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Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody is a powerful and triumphant celebration of the incomparable Whitney Houston.

From New Jersey choir girl to one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time, audiences are taken on an inspirational, poignant—and so emotional—journey through Houston’s trailblazing life and career, with show-stopping performances and a soundtrack of the icon’s most beloved hits as you’ve never heard them before. Don’t you wanna dance?

“Naomi Ackie is sensational” Metro ★★★★ 

Directed by Kasi Lemmons
With Naomi Ackie, Stanley Tucci, Tamara Tunie
2hrs 24 mins // US 2022

Otto (Tom Hanks) is a grumpy isolated widower with staunch principles, strict routines and a short fuse, who gives everyone in his neighbourhood a hard time as he watches over it like a hawk. Just as it seems like he’s finally given up on life, an unlikely and reluctant friendship develops with his new neighbours. Little by little, Otto undergoes a subtle transformation…but is he really capable of change?

Directed by Marc Forster
With Tom Hanks
2hrs 6 mins // US 2022

A brand-new take on the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical tells the story of an extraordinary girl, with a vivid imagination, who dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.

Telegraph ★★★★★  Guardian ★★★★  Independent ★★★★

Directed by Matthew Warchus
With Emma Thompson, Alisha Weir, Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham
1hr 57 mins // US/UK 2022

Tár, set in the international world of classical music, centres on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.

“Cate Blanchett is searing” Telegraph ★★★★★

“Cate Blanchett is perfect lead in delirious, sensual drama” Guardian ★★★★★

Empire ★★★★★ The i ★★★★★

*Also showing, Thu 23 February @ 6.45pm. Click here for details…

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Todd Field), Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Original Screenplay

Directed by Todd Field
With Cate Blanchett
2hrs 35 mins // US/GER 2022

Tár, set in the international world of classical music, centres on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.

“Cate Blanchett is perfect lead in delirious, sensual drama” Guardian ★★★★★

“Cate Blanchett is searing” Telegraph ★★★★★

Empire ★★★★★ The i ★★★★★

*This screening will feature an exclusive pre-screening performance from Cello soloist Bethany Morris. The performance will start at 6.45pm

*The film will start at 7.30pm

*Half-price red wine will also be on offer at the bar

Nominated for 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Todd Field), Best Actress (Cate Blanchett), Best Cinematography, Best Editing and Original Screenplay

Directed by Todd Field
With Cate Blanchett
2hrs 35 mins // US/GER 2022

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.

“Both leads are terrific in Martin McDonagh’s slippery, complex new comedy drama set in 1923, during the last throes of the Irish Civil War”  Telegraph ★★★★★

“Visually stunning and consistently witty while being unafraid to ask serious questions about life as it is, and should be, lived. It is proper art” Times ★★★★★

“Flawless tragicomedy of male friendship gone sour” Observer ★★★★★

Nominated for 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director (Martin McDonagh) and Best Actor (Colin Farrell)

Directed by Martin McDonagh
With Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Barry Keoghan, Kerry Condon
1hr 54 mins // UK/IRE 2022

This February half-term, everyone’s favourite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns.

For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet.

“A sharp, striking Shrek spin-off” Guardian ★★★★

“Kids will love it but really, this Antonio Banderas-led Shrek sequel is one for the millennials” Independent ★★★★

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Directed by Joel Crawford
Voiced by Antonio Banderas
1hrs 40 mins // US 2022

The true story of Mamie Till-Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

Guardian ★★★★ Empire ★★★★ Telegraph ★★★★

Directed by Chinonye Chukwu
With Danielle Deadwyler
2hrs 10 mins // US 2022

London, 1953. Civil servant William is a cog within the city’s bureaucracy. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty. However, when he receives a shattering medical diagnosis, he is forced to act to try and grasp fulfilment before it goes beyond reach.

“Bill Nighy tackles life and death in exquisitely sad drama” Guardian ★★★★★

“Bill Nighy is brilliant in this graceful, affecting Akira Kurosawa remake” Telegraph ★★★★★

“Bill Nighy is magnificent” Times ★★★★

Directed by Oliver Hermanus
With Bill Nighy
1hr 42 mins // UK 2022

From Academy Award®-winning director and writer Sam Mendes, Empire of Light is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 1980s, it follows Hilary (Olivia Colman) a cinema manager struggling with her mental health, and Stephen (Micheal Ward), a new employee who longs to escape this provincial town in which he faces daily adversity. Both Hilary and Stephen find a sense of belonging through their unlikely and tender relationship and come to experience the healing power of music, cinema, and community.

“Olivia Colman shines in Sam Mendes’ darkening hymn to cinema” Guardian ★★★★

Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Directed by Sam Mendes
With Olivia Colman, Michael Ward, Colin Firth
1hr 55 mins // UK 2022