August & september screenings
The full cinema experience at Royston Town Hall, Melbourn Street, Royston, SG8 7DA
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Wonder Woman Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons. Can her hidden powers help her fight in a war to end all wars? book online at www.roystonpicturepalace.org.uk
The Hippopotamus (12A)
Friday 4th August at 7.30pm Dir: John Jencks| Country UK Year 2017|90 mins Cast | Roger Allam, Russell Tovey, Matthew Modine Roger Allam shines as disgraced poet, Ted Wallace, who turns detective to investigate strange events at a country house. Could the rumours of miracles be true? John Jencks’ film of Stephen Fry’s provocative black comedy both tightens and heightens the plot, while Allam relishes every syllable of Blanche McIntyre and Tom Hodgson’s wonderfully wry, witty, whisky-soaked dialogue.
Diary of A Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (U) Saturday 5th August at 3.30pm
FAMILY MATINEE
Dir: David Bowers | Country USA Year 2017 |91 mins Cast | Jason Drucker, Alicia Silverstone, Tom Everett Scott A Heffley family road trip to attend Meemaw’s 90th birthday party goes hilariously off course thanks to Greg’s newest scheme to get to a video gaming convention. This family cross-country adventure turns into an experience the Heffleys will never forget.
Wonder Woman (PG) Saturday 5th August at 7.30pm
Dir: Patty Jenkins | Country USA Year 2017 |141 mins Cast | Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright Before she was Wonder Woman she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained warrior. When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, she leaves home to fight a war to end all wars, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
My Cousin Rachel (12A)
Friday 11th August at 7.30pm Saturday 12th August at 7.30pm Dir: Roger Michell | Country UK Year 2016 |108 mins Cast |Rachel Weisz, Sam Claflin, Holiday Grainger A dark romance story of a young Englishman who plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feeling become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.
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Churchill (12A)
Friday 18th August at 7.30pm Saturday 19th August at 7.30pm Dir: Jonathan Teplitzky | Country UK Year 2017 |110 mins Cast |Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slatterly May 23rd, 1944: as tensions mount in the 48-hours preceding D-Day, the now-beleaguered Prime Minister Winston Churchill, must prepare a final attempt to crush Hitler’s encroaching army. With the entire war effort ultimately hinging on this decision, the stakes have never been higher. As the Wartime leader clashes with his generals, Churchill must wrestle his inner-demons in order to navigate the Allies to victory.
Gifted (12A)
Friday 25th August at 7.30pm Dir: Mark Webb| Country USA Year 2017 |101 mins Cast | Chris Evans, Mckenna Grace, Octavia Spencer Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy - his spirited young niece Mary - in a coastal town in Florida. Frank’s plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old’s mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank’s formidable mother Evelyn whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
The Mummy (12A)
Saturday 26th August at 7.30pm Dir: Alex Kurtzman | Country USA Year 2017 |107 mins Cast | Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient princess, whose destiny was unjustly taken from her, is awakened in our current day bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.
Hampstead (12A)
Friday 1st September at 7.30pm Saturday 2nd September at 7.30pm Dir: Joel Hopkins | Country UK Year 2017 | 103 mins Cast | Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home.
Please note that the cinema is closed on Friday 22nd & Saturday 23rd September
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Despicable Me 3 (PG)
FAMILY MATINEE Saturday 2nd September at 3.30pm Dir: Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balada | Country USA Year 2017 | 90 mins Cast | Steve Carrell, Kirsten Wiig, Trey Parker
Illumination, who brought audiences Despicable Me and the biggest animated hits of 2013 and 2015, Despicable Me 2 and Minions, continues the adventures of Gru, Lucy, their adorable daughters-Margo, Edith and Agnes-and the Minions in Despicable Me 3. Directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda, co-directed by Eric Guillon and written by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio, the animated film is produced by Illumination’s Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy, and executive produced by Chris Renaud.
Dunkirk (12A)
Friday 8th September at 7.30pm Saturday 9th September at 7.30pm Dir: Christopher Nolan | Country UK, USA, France & Netherlands Year 2017| 106 mins Cast | Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy “Dunkirk” opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story (12A)
Thursday 14th September at 8pm Dir: Jon Brewer | Country UK Year 2017 | 108 mins Cast | David Bowie, Ian Hunter, Roger Taylor Despite his contributions and work with Morrissey, Lou Reed on ‘Transformer’, Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople, Bob Dylan and most notably David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars, it was really Mick Ronson’s dynamic Changes support, contribution, and cocreation of this era in music as well as Film to the expansive and multi-faceted Festival career of David Bowie that this film explores, and at times, exposes.
Eye in the Sky (15)
Friday 15th September at 7.30pm Dir: Gavin Hood | Country UK/South Africa Year 2015 | 102mins Cast | Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman Through remote surveillance and on-the-ground intel, Powell discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” But as American pilot Steve Watts (Aaron Paul) is about Changes to engage, a nine-year old girl Film enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute, reaching Festival the highest levels of US and British government.
Tickets are also available from Royston Town Hall office, open Monday - Friday, 9am – 4pm
the Journey (12A)
saturday 16th september at 7.30pm Dir: Nick Hamm | Country UK Year 2016 | 94mins Cast | Timothy Spall, Colm Meany A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland - firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Changes Martin McGuinness - who are forced to take a short journey Film together in which they will take the Festival biggest leap of faith and change the course of history.
War for the planet of the Apes (12A)
Friday 29th september at 7.30pm saturday 30th september at 7.30pm Dir: Matt Reeves | Country USA Year 2017 | 140mins Cast | Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the journey finally brings them face to face, Caesar and the Colonel are pitted against each other in an epic battle that will determine the fate of both their species and the future of the planet.
Why do people come to us to watch films? Don’t just listen to us saying how wonderful our community cinema is, this is what our visitors say!
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Another Mother’s Son (12A)
The Changes Film Festival
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 Join Creative Royston in conjunction As Hitler strengthens his grip on Western Europe, The Channel Islands fall this into occupied hands. with Royston Picture Palace for Used by the Germans as a base where prisoners of war are put to work in year’s pre Artsresidents Festival taster, theslave labour camps, the of Jersey face a future of uncertainty and fear which frays tempers and tests loyalties among Changes Film Festival... the tight-knit island community. One such resident is Louisa Gould who refuses to give up hope for Two the island she holdsRonson so dear, forStory her sons fighting Beside Bowie: The Mick (12A) Screenings abroad and for a rescue by Churchill’s forces that never seems materialise. at 8pm Thursday 14th toSeptember
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