The cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace.

The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future in this final film in the series.

We are delighted to be hosting a very special event around the subject of music in film. This event will feature three people from the film and music industry discussing the role of music in film, what it means to be a Music Supervisor, deal with clearing music so it can appear in a film and the role of a music representative who looks after artists and labels and how they get their music into film and television productions. The discussion will be followed by a screening of The Who’s Quadrophenia.

Kirsten Lane is a Music Supervisor. She is founder of Right Music Ltd which has been supervising music for films and TV for over 25 years. She started out at PolyGram Records, then worked for PolyGram Films and started up the sync department at Sony/ATV Music Publishing before setting up Right Music Ltd in 2001. She loves working with Directors, Writers and Producers to get the right music to tell their story to its maximum effect. She's worked on over 100 films across all genres including the films of Edgar Wright (from Shaun of the Dead through Baby Driver to the soon to be released The Running Man), Yesterday, the Bridget Jones films, the upcoming I Swear, Apex and Blood On Snow, as well as classics such as Legend, About Time, This is England, Love Actually and Saltburn - Murder on the Dancefloor anyone?

Michelle Stoddart has worked in the music industry for over 30 years – from working in a record store in Canada at 15, heading up the synch team at Kobalt Music; to founding Stoddart Music in 2018. She always knew that music was her dream job! Michelle and her partner John run Stoddart Music, which represents recording artists, songwriters, labels and publishers - placing their work in adverts, film, television, trailers and games. Music from artists they represent has soundtracked Black Mirror, Slow Horses, Sweetpea, Gangs of London, Rivals, One Day, Destination X, Mobland, Long Way Home, The Crown and also used in adverts for brands such as Apple, Samsung, Amazon, Google, O2, Vodafone, John Lewis, Sky, and many more.

Ian Neil - Ian's extensive knowledge and experience of music in media travels over 30 years. His expertise in researching tracks and handling music clearances has meant working with many of the top UK film directors and producers. Before becoming an independent Film Music Supervisor Ian built his strong reputation through his work as Head of Film and TV for Polygram Records (aka Universal) followed by then Director of Synch at Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. Then ultimately at Sony Music as Director where he oversaw further success in the world of advertising, TV, films and computer games. Ian’s film & TV work includes Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Kick Ass 1 & 2, Kingsman 1 & 2.  Music biopics include Control, Nowhere Boy, Bob Marley, Rocketman, Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll. TV shows include The Gentleman, Brassic, Pistol, Red Riding Trilogy, The Ipcress Files & Upcoming The Young Sherlock Holmes. Ian has exec'd and produced an Ian Dury Biopic and the documentaries Who Killed the KLF, One Hit Wonder (James Blunt) and currently completing Getting Away With It (James).

FILM

The Who’s classic rock opera Quadrophenia was the basis for this invigorating coming-of-age movie and depiction of the defiant, drug-fueled mod subculture of early 1960s London. Our antihero is Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a teenager dissatisfied with family, work, and love. He spends his time knocking around with his clothes-obsessed, pill-popping, scooter-driving fellow mods, a group whose antipathy for the motorcycle-riding rockers leads to a climactic riot in Brighton. Director Franc Roddam’s rough-edged film is a quintessential chronicle of youthful rebellion and turmoil, with Pete Townshend’s brilliant songs (including “I’ve Had Enough,” “5:15,” and “Love Reign O’er Me”) providing emotional support, and featuring Sting and Ray Winstone in early roles.

SPINAL TAP is back! After a 15-year hiatus, David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls are drawn back together for one last concert.

Documentary filmmaker Marty DiBergi returns to explore what the band members have been up to and immortalize the concert reunion.

The film blends the same musical mayhem and satire that made the original a cult classic and features some fantastic rock cameos in the process.

Will this concert be their triumphant return, or just another Stonehenge-sized catastrophe?

CONTAINS A SEQUENCE OF FLASHING LIGHTS WHICH MIGHT AFFECT CUSTOMERS WHO ARE SUSCEPTIBLE TO PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY

Some doors bring you to your past. Some doors lead you to your future. And some doors change everything. Sarah (Margot Robbie) and David (Colin Farrell) are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on A Big Bold Beautiful Journey – a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live important moments from their respective pasts, illuminating how they got to where they are in the present…and possibly getting a chance to alter their futures.

The latest spellbinding wonder from introspective filmmaking great Koganada (Columbus, After Yang), this mind-expanding romantic journey is a cinematic odyssey not to miss.

Uncover a gripping tale of alien infiltration and Cold War paranoia in Hammer’s chilling follow-up to their sci-fi breakthrough.

Created by Nigel Kneale and directed by Val Guest, Quatermass 2 is presented for the first time ever in stunning 4K, newly restored from original film elements.

When a series of meteorite showers fall near a top-secret government facility, Professor Bernard Quatermass is drawn into a mystery with terrifying implications.

What begins as a scientific inquiry soon reveals a covert alien infiltration, spreading silently beneath the surface of official research. As the conspiracy unravels, Quatermass races against time to expose the truth—before an otherworldly force changes humanity forever.

Blending atmospheric suspense, science fiction, and Cold War-era unease, Quatermass 2 stands as a landmark in British genre cinema.

The son of The Rocky Horror Picture Show creator Richard O’Brien charts the journey of the sing-along cultural phenomenon.

Much like its protagonists, Brad and Janet, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has had a fantastical and surreal journey into the spotlight. It started life in an 85-seat studio space at London’s Royal Court Theatre, before being adapted into a breakout cult movie that would become a midnight screening favourite, with a near-fanatical fanbase and a host of rituals, fanzines and spin-off events. Linus O’Brien’s hugely entertaining directorial debut traces Rocky Horror’s journey across the decades, highlighting why it has such staying power. Featuring interviews with creator Richard O’Brien, one of the film’s stars, Tim Curry, and a host of artists, critics and fans, including Jack Black and Trixie Mattell, Strange Journey is a joyous testament to this 50-year-old classic.

With a screenplay written by Horace Ové and fellow Trinidadian author Sam Selvon, Pressure follows a Black family in west London; from the parents who came from Trinidad as part of the Windrush generation with their first son, now part of the Black Power Movement, to their younger British-born son Tony (Herbert Norville), who is trying to find his place between the two cultures. As he leaves school and encounters prejudice on individual and institutional levels, Tony struggles to find acceptance in the country he grew up in yet has no Caribbean home he can dream of returning to. Unemployed and caught between an aspirational mother and a radical older brother, he drifts away from school friends and towards Black Power politics.

A groundbreaking and authentic exploration of the anxieties of an emerging second-generation of West Indians in Britain, Pressure (1975) is a significant title in the history of British Cinema, and remains as relevant now, 50 years on, as it ever was — with its themes of police corruption, discrimination and employment on an individual and institutional level.

Screening for Black History Month

This warm and whimsical British satire is like a window on a bygone era. The first colour comedy from the famous Ealing Studios, it finds residents of a remote English village up in arms when they're told their train line is being shut down. In an attempt to save the service, the local vicar and squire devise a scheme for the villagers to run it themselves. The trouble is, the area bus company supports the closure and decides to sabotage their efforts - prompting the community to resurrect a vintage engine from the local museum.

Screening to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the British Railways.

Join us for this rare screening and opportunity to delve into Douglas Sirk's masterful melodrama There's Always Tomorrow that explores the suffocating confines of middle-class domesticity.

Centered on Fred MacMurray’s deeply poignant portrayal of a husband and father who reconnects with an old flame (Barbara Stanwyck), the film examines the fleeting allure of escape and the crushing pull of societal expectations. This film’s richly detailed mise-en-scène as Sirk’s films elevate everyday objects—lamps, teacups, and furniture—to silent witnesses of emotional turmoil, amplifying the tension between characters and their environments.

The domestic items in There’s Always Tomorrow become more than mere set dressing; it serves as a narrative agent, embodying the constraints of suburban life and the unspoken desires simmering beneath its surface.

Screening as part of our short Melodrama season in collaboration with the British Film Institute

Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, Rolando Villazón—the tenor who has embarked on a brilliant second career as a director—retains the opera’s original setting in the Swiss Alps but uses its somnambulant plot to explore the emotional and psychological valleys of the mind. Tenor Xabier Anduaga returns after his acclaimed 2023 Met debut in L’Elisir d’Amore, co-starring as Amina’s fiancé Elvino, alongside soprano Sydney Mancasola as her rival, Lisa, and bass Alexander Vinogradov as Count Rodolfo. Riccardo Frizza takes the podium for one of opera’s most ravishing works.

Cast: 

Amina NADINE SIERRA

Lisa SYDNEY MANCASOLA

Elvino XABIER ANDUAGA

Rodolfo ALEXANDER VINOGRADOV

Creatives:

Music VINCENZO BELLINI

Conductor RICCARDO FRIZZA

Director ROLANDO VILLAZÓN

Set Designer JOHANNES LEIACKER

Costumer Designer BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL

Lighting Designer DONALD HOLDER

Projection Designer RENAUD RUBIANO

Choreographer LEAH HAUSMAN

Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary moral classic.

Vivie Warren is a woman ahead of her time. Her mother, however, is a product of that old patriarchal order. Exploiting it has earned Mrs. Warren a fortune – but at what cost?

Filmed live from the West End, this new production reunites Staunton with director Dominic Cooke (Follies, Good), exploring the clash between morality and independence, traditions and progress.

Funny, heartfelt and emphatically moving, I Swear dramatises the true story of Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson and his quest to live normally in a world that insisted on calling him different.

Diagnosed aged 15, John’s Tourette’s made him the target of huge misunderstanding in 1980s Britain, and he faced hostility, bullying and occasionally outright violence for much of his youth. Aged 16, he was the subject of BBC TV documentary John’s Not Mad (a Q.E.D. episode that’s still ranked one of the 50 best British docs in national polls) and subsequently became one of the UK’s most passionate advocates for greater awareness and acceptance of Tourette’s, for which work he received an MBE in 2019.

An unmissable big-screen adventure for little ones with an hour-long cinema experience, featuring Disney’s Mickey Mouse and friends, Marvel’s Spidey and Iron Man, plus SuperKitties, Bluey and more! Whether it’s their first time in the cinema, or they regularly enjoy the movies, it’s something you can enjoy together as a family, and you’re encouraged to join in! DISNEY JUNIOR CINEMA CLUB 2025 brings together songs, dancing, interactive games, and episodes for your pre-schoolers.

All tickets £5.00

A widowed fisherwoman (Emma Thompson), traveling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl (Laurel Marsden). Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young girl's only hope.

The Dead of Winter is a merciless kidnap thriller, set in the epic snowbound wilderness of northern Minnesota, with a beautiful love story at its heart.

A special 50th Anniversary screening of the acclaimed classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Considered by critics and audiences to be one of the greatest films ever made and winner of five major Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.

Adapted from Ken Kesey’s novel, the film centres on Randle McMurphy (Nicholson), a convict who simulates mental illness in the hope that a transfer to psychiatric hospital might ensure his early release. But he hasn’t bargained for the rigid regimen of Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher, also superb), who dislikes his disruptive — though he’d say liberating — effect on the ward.

Inspired casting (Danny DeVito, Brad Dourif and Christopher Lloyd are among the patients) and Forman’s naturalistic direction lend authenticity to the proceedings, so that the film succeeds both as anti-authoritarian parable and as an affecting reminder of the psychiatric practices of the past.

"Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher are worthy adversaries in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with Miloš Forman's more grounded and morally ambiguous approach to Ken Kesey's surrealistic novel yielding a film of outsized power." - Rotten Tomatoes

Saturated with expressionist colours and punctuated by unforgettable moments of terror, Dario Argento's Suspiria is the quintessential example of 'giallo' horror from a master of the craft.

Ballet student Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) arrives at a prestigious dance academy in Freiburg, a school plagued by gruesome and supernatural happenings.

Soon, students begin to die in horrific circumstances – is Suzy next, and can she uncover the academy’s sinister secret before it’s too late?

Screening as part of our Around the World in Technicolor Season