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Where Dragons Live

Where Dragons Live (PG)

Wednesday 16 Jul 20252:00pm
It began with one dragon in a postcard-sized painting auctioned in 1966 for £220,000. Newlyweds Jane and Oliver Impey use the proceeds to purchase crumbling Cumnor Place in Oxfordshire, which they carefully restore over the years while growing their young family. The house—surrounded by stone walls, a lawn of fairy rings, and a pond made seemingly of dragon’s blood—and its rooms of animal bones, jarred reptiles, and scores of dragons, feels both magical and frightening to the Impey children, Edward, Oliver, Matthew, and Harriet. Director Suzanne Raes’s visually sumptuous film finds the foursome back at Cumnor to clear the dusty attics, desks, and cupboards as they prepare the house for sale. Their deceased parents’ presence looms large, coaxing a cascade of layered memories from each sibling. Raes’s emotionally resonant score and lush sound design thoughtfully accentuate the film, as pristine home movies, and the objects themselves, illustrate their reflections. A welcome catharsis blooms as they prepare to let go.
28 Years Later

28 Years Later (15)

Wednesday 16 Jul 20254:00pm

It’s been almost three decades since the rage virus escaped a biological weapons laboratory, and now, still in a ruthlessly enforced quarantine, some have found ways to exist amidst the infected. 


One such group of survivors lives on a small island connected to the mainland by a single, heavily defended causeway.


But when one of the group leaves the island on a mission into the dark heart of the mainland, he discovers secrets, wonders, and horrors that have mutated not only the infected but other survivors as well.


Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle and Academy Award-nominated writer Alex Garland reunite for 28 Years Later, a terrifying new story set in the world created by 28 Days Later. 

F1

F1 (15)

Wednesday 16 Jul 20257:00pm
Thursday 17 Jul 20253:00pm7:00pm
From the team behind Top Gun: Maverick comes the high octane, action-packed feature film F1® The Movie, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Joseph Kosinski.

Dubbed “the greatest that never was”, Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula 1’s most promising phenom of the 1990s until he spectacularly crashed and burned. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a struggling F1 team that is on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to come back to Formula 1 for one last shot at saving the team and being the best in the world. He'll drive alongside Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris), the team's hotshot rookie intent on setting his own accelerated pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny's past catches up with him and he finds that in F1, your teammate is your fiercest competition-and the road to redemption is not something you can travel alone. F1 The Movie also stars Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies and Kim Bodnia, and has been thrillingly shot during actual Grand Prix weekends as the team competes against the titans of the sport. The film is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Kosinski, famed Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton, Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner and Chad Oman.
Fire Over Shingle Street + Q&A

Fire Over Shingle Street + Q&A (12A)

Friday 18 Jul 20252:00pm4:15pm
Monday 21 Jul 20258:00pm

Fire Over Shingle Street—Fact, Fiction, or Propaganda?


A new documentary by Suffolk-based filmmaker Tim Curtis (Life on the Deben, Stanley's War) delves into one of Britain’s most persistent Second World War mysteries, asking: Has this enduring enigma been fully accounted for, or are there still unanswered questions?


For decades the Shingle Street ‘Mystery’ has divided the views of locals, journalists and historians alike with incredible and unexplained stories of the sea being set on fire, dead soldiers bodies on the beach and strange happenings in the night.


Was this remote stretch of Suffolk’s coast the site of a German invasion attempt? Did British forces set fire to the sea with petroleum weapons to repel the enemy? Or could it have been part of an elaborate wartime deception, designed to maintain national morale?


The film examines how the Suffolk coast was a hub of military secrecy—home to radar development and experimental weapons testing. Did these classified operations (with some still under wraps) combined with wartime propaganda help create the perfect conditions for rumours to fuel a wartime mystery?


The Shingle Street ‘Mystery’ gained renewed attention in the 1990s when the East Anglian Daily Times was contacted by an ‘MOD Whistleblower’ claiming to have a file—soon to be destroyed—detailing a horrific accident in which British soldiers had been killed in a training exercise.


The ensuing media frenzy led to the early release of classified documents from the National Archives at Kew. However, the files revealed little, sparking claims of a cover-up.


This gripping documentary takes viewers deep into Suffolk’s wartime history, and attempts to unravel a mystery that refuses to fade.


The film is followed by a recorded discussion and Q&A that took place at The Riverside on 2nd May with ‘Bodies on the Beach’ and ‘Burn the Sea’ author James Hayward, former East Anglian Daily Times Reporter, Henry Creagh, the film's director, Tim Curtis, and our manager, Neil.



Jurassic World: Rebirth

Jurassic World: Rebirth (12A)

Friday 18 Jul 20257:00pm
Saturday 19 Jul 20257:30pm
Monday 21 Jul 20255:00pm
Tuesday 22 Jul 20257:30pm

Anchored by iconic action superstar Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and two-time Oscar® winner Mahershala Ali, this action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind.


Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.


Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.

How To Train Your Dragon

How To Train Your Dragon (PG)

Saturday 19 Jul 20251:30pm4:30pm
Sunday 20 Jul 20253:00pm
Monday 21 Jul 20252:00pm
Tuesday 22 Jul 20251:30pm4:30pm

A stunning live-action reimagining of the film that launched the beloved franchise.


On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart. The inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast, Hiccup defies centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society. With the fierce and ambitious Astrid and the village’s quirky blacksmith Gobber by his side, Hiccup confronts a world torn by fear and misunderstanding. As an ancient threat emerges, endangering both Vikings and dragons, Hiccup’s friendship with Toothless becomes the key to forging a new future. Together, they must navigate the delicate path toward peace, soaring beyond the boundaries of their worlds and redefining what it means to be a hero and a leader.

The River

The River (U)

Sunday 20 Jul 20256:00pm

After shooting multiple films in Hollywood, the acclaimed French director Jean Renoir set off to India to shoot his first colour film. While searching for locations in Calcutta, Renoir befriended a young Satyajit Ray, who would accompany him on his scouting expeditions. Lovingly shot by Jean’s nephew, DP Claude Renoir, the vibrant Technicolor underscores the turbulent emotions of the young women at the centre of the story, as they begin to make the delicate transition from childhood to adulthood. Adapted from Rumer Godden’s autobiographical novel, THE RIVER deals with many of Renoir's favourite themes: love and death, decay and renewal, all seen through the prism of daily life.

Enriched by Renoir’s subtle understanding and appreciation for India and its people, The River gracefully explores the fragile connections between transitory emotions and everlasting creation.