Jordan Peele's debut film is a brilliantly inventive horror that skewers the insecurities and injustices of modern America.

Ever since the days of Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre it’s been a critical truism that the horror genre offers its own running commentary on the distressed state of modern America. With levels of onscreen carnage escalating over the years, however, it’s heartening to see a filmmaker opt not to deliver even more of the same, but instead return to the fantasy-inflected unease that made TV’s The Twilight Zone a pop-cultural barometer for the anxieties of an earlier American generation. Writer-director Jordan Peele’s remarkable debut feature is very much a product of our own Black Lives Matter era – provocatively so indeed – but one that purposefully uses Serling-esque surrealism as a fantastical container for a whole array of hot-button issues.

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Etero, a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, never wanted a husband. She cherishes her freedom as much as her cakes. But her choice to live alone is the cause of much gossip among her fellow villagers. Unexpectedly, she finds herself passionately falling for a man, and is suddenly faced with the decision to pursue a relationship or continue a life of independence. Etero must grapple with her feelings and decide how to find her own path to happiness.

Kinky Boots The Musical, filmed live at the Adelphi Theatre in the heart of London’s West End, is strutting onto the big screen! With songs from Grammy and Tony award winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, book by legendary Broadway playwright Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), and directionand choreography by Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray), the musical is based on the film written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth.

 Inspired by true events, this huge-hearted hit tells the story of two people with nothing in common or so they think. Charlie (Killian Donnelly) is a factory owner struggling to save his family business, and Lola (Matt Henry) is a fabulous entertainer with a wildly exciting idea. With a little compassion and a lot of understanding, this unexpected pair learn to embrace their differences and create a line of sturdy stilettos unlike any the world has ever seen!

But in the end, their most sensational achievement is their friendship. This unmissable musical theatre event celebrates a joyous story of British grit transforming into a high-heeled hit as it takes you from the factory floor of Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan!

42nd Street, the legendary Broadway musical theatre classic, is a ‘glorious’ (Express) and ‘utterly moreish extravaganza of glitz’ (Times).

Telling the story of Peggy Sawyer, a talented young performer with stars in her eyes who gets her big break on Broadway, this is the largest ever staging of the Tony Award-winning musical and it was filmed live at the magnificent Theatre Royal in the heart of London’s West End.

Starring national treasure Bonnie Langford as Dorothy Brock and featuring iconic songs 42nd Street, We’re In The Money and Lullaby of Broadway, this is pure magic on the big screen.

“Is it safe?” It’s the screech of the dentist’s drill, the frantic dash of a man trying to forget the death of his father, a victim of McCarthyism and who is confronted head-on with the death of his brother, murdered before his eyes. It’s a significant part of 20th century history, the ghosts of the Holocaust that continue to haunt subsequent generations. It’s Paris, it’s New York, dirty, violent, hostile. Seven years after Midnight Cowboy, Schlesinger reunites with Dustin Hoffman, the embodiment of the youthful, humanist, and anguished student. Opposite him, the great Laurence Olivier as a former  Auschwitz executioner, a cheap Mengele who comes to rekindle the embers of Nazism (Golden Globe for his performance), and in solid supporting roles, the wonderful Roy Scheider and William Devane. Adapted from William Goldman's eponymous novel, a paranoid thriller steeped in its time, and a pinnacle of the genre.

William Goldman's novel Marathon Man was published in 1975. He himself wrote the screenplay adaptation just a year later, commissioned by Robert Evans for Paramount. Evans hired British filmmaker John Schlesinger to direct, who had already directed Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy in 1969. A typical paranoid thriller of the 1970s, Marathon Man is distinguished by its edgy and realistic style, its chaotic atmosphere reflecting the violence and moral decay of the era, and its geopolitical ramifications where the traumas of 20th century American and European history, particularly the ghosts of Nazism, loom large. Dr. Szell, played by Laurence Olivier, is inspired by Dr. Mengele, the SS chief physician of the Auschwitz extermination camp, who went into hiding in South America after the war. While Conrad L. Hall handled the film's cinematography, Marathon Man also marks one of the very first uses of the Steadicam in a feature film by its creator, Garrett Brown. The use of the technique is particularly striking in the sequences where Dustin Hoffman runs around the Central Park Reservoir (notably the opening scene, which encapsulates all the film's central themes). And in the scene where Szell wanders through a teeming Manhattan, recognised by an elderly Jewish woman who accosts him and tries to have him arrested. Here, the Steadicam contributes to creating an ethereal, ghostly atmosphere within the gritty New York and polluted Paris of the 1970s.