25 07, 2025

Gallery

The Holdovers (Monday Matinee Movie)

Brentwood Community Cinema Monday Matinee

The Holdovers

A new Christmas classic! In this good-natured comedy drama, set in the 1970s, an unpopular teacher, a rebellious student, and a recently-bereaved school cook form an unexpected bond while stuck together over the Christmas break.

From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, THE HOLDOVERS follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da’Vine Joy Randolph).

Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

Rating: 15 (strong language, brief nudity)

Running time: 133m

Each ticket includes a free tea or americano coffee at the Theatre Café Bar (upgrade to a cappuccino/latte/hot chocolate etc. for just £1.50 more on the day)

8 08, 2024

Gallery

Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone (Film – Retro Film Club)

Welcome to the Retro Film Club! Celebrating modern classic films and giving you the chance to see them on our big screen instead of on your TV – we’ll even throw in the popcorn for free for that authentic retro cinema experience!

Enter the magical world of Harry Potter this Christmas! Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling’s popular children’s novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and possesses unique magical powers of his own. He is summoned from his life as an unwanted child to become a student at Hogwarts, an English boarding school for wizards. There, he meets several friends who become his closest allies and help him discover the truth about his parents’ mysterious deaths.

50p from every ticket purchased will be matched by Brentwood Theatre and donated to LGBTQIA+ charities.

Cast: Zoe Wanamaker, Fiona Shaw, John Cleese, Warwick Davis, John Hurt, Ian Hart, Robbie Coltrane, Richard Griffiths, Emma Watson, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint

Rating: PG (mild threat, violence, language)

Running time: 152m

8 08, 2024

Gallery

Elf (Film)

Elf is the perfect pre-Christmas family film. Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.

Cast: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel

Rating: PG (mild bad language, sex references)

Running time: 97m

8 08, 2024

Gallery

Meet Me In St. Louis (Film – Monday Matinee)

‘Have yourself a merry little Christmas…’

“Meet Me in St. Louis” is a classic MGM romantic musical comedy that focuses on four sisters (one of whom is the nonpareil Judy Garland) on the cusp of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. The film spotlights the sisters’ education in the ways of the world, which includes, but isn’t limited to, learning about life and love, courtesy of the prototypical boy next door. In the end, love — accompanied by song, dance and period costumes, all in glorious Technicolor — conquers all.

Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Tom Drake

Rating: U

Running time: 113m

Each ticket includes a free tea or americano coffee at the Theatre Café Bar (upgrade to a cappuccino/latte/hot chocolate etc. for just £1.50 more on the day)

10 08, 2023

Gallery

Home Alone (Film)

When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O’Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

Rated: PG (contains moderate slapstick violence and infrequent moderate language)

Running Time: 103 minutes

10 08, 2023

Gallery

The Snowman And The Snowdog (Film)

The Snowman flies again in this follow-up to the much-loved Christmas classic!

Billy and his mum have moved into a new house just before Christmas, but Billy isn’t very full of festive cheer, as his beloved old dog has passed away. So when the snow falls and Billy starts to build a Snowman, he knows exactly what to do – he builds a Snowdog too! Then, later that night, something magical happens… and Billy embarks on the most wonderful snowy adventure.

This is the perfect festive introduction to the theatre and cinema for all ages!

Rating: U

Running time: 24m

10 08, 2023

Gallery

It’s A Wonderful Life (Monday Matinee Movie)

Considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, It’s A Wonderful Life was nominated for 5 Academy Awards including best picture when it was released in 1946. Produced and directed by Frank Capra the film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams, in order to help others in his community, and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence (Henry Travers).
Rating: U

Running time: 130 mins

Each ticket includes a free tea or americano coffee at the Theatre Café Bar