may & June Screenings
The full cinema experience at Royston Town Hall, Melbourn Street, Royston, SG8 7DA
ay, 7.30pm Friday 13th M May, 7.30pm Saturday 14th
Eddie The Eagle (12A) Great Britain’s first Ski Jumper was an unlikely but courageous man who never stopped believing in himself. He wins the hearts of sports fans around the world at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. This fun film will have you believing in Eddie all over again.
Book online at www.roystonpicturepalace.org.uk
Kung Fu Panda 3 (U)
CHILDREN’S SATURDAY MATINEE
Saturday 7th May at 3.30pm Dir: Alessandro Carloni, Jennifer Yuh| Country USA | Year 2016|95 mins Cast |Jack Black, Bryan Cranston Jack Black (School of Rock) is back as the Kung Fu Panda known as Po. When Po’s panda father returns, the reunited duo travel to a secret panda paradise to meet scores of hilarious new panda characters. But when supernatural villain Kai (Cranston) begins to sweep China defeating all the Kung Fu masters, Po must do the impossible; learn to train a village to become the ultimate band of Kung Fu Pandas. This will be one of the best family movies of 2016.
Trumbo (15)
Saturday 7th May at 7.30pm Dir: Jay Roach| Country USA | Year 2015|124 mins Cast |Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren Join Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Helen Mirren (The Queen) for this biopic about the film screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. In 1947 Trumbo (Cranston) was Hollywood’s top screenwriter until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. This film relates how Dalton used words and wit to win Academy Awards and expose the absurdity and injustice under the blacklist, which entangled everyone from columnist Hedda Hopper (Mirren) to John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
Eddie The Eagle (12A)
Friday 13th May at 7.30pm and Saturday 14th May at 7.30pm Dir: Dexter Fletcher| Country UK| Year 2016|105 mins Cast |Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman Join Royston Picture Palace for this new biopic about Eddie the Eagle (Egerton), Great Britain’s first Ski Jumper to enter the Winter Olympics who was an unlikely but courageous man who never stopped believing in himself even with an entire nation counting him out. However he wins the hearts of sports fans around the world at the 1988 Calgary Olympics. This fun film will have you believing in Eddie all over again.
Secret In Their Eyes (15)
Friday 20th May at 7.30pm Dir: Billy Ray| Country USA| Year 2015|110 mins Cast |Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts A New mystery thriller has hit our screens starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave). A tight knit team of rising investigators, along with their supervisor is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered. This is a classic, tense, murder mystery flick.
Book online at www.roystonpicturepalace.org.uk or from Royston Library
High-Rise (15)
Saturday 21st May at 7.30pm Dir: Ben Wheatley| Country UK | Year 2015|112 mins Cast |Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons Laing (Hiddleston), a young doctor, joins a community in a luxury building in Thatcher’s England, who exile themselves from society and gradually divide into violent tribes. This film will guarantee a wild viewing experience as it is brilliantly bonkers but has all the action packed drama you want from a good science fiction movie.
Hail Caesar (15)
Friday 27th May at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th May at 7.30pm Dir: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen| Country USA| Year 2016|100 mins Cast |Josh Brolin, George Clooney Royston Picture Palace is proud to bring you another star studded film from the directors Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit). It follows a day in the life of Eddie Mannix (Brolin), a Hollywood fixer for Capitol Pictures in the 1950’s, who cleans up and solves problems for big names and stars in the industry. But when star Baird Whitlock (Clooney) disappears, Mannix has to deal with more than just the fix.
Anomalisa (15)
Friday 3rd June at 7.30pm Dir: Charlie Kaufman| Country USA | Year 2016|90 mins Cast | David Thewlis From the mind of Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation) comes an achingly funny black comedy - filmed entirely in stop-motion animation. Michael Stone, a successful motivational speaker, is crippled by the mundanity of his life. On a business trip, he checks into his hotel and prepares to go through the motions. But a chance meeting with Lisa ,Michael feels he may have just met someone who can make a change. Anomalisa is a technically stunning work of animation, beautifully orchestrated it sees Charlie Kaufman at his daring, dazzling best.
Zootropolis (PG)
CHILDREN’S SATURDAY Saturday 4th June at 3.30pm MATINEE Dir: Byron Howard, Rich Moore | Country USA | Year 2016| 108 mins Cast | Jason Bateman, Ginnifer Goodwin Children will love the new animated adventure coming to Royston this June. Zootropolis tells the story of a mammal metropolis of which Judy Hopps (Goodwin) is a resident. Watch as she becomes the first Rabbit to join the police force, unfortunately she must join forces with Nick Wilde (Bateman) a wily fox, who makes her job very difficult as she discovers juts how tiring it can be to bring law and order to this town.
Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (12A)
Saturday 4th June at 7.30pm Dir: Zach Synder | Country USA | Year 2016| 150 mins Cast | Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill With Metropolis having been razed to the ground, Superman (Cavill) is now a controversial figure and people consider him a threat, as does Bruce Wayne (Affleck). He dons his cape and sets about fixing the problems Superman has caused, this causes rivalry between the pair and a battle forms. However a dark threat appears with a power greater than anyone. This is a film that will question the morals of your favourite superheroes and wondering if they can work together to solve this threat.
Eye in the Sky (12A)
Friday 10th June at 7.30pm and Saturday 11th June at 7.30pm Dir: Gavin Hood| Country UK| Year 2015|102 mins Cast |Helen Mirren EYE IN THE SKY stars Helen Mirren as Colonel Katherine Powell, a UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya. Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from to “kill.� But as an American pilot is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching the highest levels of US and British government, over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Midnight Special (15)
Friday 17th June at 7.30pm Dir: Jeff Nichols| Country USA| Year 2016|112 mins Cast |Michael Shannon Midnight Special is a supernatural sci-fi thriller from acclaimed director Jeff Nichols (Mud). It stars Oscar nominee Michael Shannon ( Man of Steel) as Roy, a father desperate to protect his uniquely gifted, eight-year-old son Alton. Joined by actors Joel Edgerton and Kirsten Dunst, this group must race to get Alton to a secret location while being hunted by an extreme religious sect and a government task force led by Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Force Awakens). It is a full-on chase, the outcome of which could bring about a world-changing event.
Spotlight (15)
Saturday 18th June at 7.30pm Dir: Tom McCarthy | Country USA | Year 2015|128 mins Cast |Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams Royston Picture Palace brings you a biographical drama which follows the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. With scenes that become more intense as the true extent of the truth is revealed you will be on the edge of your seat.
Book online at www.roystonpicturepalace.org.uk or from Royston Library
The Man Who Knew Infinity
(12A)
Friday 24th June at 7.30pm Dir: Matt Brown| Country UK| Year 2016 | 108 mins Cast | Dev Patel, Jeremey Irons Before Albert Einstein there was Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) - A little known fact outside India and the academic community. The Man Who Knew Infinity serves as a biopic behind the life and times of Ramanujan, a self-taught Indian Mathematician, who some say could decipher the very fabric of existence. Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy (Irons).
Dheepan (15)
Saturday 25th June at 7.30pm Dir: Jacques Audiard | Country France| Year 2016|115 mins Cast | Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him a woman and a little girl - hoping that they will make it easier for him to claim asylum. Arriving in Paris, the ‘family’ moves from one temporary home to another until Dheepan finds work as the caretaker. He works to build a new life and a real home for his ‘wife’ and ‘daughter’, but the daily violence he confronts quickly reopens his war wounds, and Dheepan reconnects with his warrior’s instincts.
Word from the Royston Picture Palace
Welcome to The Royston Picture Palace. We kick things off quite literally with Jack Black back as Po in Kung Fu Panda 3. Fans of Bryan Cranston and Dame Helen Mirren will just love Trumbo, and if you fancy a giggle look no further than Dexter Fletcher’s Eddie the Eagle which will have you in stitches. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts lead an all-star line-up in the brilliant Secret In Their Eyes. Highly acclaimed Director Ben Wheatley’s futuristic and decadent look at the future in High-Rise starring Tom Hiddleston, as Doctor Laing and Jeremy Irons is a must see, with the Coen Brothers Hail Caesar following in a day in the life of Eddie Mannix played by Josh Brolin an excellent way to round off the month. Coming in June, we have the brilliant imagination of Charlie Kaufman in the Oscar Nominated Anomalisa, with Disney’s amazing Zootropolis our Children’s Saturday Matinee. One of the biggest grossing films of all time Batman vs Superman flying in for the Saturday evening. For tension and high drama, Helen Mirren and the late great Alan Rickman star alongside Aaron Paul in Eye in the Sky and we have a touch of Close Encounters with Michael Shannon starring in the impressive Midnight Special up next, and then there’s another chance to catch Spotlight following for those who missed it in March. If you liked x+y, Life of Pi or Slumdog Millionaire, and with a local connection to Cambridge you won’t want to miss The Man who Knew Infinity. Finally, Dheepan, winner of the Palme D’or, ends the month of June. Just a quick note to remember, that if you book your tickets online, please bring along your bar-code to avoid Box Office, stopping of course on the way to your seats at our refreshment kiosk.
That’s all for now, please enjoy the films and many thanks for your continued support.
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