For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers — in Elio, the universe calls back!

The cosmic misadventure introduces Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination and a huge alien obsession. So, when he’s beamed up to the Communiverse, an interplanetary organization with representatives from galaxies far and wide, Elio’s all in for the epic undertaking. Mistakenly identified as Earth’s leader, Elio must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions, and somehow discover who and where he is truly meant to be.

Julianne Moore learns how far a mother will go to save her troubled daughter, in this edge-of-your-seat thriller also starring Sydney Sweeney.

Already struggling to make peace with each other, Claire and Kate's relationship is tested when she shows up hysterical and covered in someone else's blood.

As Kate pieces together the shocking truth of what happened, she learns just how far she will go for her daughter, in this gripping tale of love, sacrifice and survival from BAFTA-winning director Michael Pearce (Beast) and Emmy-nominated writer Brad Ingelsby (Mare of Eastown).

Experience the sci-fi classic that put Hammer on the map: The Quatermass Xperiment returns to cinemas in a new 4K restoration for its 70th anniversary.

A space expedition takes a nightmarish turn when an astronaut crash-lands on Earth – only to begin mutating into something horrifyingly inhuman. As his transformation accelerates – and authorities race to understand the catastrophe unfolding before them – the astronaut’s struggle to contain violent urges proves increasingly futile.

Directed by Val Guest and based on Nigel Kneale’s cult television serial from 1953, The Quatermass Xperiment is an iconic piece of British genre cinema history.

Craig Waterman (Tim Robinson), a marketing executive in the fictional city of Clovis, is preparing to sell his family home alongside his wife, Tami (Kate Mara). Recently recovered from cancer, Tami is frustrated with Craig's emotional unavailability and his lack of interest in her flower business and has rekindled a relationship with her ex-boyfriend Devon (Josh Segarra), leaving Craig increasingly adrift. One evening, while spending time with their son Steven (Jack Dylan Grazer), Craig receives a misdelivered package and walks it over to its intended recipient: Austin Carmichael (Paul Rudd), a quirky local meteorologist...

Welcome to Vietnam – a Hieronymus Bosch-like world where ideal surfing conditions can be found at the centre of a war zone, TV crews capture death as entertainment, Playboy bunnies leap in and out of helicopters, and where Marlon Brando’s deranged Colonel Kurtz quotes T.S. Eliot. Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory vision of Hell on Earth lures us into its insanity through groundbreaking sound design and an audacious level of ambition. War has never been presented quite so grotesquely, or spectacularly, in cinema.

Screening on Thursday 7th August at 7:30pm is the documentary “Hearts of Darkness” on the making of “Apocalypse Now”

The ultimate documentary behind one of the most enduring classics of the big screen, capturing the madness and brilliance behind one of the best films ever made and the era it encapsulates.

In the late 1970s, celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola and his cast, crew and family ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, Apocalypse Now. But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish, life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film's narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed.

The director of Shrek the Third and Puss 'n' Boots helms this movie based on the blue, beloved cartoon critters.

When Papa Smurf (John Goodman) is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette (Rihanna) leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.

Two years after M3GAN, a marvel of artificial intelligence, went rogue and embarked on a murderous (and impeccably choreographed) rampage and was subsequently destroyed, M3GAN’s creator Gemma (Allison Williams) has become a high-profile author and advocate for government oversight of A.I. Meanwhile, Gemma’s niece Cady (Violet McGraw), now 14, has become a teenager, rebelling against Gemma’s overprotective rules.

Unbeknownst to them, the underlying tech for M3GAN has been stolen and misused by a powerful defense contractor to create a military-grade weapon known as Amelia (Ivanna Sakhno; Ahsoka, Pacific Rim: Uprising), the ultimate killer infiltration spy.

Court composer Salieri is both tortured and awed by Mozart’s transcendent musical genius in Peter Shaffer and Miloš Forman’s exuberant and gloriously original film. Shaffer’s hit 1979 play had been considered unfilmable by some, but with Shaffer himself adapting it alongside Forman, the result was an Oscar-winning triumph. Dramatising the major events of the last decade of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 35 years, the film recounts the poisonous resentment felt by self-proclaimed ‘patron saint of mediocrity’ Antonio Salieri (a powerhouse Oscar-winning performance by Abraham) towards Hulce’s young genius, with Salieri increasingly tormented as his work becomes overshadowed by Mozart’s undeniable brilliance.

After completing a prison sentence, single mother Molly expects to be reunited with her two young children. However, during her incarceration her own mother handed the children over to social services. Now Molly finds herself plunged into a nightmare of broken systems that prevent her from finding a home and regaining custody of her family. The narrative feature debut of Daisy-May Hudson is a powerful and compassionate drama in the tradition of Ken Loach, albeit shot through a distinctly female lens. It highlights how inadequate systems of support can create cycles of injustice, but also focuses on the joy and strength that sisterhood can provide, even in the darkest times. Posy Sterling is a revelation as Molly, delivering an unforgettable performance that will both break your heart and mend it.

Agathe, hopelessly clumsy yet charming, and full of contradictions, dreams of experiencing love akin to a Jane Austen novel.

Instead she finds herself stuck in desperate singlehood, spending her days working in the legendary British bookshop, Shakespeare & Co in Paris, rather than pursuing her own ambitions of becoming a novelist. But when an unexpected invitation to the Jane Austen Writers' Residency in England lands in her lap, Agathe is in for an eye-opening and life-changing experience. Encouraged to confront her insecurities and explore her true romantic, sexual and creative nature, in part thanks to her eccentric co-residents, Agathe realises it’s time to stop wasting her sentimental life and take control - over both her writing aspirations, and her very own love story.

Keria, who has Indigenous Penan heritage on her mother’s side, lives in Borneo with her father, who works on a palm oil plantation. News that the family home is under threat from deforestation only makes her more passionate about her environment, especially when she meets Oshi, an orphaned orangutan with whom she uncovers the joys and dangers of this threatened world.

Screened in the English dubbed version, no subtitles

What do you do when you’re in your 50s, lose all your worldly possessions and receive a devastating medical diagnosis? Potentially, you decide to walk the South West Coast Path – stretching from Minehead in Somerset through north Devon, Cornwall and south Devon to Poole in Dorset – a 630-mile trek equivalent to climbing Mount Everest four times.

Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs star in Tony Award-winning theatre director Marianne Elliott’s film debut as Raynor and Moth Winn, the couple who decided to travel the south west’s famously gorgeous rugged coastline in search of solace after a combination of crises in their lives, as captured in Raynor’s prize-winning memoir of the same name. Though emotionally and physically challenging, the journey also proves exhilarating and liberating, giving Raynor and Moth a renewed vitality and a deeper connection to both the natural world and each other. Featuring understated performances from Anderson and Isaacs and immersive cinematography and sound design, The Salt Path is an affecting, rewarding portrait of mid-life loss and rebirth.

Kurosawa’s late masterpiece adapts Shakespeare’s King Lear as a thrilling tale set in feudal Japan.

Drawing heavily on Shakespeare's King Lear and legends surrounding the 16th-century feudal lord Môri Motonari, Kurosawa took inspiration from the success of Kagemusha to broaden his canvass. Like Throne of Blood, at its heart Ran is a tale of family strife. But in its execution, particularly the stunning exterior sequences and its use of colour - as audacious as Teinosuke Kinugasa's 1953 classic Gate of Hell - the film plays out on an epic scale.

Who’s badder than The Bad Guys? The Bad Girls.

In the new chapter from DreamWorks Animation’s acclaimed 2022 action-comedy hit about a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws, The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do “one last job” by an all-female squad of criminals.

Based on the New York Times best-selling book series by Aaron Blabey, The Bad Guys 2 reunites the film’s all-star cast and filmmakers.

Only one man has the particular set of skills... to lead Police Squad and save the world!

Lt. Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) follows in his father's footsteps in THE NAKED GUN, directed by Akiva Schaffer (Saturday Night Live, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping) and from producer Seth MacFarlane (Ted, Family Guy).

Tickets on sale from 11th July

"Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark ...and they never came back."

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

The Ladykillers (1955), directed by Alexander Mackendrick, starring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers and Danny Green as the oddball robbery gang, and Katie Johnson as their nemesis, Mrs. Wilberforce.

The Ladykillers is the last of the great Ealing comedies. Alec Guinness (channelling Alistair Sim or Kenneth Tynan – or both!) leads a group of crooks who, pretending to be classical musicians, rent a room from an old lady, played by Katie Johnson, in order to plan their heist. Johnson, 76 at the time, had had a lengthy career on stage and screen without being recognised. As a result of her role, she earned a British Film Academy award for best British actress. This was the summit of her career – she died two years later after making one more film. At the other end of the scale, this was Peter Sellers’s first leading role – the start of a long career in English and later Hollywood comedy films.

Screening as part of our Around the World in Technicolor Season

41st ANNIVERSARY RESTORATION!

In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.

Directed by Rob Reiner and starring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Bruno Kirby, THIS IS SPINAL TAP is regarded as one of the greatest 'mockumentaries' of all time.

Get ready for the sequel SPINAL TAP II: THE END CONTINUES coming to The Riverside very soon.