sat 2 May

Award-winning actor Brian Cox makes his feature directorial debut with this touching story of estranged family and the power of forgiveness. After thirty five years living abroad in the United States, Donal (Alan Cumming) returns home to the Scottish Highlands to reunite with his brother Sandy (Brian Cox). A story brimming with understanding and healing, set against the backdrop of the brothers...

Akira

Showing from Sun 3 May

31 years after an atomic bomb is dropped on Tokyo, a bike gang emerges in the newly built city to battle the corrupt government and its experiments. This classic Japanese post-apocalyptic anime redefined the cyberpunk genre and aesthetics. A landmark piece of 80s pop culture, it paved the way for Japanese animation’s rapid impact across global entertainment. Comparable to the influence of Blade...

California $chemin'

Showing from Sun 3 May

James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with this outrageously funny biographical film filled with ambition and identity-theft, set against the high-pressure world of hip hop. Silibil N’ Brains are a rap pairing from Dundee, who masquerade as an American duo in order to be taken seriously by the music industry. But as their plan explodes into buzzy success, record deals and media attention, ho...

The Stranger (L'Etranger)

Showing from Tue 5 May

François Ozon’s sterling adaptation of Albert Camus’ landmark novel is a gripping account of human absurdity in 1930s French-colonised Algeria. It is a hot summer day when Meursault learns about his mother’s passing. What follows is a series of events leading to a tragedy that questions the intentions and moral standing of the protagonist. Shot with a muted palette and featuring understated per...

Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable

Showing from Thu 7 May

Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, this unmissable new documentary explores Turner and Constable’s intertwined lives and legacies alongside the groundbreaking Tate exhibition. Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around th...

Exhibition on Screen: Turner & Constable

The Drama

Showing from Fri 8 May

Robert Pattinson learns fiancée Zendaya’s darkest secret in A24’s The Drama. The Drama centers on Emma Harwood (Zendaya), who works at a publishing house, and British museum director Charlie Thompson (Pattinson). The happily engaged couple’s relationship is pushed to the brink after an unexpected revelation amid their wedding week. A Rom-Com like no other. Written and directed by Kristoffer ...

Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour (2D)

Showing from Fri 8 May

During a show at Co-op Live in Manchester in July 2025, Billie Eilish announced that the concert was being filmed for a secret project with Avatar filmmaker James Cameron. That project became a concert film documenting Eilish’s seventh headline concert tour, accompanying the release of her third album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. The film promises to ‘reinvent the concert experience’, allowing audien...

Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft Tour (2D)

Hard of Hearing: The Magic Faraway Tree

Showing from Sat 9 May

Join us this Deaf Awareness Week for a special open captioned screening of The Magic Faraway Tree, a heartwarming adventure for all ages. This beloved story brings to life a world of imagination, friendship, and discovery, following a group of children who stumble upon an extraordinary tree filled with magical lands and curious characters. Our open captioned screening ensures that Deaf and hard...

Mother's Pride

Showing from Sun 10 May

Martin Clunes balances his side turn in Wuthering Heights this month with another, very different rural English drama: an amiable West Country story of family brought together by real-ale-making. After years away, young Cal returns to his Somerset village and struggles to reconnect with his family, as their small pub threatens to disappear without large and immediate funds. To survive, they dec...

Funny Girl

Showing from Sun 10 May

Funny Girl arrives on the big screen as part of a growing celebration of stage musicals captured for cinema audiences. This beloved production brings the magic, spectacle and emotion of live theatre beyond the auditorium, allowing viewers everywhere to experience a landmark musical in a whole new way. Featuring Jule Styne and Bob Merrill’s iconic score, an updated book by Harvey Fierstein and d...

La Grazia

Showing from Mon 11 May

A thought-provoking Italian drama written, directed and produced by Paolo Sorrentino, following the complex moral crises of a widowed Catholic president. Italian president Mariano De Santis is a devout Catholic and an experienced legal scholar; when faced with a host of problematic decisions - including signing off on a bill legalising euthanasia in Italy, and pardoning a woman who killed her a...

Midwinter Break

Showing from Tue 12 May

A quietly powerful reflection on faith, love, and the endurance of long partnership, Midwinter Break follows a retired couple as they embark on a transformative trip to Amsterdam. Directed with remarkable control by theatre stalwart Polly Findlay in her film debut, and adapted by Bernard MacLaverty and Nick Payne from MacLaverty’s own acclaimed novel. The film unites Lesley Manville and Ciar...

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man

Showing from Tue 12 May

By order of the Peaky Blinders: the self-exiled king (Cillian Murphy) shall face his most explosive reckoning yet in this epic feature, from series creator Steven Knight. Four years after we said goodbye to the Shelby clan in the series finale of Peaky Blinders, Tommy Shelby and his crew of Birmingham mobsters are returning in a new feature film. Joining the line up of familiar faces are Rebecc...

Crime 101

Showing from Thu 14 May

A stylish new Hollywood-set thriller from director Bart Layton (American Animals, The Imposter), who adapts Don Winslow’s acclaimed novella. Set against the sun-bleached grit of Los Angeles, Crime 101 weaves the tale of an elusive jewel thief (Chris Hemsworth) whose string of heists along the 101 freeway have mystified police. When he eyes the score of a lifetime, his path crosses that of a dis...

Song Sung Blue

Showing from Fri 15 May

Like the warmth of a familiar melody, there’s a quiet electricity humming beneath its surface, guiding every beat of this tender tale. Based on a true story, the film follows Lightning & Thunder, two tribute performers whose devotion to the songs of Neil Diamond becomes both their anchor and their compass. As they navigate late-blooming romance, unexpected reinvention, and the awkward grace of se...

The Magic Faraway Tree

Showing from Sat 16 May

Enid Blyton’s popular series of novels takes on new life in this spectacular, flashy adaptation. When Polly and Tim Thompson (Claire Foy and Andrew Garfield) are forced to move with their children to the remote countryside, they discover something wonderful: a magical tree which transports them to astonishing new lands. Enid Blyton’s writing is reimagined for the big screen, filled with eccentr...

NT Live: All My Sons

Showing from Sun 17 May

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge). One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, a...

Kokuho

Showing from Mon 18 May

A record-breaking success at the Japanese box office, Lee Sang-il’s luxuriant yet nuanced epic follows a kabuki actor’s struggle to master his profession. In 1960s Nagasaki, yakuza heir Kikuo finds his world destroyed in a power struggle, and a new one when star performer Hanjiro apprentices him. From a young age, he grows to love and refine his art, hoping to reach kokuho (“National Treasure”) s...

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