The film on Friday 12 April at 7.30pm is One Life. It’s the true story of Sir Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 predominantly Jewish children from the Nazis. Nicky visited Prague in December 1938 and found families who had fled the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Austria., living in desperate conditions with little or no shelter and food, and under threat of Nazi invasion. He immediately realised it was a race against time. How many children could he and his team rescue before the borders closed.?

Fifty years later, it’s 1988 and Nicky lives haunted by the fate of the children he wasn’t able to bring to safety in England; always blaming himself for not doing more. It’s not until a live BBC television show, ”That’s Life” , surprises him by introducing him to some surviving children – now adults – that he finally becomes to come to terms with the guilt and grief he had carries for five decades.

Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn, Jonathan Pryce and Helena Bonham Carter

Trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHOiHuKnhk

Doors open at 7.00pm with film at 7.30pm. Tickets £5 on the door. Raffle and refreshments available.

Starring Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson in her final screen role.

Based on a true story that made national news about pensioner Bernard Jordan who in 2014, absconded from his care home in Hove, Sussex UK to attend an event in France marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. After the local Police were notified the care home got a call that evening to say Mr Jordan had been found safe and well in France. He returned a few days later having made his way to the event.

The Guardian review notes:

‘ Navy veteran Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) missed the boat when it came to applying to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-day landings. But, encouraged by his wife, Rene (the late Glenda Jackson in her final role), he decides to make the trip under his own steam, absconding from his care home in Hove with his essentials in a blue plastic bag. The premise of this real-life pensioner adventure seems tailor-made for a gently comedic big-screen treatment, a chipper flat-capped caper to the continent. But in fact, the film is unexpectedly melancholic in approach, with Caine delivering a gruffly heartbreaking performance as a man belatedly confronting crippling survivor’s guilt and the knowledge that the psychological wounds sustained in battle never fully heal. Director Oliver Parker (Dad’s Army) favours no-frills functionality; both the second world war flashbacks and the contemporary scenes have something of a TV movie patina. But there’s a real emotional heft to the storytelling and Caine, at 90, is a knockout.’

Trailer can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNWp8Kq5JgI&t=2s

Tickets £5.00 on the door. (Doors open at 7.00pm, Raffle, Refreshments available)

Starring Maggie Smith, Laura Linney and Kathy Bates

Trailer at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3ZFdklPCk

In a tough district of Dublin, four women each have reasons for going on a trip to Lourdes. Tough-as-nails Eileen Dunne (Bates) is worried about the lump she has found in her breast, but would rather go to Lourdes than see a doctor; her shiftless husband Frank (Stephen Rea) wonders grumpily who is going to cook his supper. Maggie Smith is Lily Fox, a woman with a small disability in her leg, but whose reasons for going to Lourdes are more to do with her spiritual pain at the loss of her son. Twentysomething Dolly Hennessy (Agnes O’Casey) is going to bring along her little boy who for some reason will not speak. All find that their menfolk are obstructive about wives going to Lourdes or indeed doing anything independent whatsoever.

Doors open at 7.00pm – Film at 7.30pm – Ticket price: £5.00 on the door

Details of the next film in February will follow