Films

What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too! Michael Caine (who just retired from acting this year) takes on the part of miserable old miser Ebenezer…

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It’s late November in a quiet little Irish town, and the expectations of the impending festive season are growing. Christmas trees are being bought, festive music turned up and presents scrambled for. It’s all getting very bright and loud, excessive…

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Based on the book of the same name by literary powerhouse Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen follows a peculiar young woman whose dreary life stretches on toward unending misery. In frigid 1960s Boston, Eileen (Thomasin McKenzie) shuffles between her father’s dingy, emotionally…

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Joanna Hogg’s enthralling ghost story, features an astonishing performance by her The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II collaborator Tilda Swinton.

An artist and her elderly mother (both played by Tilda Swinton) confront long-buried secrets when they return to a…

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Napoleon is a spectacle-filled action epic that details the checkered rise and fall of the iconic French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, played by Oscar®-winner Joaquin Phoenix. Against a stunning backdrop of large-scale filmmaking orchestrated by legendary director Ridley Scott, the film…

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When her husband Samuel is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra (Sandra Hüller) becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed.

The trial soon becomes…

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Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the…

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Will Ferrell stars as the ultimate fish out of water, Buddy, who as a baby crawls into Santa's toy bag and is whisked off to the North Pole, where he is raised as an elf. A misfit who grows to…

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A seemingly simple taxi ride across Paris evolves into a profound meditation on the realities of the driver, whose personal life is in shambles, and his fare, an elderly woman whose warmth belies her shocking past...

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Celebrating the sweet joy of hope and revelling in the gentle comedy of disappointment, Aki Kaurismäki’s timeless, yet timely, tale is an absolute delight. Peppered with wry visual gags, joyful cinematic references and a scene-stealing dog, we enter the zero-hour-contract…

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One of the most influential gangster epics of all time, Scarface is the rags-to-riches story of Cuban immigrant Tony “Scarface” Montana, who finds wealth, power and passion beyond his wildest dreams... at a price he never imagined. From acclaimed director…

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A woman plagued by man trouble finds her fortune improves when she befriends an Englishwoman while on vacation...

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Next up in Cinephile Paradiso, we present Vincente Minnelli’s 1944 musical classic, Meet Me in St. Louis…

Featuring a young Hollywood star, Judy Garland, Meet Me in St. Louis takes place one year before the 1904 St. Louis World’s…

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RENAISSANCE: A FILM BY BEYONCE accentuates the journey of RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR, from its inception, to the opening in Stockholm, Sweden, to the finale in Kansas City, Missouri. It is about Beyonce’s intention, hard work, involvement in every aspect of…

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This fearless love story chronicles the complicated lifelong relationship between music legend Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein...

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An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation...

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Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England...

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What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too! Michael Caine (who just retired from acting this year) takes on the part of miserable old miser Ebenezer…

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Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán’s opera tells the enchanting story of a Brazilian opera diva who returns to her homeland to perform at the legendary opera house of…

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In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s visually ravishing masterpiece, a young ballerina is torn between the demands of love and art. Like the heroine of Hans Christian Andersen’s source fairytale, whose magic shoes compel her to dance, Victoria Page –…

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Ukraine, 1938. Three neighbouring families; Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, celebrate their Christmases with renditions of Carol of the Bells, adapted from a popular and beloved Ukrainian folk melody. Faced with persecution from both the Soviet and Nazi occupation of Ukraine,…

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I DREAM IN PHOTOS is a feature length documentary that explores the life and work of Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Cathal McNaughton, who quit “the best job in the world” at the peak of his career aged just 40. Through…

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One of the biggest films of the eighties, Die Hard was not only a box office smash, but it made a star of its leading man, Bruce Willis, and quickly became considered as one of the greatest action movies of…

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In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people's lives are changed forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas Eve. As the New Year fast approaches these three forgotten members of society band together to solve the…

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The Peasants tells the story of Jagna, a young woman determined to forge her own path within the confines of a late 19th century Polish village – a hotbed of gossip and on-going feuds, held together, rich and poor, by…

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Godzilla returns to Japanese parent company Toho after a stint in Hollywood, for one of the best entries yet in the world’s longest continually running film franchise. Returning to its roots as a metaphor for the devastation in post-war Japan,…

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After Dr. Bill Hartford's (Tom Cruise) wife, Alice (Nicole Kidman), admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings…

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Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote comes to town, with interactive screenings of classic Murder, She Wrote episodes. Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience participation, with special permission from NBC Universal Television.

December 15th Light…

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Like overcooked poultry, Brussel sprouts and indigestion, It’s a Wonderful Life is a Christmas tradition. However, unlike these things, Frank Capra’s masterpiece is both tremendous fun and good for you. Far from being a saccharine, sentimental wallow, this film, in…

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Follows Jules, who is targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Some time after that event he encounters Preston, one of his attackers, in a gay sauna. He wants revenge.

"A pair of sensational…

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With its Christmas lights and dusting of snow, Kingston Falls is an idyllic small town. It’s home to Billy Peltzer, a teenager who has just received an unusual present from his father with a specific set of instructions. In order…

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This is the story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves in the North Pole and becomes Santa Claus. But when Santa's eager-to-please elf Patch leaves the North Pole for the big streets of New York…

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