Jazz on a Summer's Day (U) 1959 USA 1hr 26m Director: Bert Stern, Aram Avakian This documentary concert film captures the sounds and performances of some of the major jazz artists at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Unlike earlier jazz movies that had been filmed in smoky black and white, this is shot in vibrant

My Beautiful Laundrette 1985 UK 1hr 37m Dir: Stephen Frears Cast: Saeed Jeffrey, Daniel Day Lewis, Gordon Warneke, In a seedy corner of London, Omar, a young Pakistani, is given a run-down laundromat by his uncle, who hopes to turn it into a successful business. Soon after, Omar is attacked by a group of racist

The Truffle Hunters (12A) 2020 1hr 20min Dir: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw Documentary Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation. "This touching film about the truffle

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (15) 1994 Aus 1hr 44mins When drag queen Anthony (Hugo Weaving) agrees to take his act on the road, he invites fellow cross-dresser Adam (Guy Pearce) and transsexual Bernadette (Terence Stamp) to come along. In their colorful bus, named Priscilla, the three performers travel across the Australian

The Truffle Hunters (12A) 2020 1hr 20min Dir: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw Documentary Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years old, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle-which to date has resisted all of modern science's efforts at cultivation. "This touching film about the truffle

Summer of Soul Due to popular demand we are bringing back the soul to the cinema Summer of Soul (12A) 2021 1hr 58m           Director: Questlove This Sundance award-winner is an absolute joy, uncovering a treasure trove of pulse-racing, heart-stopping live music footage (originally captured by TV veteran Hal Tulchin) that has

The Courier (12A) UK 2020 1hr 52m Dir: Dominic Cooke Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Mirab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan THE COURIER is a British spy thriller, in which an unassuming businessman is tasked with carrying secret information out of Soviet Russia. In the shadow of the Cold War a letter from Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) an agency

The Courier (12A) UK 2020 1hr 52m Dir: Dominic Cooke Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Mirab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan THE COURIER is a British spy thriller, in which an unassuming businessman is tasked with carrying secret information out of Soviet Russia. In the shadow of the Cold War a letter from Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) an agency

Limbo (12) 2020 1hr 44m Director: Ben Sharrock. What a thoroughly wonderful sophomore feature from the British director Ben Sharrock – witty, poignant, marvellously composed and shot, moving and even weirdly gripping. Despite an elegant deadpan style established from the outset, Sharrock soon gets you to invest in the characters and care deeply about what

PIG (15) US 2021 1hr 32m Dir: Michael Sarnoski Cast: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin  Cage plays Robin, a man living in the Oregon wilderness with just his pig for company. The pair survive by selling the truffles they find. But when his pig is taken in the middle of the night, Robin is

PIG (15) US 2021 1hr 32m Dir: Michael Sarnoski Cast: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin  Cage plays Robin, a man living in the Oregon wilderness with just his pig for company. The pair survive by selling the truffles they find. But when his pig is taken in the middle of the night, Robin is

The Nest (15)  2020  US 1hr 47m Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new