April & MAy ScreeningS
The full cinema experience at Royston Town Hall, Melbourn Street, Royston, SG8 7DA
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Moonlight A look at three defining chapters throughout the life of a young black man named Chiron, growing up in Miami. Book online at www.roystonpicturepalace.org.uk
Lion (PG)
Friday 31st March at 7.30pm, Saturday 1st April at 7.30pm and Sunday 2nd April at 7.30pm Dir: Garth Davis| Country Australia Year 2016 |118 mins Cast | Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara 5 year old Saroo finds himself alone and travelling on the wrong train away from his home in northern India. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up thousands of miles away, in chaotic Kolkata. Somehow he survives living on the streets, dodging Three all sorts of terrors in the process. Eventually ending up Screenings in an orphanage, Saroo is adopted by an Australian couple, and finds safety and love as he grows up in Hobart. ® FAMILY MATINEE Saturday 1st April at 3.30pm and Sunday 2nd April at 3.30pm
The LEGO Batman Movie (PG)
Two Screenings
Dir: Chris McKay| Country Denmark/ USA Year 2017 |90 mins Cast | Will Arnett, Zach Galifiankis, Ralph Fiennes In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The LEGO® Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the selfdescribed leading man of that ensemble—LEGO Batman—stars in his own big-screen adventure. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham. Batman may have to drop the lone vigilante thing, try to work with others and maybe, just maybe, learn to lighten up.
Hidden Figures (PG)
Friday 7th April at 7.30pm and Saturday 8th April at 7.30pm Dir: Theodore Melfi | Country USA Year 2016 |127 mins Cast | Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe
Two Screenings
The incredible untold story of three brilliant AfricanAmerican women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s confidence, turned around the Space Race, and galvanised the world.
Fences (12A)
Sunday 9th April at 3.30pm Dir: Denzel Washington| Country USA Year 2016 |139 mins Cast | Denzell Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson An African American father struggles with race relations in the US while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life. This adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, centres on a black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh. Bitter that baseball’s colour barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones
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The Time of Their Lives (12A)
Saturday 15th April at 3.30pm and 7.30pm Dir: Roger Goldby| Country UK Year 2017 |100 mins Cast | Pauline Collins, Joan Collins Determined to gate-crash her ex-lover’s funeral on glamorous French hideaway Ile-de-Re, former Hollywood siren Helen escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla, a repressed English housewife stuck in a bad marriage. Pooling their limited resources, they hit the road together by coach, ferry, car and foot Two in a race to get to the funeral on time, becoming entangled in a love triangle with a reclusive Screenings French millionaire along the way.
Moonlight (15)
Friday 21st April at 7.30pm Dir: Barry Jenkins| Country USA Year 2016 |111 mins Cast | Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighbourhood of Miami. Moonlight is one of the most beautifully told stories of this decade. The three talented actors that play Chiron are all equally brilliant, Mahershala Ali is remarkable as the drug dealer and Naomi Harris has a brilliant supporting role.
The Founder (12A)
Saturday 22nd April at 3.30pm Dir: John Lee Hancock| Country USA Year 2016 |115 mins Cast | Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch The true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Cleverness and perhaps shrewdness enable Kroc to put himself into a position to be able to pull the company, from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Fifty Shades Darker (18) Saturday 22nd April at 7.30pm
Dir: James Foley| Country USA Year 2017 |115 mins Cast | Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, Eric Johnson One of the biggest pop cultural sensations of recent years is back – Fifty Shades Darker scintillatingly picks up where Fifty Shades of Grey left off. Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan reprise their roles as Anastasia ‘Ana’ Steele and Christian Grey. Fifty Shades Darker promises to be just as whispered about as its predecessor and all the more irresistible for it.
Tickets are also available from Royston Town Hall office, open Monday - Friday, 9am – 4pm
Viceroy’s House (12A)
Friday 28th April at 7.30pm, Saturday 29th April at 3.30pm and 7.30pm Sunday 30th April at 3.30pm and Friday 5th May at 7.30pm Dir: Gurinder Chadha| Country USA Year 2016 |106 mins Cast | Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson Viceroy’s House in Delhi was the home of the British rulers of India. After 300 years, that rule was coming to an end. For 6 months in 1947, Lord Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, assumed the post of the last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people. Upstairs lived Mountbatten together with his wife and daughter; downstairs Five lived their 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants. Screenings A decision was taken to divide the country and create a new Muslim homeland: Pakistan.
Beauty and the Beast (PG)
FAMILY MATINEE Saturday 6th May at 3.30pm and 7.30pm and Sunday 7th May at 3.30pm Dir: Bill Condon | Country USA Year 2017 |129 mins Cast | Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” is a live-action re-telling of the studio’s animated classic which refashions the classic characters from the tale as old as time for a contemporary audience.We follow the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner Three by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to Screenings look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart of the true Prince within.
Kong: Skull Island (12A)
Friday12th May at 7.30pm and Saturday 13th May at 7.30pm Dir: Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Country USA Year 2017 |118 mins Cast |Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L Jackson, Brie Larson When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man. A diverse team of scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific, as dangerous as it is beautiful. Cut off from everything they know, the team ventures into the domain Two of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle Screenings between man and nature. They must fight to escape a primal Eden in which humanity does not belong before it’s too late. Thoughtful Thursdays Thursday 18th May at 8pm Dir: Raoul Peck | Country USA Year 2017 |95 mins Cast |Voice of Samuel L Jackson, James Baldwin Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson and with unprecedented access to James Baldwin’s original work, award-winning filmmaker Raoul Peck, has completed the cinematic version of the book Baldwin never wrote - a radical narration about race in America that tracks the lives and assassinations of Baldwin’s friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Whilst it is partly anchored in the struggle for equality in the 50s and 60s, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is about what it means to be black in America today and an autopsy of racial imagery and iconography.
I Am Not Your Negro (12A)
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Another Mother’s Son (12A)
Friday 19th May at 7.30pm and Saturday 20th May at 7.30pm Dir: Christopher Menaul | Country UK Year 2017|103 mins Cast | Jenny Seagrove, Ronan Keaton, John Hannah As Hitler strengthens his grip on Western Europe, The Channel Islands fall into occupied hands. Used by the Germans as a base where prisoners of war are put to work in slave labour camps, the residents of Jersey face a future of uncertainty and fear which frays tempers and tests loyalties among the tight-knit island community. One such resident is Louisa Gould who refuses to give up hope for Two the island she holds so dear, for her sons fighting Screenings abroad and for a rescue by Churchill’s forces that never seems to materialise.
rules Don’t Apply (12A)
Friday 26th May at 7.30pm and Saturday 27th May at 7.30pm Dir: Warren Beatty| Country USA Year 2017|127 mins Cast | Warren Beatty, Lily Collins, Alden Ehrenreich It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not Two only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have Screenings any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress.
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