16 03, 2023

But I’m A Cheerleader (Film in partnership with Brentwood Mind)

But I’m A Cheerleader (15)

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Brentwood Mind to bring a series of inclusive LGBTQIA+ films for everyone. Come along and enjoy seeing queer stories told on screen. Discussion and support from Mind staff and volunteers will follow the screening for anyone who would like it.

Megan (Natasha Lyonne) considers herself a typical American girl. She excels in school and cheerleading, and she has a handsome football-playing boyfriend, even though she isn’t that crazy about him. So she’s stunned when her parents decide she’s gay and send her to True Directions, a boot camp meant to alter her sexual orientation. While there, Megan meets a rebellious and unashamed teen lesbian, Graham (Clea DuVall). Though Megan still feels confused, she starts to have feelings for Graham.

Rating: 15 (strong language, sex references)

Running time: 85m

16 03, 2023

Living (Monday Matinee Movie)

Living (12)

Bill Nighy was nominated for Best Actor at The Academy AwardsGolden Globes and BAFTA’s

‘Living’ is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful – into one he can say has been lived to the full.

“Bill Nighy puts in a career best performance” – Time Out

Rating: 12 (moderate sex references)

Running time: 102m

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

16 03, 2023

Beautiful Thing (Film in partnership with Brentwood Mind)

Beautiful Thing (15)

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Brentwood Mind to bring a series of inclusive LGBTQIA+ films for everyone. Come along and enjoy seeing queer stories told on screen. Discussion and support from Mind staff and volunteers will follow the screening for anyone who would like it.

Shy Jamie (Glen Berry) and athletic Ste (Scott Neal) are teen boys who live near each other in the London projects. Both boys think they could be gay, and finally explore their feelings when Ste is allowed to stay over at Jamie’s place after an incident with his abusive father. There, the boys grow close and open themselves up to the idea of homosexuality, while Jamie’s caring mother, Sandra (Linda Henry), and quirky teen neighbor, Leah (Tameka Empson), offer much needed emotional support.

Rating: 15

Running time: 87m

16 03, 2023

The Banshees of Inisherin (Monday Matinee Movie)

The Banshees of Inisherin (12A)

Winner of 4 BAFTA’s including Oustanding British Film and 3 Golden Globe Awards including Best Actor for Colin Farrell

Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN follows lifelong friends Pádraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Pádraic, aided by his sister Siobhán and troubled young islander Dominic, endeavours to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer. But Pádraic’s repeated efforts only strengthen his former friend’s resolve and when Colm delivers a desperate ultimatum, events swiftly escalate, with shocking consequences.

“The film toggles masterfully between comedy and tragedy; realism and fable. It manages to be both of the moment and completely timeless” – Rotten Tomatoes

Rating: 15 (strong language, injury detail, domestic abuse)

Running time: 109m

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

16 03, 2023

Guillermo del Torro’s Pinocchio (Film)

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (PG)

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature

Academy Award®-winning director Guillermo del Toro and award-winning, stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson reimagine the classic Carlo Collodi tale of the fabled wooden boy with a whimsical tour de force that finds Pinocchio on an enchanted adventure that transcends worlds and reveals the life-giving power of love.

Rating: PG (scary scenes, mild violence, rude humour, language)

Running time: 117m

16 03, 2023

Tár (Monday Matinee Movie)

Tár (15)

Nominated for 6 Academy Awards, 3 Golden Globes and 5 BAFTA’s.

From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the groundbreaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. We meet Tár at the height of her career, as she’s preparing both a book launch and much-anticipated live performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks her life begins to unravel in a singularly modern way. The result is a searing examination of power, and its impact and durability in today’s society.

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

Rating: 15 (sexually abusive behaviour)

Running time: 158m

16 03, 2023

Girl With A Pearl Earring (Monday Matinee Movie in partnership with Brentwood Art Trail 2023)

Girl With A Pearl Earring (12)

Screened in partnership with Brentwood Art Trail 2023 and there will be a short talk from a local artist Lucia Hardy before the film starts.

When her father goes blind, Griet (Scarlett Johansson) must go to work as a maid for painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). While cleaning the house, Griet strikes up an unlikely friendship with Vermeer, which both agree to keep secret for fear of provoking the painter’s jealous wife, Catharina (Essie Davis). When wealthy patron Van Ruijven (Tom Wilkinson) begins to lust after Griet, and commissions a painting of her, Vermeer and Griet are obliged to spend long hours alone together.

Rating: 12 (contains moderate sex references and mild violence)

Running time: 96m

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

Lucia Hardy is a local artist from Harold Wood, Essex, painting expressive and dynamic birds, wildlife and wild British landscapes. Inspired by nature’s strength and resilience, her paintings in acrylic and mixed media are deeply colourful, textural and full of life, symbolism and connection. A wildcard heat winner in this year’s Sky Landscape Artist of the Year TV Programme at the Royal Ascot picnic area, the artist has works with several galleries, exhibited at the Oxo Tower and Truman Brewery with Roy’s Art Fair and is a member of the Colchester Art Society. www.luciahardy.co.uk

16 03, 2023

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (Film)

Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (PG)

Child and Family Tickets available for this screening!

This fall, everyone’s favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns. For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation presents a new adventure in the Shrek universe as daring outlaw Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for peril and disregard for safety have taken their toll. Puss has burned through eight of his nine lives, though he lost count along the way. Getting those lives back will send Puss in Boots on his grandest quest yet.

Rating: PG (mild upsetting scenes, rude humour, infrequent drug references)

Running time: 102m

16 03, 2023

Boys Don’t Cry (Film in partnership with Brentwood Mind)

Boys Don’t Cry (18)

We’re thrilled to be partnering with Brentwood Mind to bring a series of inclusive LGBTQIA+ films for everyone. Come along and enjoy seeing queer stories told on screen. Discussion and support from Mind staff and volunteers will follow the screening for anyone who would like it.

Young female-to-male transgender Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) leaves his hometown under threat when his ex-girlfriend’s brother discovers that he’s biologically female. Resettling in the small town of Falls City, Nebraska, Brandon falls for Lana (Chloë Sevigny), an aspiring singer, and begins to plan for their future together. But when her ex-convict friends, John (Peter Sarsgaard) and Tom (Brendan Sexton III), learn Brandon’s secret, things change very quickly.

Rating: 18

Running time: 114m

16 03, 2023

Mystery Film Screening 2

Mystery Screening 2 (PG)

Welcome to the Brentwood Community Cinema Mystery Screenings, new for Spring/Summer 2023!

This film was nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe and is suitable for children

“It’s all about playing on the excitement of the unknown, getting people to see films that they normally wouldn’t see, that wouldn’t be their normal choice of film. We want to broaden people’s film repertoire.” – Ian, Brentwood Theatre Manager

Tickets are just £3 when you have booked any of our other spring/summer 2023 community cinema screenings – discount only available over the phone or in-person.

Rating: PG (mild upsetting scenes, rude humour, infrequent drug references)

Running time: 90m

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