SESSION TIMES
Vice
content may disturb, M, Offensive Language, Violence
- 8:00 pm
The Favorite
content may disturb, Offensive Language, R13, sexual material
Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots. As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen’s companion. Their burgeoning friendship gives her a chance to fulfil her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
Starring: Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Hoult, Emma Stone, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Joe Alwyn
- 12:00 pm
- 5:00 pm
Sink or Swim
Offensive Language, PG, Sexual References
A group of 40-something guys, all on the verge of a mid-life crisis, decide to form their local pool’s first every synchronized swimming team – for men. Braving the skepticism and ridicule of those around them, and trained by a fallen champion trying to pull herself together, the group set out on an unlikely adventure, and on the way will rediscover a little self-esteem and a lot about themselves and each other.
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Mathieu Amalric, Benoît Poelvoorde, Virginie Efira, Marina Foïs, Philippe Katerine, Jean-Hughes Anglade
- 8:00 pm
Ralph Breaks the Internet
PG, Violence
“Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2” leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet—which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Silverman) must risk it all by traveling to the world wide web in search of a replacement part to save Vanellope’s video game, Sugar Rush.
Starring Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Idina Menzel, Taraji P. Henson, Sarah Silverman, Mandy Moore, Kristen Bell, Ed O’Neill, Auli’i Cravalho, John C. Reilly, Kelly Macdonald
- 12:30 pm
- 3:00 pm
Holmes and Watson
Offensive Language, R13, Sexual References, Violence
- 3:15 pm
- 2:30 pm
- 8:00 pm
- 2:30 pm
Bumblebee
M, scary scenes, Violence
Every adventure has a beginning. On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. When Charlie revives him, she quickly learns this is no ordinary, yellow VW bug.
Starring Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena
- 3:45 pm
- 5:30 pm
- 3:15 pm
- 4:45 pm
- 12:00 pm
- 5:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
Aquaman
fantasy violence, M
From Warner Bros. Pictures and director James Wan comes an action-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas, “Aquaman,” starring Jason Momoa in the title role. The film reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey of his lifetime—one that will not only force him to face who he really is, but to discover if he is worthy of who he was born to be…a king. Starring: Jason Momoa, Dolph Lundgren, Nicole Kidman, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Temuera Morrison, Patrick Wilson, Michael Beach
- 5:30 pm
- 8:30 pm
Zero
Rating to be confirmed
The story revolves around Bauua Singh (Shah Rukh Khan), a vertically challenged man, who is
full of charm and wit, with a pinch of arrogance.
Born to a wealthy family and raised in an environment of affluence and indulgence, Bauua was never failed by Meerut or its people. But when he meets two women (Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma), his experiences with these women take him on a journey to complete his ‘incompleteness' and broaden his horizons to find a purpose he never knew he had..
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Kapoor, Katrina Kaif
Director: Aanand L Rai
Producer: Gauri Khan
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Language: Hindi with English subtitles
- 11:30 am
- 7:00 pm
Free Solo
exempt
From award-winning documentary filmmaker E. Chai Vasarhelyi and world-renowned photographer and mountaineer Jimmy Chin, the directors of “MERU,” comes FREE SOLO, a stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the world’s most famous rock … the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park … without a rope. Celebrated as one of the greatest athletic feats of any kind, Honnold’s climb set the ultimate standard: perfection or death. Succeeding in this challenge places his story in the annals of human achievement.
FREE SOLO is an edge-of-your seat thriller and an inspiring portrait of an athlete who challenges both his body and his beliefs on a quest to triumph over the impossible, revealing the personal toll of excellence. As the climber begins his training, the armor of invincibility he’s built up over decades unexpectedly breaks apart when Honnold begins to fall in love, threatening his focus and giving way to injury and setbacks. Vasarhelyi and Chin succeed in beautifully capturing deeply human moments with Honnold as well as the death-defying climb with exquisite artistry and masterful, vertigo-inducing camerawork. The result is a triumph of the human spirit that represents what The New York Times calls “a miraculous opportunity for the rest of us to experience the human sublime.”
- 6:15 pm
- 8:30 pm
- 6:15 pm
Mortal Engines
M, Sci Fi themes, Violence
Thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted a new way of living and has evolved. Gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth, ruthlessly preying upon smaller traction towns. Tom Natsworthy – who hails from a Lower Tier of the great traction city of London – finds himself fighting for his own survival after he encounters the dangerous fugitive Hester Shaw. Two opposites, whose paths should never have crossed, forge
an unlikely alliance that is destined to change the course of the future.
Starring Hugo Weaving, Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Jihae Raftery, Leila George,
Patrick Malahide and Stephen Lang.
Directed by Christian Rivers (feature debut)
Starring Robert Sheehan, Hera Hilmar, Ronan Raftery, Stephen Lang,Jihae, Leila George, Mark Hadlow, Nathaniel Lees
Written by Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, Fran Walsh (based on the novel series by Philip Reeve)
- 2:30 pm
- 8:00 pm
- 7:30 pm
- 8:30 pm
- 5:00 pm
The Grinch
G
Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch lends his voice to the infamous Grinch, who lives a solitary life inside a cave on Mt. Crumpet with only his loyal dog, Max, for company. With a cave rigged with inventions and contraptions for his day-to-day needs, the Grinch only sees his neighbors in Who-ville when he runs out of food. Each year at Christmas they disrupt his tranquil solitude with their increasingly bigger, brighter and louder celebrations. When the Whos declare they are going to make Christmas three times bigger this year, the Grinch realizes there is only one way for him to gain some peace and quiet: he must steal Christmas. Will the Grinch succeed in silencing the Whos’ holiday cheer once and for all?
Director: Yarrow Cheney (The Secret Life of Pets), Scott Mosier
Written By: Dr. Seuss, Michael LeSieur
- 1:30 pm
- 1:00 pm
- 12:30 pm
- 12:00 pm
The Old Man and the Gun
M, Offensive Language
True story crime drama with Robert Redford as Forrest Tucker, the man who escaped San Quentin at age 70 to go on a string of heists. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
Directed by David Lowery (‘A Ghost Story’, ‘Pete’s Dragon’, ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’)
Starring Robert Redford, Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover,Elisabeth Moss, Tika Sumpter, Tom Waits, Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Written by David Lowery (based on an article by David Grann)
- 12:15 pm
- 4:45 pm
- 5:30 pm
They Shall Not Grow Old
content may disturb, RP16
Armistice Day, Sunday 11 November, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the war – “They Shall Not Grow Old”
“Peter Jackson Restored and Colorized 100 Hours of World War I Footage, and the Final Results are Remarkable” — Watch
“The First World War, for good or for worse, is defined in people’s imaginations by the film that is always used in all the documentaries and it looks bloody awful, for obvious reasons,” Jackson told ITV News. “There were technical limitations and also a hundred years of age – of shrinkage and duplication and starches. I think it’s the best gift I can give at the moment, as well as this movie, to restore footage.”
In order to recreate the color as accurately as possible, Jackson studied pictures of crowds on the internet and used collections of WWI uniforms as a reference point. The narration for the film is provided by real veterans.
“I wanted to reach through the fog of time and pull these men into the modern world, so they can regain their humanity once more – rather than be seen only as Charlie Chaplin-type figures in the vintage archive film,” Jackson told the BFI about the documentary. “By using our computing power to erase the technical limitations of 100 year cinema, we can see and hear the Great War as they experienced it.”
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
M, Violence
At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings. In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
Starring: Katherine Waterston, Eddie Redmayne, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Johnny Depp, Carmen Ejogo, Zoë Kravitz
- 12:15 pm
- 2:30 pm
Bohemian Rhapsody
Drug Use, M, Offensive Language, Sexual References
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound, their near-implosion as Mercury’s lifestyle spirals out of control, and their triumphant reunion on the eve of Live Aid, where Mercury, facing a life-threatening illness, leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. In the process, cementing the legacy of a band that were always more like a family, and who continue to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.
- 5:15 pm
- 8:30 pm
- 5:45 pm
- 2:45 pm
- 8:00 pm
A Star is Born
Drug Use, M, Offensive Language, Sex Scenes, suicide
A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. In this new take on the tragic love story, Cooper plays seasoned musician Jackson Maine, who discovers—and falls in love with—struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer… until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally’s career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott, Lady Gaga, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, Bonnie Somerville, Anthony Ramos
- 8:00 pm
- 2:00 pm