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Monday 21st Aug
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power [PG]

2017, 98 mins

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Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk. Featuring: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Donald Trump. USA 2017. 98 mins.

Ten years after his original Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore remains deeply committed to publicising the oncoming perils of climate change and, as this movie demonstrates, doing something practical about it. Taking over from original director Davis Guggenheim, directors Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk follow Gore as he travels the globe tutoring eco-activists as well as demonstrating to his global warming-denying critics that his original, dour predictions are already proving correct – Miami Beach’s regular floods, Hurricane Sandy putting Manhattan’s Ground Zero underwater, anybody? Footage of Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s efforts conversely to address and refute the fact of climate change are equally chilling, which is ironic considering that the fifteen hottest years on record have occurred since 2001. Sobering and heartening in equal measure.

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13.30 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.20 HOH Subtitled: This screening has subtitles for people with hearing loss
The Hitman's Bodyguard [15]

2017, 118 mins

Description

Director: Patrick Hughes.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman. USA 2017. 118 mins.

Highly feared personal protection agent , Michael Bryce (Reynolds, fresh out of his wildly successful Deadpool) has just 24 hours to shepherd the world’s best hit man, Darius Kincaid (Jackson), from England to the Hague. There Kincaid will give evidence at the International Court of Justice against his former employer, the tyrannical president of an East European nation (Oldman). Trouble is, Bryce and Kincaid are, themselves, sworn enemies but are obliged to combine efforts to overcome considerable obstacles, not least the enormous army of mercenaries at the dictator’s disposal. With Expendables 3 comfortably under his belt, director Patrick Hughes and writer Tom O’Connor (Fire With Fire) ensure that the ensuing carnage is as explosive and darkly hilarious as we could wish for, thanks not least to Salma Hayek as Kincaid’s equally volatile wife.

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13.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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15.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.15 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
A Ghost Story [12A]

2017, 92 mins

Description

Director: David Lowery.
Starring: Casey Affleck. Rooney Mara. USA 2017. 92 mins.

The latest film from acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) is a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. A white-sheeted ghost (Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An audacious, unforgettable meditation on the passage of time, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

Contains infrequent strong language, images of dead bodies.

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14.00 HOH Subtitled: This screening has subtitles for people with hearing loss
Atomic Blonde [15]

2017, 115 mins

Description

Director: David Leitch.
Starring: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella. USA 2017. 115 mins.

Charlize Theron kicks serious ass wearing suspenders and stilettos in this slick, action-packed espionage thriller. She plays Lorraine Broughton, a top MI6 operative dispatched to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and retrieve a top-secret dossier. Here she meets station chief David Percival (McAvoy) and they form an uneasy partnership. “God, I think I love you,” Percival tells her admiringly. Who wouldn’t? Theron is cooler than ice as she stalks Berlin’s chilly streets and steamy nightclubs, pausing only to kiss a girl or knock back a vodka on the rocks. Adapted from Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City, the movie is directed by David Leitch (John Wick and the upcoming Deadpool 2), who also happens to be Brad Pitt’s former stunt double. It’s fair to say action fans won’t leave disappointed.

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16.10 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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21.10 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Step [PG]

2017, 84 mins

Description

Director: Amanda Lipitz. USA 2017. 84 mins.

Step is the real-life story of a girls’ high-school step team set against the backdrop of social unrest in the troubled city of Baltimore. These young women learn to laugh, love and thrive – on and off the stage – even when the world seems to work against them. Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counsellors, coaches and families, they chase their ultimate dreams – to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all-female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives: they’ve made it their goal to have every senior student graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so. Deeply insightful and emotionally inspiring, Step embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.

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11.00 Big Scream: Exclusively for parents or carers with babies under the age of one.

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12.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie [U]

2017, 89 mins

Description

Director: David Soren.
Voices: Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch. USA 2017. 89 mins.

Noted Dreamworks animator David Soren (Shrek, Turbo) directs the first film of a potential franchise based on author Dav Pilkey’s weirdly wonderful children’s adventures featuring elementary-school troublemakers George (Hart) and Harold (Middleditch). Rather than studying in the classroom, George and Harold prefer sitting in their tree house chronicling the exploits of their unlikely superhero, Captain Underpants, in their homemade comic books. However, when their stern headmaster Mr Krupp (Helms) finally catches them out, they accidentally hypnotise him into thinking that he is the caped tighty-whitey crusader. The faux Captain is then tormented by a new history teacher, Prof. Poopypants (Nick Kroll), prompting a slew of fast-paced misadventures that Soren and his team energise with an array of animation formats.

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11.10 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Girls Trip [15]

2017, 122 mins

Description

Director: Malcolm D. Lee.
Starring: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall. USA 2017. 122 mins.

This raucous rom-com/chick-flick is like Sex And The City meets Hidden Figures – minus the algebra. Over the years, four BFF college pals (Hall, Latifah, Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish) have lost touch – both with each other and with their own senses of identity. But eventually the self-styled ‘Flossy Posse’ reunites at the Essence Festival in New Orleans for a long, hard, partying weekend with dancing and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. Drinks are chugged, men are appraised, secrets are outed and inspirational truths are reached in a manner that’s genuinely inspirational. Starry cameos from the likes of P. Diddy, Ne-Yo and Mariah Carey provide extra fun, but the main draw here is the full-throttle energy of the ‘girls’. They’re having the best time – and you will too.

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15.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Dunkirk [12A]

2017, 106 mins

Description

Director: Christopher Nolan.
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Netherlands/UK/France/USA 2017. 106 mins.

The mass evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940 was one of the most dramatic and pivotal episodes of the Second World War. In his latest feature, director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy) plunges viewers into the thick of it with what he describes as “the most visceral experiential two hours that audiences can hope for”.

Told from three points of view – land, sea and air – Dunkirk unfolds with a palpable sense of dread and tension, evoking the very human and immediate desire to survive.

With cinematography from Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar), a score from Hans Zimmer, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Mark Rylance, this is the must-see spectacle of the summer.

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13.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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16.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.30 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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21.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Baby Driver [15]

2017, 113 mins

Description

Director: Edgar Wright.
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey. USA 2017. 113 mins.

Young getaway driver Baby (Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. After he meets the girl of his dreams, he sees a chance to leave his criminal life behind. But one last heist puts his love, life and freedom on the line. With an eclectic soundtrack ranging from Queen and Martha Reeves to The Beach Boys, Edgar Wright’s musical crime caper rolls out one terrific tune after the other.

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18.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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20.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Despicable Me 3 2D [U]

2017, 90 mins

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Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon. Voices: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. USA 2017. 90 mins.

At the end of Despicable Me 2, one-time dastardly supervillain Felonious Gru (Carell) seemed to have hung up his ‘evil’ cape for good. Having settled in the ‘burbs with his feisty super agent wife (Wiig) and three adorable, unicorn-loving, adopted daughters, he’s now out to actively fight crime, not cause it. Until, that is, a long lost, enviably hirsute twin brother (also Carell) pops out of the woodwork to tempt Gru back to the dark side… Eagerly anticipated by everyone from toddlers to adults, this animated threequel also voice casts Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park and The Book Of Mormon) as an ’80s-obsessed baddie with truly villainous shoulder pads. As if that wasn’t enough, one final word will sell it to you: Minions!

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12.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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14.10 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Moana 2D - Singalong [PG]

2017, 113 mins

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Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker. Voices: Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House. USA 2016. 113 mins.

On the mythical and mystical island of Motuni in the South Pacific lives the titular Moana (delightful newcomer Cravalho), daughter of the tribal chief and last in a long line of navigators. Her family have long since abandoned their fabled oceanic adventuring, but with encouragement from her grandma (House), the teenage Moana sets off to sea in search of a mysterious island, accompanied by a spiky demigod (Johnson) and a pet rooster. In their first digital animation – which involved much specially written software – and with a starry voice cast including actors with Pacific island roots, legendary Disney directors Clements and Musker (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid) have created a visually stunning work, adding music and humour to the tale of an unlikely but endearing friendship.

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11.00 Kids' Club: Exclusively for children and their parents or carers. Unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
The Terminator [18]

2017, 108 mins

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In 2029, the war between man and machine has desolated the Earth, leaving humanity all but wiped out. Pockets of survivors remain - either living as slaves serving their technological overlords, or as resistance fighters attempting to overthrow the sentient defence network that controls the machines.

From this wasteland, two soldiers are sent back in time to Los Angeles, 1984 in order to influence the outcome of a conflict that hasn't taken place yet. One is an unstoppable cyborg assassin, the other a human guerrilla fighter. Serving on opposite sides of the battle, they share the same target: Sarah Connor, an unsuspecting young woman whose unborn child will become the key to saving mankind.

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20.45 Culture Shock: Dedicated to bringing you the best in cult and genre films.
Spark London Storytelling Open Mic: 'Periods' [18]

2017, 180 mins

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Spark London Storytelling Open Mic
Theme: 'Periods'

Have you had phases of depression, or elation when everything was going well, periods of stagnation when you waited for things to improve, or times of your life when everything was turbulent? Or maybe you have been affected by the female hormonal cycle in one way or another. We welcome any stories on the theme of “periods” to share with our audience.

8pm - 11pm (doors 7/7.30)// £5 entry

Visit: Spark London

Visit: Upstairs Facebook Page

Please note: After 8pm, the Upstairs bar is for over 18's only.

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Tuesday 22nd Aug
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power [PG]

2017, 98 mins

Description

Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk. Featuring: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Donald Trump. USA 2017. 98 mins.

Ten years after his original Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore remains deeply committed to publicising the oncoming perils of climate change and, as this movie demonstrates, doing something practical about it. Taking over from original director Davis Guggenheim, directors Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk follow Gore as he travels the globe tutoring eco-activists as well as demonstrating to his global warming-denying critics that his original, dour predictions are already proving correct – Miami Beach’s regular floods, Hurricane Sandy putting Manhattan’s Ground Zero underwater, anybody? Footage of Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s efforts conversely to address and refute the fact of climate change are equally chilling, which is ironic considering that the fifteen hottest years on record have occurred since 2001. Sobering and heartening in equal measure.

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13.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
The Hitman's Bodyguard [15]

2017, 118 mins

Description

Director: Patrick Hughes.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman. USA 2017. 118 mins.

Highly feared personal protection agent , Michael Bryce (Reynolds, fresh out of his wildly successful Deadpool) has just 24 hours to shepherd the world’s best hit man, Darius Kincaid (Jackson), from England to the Hague. There Kincaid will give evidence at the International Court of Justice against his former employer, the tyrannical president of an East European nation (Oldman). Trouble is, Bryce and Kincaid are, themselves, sworn enemies but are obliged to combine efforts to overcome considerable obstacles, not least the enormous army of mercenaries at the dictator’s disposal. With Expendables 3 comfortably under his belt, director Patrick Hughes and writer Tom O’Connor (Fire With Fire) ensure that the ensuing carnage is as explosive and darkly hilarious as we could wish for, thanks not least to Salma Hayek as Kincaid’s equally volatile wife.

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13.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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15.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.15 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Tractor Ted Down on the Farm, Cheese-Making [U]

2017, 40 mins

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Tractor Ted, the farming superhero for children aged 2-6 years (and parents and grandparents too) is all about real life fun on the farm!

This gorgeous new DVD introduces us to life on a Somerset dairy farm and shows us how cheese is made. We go behind the scenes on the farm and meet the clever cows who even know when it’s milking time! We see lots of machines at work on the farm too from the milk tanker and the loader to the feed wagon feeding the young cows in the barn. There is plenty of real life farm footage and plenty of real life farm fun to be had – perfect for a summer holiday treat!

Sneaky Peek! Have a sneaky peek of the film by clicking here... Such a treat!

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.
A Ghost Story [12A]

2017, 92 mins

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Director: David Lowery.
Starring: Casey Affleck. Rooney Mara. USA 2017. 92 mins.

The latest film from acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) is a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. A white-sheeted ghost (Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An audacious, unforgettable meditation on the passage of time, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

Contains infrequent strong language, images of dead bodies.

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16.50 21.30
Atomic Blonde [15]

2017, 115 mins

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Director: David Leitch.
Starring: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella. USA 2017. 115 mins.

Charlize Theron kicks serious ass wearing suspenders and stilettos in this slick, action-packed espionage thriller. She plays Lorraine Broughton, a top MI6 operative dispatched to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and retrieve a top-secret dossier. Here she meets station chief David Percival (McAvoy) and they form an uneasy partnership. “God, I think I love you,” Percival tells her admiringly. Who wouldn’t? Theron is cooler than ice as she stalks Berlin’s chilly streets and steamy nightclubs, pausing only to kiss a girl or knock back a vodka on the rocks. Adapted from Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City, the movie is directed by David Leitch (John Wick and the upcoming Deadpool 2), who also happens to be Brad Pitt’s former stunt double. It’s fair to say action fans won’t leave disappointed.

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16.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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20.45 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Step [PG]

2017, 84 mins

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Director: Amanda Lipitz. USA 2017. 84 mins.

Step is the real-life story of a girls’ high-school step team set against the backdrop of social unrest in the troubled city of Baltimore. These young women learn to laugh, love and thrive – on and off the stage – even when the world seems to work against them. Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counsellors, coaches and families, they chase their ultimate dreams – to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all-female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives: they’ve made it their goal to have every senior student graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so. Deeply insightful and emotionally inspiring, Step embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie [U]

2017, 89 mins

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Director: David Soren.
Voices: Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch. USA 2017. 89 mins.

Noted Dreamworks animator David Soren (Shrek, Turbo) directs the first film of a potential franchise based on author Dav Pilkey’s weirdly wonderful children’s adventures featuring elementary-school troublemakers George (Hart) and Harold (Middleditch). Rather than studying in the classroom, George and Harold prefer sitting in their tree house chronicling the exploits of their unlikely superhero, Captain Underpants, in their homemade comic books. However, when their stern headmaster Mr Krupp (Helms) finally catches them out, they accidentally hypnotise him into thinking that he is the caped tighty-whitey crusader. The faux Captain is then tormented by a new history teacher, Prof. Poopypants (Nick Kroll), prompting a slew of fast-paced misadventures that Soren and his team energise with an array of animation formats.

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11.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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13.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Girls Trip [15]

2017, 122 mins

Description

Director: Malcolm D. Lee.
Starring: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall. USA 2017. 122 mins.

This raucous rom-com/chick-flick is like Sex And The City meets Hidden Figures – minus the algebra. Over the years, four BFF college pals (Hall, Latifah, Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish) have lost touch – both with each other and with their own senses of identity. But eventually the self-styled ‘Flossy Posse’ reunites at the Essence Festival in New Orleans for a long, hard, partying weekend with dancing and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. Drinks are chugged, men are appraised, secrets are outed and inspirational truths are reached in a manner that’s genuinely inspirational. Starry cameos from the likes of P. Diddy, Ne-Yo and Mariah Carey provide extra fun, but the main draw here is the full-throttle energy of the ‘girls’. They’re having the best time – and you will too.

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16.10 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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21.10 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Metamorphoses [15]

2017, 102 mins

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When Europa skips class and meets a magnetic young man named Jupiter, she embarks on an unexpected and magical journey. Travelling aboard Jupiter’s eight-wheel truck, they arrive in a mythical land inhabited by powerful gods who can transform humans into plants or animals in the blink of an eye. Europa watches, listens, and plays in their immortal home, becoming acquainted with Jupiter’s friends, Bacchus and Orpheus. As the confrontation between seductive, yet vengeful gods and innocent mortals unfolds, Europa grasps a greater sense of life and love in this revelatory modern-day retelling of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

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18.30 Discover Tuesdays: Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.
Dunkirk [12A]

2017, 106 mins

Description

Director: Christopher Nolan.
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Netherlands/UK/France/USA 2017. 106 mins.

The mass evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940 was one of the most dramatic and pivotal episodes of the Second World War. In his latest feature, director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy) plunges viewers into the thick of it with what he describes as “the most visceral experiential two hours that audiences can hope for”.

Told from three points of view – land, sea and air – Dunkirk unfolds with a palpable sense of dread and tension, evoking the very human and immediate desire to survive.

With cinematography from Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar), a score from Hans Zimmer, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Mark Rylance, this is the must-see spectacle of the summer.

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13.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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16.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.30 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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21.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Baby Driver [15]

2017, 113 mins

Description

Director: Edgar Wright.
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey. USA 2017. 113 mins.

Young getaway driver Baby (Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. After he meets the girl of his dreams, he sees a chance to leave his criminal life behind. But one last heist puts his love, life and freedom on the line. With an eclectic soundtrack ranging from Queen and Martha Reeves to The Beach Boys, Edgar Wright’s musical crime caper rolls out one terrific tune after the other.

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19.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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20.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Despicable Me 3 2D [U]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon. Voices: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. USA 2017. 90 mins.

At the end of Despicable Me 2, one-time dastardly supervillain Felonious Gru (Carell) seemed to have hung up his ‘evil’ cape for good. Having settled in the ‘burbs with his feisty super agent wife (Wiig) and three adorable, unicorn-loving, adopted daughters, he’s now out to actively fight crime, not cause it. Until, that is, a long lost, enviably hirsute twin brother (also Carell) pops out of the woodwork to tempt Gru back to the dark side… Eagerly anticipated by everyone from toddlers to adults, this animated threequel also voice casts Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park and The Book Of Mormon) as an ’80s-obsessed baddie with truly villainous shoulder pads. As if that wasn’t enough, one final word will sell it to you: Minions!

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11.30 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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12.40 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
Moana 2D - Singalong [PG]

2017, 113 mins

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Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker. Voices: Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House. USA 2016. 113 mins.

On the mythical and mystical island of Motuni in the South Pacific lives the titular Moana (delightful newcomer Cravalho), daughter of the tribal chief and last in a long line of navigators. Her family have long since abandoned their fabled oceanic adventuring, but with encouragement from her grandma (House), the teenage Moana sets off to sea in search of a mysterious island, accompanied by a spiky demigod (Johnson) and a pet rooster. In their first digital animation – which involved much specially written software – and with a starry voice cast including actors with Pacific island roots, legendary Disney directors Clements and Musker (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid) have created a visually stunning work, adding music and humour to the tale of an unlikely but endearing friendship.

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11.00 Kids' Club: Exclusively for children and their parents or carers. Unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
#MOEPresents [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

MOE Presents aka "Music Over Everything Presents" is a live music platform for all rappers, grime MC's, singers and spoken word poets. Based Upstairs every last Monday of the month.

Every edition we showcase a variety of upcoming talent from in and around London.

Follow them on all the socials to keep up to date:
Twitter.com/MOEPresents
Instagram.com/_moepresents
Facebook.com/MOEPresents

Or check the hashtag #MOEPresents

Doors 7.30pm
£5 adv, £7 door

Visit: Upstairs Facebook Page

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19.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Wednesday 23rd Aug
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power [PG]

2017, 98 mins

Description

Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk. Featuring: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Donald Trump. USA 2017. 98 mins.

Ten years after his original Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore remains deeply committed to publicising the oncoming perils of climate change and, as this movie demonstrates, doing something practical about it. Taking over from original director Davis Guggenheim, directors Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk follow Gore as he travels the globe tutoring eco-activists as well as demonstrating to his global warming-denying critics that his original, dour predictions are already proving correct – Miami Beach’s regular floods, Hurricane Sandy putting Manhattan’s Ground Zero underwater, anybody? Footage of Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s efforts conversely to address and refute the fact of climate change are equally chilling, which is ironic considering that the fifteen hottest years on record have occurred since 2001. Sobering and heartening in equal measure.

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13.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset

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18.50 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset
The Hitman's Bodyguard [15]

2017, 118 mins

Description

Director: Patrick Hughes.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman. USA 2017. 118 mins.

Highly feared personal protection agent , Michael Bryce (Reynolds, fresh out of his wildly successful Deadpool) has just 24 hours to shepherd the world’s best hit man, Darius Kincaid (Jackson), from England to the Hague. There Kincaid will give evidence at the International Court of Justice against his former employer, the tyrannical president of an East European nation (Oldman). Trouble is, Bryce and Kincaid are, themselves, sworn enemies but are obliged to combine efforts to overcome considerable obstacles, not least the enormous army of mercenaries at the dictator’s disposal. With Expendables 3 comfortably under his belt, director Patrick Hughes and writer Tom O’Connor (Fire With Fire) ensure that the ensuing carnage is as explosive and darkly hilarious as we could wish for, thanks not least to Salma Hayek as Kincaid’s equally volatile wife.

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A Ghost Story [12A]

2017, 92 mins

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Director: David Lowery.
Starring: Casey Affleck. Rooney Mara. USA 2017. 92 mins.

The latest film from acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) is a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. A white-sheeted ghost (Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An audacious, unforgettable meditation on the passage of time, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

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Atomic Blonde [15]

2017, 115 mins

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Director: David Leitch.
Starring: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella. USA 2017. 115 mins.

Charlize Theron kicks serious ass wearing suspenders and stilettos in this slick, action-packed espionage thriller. She plays Lorraine Broughton, a top MI6 operative dispatched to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and retrieve a top-secret dossier. Here she meets station chief David Percival (McAvoy) and they form an uneasy partnership. “God, I think I love you,” Percival tells her admiringly. Who wouldn’t? Theron is cooler than ice as she stalks Berlin’s chilly streets and steamy nightclubs, pausing only to kiss a girl or knock back a vodka on the rocks. Adapted from Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City, the movie is directed by David Leitch (John Wick and the upcoming Deadpool 2), who also happens to be Brad Pitt’s former stunt double. It’s fair to say action fans won’t leave disappointed.

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Step [PG]

2017, 84 mins

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Director: Amanda Lipitz. USA 2017. 84 mins.

Step is the real-life story of a girls’ high-school step team set against the backdrop of social unrest in the troubled city of Baltimore. These young women learn to laugh, love and thrive – on and off the stage – even when the world seems to work against them. Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counsellors, coaches and families, they chase their ultimate dreams – to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all-female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives: they’ve made it their goal to have every senior student graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so. Deeply insightful and emotionally inspiring, Step embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie [U]

2017, 89 mins

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Director: David Soren.
Voices: Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch. USA 2017. 89 mins.

Noted Dreamworks animator David Soren (Shrek, Turbo) directs the first film of a potential franchise based on author Dav Pilkey’s weirdly wonderful children’s adventures featuring elementary-school troublemakers George (Hart) and Harold (Middleditch). Rather than studying in the classroom, George and Harold prefer sitting in their tree house chronicling the exploits of their unlikely superhero, Captain Underpants, in their homemade comic books. However, when their stern headmaster Mr Krupp (Helms) finally catches them out, they accidentally hypnotise him into thinking that he is the caped tighty-whitey crusader. The faux Captain is then tormented by a new history teacher, Prof. Poopypants (Nick Kroll), prompting a slew of fast-paced misadventures that Soren and his team energise with an array of animation formats.

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Girls Trip [15]

2017, 122 mins

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Director: Malcolm D. Lee.
Starring: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall. USA 2017. 122 mins.

This raucous rom-com/chick-flick is like Sex And The City meets Hidden Figures – minus the algebra. Over the years, four BFF college pals (Hall, Latifah, Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish) have lost touch – both with each other and with their own senses of identity. But eventually the self-styled ‘Flossy Posse’ reunites at the Essence Festival in New Orleans for a long, hard, partying weekend with dancing and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. Drinks are chugged, men are appraised, secrets are outed and inspirational truths are reached in a manner that’s genuinely inspirational. Starry cameos from the likes of P. Diddy, Ne-Yo and Mariah Carey provide extra fun, but the main draw here is the full-throttle energy of the ‘girls’. They’re having the best time – and you will too.

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Dunkirk [12A]

2017, 106 mins

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Director: Christopher Nolan.
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Netherlands/UK/France/USA 2017. 106 mins.

The mass evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940 was one of the most dramatic and pivotal episodes of the Second World War. In his latest feature, director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy) plunges viewers into the thick of it with what he describes as “the most visceral experiential two hours that audiences can hope for”.

Told from three points of view – land, sea and air – Dunkirk unfolds with a palpable sense of dread and tension, evoking the very human and immediate desire to survive.

With cinematography from Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar), a score from Hans Zimmer, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Mark Rylance, this is the must-see spectacle of the summer.

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TAPE Presents: Bruk OUT! + Dancehall After Party [18]

2017, 300 mins

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For the past months, T A P E has been focused on screening films which in some way explore culture, identity and heritage. The August film is as bold as it is energetic and just in time for Carnival season, putting a spotlight on the Jamaican Dancehall culture as it brings together dancers and enthusiasts from around the world - Japan, Italy, America, Poland, Spain, and of course, Jamaica.

Bruk OUT! follows six Dancehalll Queens, powerhouses at the heart of this global phenomenon, as they prepare to battle it out in Montego Bay for the dancehall world's greatest trophy. Not only does this documentary present an intimate insight into the serious graft of this dynamic world, it also uncovers more personal struggles including body image, poverty and being criticised for hyper-sexual dancing seen by some as lewd but which they feel is empowering.

This directorial debut from Cori McKenna, which recently screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest, celebrates music, Caribbean and international culture, and its leading ladies all at once.

Following the screening, in a warm up to carnival weekend, get set to wine ya waist with D’Vo on the decks playing the best in old and new dancehall music. Plus more special guests TBA.

Doors: 7pm
Film: 7.30
Dancehall Party: 9pm - Midnight

Tickets: £7 adv, £8 door
(Party only: £5)

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Please note: After 8pm, the Upstairs bar is for over 18's only.

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Baby Driver [15]

2017, 113 mins

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Director: Edgar Wright.
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey. USA 2017. 113 mins.

Young getaway driver Baby (Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. After he meets the girl of his dreams, he sees a chance to leave his criminal life behind. But one last heist puts his love, life and freedom on the line. With an eclectic soundtrack ranging from Queen and Martha Reeves to The Beach Boys, Edgar Wright’s musical crime caper rolls out one terrific tune after the other.

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Despicable Me 3 2D [U]

2017, 90 mins

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Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon. Voices: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. USA 2017. 90 mins.

At the end of Despicable Me 2, one-time dastardly supervillain Felonious Gru (Carell) seemed to have hung up his ‘evil’ cape for good. Having settled in the ‘burbs with his feisty super agent wife (Wiig) and three adorable, unicorn-loving, adopted daughters, he’s now out to actively fight crime, not cause it. Until, that is, a long lost, enviably hirsute twin brother (also Carell) pops out of the woodwork to tempt Gru back to the dark side… Eagerly anticipated by everyone from toddlers to adults, this animated threequel also voice casts Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park and The Book Of Mormon) as an ’80s-obsessed baddie with truly villainous shoulder pads. As if that wasn’t enough, one final word will sell it to you: Minions!

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Moana 2D - Singalong [PG]

2017, 113 mins

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Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker. Voices: Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House. USA 2016. 113 mins.

On the mythical and mystical island of Motuni in the South Pacific lives the titular Moana (delightful newcomer Cravalho), daughter of the tribal chief and last in a long line of navigators. Her family have long since abandoned their fabled oceanic adventuring, but with encouragement from her grandma (House), the teenage Moana sets off to sea in search of a mysterious island, accompanied by a spiky demigod (Johnson) and a pet rooster. In their first digital animation – which involved much specially written software – and with a starry voice cast including actors with Pacific island roots, legendary Disney directors Clements and Musker (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid) have created a visually stunning work, adding music and humour to the tale of an unlikely but endearing friendship.

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11.00 Kids' Club: Exclusively for children and their parents or carers. Unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
Your Name [12A]

2017, 106 mins

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Mitsuha and Taki are two total strangers living completely different lives. But when Mitsuha makes a wish to leave her mountain town and for the bustling city of Tokyo, they become connected in a bizarre way. She dreams she is a boy living in Tokyo while Taki dreams he is a girl from a rural town he’s never been to.

What does their newfound connection mean? And how will it bring them together?

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20.45 Culture Shock: Dedicated to bringing you the best in cult and genre films.
Thursday 24th Aug
Patti Cake$ [15]

2017, 109 mins

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Director: Geremy Jasper. Starring: Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay. USA 2017. 109 mins.

Patti Cake$ introduces Australian native Danielle Macdonald in a breakout role, as aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$. Fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in Jersey where her life is falling apart, Patti tries to reach the big time in the hip hop scene with original and affecting music. Cheered on by her grandmother (Cathy Moriarty) and only friends, Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay) and Basterd (Mamoudou Athie), Patti also shoulders her mother"s (Bridget Everett) heartaches and misfortunes.

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21.00 E4 Slackers Club: Free screening exclusively for students. Visit facebook.com/SlackersClub to find out more.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power [PG]

2017, 98 mins

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Directors: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk. Featuring: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Donald Trump. USA 2017. 98 mins.

Ten years after his original Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore remains deeply committed to publicising the oncoming perils of climate change and, as this movie demonstrates, doing something practical about it. Taking over from original director Davis Guggenheim, directors Bonnie Cohen and Jon Shenk follow Gore as he travels the globe tutoring eco-activists as well as demonstrating to his global warming-denying critics that his original, dour predictions are already proving correct – Miami Beach’s regular floods, Hurricane Sandy putting Manhattan’s Ground Zero underwater, anybody? Footage of Barack Obama and Donald Trump’s efforts conversely to address and refute the fact of climate change are equally chilling, which is ironic considering that the fifteen hottest years on record have occurred since 2001. Sobering and heartening in equal measure.

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The Hitman's Bodyguard [15]

2017, 118 mins

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Director: Patrick Hughes.
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman. USA 2017. 118 mins.

Highly feared personal protection agent , Michael Bryce (Reynolds, fresh out of his wildly successful Deadpool) has just 24 hours to shepherd the world’s best hit man, Darius Kincaid (Jackson), from England to the Hague. There Kincaid will give evidence at the International Court of Justice against his former employer, the tyrannical president of an East European nation (Oldman). Trouble is, Bryce and Kincaid are, themselves, sworn enemies but are obliged to combine efforts to overcome considerable obstacles, not least the enormous army of mercenaries at the dictator’s disposal. With Expendables 3 comfortably under his belt, director Patrick Hughes and writer Tom O’Connor (Fire With Fire) ensure that the ensuing carnage is as explosive and darkly hilarious as we could wish for, thanks not least to Salma Hayek as Kincaid’s equally volatile wife.

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Tractor Ted Down on the Farm, Cheese-Making [U]

2017, 40 mins

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Tractor Ted, the farming superhero for children aged 2-6 years (and parents and grandparents too) is all about real life fun on the farm!

This gorgeous new DVD introduces us to life on a Somerset dairy farm and shows us how cheese is made. We go behind the scenes on the farm and meet the clever cows who even know when it’s milking time! We see lots of machines at work on the farm too from the milk tanker and the loader to the feed wagon feeding the young cows in the barn. There is plenty of real life farm footage and plenty of real life farm fun to be had – perfect for a summer holiday treat!

Sneaky Peek! Have a sneaky peek of the film by clicking here... Such a treat!

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.
A Ghost Story [12A]

2017, 92 mins

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Director: David Lowery.
Starring: Casey Affleck. Rooney Mara. USA 2017. 92 mins.

The latest film from acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) is a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. A white-sheeted ghost (Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An audacious, unforgettable meditation on the passage of time, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

Contains infrequent strong language, images of dead bodies.

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Atomic Blonde [15]

2017, 115 mins

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Director: David Leitch.
Starring: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Sofia Boutella. USA 2017. 115 mins.

Charlize Theron kicks serious ass wearing suspenders and stilettos in this slick, action-packed espionage thriller. She plays Lorraine Broughton, a top MI6 operative dispatched to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and retrieve a top-secret dossier. Here she meets station chief David Percival (McAvoy) and they form an uneasy partnership. “God, I think I love you,” Percival tells her admiringly. Who wouldn’t? Theron is cooler than ice as she stalks Berlin’s chilly streets and steamy nightclubs, pausing only to kiss a girl or knock back a vodka on the rocks. Adapted from Antony Johnston’s graphic novel The Coldest City, the movie is directed by David Leitch (John Wick and the upcoming Deadpool 2), who also happens to be Brad Pitt’s former stunt double. It’s fair to say action fans won’t leave disappointed.

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Step [PG]

2017, 84 mins

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Director: Amanda Lipitz. USA 2017. 84 mins.

Step is the real-life story of a girls’ high-school step team set against the backdrop of social unrest in the troubled city of Baltimore. These young women learn to laugh, love and thrive – on and off the stage – even when the world seems to work against them. Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counsellors, coaches and families, they chase their ultimate dreams – to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all-female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives: they’ve made it their goal to have every senior student graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so. Deeply insightful and emotionally inspiring, Step embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.

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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie [U]

2017, 89 mins

Description

Director: David Soren.
Voices: Ed Helms, Kevin Hart, Thomas Middleditch. USA 2017. 89 mins.

Noted Dreamworks animator David Soren (Shrek, Turbo) directs the first film of a potential franchise based on author Dav Pilkey’s weirdly wonderful children’s adventures featuring elementary-school troublemakers George (Hart) and Harold (Middleditch). Rather than studying in the classroom, George and Harold prefer sitting in their tree house chronicling the exploits of their unlikely superhero, Captain Underpants, in their homemade comic books. However, when their stern headmaster Mr Krupp (Helms) finally catches them out, they accidentally hypnotise him into thinking that he is the caped tighty-whitey crusader. The faux Captain is then tormented by a new history teacher, Prof. Poopypants (Nick Kroll), prompting a slew of fast-paced misadventures that Soren and his team energise with an array of animation formats.

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12.00 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Girls Trip [15]

2017, 122 mins

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Director: Malcolm D. Lee.
Starring: Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Regina Hall. USA 2017. 122 mins.

This raucous rom-com/chick-flick is like Sex And The City meets Hidden Figures – minus the algebra. Over the years, four BFF college pals (Hall, Latifah, Pinkett Smith and Tiffany Haddish) have lost touch – both with each other and with their own senses of identity. But eventually the self-styled ‘Flossy Posse’ reunites at the Essence Festival in New Orleans for a long, hard, partying weekend with dancing and romancing to make the Big Easy blush. Drinks are chugged, men are appraised, secrets are outed and inspirational truths are reached in a manner that’s genuinely inspirational. Starry cameos from the likes of P. Diddy, Ne-Yo and Mariah Carey provide extra fun, but the main draw here is the full-throttle energy of the ‘girls’. They’re having the best time – and you will too.

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Dunkirk [12A]

2017, 106 mins

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Director: Christopher Nolan.
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Harry Styles, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy. Netherlands/UK/France/USA 2017. 106 mins.

The mass evacuation of more than 330,000 Allied troops from the beaches of Dunkirk in May 1940 was one of the most dramatic and pivotal episodes of the Second World War. In his latest feature, director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight trilogy) plunges viewers into the thick of it with what he describes as “the most visceral experiential two hours that audiences can hope for”.

Told from three points of view – land, sea and air – Dunkirk unfolds with a palpable sense of dread and tension, evoking the very human and immediate desire to survive.

With cinematography from Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar), a score from Hans Zimmer, and an all-star supporting cast that includes Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy and Mark Rylance, this is the must-see spectacle of the summer.

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Baby Driver [15]

2017, 113 mins

Description

Director: Edgar Wright.
Starring: Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey. USA 2017. 113 mins.

Young getaway driver Baby (Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. After he meets the girl of his dreams, he sees a chance to leave his criminal life behind. But one last heist puts his love, life and freedom on the line. With an eclectic soundtrack ranging from Queen and Martha Reeves to The Beach Boys, Edgar Wright’s musical crime caper rolls out one terrific tune after the other.

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Despicable Me 3 2D [U]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon. Voices: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. USA 2017. 90 mins.

At the end of Despicable Me 2, one-time dastardly supervillain Felonious Gru (Carell) seemed to have hung up his ‘evil’ cape for good. Having settled in the ‘burbs with his feisty super agent wife (Wiig) and three adorable, unicorn-loving, adopted daughters, he’s now out to actively fight crime, not cause it. Until, that is, a long lost, enviably hirsute twin brother (also Carell) pops out of the woodwork to tempt Gru back to the dark side… Eagerly anticipated by everyone from toddlers to adults, this animated threequel also voice casts Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park and The Book Of Mormon) as an ’80s-obsessed baddie with truly villainous shoulder pads. As if that wasn’t enough, one final word will sell it to you: Minions!

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14.30 Audio Described: Everyone welcome. Audio Description is available for this film, and is undetectable to anyone not wearing a headset Silver Screen: Aged over 60? Join the Silver Screen Club for discounted tickets and a free tea or coffee at these shows. Usual ticket prices apply to non-Members.
Moana 2D - Singalong [PG]

2017, 113 mins

Description

Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker. Voices: Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House. USA 2016. 113 mins.

On the mythical and mystical island of Motuni in the South Pacific lives the titular Moana (delightful newcomer Cravalho), daughter of the tribal chief and last in a long line of navigators. Her family have long since abandoned their fabled oceanic adventuring, but with encouragement from her grandma (House), the teenage Moana sets off to sea in search of a mysterious island, accompanied by a spiky demigod (Johnson) and a pet rooster. In their first digital animation – which involved much specially written software – and with a starry voice cast including actors with Pacific island roots, legendary Disney directors Clements and Musker (Aladdin, The Little Mermaid) have created a visually stunning work, adding music and humour to the tale of an unlikely but endearing friendship.

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11.00 Kids' Club: Exclusively for children and their parents or carers. Unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
The Smiths Quiz / Karaoke - Bigmouth Strikes Again [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

To celebrate the release of the Morrissey biopic 'England is Mine', 35 years since The Smiths formed and 30 years since their split, we're hosting a special quiz AND a spot of karaoke / dancing after (depending on how shy you all are).

£5 adv / £7 otn, 5 people max per quiz team, 15 teams available.

Doors 7, Quiz 7:30, flailing / singing, 9:30-12.

Any karaoke requests; ASK ME, OH OH OH, ASK ME.

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Please note: After 8pm, the Upstairs bar is for over 18's only.

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19.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Ra Yoga Class [12A]

2017, 90 mins

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Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am
EVERY SUNDAY: 10.30am - 11.30am (different ticket link when you go to all listings)

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

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Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Friday 25th Aug
Detroit [15]

2017, 143 mins

Description

Director: Kathryn Bigelow.
Starring: John Boyega, Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie. USA 2017. 143 mins.

Never afraid to tackle tendentious subjects, director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) now set their sharp sights on the events of 1967 Detroit, which sparked the worst race riots in American history. The action is centred on the Algiers Motel on a sweltering hot July night, where a random shot from a starting pistol brought in the National Guard and a large number of police sharpshooters. Three black men were left dead and several more brutally beaten; a black security guard, Melvin Dismukes (John Boyega, Star Wars’ Finn), tried desperately to mediate between his white superiors and an enraged African-American community. Freighted with characteristic dramatic intensity and shot with a gritty realism, Bigelow’s latest is a timely reminder of the deep and potentially lethal divisions in American society.

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22.00
Blues at the Ritzy: Dance Class & Social [18]

2017, 360 mins

Description

Swing Patrol’s monthly Blues dance night warms you up with a class, then follows with 5 hours of smokin’ social dancing with a live band plus the best Blues DJs in London. With music ranging from vintage female Blues to Delta, Chicago, Texas, Louisiana, Piedmont, British, Funky and modern Blues, this is ready and open to anyone. You can explore your dancing with these different styles in a relaxed and friendly environment.

AUGUST: Feat. The Barry Jackson Blues Band
SEPTEMBER: Feat. No Saints

8pm: Doors open
8.30-9.15pm: Taster blues dance class (no entry to class after 8.40pm)
9.15-2am: Uninterrupted party time with live music and DJs!

Tickets: £10 adv / £12 door.

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Saturday 26th Aug
Detroit [15]

2017, 143 mins

Description

Director: Kathryn Bigelow.
Starring: John Boyega, Algee Smith, Anthony Mackie. USA 2017. 143 mins.

Never afraid to tackle tendentious subjects, director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) now set their sharp sights on the events of 1967 Detroit, which sparked the worst race riots in American history. The action is centred on the Algiers Motel on a sweltering hot July night, where a random shot from a starting pistol brought in the National Guard and a large number of police sharpshooters. Three black men were left dead and several more brutally beaten; a black security guard, Melvin Dismukes (John Boyega, Star Wars’ Finn), tried desperately to mediate between his white superiors and an enraged African-American community. Freighted with characteristic dramatic intensity and shot with a gritty realism, Bigelow’s latest is a timely reminder of the deep and potentially lethal divisions in American society.

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22.00
Ratatouille [PG]

2017, 106 mins

Description

Remy lives in Paris and dreams of becoming a chef. The only problem is that Remy is a rat.

With his passion for cooking, he forms an unlikely alliance with a young, inexperienced chef at one of the most famous restaurants in the city.

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10.30 Kids' Club: Exclusively for children and their parents or carers. Unaccompanied adults are not admitted.
Massive Arts Fayre [N/A]

2017, 299 mins

Description

Come hither for some lovely treats, brought to you by Massive Arms Promotions.

From 12 - 5:30pm, browse the arts fair and purchase pieces of our independent traders designs. Ranging from t-shirts and garments, to homewares and jewellery, illustrations and paintings.

FREE entry!
Invest in independent design!

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12.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Meltout: Carnival Warm Up Party - Brixton! [18]

2017, 360 mins

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Meltout Crew bring a Warm-Up party to the heart of Brixton, for Notting Hill's most anticipated street party of the year. Being Brixton's favourite party starters & part of the Reprezent Radio family, Meltout's calibre in music selection and vibe control will keep you moving until the very last tune.
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7pm - 2am

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Sunday 27th Aug
Alpha-Raw-Youthsayers [U]

2017, 240 mins

Description

Brixton Jamaica Connection presents an afternoon of live music featuring students from Alpha Boys School Jamaica, Raw Material and Youthsayers. Performing music from the preceding workshop sessions taking place at Raw Material on 24th, 25th and 26th Aug. Alpha Boys trip to the UK is sponsored by UK band Madness.

DJs: from 3 pm
Live music: 4.30pm

Tickets: £5 - proceeds will go to the Alpha Boys School

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15.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Princes Amongst Men Adam "Bottleneck" Blake [R18]

2017, 210 mins

Description

Join Adam "Bottleneck" Blake Upstairs for the launch party of his album, Portobello Blues. Blake is a master musician who is a member of Cornershop and Errol Linton's bands. Solo he performs both striking original songs and classic blues and folk standards. When not striding stages across the globe Blake busks on Portobello Road and his new album captures just that. Please join us for a hot summer's night celebrating London life, liberty and music. All welcome.

8pm // FREE ENTRY

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19.30 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Ra Yoga Class (Sunday) [12A]

2017, 60 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

10.30am - 11.30am

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

ALSO: EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am

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10.35 Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Monday 28th Aug
Bigger Boat: Film Quiz [R18]

2017, 210 mins

Description

Hail a Taxi Driver and get Up to the Godfather of all quizzes. Bringing you (Inter)stellar questions from the world of film, it’s been hailed as London’s Best In Show since its Inception. Everyone is welcome: whether you have A Beautiful Mind or you’re totally Clueless. There's no limit on team size, so it doesn’t matter if you're an Odd Couple or there's Se7en of you.

Room isn’t Limitless so avoid the Spectre of being a Mad Max and buy your tickets in advance, and if you don’t want to be Without A Clue, follow The Nice Guys on Twitter @film_quiz or sign up at www.film-quiz.com for clues and a free answer every month.

Arrival: 18:30 | Quiz Show: 19:30 | The End of The Affair: 21:45

Tickets: £6pp.

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19.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Tuesday 29th Aug
Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D [15]

2017, 137 mins

Description

Director: James Cameron.
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick, Edward Furlong. USA/France 2017. TBC mins.

He’s only gone and done it. James Cameron has talked about converting T2: Judgement Day into 3D for years, and now he’s given his 1991 masterpiece – one of the greatest action films of all time –the 21st century treatment. Digitally restored before conversion to 3D, this re-release brings the battle for tomorrow to life in spectacular fashion.

10 years after the events of The Terminator, Sarah Connor’s ordeal is only just beginning. A new cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back to eliminate her now ten-year-old son, John, the future leader of the human resistance. The T-1000 is more advanced and powerful than its predecessor, but Sarah and John won’t face this new terror alone…

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21.00 3D. Culture Shock: Dedicated to bringing you the best in cult and genre films.
Timmy Time: Timmy On Wheels And Other Adventures [U]

2017, 30 mins

Description

Join Timmy and his friends for three fun adventures in this collection of classic Timmy Time episodes where Timmy learns the importance of friendship – whether it’s teaching Ruffy how to ride a tricycle, helping Apricot get over her fear of thunder or just waiting his turn to have a go on the brand-new go kart.

Featuring the episodes Timmy On Wheels, Timmy Goes Bang and Go Kart Timmy.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.
Souvenir [12A]

2017, 91 mins

Description

A forgotten European song contest singer, fading away in a pate factory, falls in love with a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to attempt her comeback.

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18.30 Discover Tuesdays: Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.
Yaz Fentazi & Robyn Hemmings [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

This duo, led by Yaz Fentazi with Robyn Hemmings on double bass, perform music that draws on the rich musical traditional of jazz, blues and North African music, built around their original compositions. The music is a rootsy blend of Gnawa, Chaabi and Andalusian music. The Guardian has described Yaz Fentazi’s compositions as having “breadth and atmosphere, and his oud soloing, which recalls the drive and dynamism of world Oud star Anouar Brahem, is stunning.”

8pm - 11pm.

Free Entry.

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Wednesday 30th Aug
Laid Bare at the Ritzy [R18]

2017, 210 mins

Description

A live music night hosted by local musician, Rami Radi, presenting the best musicians, singers and poets South London has to offer! Based around two featured acts, the night is dedicated to local performers to showcase their talent in a warm and friendly environment.

May 31st: Featuring Sherika Sherard, Esme Neale & George Holroyd

7.30pm

Free Entry

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19.30 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.
Thursday 31st Aug
NT Live: Yerma [15]

2017, 120 mins

Description

The incredible Billie Piper (Penny Dreadful, Great Britain) returns in her Evening Standard Best Actress award-winning role. A young woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece. The unmissable theatre phenomenon sold out at the Young Vic and critics call it “an extraordinary theatrical triumph” (The Times) and “stunning, searing, unmissable” (Mail on Sunday). Billie Piper’s lead performance is described as “spellbinding” (The Evening Standard), “astonishing” (iNews) and “devastatingly powerful” (The Daily Telegraph). Set in contemporary London, Piper’s portrayal of a woman in her thirties desperate to conceive builds with elemental force to a staggering, shocking, climax. Please note that this broadcast does not have an interval.

★★★★★
“Brutal yet ferociously funny” - Metro

★★★★★
“Billie Piper makes a shattering Yerma in Simon Stone’s inspired reworking of Lorca” - The Observer

★★★★★
“A shatteringly powerful reinvention of a familiar classic” - The Independent

Encore screenings at select Picturehouses

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NT Live. Screen Arts.
Timmy Time: Timmy On Wheels And Other Adventures [U]

2017, 30 mins

Description

Join Timmy and his friends for three fun adventures in this collection of classic Timmy Time episodes where Timmy learns the importance of friendship – whether it’s teaching Ruffy how to ride a tricycle, helping Apricot get over her fear of thunder or just waiting his turn to have a go on the brand-new go kart.

Featuring the episodes Timmy On Wheels, Timmy Goes Bang and Go Kart Timmy.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.
End of the Weak LDN [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

What started out as an open mic in the back of a Harlem restaurant in 2000, is now established as NYC's longest running weekly open mic jam and has grown into an international hip-hop movement found in 15+ countries worldwide spread across 5 continents. Famous for its international MC challenge, the London chapter has found its home Upstairs At The Ritzy.
Expect rap cyphers and a soul jazz jam, plus the MC challenge, backed by the house band with residents, DJ Snuff, DJ Jazz T & host Mas Law.
The 'E.O.W a.k.a EODUB MC challenge' consist of 5 rounds, testing all skills of an MC. The prize is a trip to Prague to compete in the world finals.

AUGUST: Feat. MRISI
Pianist, rapper and producer Mrisi is a multifaceted artist with a varied musical background, by which the development of his sound has sought to unify these areas of influence. This has included a range of sounds from traditional South African music to Jazz piano and grass roots Hip Hop. Over the years, this has enabled him to perform at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, The Brighton Fringe Festival, Sofar Sounds and all over the UK and in South Africa, supporting the likes of Omar, Prince Fatty, Rizzle Kicks and along side working with the likes of Rag N Bone Man. His current performances display his skill on the piano and his challenging, thoughtful yet often witty lyricism. His performance includes two backing singers (Mwetcha) who not only introduce a more soulful element, but their three part harmonies grace the unique performance with an almost choral feel. Mrisi is one to watch with his up and coming project Mamela which has recently received direct support on Rag N Bone Man's Facebook artist page.

Doors 7.30pm.

Free entry before 9pm, £5 after.

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19.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Ra Yoga Class [12A]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am
EVERY SUNDAY: 10.30am - 11.30am (different ticket link when you go to all listings)

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

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Friday 1st Sep

Cinematic Soul (Funkalicious) [18]

2017, 300 mins

Description

Teaming a live DJ (Philster Funkalicious) with visuals, Cinematic Soul explores the best in funk, soul and soundtracks from 1965 to now. Projected visuals feature an exciting, epic montage of movie clips from cult films... and there’s plenty of space for dancers!

8pm - 1am

Free entry all night!

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20.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Saturday 2nd Sep

NT Live: Peter Pan (Encore) [PG]

2017, 162 mins

Description

★★★★★
‘Spellbindingly imaginative. A dazzling production.’
Radio Times

All children, except one, grow up…

Captured live at the National Theatre, a recorded performance of JM Barrie’s much-loved tale screens in cinemas this summer.

When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Tinker Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily and the vengeful Captain Hook await. A riot of magic, music and make-believe ensues.

A delight for children and adults alike, Sally Cookson (NT Live: Jane Eyre) directs this wondrously inventive production, a co-production with Bristol Old Vic theatre.

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10.30 Kids' Club: Exclusively for children and their parents or carers. Unaccompanied adults are not admitted.

Mobile X: Mobile Photography Closing Party /Awards [N/A]

2017, 330 mins

Description

For two weeks from August 18th Mention Media be hosting a collection of the world's finest mobile photography on our Upstairs gallery walls. There will be around 30 prints featured from shortlisted 'Mobile X' finalists who've submitted entries via Mention Media LDN's Instagram feed. All the photos are taken on mobile devices (smartphone or tablets) and will give a snippet of culture, landscapes & street scenes from various countries and cities including London, South Africa & Los Angeles.

As the two week exhibition draws to a close, we will be hosting a closing party and awards ceremony on Saturday 2nd September to announce the winner of the public vote, alongside the winner of the voters’ prize draw. They’ll be joined by a live jazz trio led by drummer Pharoah Russell, and some of the artists featured in the exhibition. This will be a unique afternoon Upstairs, and one not to be missed.

Anyone who attends the exhibition and votes for their favourite image will be entered into a prize draw for two cinema tickets and a bottle of wine.

Midday - 6pm

Free Entry

For further info, see the Mention Media LDN Facebook page.

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12.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Reggaeoke [18]

2017, 300 mins

Description

Formerly the best Sunday, now the best Saturday night out in Brixton!

Taking reggae karaoke to a whole other level, the best of the best with songs selection including - Beres Hammond, Tarrus Riley, Barrington Levy, Vybz Kartel and Mr Vegas and with a dash of soca for good measure. Channel your inner Caribbean artist, take to the stage SING OUT and sway to the riddims.

Hosted by Jay9 with DJ Barse and MC Dazzla, expect an energy-filled sing and dance along where pull ups, laughter and fun are guaranteed!

Tickets: £8 (click 20:00 on top right of page)

Doors: 8pm / Karaoke from 9pm / Post karaoke party until 1am

Arrive early for song sign up

Need to know info:
This event is always in high demand, tickets are known to sell out online well in advance so don't delay to avoid disappointment. There is limited seating on a first come first serve basis, your ticket is for entry - not a guaranteed seat We do not take birthday bookings or seat reservations.

For more event information contact organisers directly: info@reggaeoke.co.uk

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Sunday 3rd Sep

Pop Pickers Quiz [18]

2017, 210 mins

Description

Calling all pop loving, music geeks and their admirers. A new event is coming to the Ritzy to tickle your brain cells, called, Pop Pickers! A general knowledge MUSIC quiz like no other (think Never Mind the Buzzcocks meets TOTP) where the audience are as important as the questions.

So, are you a pop novice? Do you not really give a s***? Good. All are welcome at Pop Pickers for an afternoon of nonsense.

The first Sunday of every month (excluding June)

Hosted by David Robson.

Lunch & mingles 2pm - 3pm
Quiz 3pm - 6pm

Tickets: £3pp

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14.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Catch A Fire: Frederica Tibbs & The Powers Band [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

One of the most in-demand and best-loved voices on the UK reggae scene, Frederica has worked with Delroy Wilson, Gregory Isaacs, Alton Ellis, BB Seaton, Little Roy, Dennis Brown and many more. Tonight she’ll be backed by London’s finest, The Powers Band. With Zinc Fence on the decks, spinning the best JA vinyl 45s from ska to dancehall.

Twitter: @catchafirebrix
8pm - Midnight.
FREE ENTRY.
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Ra Yoga Class (Sunday) [12A]

2017, 60 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

10.30am - 11.30am

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

ALSO: EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am

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10.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Monday 4th Sep

Lost World London: Show Out [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

Lost World Show Out is an exciting, urban music based variety show. With a mix of handpicked headline acts, a game show, a live cypher (with content published online afterwards), and an open mic segment, open to singers, rappers, spoken word artists & comedians.

September features: Jordina Miller, Supreme Ky, Rebelle LDN, Bob Vylan, Rozita, Kay Doggz, Modulation and Roze.

Doors open at 7pm and open mic slots are first come, first serve.

Contact: ShowOut@TheLostWorld.co

No ID, no entry.

7pm - 11pm.
Tickets: £5 adv (online) & before 8.30 on the night, £8 after

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Tuesday 5th Sep

Rastamouse Cheesetastic [U]

2017, 35 mins

Description

Forget about da bass! In this trio of Rastamouse adventures it's all about cheese - Zoomer's favourite!

Featuring episodes: Da Rollin’ Cheese, Da Mouseland Cheese Hunt and Rainin’ Cheese

Author Michael De Souza says of his creation, “Rastamouse has a positive message for young children, promoting the need to understand what is right from what is wrong, and why, in a meaningful context.” If you want to have more fun when you get home from the cinema, go to www.rastamouse.com to find out all about the nation’s favourite reggae-playing mouse, play games or just listen to Da Easy Crew’s crucial tunes. Rastamouse and Da Easy Crew also want to hear all about how you made a bad ting good – so send any pictures or stories in to them at goodtings@rastamouse.com.

“Through understanding, love an' respect; Rastamouse will always make a bad thing good.”

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

City Of Ghosts [18]

2017, 92 mins

Description

Director: Matthew Heinemann. 2017. USA. 92min.

A real-life international thriller, City of Ghosts exposes a new type of warfare: a battle over ideas, a fight for hearts and minds, a conflict over clicks and views. Captivating in its immediacy, it follows the journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”—a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today. Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, 2015 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award), City of Ghosts is a singularly powerful cinematic experience that is sure to shake audiences to their core as it elevates the canon of one of the most talented and exciting documentary filmmakers working today.

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18.30 Discover Tuesdays: Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.

Gallery Launch: An Exhibition by Jo Stanford [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

You Didn't, You Haven't, You Don't and You're Not
by Jo Stanford

Taking the transitory as an expression of the way we live, Jo Stanford explores the everyday ups and downs of living, loving and falling apart through paint and collage. Using Brixton and the current regeneration as a foundation for an investigation into the transitory nature of existence, Stanford experiments with colour and juxtaposition to create tension within the works that act as a metaphor for the transitory nature of our contemporary urban environment.

Through observation and experimentation Stanford attempts to make physical the sense of our uneven lives using colour, shape and form. Exploring the nature of our existence on a local stage Stanford combines abstract painting with figurative elements to create works that make a visceral response to a changing landscape.

Jo Stanford is a local artist in Brixton.

Exhibition runs: 5 September - 18 September 2017

Gallery launch Tues 5 Sept: 7pm - 11pm
Free entry

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Wednesday 6th Sep

It [15]

2017, 135 mins

Description

New Line Cinema’s horror thriller “IT,” directed by Andrés Muschietti (“Mama”), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids are faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.

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21.00 E4 Slackers Club: Free screening exclusively for students. Visit facebook.com/SlackersClub to find out more.

Gypsy Nights Ft. Melange Collective [R18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

An always changing night of world music hosted by Melange Collective on the first Wednesday of every month. Expect the evocative melodies and hypnotic beats of Africa, the Balkan, Middle East, South America and further afield. Performed by Melange, and featuring variously Arabic Oud, cello, guitar, sax, accordion and percussion; the night has a different flavour every month ranging from acoustic performance to wild excursions into jazz and free improvisation. Guest artists also appear, and are invited to contact Melange with suggestions.

8pm - 11pm.

Free Entry

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Thursday 7th Sep

Rastamouse Cheesetastic [U]

2017, 35 mins

Description

Forget about da bass! In this trio of Rastamouse adventures it's all about cheese - Zoomer's favourite!

Featuring episodes: Da Rollin’ Cheese, Da Mouseland Cheese Hunt and Rainin’ Cheese

Author Michael De Souza says of his creation, “Rastamouse has a positive message for young children, promoting the need to understand what is right from what is wrong, and why, in a meaningful context.” If you want to have more fun when you get home from the cinema, go to www.rastamouse.com to find out all about the nation’s favourite reggae-playing mouse, play games or just listen to Da Easy Crew’s crucial tunes. Rastamouse and Da Easy Crew also want to hear all about how you made a bad ting good – so send any pictures or stories in to them at goodtings@rastamouse.com.

“Through understanding, love an' respect; Rastamouse will always make a bad thing good.”

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

Ra Yoga Class [12A]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am
EVERY SUNDAY: 10.30am - 11.30am (different ticket link when you go to all listings)

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

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Folk Modern Ft. Sam Walter + More TBA [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

Folk Modern Feat. Sam Walter Five acts are handpicked and curated by host Steve Folk, who is also a talented performer himself. There is no specific genre to the music he presents but it is generally original, honest, thought-provoking and always good.

Sam Walter is a folk singer from Malvern with an infectious spirit and rich, deep voice. Walter’s tales sing of Jacobite uprisings and the Napoleonic wars, and show his determination to reignite some traditional folk, writing original songs with a traditional sentiment.

8pm - 11pm

Free Entry

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Friday 8th Sep

SHD Friday Soulful Sessions [18]

2017, 300 mins

Description

SHD promoter Yveelicous is taking her popular party on the road! One of London's coolest LBGTQI parties, Sunday Happy Day is coming for a very special Friday session in the heart of Brixton.

With a mix of soulful house music, disco, tribal and Afrobeat. We feel an electric slide coming on!

If you haven't experienced the infectious happy vibes of this club (now in its 11th year) - come check it out.

Featuring DJ SugaBear plus special guests!

8pm - 1am

Tickets: £8 before the 31st August, £12 after

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Saturday 9th Sep

Jeff Buckley 'Grace' Tribute Feat. Gary Lucas LIVE [18]

2017, 300 mins

Description

"I love you, but I'm afraid to love you."

Join us for a tribute to the beautiful, jaw-dropping, biting, spiritual and superlative squeezing 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley.

Featuring LIVE performances of songs from the album:

1. Ex- Captain Beefheart and Mojo Pin/Grace (+ others) Jeff collaborator, Gary Lucas will be joining us (playing and telling stories about the album)
2. Golden Globe/Grammy nominated Scott McFarnon
3. Kirsty Merryn
4. Joseph William Bernie (BURNZ)
5. Lilium
6. Molly Beanland
7. Rory Doherty

A full playback of Grace will also be played on the night.

7pm - 1am

Tickets: £20 early bird, £22 adv (from 1st Aug), £25 standard (from 1st Sept)

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19.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Brixton Youth Open Mic [18]

2017, 119 mins

Description

The talented kids and teens of South London now have a regular place to share their performance skills on a real stage in a real live venue. Either to practise mic techniques, or maybe just try a real stage out for the first time ever! Dancers, comedians, poets, singers, musicians and actors all welcome to join our friendly, welcoming and non-competitive environment.

We now have full backline at the venue, which means we have a drumkit, bass amp and guitar amp... so if you're an instrumentalist, or a full band - come down and make some good noise! If you are coming with a band, or would like to play our drumkit, it would be really helpful if you could give us a heads up in advance if possible. You could just message us on Facebook. Easy!

*This is a family & community event. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult, and even if they’re old enough to be alone – the more the merrier!

Event runs: 1pm - 3pm (Sign-up at 1pm please!)

Free Entry!

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13.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Afrogrooves Vinyl Selection [N/A]

2017, 179 mins

Description

From jazz, Latin, funk, soul, blues and beyond, all played on that beautiful black husky vinyl. Bringing the togetherness back to Brixton... hosted by Afrogrooves Radio DJs.

3pm - 6pm.
Free Entry.

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15.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Sunday 10th Sep

One Nation [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

An eclectic musical mix of everything old school, from hip-hop to reggae, soul, funk, house, new jack swing and more, with the added bonus of also giving you the music videos on a large screen too. Music and videos are provided by Maurice “Crocodile” Cunningham (Crocodile Promotions/Colourful Radio), who will be joined by Shaq D (Mi-Soul Radio) and a very special guest DJ. United80 will be in the house again with their pop-up shop and good vibes. Whether you want to chill with a drink and watch the music videos, or dance your feet off, this is the place to be in Brixton this Sunday. Come get social.

7pm - Midnight

Free Entry

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19.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Ra Yoga Class (Sunday) [12A]

2017, 60 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

10.30am - 11.30am

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

ALSO: EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am

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10.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Monday 11th Sep

Board Games and Beyond [R18]

2017, 270 mins

Description

Come and play board games with us! Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, King of Tokyo and many, many more. You may not have heard of these games, but we would love to show them to you. Good times guaranteed.

Board Games and Beyond is on the second Monday of every month, in the Upstairs bar, from 6:30 till 11pm. Come along and discover great new board games, card games, party games and more - for free. Hosted by famous screenwriter and board games evangelist Charlie Fish.

Free Entry.

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18.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Tuesday 12th Sep

Sarah And Duck September 2017 [U]

2017, 35 mins

Description

Sarah And Duck follows seven-year-old Sarah and her endearing best friend Duck. During each episode, the pair embarks on simple but exciting adventures. Whether they are trying to reach a rainbow or help an umbrella to stay dry, Sarah and Duck explore everyday moments in an engaging, imaginative way.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

The Ghoul [15]

2017, 85 mins

Description

A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.

This strange and utterly unique new film takes us on a journey into a fractured psyche, putting a peculiarly British take on the psychological thriller.

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18.30 Discover Tuesdays: Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.

Open Mic at the Ritzy - Host: Gabby Colledge [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

A varied and welcoming open mic night Upstairs at the Ritzy, hosted by local singer/ songwriter and Ritzy staff member Gabby Colledge. Running alongside her popular weekly night at The Railway Tulse Hill, she will be welcoming all acts ranging from musicians, comedians and spoken word artists to the Ritzy stage. Expect good vibes and lots of local talent!

7pm - 11pm
Free entry!

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19.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Wednesday 13th Sep

David Gilmour Live At Pompeii [PG]

2017, 114 mins

Description

45 years after Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour filmed ‘Live At Pompeii’ in the legendary Roman Amphitheatre there, he returned for two spectacular shows, part of his year-long tour in support of his No.1 album ‘Rattle That Lock’. The performances were the first-ever rock concerts for an audience in the stone Roman amphitheatre, and, for two nights only, the 2,600 strong crowd stood exactly where gladiators would have fought in the first century AD.

‘David Gilmour Live At Pompeii’ is an audio-visual spectacle, featuring lasers, pyrotechnics and a huge circular screen on which specially-created films complement selected songs, but paramount above all is the astonishing music and stellar performances from an all-star band. The show includes songs from throughout David's career, as well as many Pink Floyd classics, including 'One Of These Days', the only song that was also performed at the band’s 1971 show.

Both concerts also saw very special performances of 'The Great Gig In The Sky' from 'The Dark Side Of The Moon', which David rarely plays as a solo artist. This concert performance film includes highlights from both shows, filmed in 4k by director Gavin Elder . ‘David Gilmour Live At Pompeii’ shows an artist at the top of his artistic game, performing incredible material with his world-class band, in a unique setting, on one very special occasion.

Songs include the title tracks of his two most recent No. 1 solo albums: Rattle That Lock and On An Island, as well as other solo and Pink Floyd classics, including Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb.

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20.30 Screen Arts.

Dub Me Always Feat. Rav Hi-Fi & Steady C [R18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

Dub Me Always is pleased to present a night of original reggae vinyl, when Rav Hi-Fi meets Steady C, the rock steady specialist. Expect ska, rock steady and deep roots reggae, presented with style.

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8.00 - Midnight.

Free entry.

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20.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Thursday 14th Sep

Sarah And Duck September 2017 [U]

2017, 35 mins

Description

Sarah And Duck follows seven-year-old Sarah and her endearing best friend Duck. During each episode, the pair embarks on simple but exciting adventures. Whether they are trying to reach a rainbow or help an umbrella to stay dry, Sarah and Duck explore everyday moments in an engaging, imaginative way.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

Get Laughs or Die Tryin' [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

Prepare to be enlightened, quizzed and made to laugh. Get Laughs or Die Tryin’ is a new night of comedy coming to the Ritzy for one night only. Featuring some of the best young comedic talents from in and around London".

8pm

Tickets: £5

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Ra Yoga Class [12A]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am
EVERY SUNDAY: 10.30am - 11.30am (different ticket link when you go to all listings)

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

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10.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Friday 15th Sep

In Your Head: Spoken Word Monologues & Music [18]

2017, 270 mins

Description

‘In Your Head’ is an inspirational collection of spoken word and creative monologue performances, all based on and around the theme of mental health.

People of African and Caribbean descent suffer disproportionately represented in the mental health system. Statistics suggest a black man in the UK is 17 times more likely than a white man to be diagnosed with a serious mental health condition such as schizophrenia or bipolar. Black people are also four times more likely to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Black and minority ethnic groups are also 40% more likely than white people to be turned away from mental health services when they ask for help.

So how can we help to turn the tide?
If we are able to come together as a community to encourage one another, and share some of our experiences through art and creative expression, we are better placed to create an awareness platform where people can talk and find the support they need to make a difference.

This event will feature a host of spoken word artists, actors and musicians from all over the country, who will be performing their pieces to a live audience. The performances will be delivered within the body of the audience, making the experience more interactive and fringe.

An introduction to providing education through creativity.

7.30 - Midnight

Tickets: £5

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19.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Saturday 16th Sep

'Ancestral Voices: Spirit is Eternal' [PG]

2017, 180 mins

Description

The long awaited sequel to the trailblazing 2010 film, 'Ancestral Voices: Esoteric African Knowledge', part 2- 'Ancestral Voices: Spirit is Eternal', is a 5 year project that involved travels to Brasil, Haiti, South Africa and the United States to interview initiates and scholars.

It is a systemic exploration of African spiritual philosophies and practices across millennia and space, from the ancient Black Egyptians to contemporary times on the continent and its legacies in the diaspora such as Vodou or Candomble. It highlights the commonalities across the various systems proving they share a common source and are but different branches of the same tree.

Topics covered include the African conception of the Creator/‘God’, nature and the natural forces, nature of humanity, ancestral veneration and communication, various rituals and forms of prayers for living an African centred spiritual life.

It is a groundbreaking narrative that connects many dots in African cosmology and indigenous spirituality, the most comprehensive to date.

Film followed by Q&A with film directors Dalian Adofo & Verona Spence-Adofo

3pm - 6pm

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15.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

FUTURE JUJU Feat. Ill Considered [18]

2017, 270 mins

Description

FUTURE JUJU! presents the finest selection of music with its roots firmly from heart of Africa, blending raw traditional rhythms & sounds with genre-crossing fusion performances.

Four musicians breaking all the rules, creating new compositions in the moment. No planning, no talking between takes, no idea what music will be made or where the session is going to take them, just a couple of hours snatched at an incredible London studio and a finished product that is wild, outrageously energetic, touching, subtly dynamic, and surprisingly coherent. Super tight as if it’s been rehearsed and perfected over many months, many of the tracks feel thoroughly thought-out and considered - ironically given the band’s chosen name. Wonky, mad, intense groove-based vibes at the cutting edge of contemporary UK improvised music.

Featuring musicians from the top of their game in the Afrobeat, Afro roots, jazz and dub scene: Idris Rahman on sax, Leon Brichard on bass, Emre Ramazanoglu on drums, Yahael Camara-Onono on percussion.

With DJ Volta 45 on the decks with the finest Afro vinyl dancefloor treats.

8.30pm - 1am.

£6 adv / £7 door.

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20.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Sunday 17th Sep

The Volver Project (Live) [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

The Volver Project is exciting modern Latin Jazz band with an eccentric twist of Flamenco rhythms. Colourful. Intense. Fresh. Passionate. This London based band features musicians from all around the world celebrating Latin and Flamenco rhythms in modern jazz. Groovy and colourful, Volver Project is a brand new ensemble that catches the imagination of the audience in a unique and special way. Best way to experience it? See them live!

8pm - 11pm

Tickets: £5

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Beauty And The Beast 2D [PG]

2017, 129 mins

Description

Director: Bill Condon
Starring: Emma Watson, Luke Evans, Stanley Tucci, Ian McKellen. USA 2017. 129 mins.

Back in 1991, the Walt Disney Company released Beauty And  The Beast, an exquisitely drawn feature animation that became a gargantuan hit, delighting both audiences and critics and spinning off a blockbuster Broadway musical. So who better to breathe new life into the beloved French fairy tale – with its very modern message of not judging people by their appearance – in a live-action telling than the studio that made it a movie classic in the first place? Veteran director Bill Condon (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Parts 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Mr Holmes) has refashioned the characters for a contemporary audience but stayed true to the animation’s music, with several new songs and an amended score by the original composer, Alan Menken. Get ready to be wowed all over again.

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11.00 Autism-Friendly: Especially for people on the autism spectrum or with other special needs and their families, friends and carers. Adults without disabilities are only admitted if they are accompanying a child or a person on the autism spectrum/with special needs.

Ra Yoga Class (Sunday) [12A]

2017, 60 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

10.30am - 11.30am

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

ALSO: EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am

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10.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Cool Struttin: Live Afternoon Jazz [U]

2017, 150 mins

Description

Relax and enjoy your Sunday afternoon with Blue Note, Bebop and hard-swinging Jazz provided by some of South London's best young and old musicians. Programmed (and sometimes hosted) by Christian Miller with different special guests, and musician's jam session.

The third Sunday of every month!

July: featuring Southside Gypsy Trio - with some Parisian Swing, Jazz Manouche and Bal Musette!

August: featuring the Kevin MacMahon Quartet's tribute to Hank Mobley

3pm - 5.30pm

Free Entry

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15.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Monday 18th Sep

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (Re: 2017) [PG]

2017, 147 mins

Description

Director: Steven Spielberg. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon. USA 1977. 137 mins.

For its 40th anniversary, Steven Spielberg’s genre-defining masterpiece returns to cinemas in a dazzling 4K restoration of the director’s cut to win over audiences all over again. This brilliantly paced tale follows two groups of people driven by the prospect that humans are not alone in the universe. The first is a team of scientists on a trail of mind-boggling evidence that leads them to the eventual landing site of alien visitors; the other a group of ordinary people who gravitate to the same spot, plagued by strange visions after close encounters with extra-terrestrial life. The opening sequences masterfully evoke a sense of foreboding, but as the film builds towards its stunning climax, fear gives way to wonder. It’s a tone shift that set Spielberg’s idealistic vision apart from all other big-screen alien encounters at the time, and raised the bar for every first-contact film that would follow.

Audiences will also be treated to a short about the making of the film, which includes an all-new interview with Steven Spielberg.

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20.30 Culture Shock: Dedicated to bringing you the best in cult and genre films.

Spark London Storytelling: "Miscommunication" [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

Spark London Storytelling Open Mic
Theme: "Miscommunication"

Have you ever run off and done the wrong thing because you did not listen carefully enough? Or given instructions out only to find that nobody understood what you were on about? Were you too nervous to ask the right questions and then realised you had no idea what to do? Or maybe a meaning was lost in translation. Perhaps you are still working out how there was a whole set of pieces left over after assembling that wonky cupboard from Ikea. Whether with family, partners, work colleagues or friends we have all had moments when the message is lost and confusion ensues. Come to share a story or listen to others tell theirs. All stories must be true, involve the storyteller and be about 5 minutes long.

Spark creates a friendly warm environment that makes it easy for anyone to get up on stage and share something from their lives.

8pm - 11pm (doors 7/7.30)// £5 entry

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Tuesday 19th Sep

Everything's Rosie Programme 4 [U]

2017, 40 mins

Description

Everything’s Rosie is an animated series for toddlers created by Victoria Corner for V&S Entertainment Ltd. It follows the adventures of a little girl named Rosie and her friends Will, Holly, Big Bear, Oakley the ancient oak tree and Raggles the rabbit.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

Mimosas [15]

2017, 96 mins

Description

Director: Oliver Laxe.
Starring: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli, Ikram Anzouli, Ahmed El Othemani, Hamid Fardjad. Spain/Morocco/France/Qatar 2016. 96 mins. Arabic with English subtitles.

A caravan is escorting an elderly and dying Sheikh to Sijilmasa. His last wish is to be buried with his loved ones. But death does not wait and reaches him while crossing the rugged peaks of the Moroccan Atlas. The caravaneers, fearful of the mountain, refuse to continue transporting the corpse. Said and Ahmed, two rogues travelling with the caravan, declare they know the way to Sijilmasa and promise to take the body there. In another world, parallel and remote, Shakib is chosen to travel to the mountains where the caravan is. His assignment is clear: he has to help the accidental caravaneers to reach their destination. Oliver Laxe's second feature won the top prize in the International Critics' Week at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

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18.30 Discover Tuesdays: Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.

Bigger Boat: Film Quiz [R18]

2017, 210 mins

Description

Hail a Taxi Driver and get Up to the Godfather of all quizzes. Bringing you (Inter)stellar questions from the world of film, it’s been hailed as London’s Best In Show since its Inception. Everyone is welcome: whether you have A Beautiful Mind or you’re totally Clueless. There's no limit on team size, so it doesn’t matter if you're an Odd Couple or there's Se7en of you.

Room isn’t Limitless so avoid the Spectre of being a Mad Max and buy your tickets in advance, and if you don’t want to be Without A Clue, follow The Nice Guys on Twitter @film_quiz or sign up at www.film-quiz.com for clues and a free answer every month.

Arrival: 18:30 | Quiz Show: 19:30 | The End of The Affair: 21:45

Tickets: £6pp.

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19.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Wednesday 20th Sep

De Fuego [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

“Their entertainment value can be likened to two polite boxers shadow-sparring or two tango dancers who have swallowed something and allowed their lower halves to go off and do the St. Vitus reel. This is a spectacle” - Songlines magazine.

De Fuego is a sensational guitar duo, playing energetic instrumental flamenco and rumba-based music who gained reputation in the English summer festivals with their upbeat passionate sound and percussive guitar techniques.

"De Fuego are just something else. Totally humble and unassuming as individuals, but don’t let this deceive you! From the second the first pluck hits the airwaves you’re swept away with their passion" - efestivals

8:00 - 11.00.

Free entry.

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Thursday 21st Sep

Everything's Rosie Programme 4 [U]

2017, 40 mins

Description

Everything’s Rosie is an animated series for toddlers created by Victoria Corner for V&S Entertainment Ltd. It follows the adventures of a little girl named Rosie and her friends Will, Holly, Big Bear, Oakley the ancient oak tree and Raggles the rabbit.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

Ra Yoga Class [12A]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am
EVERY SUNDAY: 10.30am - 11.30am (different ticket link when you go to all listings)

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

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10.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Renato D’Aiello Trio [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

Renato D’Aiello has become known as having one of the strongest and most beautiful saxophone sounds around. His treatments of jazz standards, and originals, both live and on record, have won great admiration from audiences and the press. Since July 2010 Renato has been running a very successful weekly night upstairs at Ronnie Scott’s amongst other residencies.

Tonight’s trio will see Renato joined by Pete Whittaker on the organ and Deelee Dube on vocals.

www.renatodaiello.net

8pm - 11pm.
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20.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Friday 22nd Sep

Black Ink Equinox [18]

2017, 300 mins

Description

Black Ink Legacy presents an interactive fundraising celebration of music and writing from both ‘back in the day’ and the present, with open mic, performance poetry, and rap, in recognition of the Black Ink Collective’s nurturing of black writers.

The Brixton based Black Ink Collective, founded in 1978 and the first of its kind, provided a platform for young children Black Britons across the UK to write and have their work published. Over the next 10 years, during a time of great social upheaval in Britain, Black Ink proved that it was indeed possible to publish independently and paved the way for others such as Karnak House, Akira Press and Tamarind Books.

It was part of the exciting wave of creativity that graced Britain in the 70s and 80s, as the first generation of post WWII young black people came of age. Britain, which had drawn on the labour of people of African and Caribbean descent, was now being made to hear their voices. Cultural, Political, Bold...the writings published by Black Ink and their Black Writer’s Workshop had it all.

Forty years on, the charity, Black Ink Legacy, will commemorate the cutting edge literature that emerged during this era, by continuing to encourage and support the writings of young people from those communities with the same pioneering spirit.

The evening’s events, compered by LORNA SUTARA GEE - acclaimed actress and 2012 BEFFTA and HiCrEc award winner for outstanding contribution to reggae music - will be interspersed with an eclectic mix of music and poetry from:

• NZINGA SOUNDZ, featuring DJ Ade and Junie Rankin, one of the UK’s longest running all women sound systems.

• STXKZ, emerging rap artist known for his wordplay in lyricism, and

• DOROTHEA SMARTT, internationally respected poet/live artist, who “… is subversive, radical, and surprisingly panoramic…”. [Peepal Tree Press]).

With audience, and open mic participation, it will be a cultural adventure for everyone!

Black Ink Equinox is the first fundraiser for Black Ink Legacy, with plans for a series of events in 2018, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Black Ink and its writers.

8pm - 1am

Tickets: £8 adv / £10 otd

Contact: blackinklegacy@gmail.com
Registered Charity No. 1169801

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Saturday 23rd Sep

The Art in Mind Factory: Gallery & Fair [U]

2017, 360 mins

Description

Join artists from the SHARP gallery for artist led workshops, view and buy their arts n’ crafts, and participate in live discussions in the living library Upstairs. We invite visitors to our participatory tree of life artwork set up by SHARP artists and curators.

The SHARP Gallery is a unique and innovative project, turning a drab meeting room into a popular gallery space at the ‘Social inclusion, Hope and Recovery Project’ (SHARP), a service based in Brixton working with people with psychosis. Since being established in 2011 it has exhibited the work of over 120 artists, many of whom use mental health services. The gallery has transformed the physical environment and the experiences for staff and service users at SHARP, as well as giving a platform for emerging artists to exhibit.

12.00 - 6.00

Free entry

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12.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Reggaeoke [18]

2017, 300 mins

Description

Formerly the best Sunday, now the best Saturday night out in Brixton!

Taking reggae karaoke to a whole other level, the best of the best with songs selection including - Beres Hammond, Tarrus Riley, Barrington Levy, Vybz Kartel and Mr Vegas and with a dash of soca for good measure. Channel your inner Caribbean artist, take to the stage SING OUT and sway to the riddims.

Hosted by Jay9 with DJ Barse and MC Dazzla, expect an energy-filled sing and dance along where pull ups, laughter and fun are guaranteed!

Tickets: £8 (click 20:00 on top right of page)

Doors: 8pm / Karaoke from 9pm / Post karaoke party until 1am

Arrive early for song sign up

Need to know info:
This event is always in high demand, tickets are known to sell out online well in advance so don't delay to avoid disappointment. There is limited seating on a first come first serve basis, your ticket is for entry - not a guaranteed seat We do not take birthday bookings or seat reservations.

For more event information contact organisers directly: info@reggaeoke.co.uk

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Sunday 24th Sep

Green Heart Films: ‘Blue In Focus’ Premiere + Q&A [U]

2017, 180 mins

Description

Green Heart Films has been primarily focused on our planet’s equatorial rain-forested regions and over the last ten years they have been filming within the Congo basin, Borneo in South East Asia and the Amazon in Latin America. The primary aim has been the creation of educational documentaries on the need to protect our endangered and biodiverse rainforests against poaching and the ever growing threat from mining and deforestation. They are driven with a passion and the belief that we can and must make a difference

Many of the documentaries have been filmed and edited in Kenya where the film-maker Steve Oliver Taylor continues to work on promoting sustainable environmental subjects.

For this event, Green Heart Films will be presenting two documentaries and their latest documentary Blue In Focus, which will be followed by a Q&A session with the film-maker and director Steve Oliver Taylor.

The documentaries featured at this Ritzy screening include:
Africa Troubled Heart; a documentary that looks at the origins of the recent Ebola crisis in West Africa.
Pembe Ya Ndovu; a documentary film that follows the illegal trade in ivory from the heart of Africa to the streets of Asia, in cities such as Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Blue In Focus will have its official launch at this event as their latest film. This documentary looks at the need to conserve our planet's marine resources and has been filmed over the last two years across the Indian Ocean, Oceania and the South Atlantic.

12pm - 3pm
Tickets: £8

Green Heart Films are presently working on a new documentary entitled Migrant; a film that looks at the reason why Africans risk their lives to reach Europe, and seeks to give a human face to the lives and the stories of migrants. Check their website for more information on their other work: www.greenheartfilms.co.uk

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Ra Yoga Class (Sunday) [12A]

2017, 60 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

10.30am - 11.30am

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

ALSO: EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am

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10.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Princes Amongst Men Feat. Yapa [18]

2017, 210 mins

Description

Over on tour from France, Yapa is a true independent group, a team of friends (three guitarists and a percussionist) whose instrumental compositions are inspired by music from around the world. Playing in festivals on different continents (Europe, Africa, India, Polynesia), they engage with local artists and build their compositions around these collaborations, creating a beautifully blended mix.

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8pm - 11pm.
Free Entry.

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19.30 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Monday 25th Sep

Logan Noir [15]

2017, 141 mins

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20.30 Culture Shock: Dedicated to bringing you the best in cult and genre films.

#MOEPresents [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

MOE Presents aka "Music Over Everything Presents" is a live music platform for all rappers, grime MC's, singers and spoken word poets. Based Upstairs every last Monday of the month.

Every edition we showcase a variety of upcoming talent from in and around London.

Follow them on all the socials to keep up to date:
Twitter.com/MOEPresents
Instagram.com/_moepresents
Facebook.com/MOEPresents

Or check the hashtag #MOEPresents

Doors 7.30pm
£5 adv, £7 door

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19.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Tuesday 26th Sep

Step [PG]

2017, 84 mins

Description

Director: Amanda Lipitz. USA 2017. 84 mins.

Step is the real-life story of a girls’ high-school step team set against the backdrop of social unrest in the troubled city of Baltimore. These young women learn to laugh, love and thrive – on and off the stage – even when the world seems to work against them. Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counsellors, coaches and families, they chase their ultimate dreams – to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all-female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives: they’ve made it their goal to have every senior student graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so. Deeply insightful and emotionally inspiring, Step embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Anonymous Quiz [18]

2017, 240 mins

Description

THIS IS WHAT WE DO

To celebrate the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, bring a pen (mints and napkins) and test your wit at our quiz.

If you know about the N word, erotic cakes, bald brothers and other Larryisms, then stroll down.

Doors 7.00, quiz 8.00.

£5 adv, £7 otd - maximum of 5 people per team - £100 cash prize.

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19.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Stick Man [U]

2017, 27 mins

Description

Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas?

This wonderful animation made by Magic Light, creators of The Gruffalo, The Gruffalos Child and Room On The Broom comes to Toddler Time for the first time.

Don't miss your chance to see it on the big screen.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

Wednesday 27th Sep

Laid Bare at the Ritzy [R18]

2017, 210 mins

Description

A live music night hosted by local musician, Rami Radi, presenting the best musicians, singers and poets South London has to offer! Based around two featured acts, the night is dedicated to local performers to showcase their talent in a warm and friendly environment.

May 31st: Featuring Sherika Sherard, Esme Neale & George Holroyd

7.30pm

Free Entry

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19.30 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Thursday 28th Sep

Stick Man [U]

2017, 27 mins

Description

Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons. Will he get back to his family in time for Christmas?

This wonderful animation made by Magic Light, creators of The Gruffalo, The Gruffalos Child and Room On The Broom comes to Toddler Time for the first time.

Don't miss your chance to see it on the big screen.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

Ra Yoga Class [12A]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am
EVERY SUNDAY: 10.30am - 11.30am (different ticket link when you go to all listings)

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

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10.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Friday 29th Sep

Blues at the Ritzy: Dance Class & Social [18]

2017, 360 mins

Description

Swing Patrol’s monthly Blues dance night warms you up with a class, then follows with 5 hours of smokin’ social dancing with a live band plus the best Blues DJs in London. With music ranging from vintage female Blues to Delta, Chicago, Texas, Louisiana, Piedmont, British, Funky and modern Blues, this is ready and open to anyone. You can explore your dancing with these different styles in a relaxed and friendly environment.

AUGUST: Feat. The Barry Jackson Blues Band
SEPTEMBER: Feat. No Saints

8pm: Doors open
8.30-9.15pm: Taster blues dance class (no entry to class after 8.40pm)
9.15-2am: Uninterrupted party time with live music and DJs!

Tickets: £10 adv / £12 door.

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20.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Saturday 30th Sep

T A P E Collective Presents: Window Horse [18]

2017, 180 mins

Description

Continuing their season of screening films that explore culture, identity and heritage, T A P E's September showing dives into the world of animation.

In this curious and charming animated feature, young Canadian poet, Rosie Ming (voiced by Grey's Anatomy's Sandra Oh), is invited to perform at a poetry festival in Iran. With this opportunity to experience temporary freedom from her over-protective Chinese grandparents and assert some independence she finds herself in Iran, in the company of poets and Persians, all who tell her stories that force her to confront her past; the Iranian father she assumed abandoned her and the nature of poetry itself. It’s about building bridges between cultural and generational divides. It’s about being curious. Staying open. And finding your own voice through the magic of poetry.

Doors 12pm, film 12.30pm.

Tickets: £5

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12.00 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Brixton Dub Collective [18]

2017, 300 mins

Description

Featuring key musicians led by local music chief Tagara, all from the heart of the South London scene; multi-piece space-Reggae-brass band Brixton Dub Collective are here to change the whole party game. Be ready!

Plus, there will be guest DJs and surprise musicians.

8pm - 1am

Free Entry

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20.00 Free Event. Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Sunday 1st Oct

Ra Yoga Class (Sunday) [12A]

2017, 60 mins

Description

Ra uses movement and breath to feel lightweight in your body and bright in your mind!

Strong but flexible, balanced but light, masculine and feminine - yoga is the spirit of of contrast and equality.

Cara is a Yoga Alliance certified teacher of Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga particularly towards supporting creative lifestyles. With a few ideas borrowed from dance, Pilates, Tai Chi, singing techniques, relaxation techniques and massage.

Inspired towards better mental health, having more energy, and feeling nice.

10.30am - 11.30am

£7 per class.

Beginners to intermediate levels welcome.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN MAT

ALSO: EVERY THURSDAY: 10am - 11.30am

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10.30 Upstairs at the Ritzy.

Tuesday 3rd Oct

Messy Goes To Okido: Breathing [U]

2017, 30 mins

Description

Messy goes to Okido is a comedy adventure, science-educational show following a curious, lovable monster called Messy (voiced by Adam Buxton).

Messy magically transports us from the real world to the land of Okido, where he finds the answers to his questions.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

ROH Live: La Boheme (2017) [12A]

2017, 155 mins

Description

When Rodolfo, a penniless poet, meets Mimì, a seamstress, they fall instantly in love. But their happiness is threatened when Rodolfo learns that Mimì is gravely ill.

Acclaimed director Richard Jones (Boris Godunov, Il trittico) directs a new production of Puccini’s 'La bohème'. Irresistible in its witty, passionate blend of comedy and tragedy, the opera focusses on the lives of a groupof young artists as they eke out an existence on the bohemian fringes of Paris, the capital of the 19th century. Jones brings his characteristically acute insight to this much-loved classic, visualized in Stewart Laing’s spectacular, stylized 1850s setting.

Puccini’s romantic depiction of bohemian Paris, with memorable music and a love story drawn from everyday life, has captivated audiences around the world, making La bohème one of the best-loved of all operas. It was first performed in Covent Garden in 1897 and has had more than five hundred performances there since.

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19.15 Royal Opera House Live. Screen Arts.

Thursday 5th Oct

Messy Goes To Okido: Breathing [U]

2017, 30 mins

Description

Messy goes to Okido is a comedy adventure, science-educational show following a curious, lovable monster called Messy (voiced by Adam Buxton).

Messy magically transports us from the real world to the land of Okido, where he finds the answers to his questions.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

NT Live: Hamlet (Encore) [N/A]

2017, 210 mins

Description

Academy Award® nominee Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.

Directed by Lyndsey Turner (Posh, Chimerica) and produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, National Theatre Live will broadcast this eagerly awaited production live to cinemas.

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralysed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state.

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19.00 NT Live. Screen Arts.

Tuesday 10th Oct

Hey Duggee October 2017 [U]

2017, 35 mins

Description

HEY DUGGEE- a place for children (and their parents) to have fun, be energetic, and most of all to DO THINGS!

Featuring epsiodes: Train, Teamwork, Collecting, Theatre and Making Friends

The show is based around a children’s playgroup called The Squirrel Club. Its run by a big dog called DUGGEE. The Squirrel Club is a place where kids have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments.

There are five children who go to the Squirrel club. HAPPY, NORRIE,TAG, BETTY & ROLY. Their parents drop them off every day and they spend a couple of hours having fun and adventures with DUGGEE, in his clubhouse, and outside in his fantastical world before being picked up again at the end of the show.

It’s all about doing things, and DUGGEE likes to do a lot, and go to lots of places.

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Pecking Order [PG]

2017, 88 mins

Description

Director: Slavko Martinov. New Zealand 2017. 88mins.

Join members of the 148-year-old Christchurch Poultry, Bantam and Pigeon Club in this documentary about the lead up to the 2015 New Zealand National Poultry Show. Fierce rivalries, infighting, irregular judging and temperamental birds abound as enthusiastic breeders compete in their quest for the top prize, united only in their passion for chickens. A hilarious, unique and heart-warming slice of Kiwiana which is sure to delight and surprise audiences of all ages.

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Thursday 12th Oct

Hey Duggee October 2017 [U]

2017, 35 mins

Description

HEY DUGGEE- a place for children (and their parents) to have fun, be energetic, and most of all to DO THINGS!

Featuring epsiodes: Train, Teamwork, Collecting, Theatre and Making Friends

The show is based around a children’s playgroup called The Squirrel Club. Its run by a big dog called DUGGEE. The Squirrel Club is a place where kids have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments.

There are five children who go to the Squirrel club. HAPPY, NORRIE,TAG, BETTY & ROLY. Their parents drop them off every day and they spend a couple of hours having fun and adventures with DUGGEE, in his clubhouse, and outside in his fantastical world before being picked up again at the end of the show.

It’s all about doing things, and DUGGEE likes to do a lot, and go to lots of places.

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11.00 Toddler Time: Exclusively for preschool children and their parents or carers.

Sunday 15th Oct

Despicable Me 3 2D [U]

2017, 90 mins

Description

Directors: Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin, Eric Guillon. Voices: Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Trey Parker. USA 2017. 90 mins.

At the end of Despicable Me 2, one-time dastardly supervillain Felonious Gru (Carell) seemed to have hung up his ‘evil’ cape for good. Having settled in the ‘burbs with his feisty super agent wife (Wiig) and three adorable, unicorn-loving, adopted daughters, he’s now out to actively fight crime, not cause it. Until, that is, a long lost, enviably hirsute twin brother (also Carell) pops out of the woodwork to tempt Gru back to the dark side… Eagerly anticipated by everyone from toddlers to adults, this animated threequel also voice casts Trey Parker (co-creator of South Park and The Book Of Mormon) as an ’80s-obsessed baddie with truly villainous shoulder pads. As if that wasn’t enough, one final word will sell it to you: Minions!

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11.00 Autism-Friendly: Especially for people on the autism spectrum or with other special needs and their families, friends and carers. Adults without disabilities are only admitted if they are accompanying a child or a person on the autism spectrum/with special needs.

Tuesday 17th Oct

Bushwick [15]

2017, 94 mins

Description

Director: Cary Murnion, Jonathan Millot.
Starring: Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Angelic Zambrana, Jeremie Harris, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Arturo Castro. USA 2017. 93 mins.

On the way to Grandma’s house with a new boyfriend in tow, Lucy (Brittany Snow) steps off the subway into an utter bloodbath on the streets of Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood. Texas is attempting to secede from the Union, and militia forces have descended upon New York City to claim it as an East Coast base of operations and negotiation tool. Faced with a flurry of whizzing bullets and total destruction around every corner, Lucy takes shelter in the basement of Stupe (Dave Bautista), a burly war veteran who reluctantly helps her traverse the treacherous five-block stretch of Bushwick to reach her destination—assuming it’s still there.

Directors Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott return to the screen with this intense and frenetic follow-up to their comedy/horror debut Cooties (2014 Sundance Film Festival). Bolstered by an immersive score from indie hip-hop mainstay Aesop Rock, Bushwick is an exhilarating thrill ride that is not to be missed.

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Singin' In The Rain [U]

2017, 108 mins

Description

Director: Dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. USA. 1952. 102 mins.

Hollywood’s troubled transition from silent to talking pictures at the end of the 1920s provided the inspiration for perhaps the greatest of movie musicals.

“The most enduring film musical to have come out of Hollywood. In all these years not a frame of it has dated; it still retains all its freshness and sparkle.” Clive Hirschhorn, Gene Kelly: A Biography, 1984

To follow the acclaim for An American in Paris, which won him the 1951 Oscar for best picture, songwriter-turned-producer Arthur Freed charged screenwriters Betty Comden and Adolph Green with writing a musical based around some of his own most popular early songs. The result was a nostalgic tribute to the Hollywood of a bygone era starring Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood, the swashbuckling silent star at a film studio grappling with the coming of sound.

From the iconic scene in which Lockwood, smitten with young actress Kathy Selden (Debbie Reynolds), dances home during a downpour singing the title song, to the extended ballet sequence featuring Cyd Charisse in a parody of the gangster film, Singin’ in the Rain represents the musical genre at its most energetic and ambitious.

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Tuesday 24th Oct

A Ghost Story [12A]

2017, 92 mins

Description

Director: David Lowery.
Starring: Casey Affleck. Rooney Mara. USA 2017. 92 mins.

The latest film from acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) is a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. A white-sheeted ghost (Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An audacious, unforgettable meditation on the passage of time, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal – a wholly unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.

Contains infrequent strong language, images of dead bodies.

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18.30 Discover Tuesdays: Discover stunning cinema. Whether it's a cult classic, an art-house gem or a riveting documentary, there will always be a chance to see something different and brilliant in our weekly slot.

Wednesday 25th Oct

Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami - Live with Friends [TBC]

2017, 180 mins

Description

Grace Jones: Bloodlight & Bami - Live with Friends promises to be thrilling and enlightening evening with the inimitable icon, as she discusses her life and work with some of her closest collaborators from the worlds of music, fashion, art and film. The discussion follows an exclusive preview of Sophie Fiennes’ highly anticipated new film Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami.

Grace Jones: Bloodlight And Bami takes the viewer on an intimate and electrifying journey that moves between four cinematic layers – performance, family, artist and gypsy – to explore the fascinating world of a pop-culture phenomenon. Here we see the daughter, mother, sister and grandmother behind the mask, and she takes to the stage for a specially commissioned performance that showcases legendary hits like Pull Up To The Bumper and Slave To The Rhythm. Larger than life, bordering on cartoon, wild, scary and androgynous – Grace Jones plays all these parts.

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19.15 Screen Arts.

Saturday 28th Oct

Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Bronze is Back 2017 [18]

2017, 330 mins

Description

It's party time.... The Bronze is back (again), for one more night (again)! Once more with feeeeeelllling!

Dust off your crop tops/colourful wooly jumpers/leather jackets/Hawaiian shirts and join us across BOTH BARS at the Ritzy (yes, Upstairs AND downstairs!) to celebrate Buffy and the gang. There will be karaoke... and you will shake the walls as you did before...

Live music, games and dancing on graves.

8.30 - 2am.

Tickets: £8

In the meantime, get your listening devices around THIS playlist.

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Tuesday 31st Oct

Perfect Blue (20th Anniversary) [18]

2017, 90 mins

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Leaving the world of J-pop behind her, Mima Kirigoe begins life as an actress on a crime drama show called Double Blind. When offered a lead role in the show as a rape victim, Mima accepts in spite of her manager’s reservations. However, the backlash from fans over her career change and a strange website called ‘Mima's Room’, written by a fake Mima, begin to worry her. When a stalker appears and people involved in Double Blind begin turning up dead, with all the evidence pointing to her, Mima is thrown into a state of confusion, madness and paranoia.

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Thursday 16th Nov

NT Live: Follies [12A]

2017, 210 mins

Description

Stephen Sondheim’s legendary musical is staged for the first time at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas. New York, 1971. There’s a party on the stage of the Weismann Theatre. Tomorrow the iconic building will be demolished. Thirty years after their final performance, the Follies girls gather to have a few drinks, sing a few songs and lie about themselves. Tracie Bennett, Janie Dee and Imelda Staunton play the magnificent Follies in this dazzling new production. Featuring a cast of 37 and an orchestra of 21, it’s directed by Dominic Cooke (The Comedy of Errors). Winner of Academy, Tony, Grammy and Olivier awards, Sondheim’s previous work includes A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and Sunday in the Park with George.

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19.15 NT Live. Screen Arts.

Sunday 19th Nov

Cars 3 2D [U]

2017, 109 mins

Description

Director: Brian Fee.
Voices: Owen Wilson, Armie Hammer, Nathan Fillion, Cristela Alonzo. USA 2017. 109 mins.

Blindsided by the brash, hi-tech racer Jackson Storm (Hammer) and a new generation of sleek challengers, Lightning McQueen (Wilson), the plucky hero of the Cars franchise, struggles to keep up in the sport he loves. Hoping to get back in the game, he heads home to Radiator Springs, where he finds a willing accomplice in the spirited technician Cruz Ramirez (Alonzo). Tuned up, and inspired by words from his original mentor Doc Hudson (the late Paul Newman), ‘the little red race-car that tried harder’ sets out to prove that he’s still the best in the world. Directed by Brian Fee, the storyboard artist from Pixar’s brilliant Ratatouille as well as the two previous films in the franchise, Cars 3 has a lush, luminous texture and thrilling pace to it that will delight all comers.

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Tuesday 16th Jan

ROH Live: Rigoletto [12A]

2017, 180 mins

Description

The corruption of innocence is at the heart of Verdi’s potent tragedy in David McVicar’s production for The Royal Opera. Rigoletto, court jester to the libertine Duke of Mantua, is cursed by the father of one of the Duke’s victims for his irreverent laughter. When the Duke seduces Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda, it seems the curse is taking effect…

David McVicar’s production highlights the cruelty at the heart of the court of Mantua. Richly dressed courtiers engage in orgies and revelries to Verdi’s heady, spirited dances. The opera’s many musical highlights include the ebullient ‘La donna è mobile’, in which the Duke boasts of his disregard for women; Gilda’s exquisite, plangent duets with Rigoletto and the Duke; and the gorgeous Act III quartet that beautifully weaves the voices together as the story quickens to its shattering conclusion.

Giuseppe Verdi wrote in 1855 that Rigoletto was his ‘best opera’. He had had to overcome state censorship to stage it – the censors objected to its depiction of an immoral ruler – but he was vindicated by the premiere’s huge success in 1851. Rigoletto was performed 250 times in the next 10 years and has remained one of the most popular of all operas.

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Saturday 27th Jan

MET Opera: Tosca (2018) [12A]

2017, 198 mins

Description

Puccini’s thrilling Tosca is a story of love, terror, the abuse of power, and the unquenchable longing for freedom. When an escaped political prisoner takes refuge in a church, an opera singer and a painter are drawn into a twisting plot that puts them at the mercy of the secret police and its network of torturers and spies. Rivalling the splendour of Franco Zeffirelli’s Napoleonic-era sets and costumes, Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production offers a splendid backdrop for extraordinary singing. Kristine Opolais stars as the titular prima donna, alongside Vittorio Grigolo as her artist lover and Bryn Terfel as the villainous police chief – one of his signature roles. Andris Nelsons conducts.

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Wednesday 7th Feb

ROH Live: Tosca [12A]

2017, 180 mins

Description

'Tosca' is one of the great evenings of opera, and from its strident opening chords conjures up a world of political instability and menace.

Jonathan Kent’s production for The Royal Opera captures the dangerous political turbulence of Rome in 1800. The Chief of Police, Scarpia – one of the most malevolent villains in opera – ruthlessly pursues and tortures enemies of the state. His dark, demonic music contrasts with the expansive melodies of the idealistic lovers, Tosca and Cavaradossi, who express their passion in sublime arias, including ‘Vissi d’arte’ and ‘E lucevan le stelle’. Giacomo Puccini’s dramatic work was a hit with audiences on its 1900 premiere and it remains one of the most performed of all operas – with its gripping plot and glorious music, it’s easy to see why.

A candle-lit church, Scarpia’s gloomy study with its hidden torture chamber and the false optimism of a Roman dawn: this handsome production throws into relief the ruthlessly taut drama, as the tension is wound up towards a fateful conclusion. Puccini’s meticulously researched score is infused with the same authentic detail, from distant cannon fire during the Act I Te Deum to tolling church bells and the sounds of a firing squad.

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19.15 Royal Opera House Live. Screen Arts.

Saturday 10th Feb

MET Opera: L'Elisir D'Amore (2018) [12A]

2017, 180 mins

Description

The poor country boy Nemorino is in love with Adina, a confident landowner, but she is way out of his league – financially and otherwise. But when he buys a “love potion” from a travelling quack, the results are rather more than he bargained for. Charmingly staged by Bartlett Sher, Donizetti’s beloved masterpiece combines deft comic timing with touching emotional depth. The production stars Matthew Polenzani, who enthralled Met audiences as Nemorino in 2013 with his moving “Una furtiva lagrima.” Rising South African soprano Pretty Yende is the spirited Adina, Davide Luciano makes his Met debut as the arrogant soldier Belcore, and Ildebrando D’Arcangelo is the potion-peddling Doctor Dulcamara. Domingo Hindoyan conducts.

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17.00 Met Opera.

Wednesday 14th Feb

RSC Live: Twelfth Night [12A]

2017, 210 mins

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'I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too.'

Twelfth Night is a tale of unrequited love – hilarious and heartbreaking. Two twins are separated in a shipwreck, and forced to fend for themselves in a strange land. The first twin, Viola, falls in love with Orsino, who dotes on OIivia, who falls for Viola but is idolised by Malvolio. Enter Sebastian, who is the spitting image of his twin sister...

Christopher Luscombe, Director of the ‘glorious’ (Daily Telegraph) Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing (2014 and 2016), returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company to tackle Shakespeare’s greatest comedy, a brilliantly bittersweet account of "the whirligig of time".

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19.00 RSC Live. Screen Arts.

Saturday 24th Feb

MET Opera: La Boheme (2018) [12A]

2017, 196 mins

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The world’s most popular opera returns with an exciting young cast in Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary production. Poverty-stricken poet Rodolfo and his artist friends eke out a precarious existence in bohemian Paris, alternately practising their art, laughing, quarrelling, dodging the landlord, and living it up in their local cafe. When Rodolfo meets the delicate Mimì, the pair instantly fall in love. But Mimì is ill, Rodolfo is jealous, and their romance is doomed from the start. Opera superstars Sonya Yoncheva and Michael Fabiano play the heart-breaking couple, singing two sublime Puccini favourites – “Sì, mi chiamano Mimì” and “Che gelida manina.” Zeffirelli’s stupendous onstage recreations of 19th-century Paris are sure to take your breath away.

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17.30 Met Opera.

Wednesday 28th Feb

ROH Live: The Winter's Tale [12A]

2017, 180 mins

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Christopher Wheeldon, Artistic Associate of The Royal Ballet, created his adaptation of Shakespeare’s late great romance 'The Winter’s Tale' for The Royal Ballet in 2014. Building on the success of 'Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland', T'he Winter’s Tale' received ecstatic praise at its premiere, acclaimed by critics and audiences alike for its intelligent, distinctive and emotionally powerful story, told through exquisite dance. It is now widely judged to be a modern ballet classic.

The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet, through remorse and regret – and after a seemingly miraculous return to life – the ending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation. With powerful designs by Bob Crowley and atmospheric music by Joby Talbot, The Winter’s Tale is a masterful modern narrative ballet.

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19.15 Royal Opera House Live. Screen Arts.

Tuesday 6th Mar

ROH Live: Carmen [12A]

2017, 200 mins

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'Carmen' is the best-known work by French composer Georges Bizet, and one of the most famous operas in the entire art form – numbers such as the Habanera and the Toreador Song have permeated the popular consciousness as little else has. The opera’s heady combination of passion, sensuality and violence initially proved too much for the stage, and it was a critical failure on its 1875 premiere. Bizet died shortly after, and never learned of the spectacular success his Carmen would achieve: the opera has been performed more than five hundred times at Covent Garden alone.

This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera. The Australian director is one of the world’s most sought-after opera directors, whose Royal Opera debut with Shostakovich’s The Nose in 2016 was greeted with delight. For Carmen he has devised a far-from-traditional version, incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard, and giving a new voice to the opera’s endlessly fascinating central character.

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18.45 Royal Opera House Live. Screen Arts.

Saturday 10th Mar

MET Opera: Semiramide (2018) [12A]

2017, 230 mins

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Against the backdrop of the Hanging Gardens, Semiramide, Queen of Babylon, defies bad omens and supernatural threats in her quest to find a worthy successor to her late husband. But she harbours more than one dark secret, and whoever gains the throne may find that he has lost more than he has won. Based on a story by Voltaire, this rarely performed tragic opera reveals The Barber of Seville composer Giaochino Rossini in a whole new light. The title role – composed for Rossini’s wife, Isabella Colbran – features some of the most demanding vocal music he ever wrote. Angela Meade takes on the challenging vocal fireworks in this revival of a production last seen at the Met 25 years ago.

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17.55 Met Opera.

Thursday 22nd Mar

NT Live: Julius Caesar [12A]

2017, 180 mins

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Members’ Priority Booking: Tickets for this show are currently available to Members only NT Live.

Tuesday 27th Mar

ROH Live: Bernstein Centenary [12A]

2017, 180 mins

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Leonard Bernstein was one of the first classical composers in America to achieve both popular and critical acclaim. He was eclectic in his sources – drawing on jazz and modernism, the traditions of Jewish music and the Broadway musical – and many of Bernstein’s scores are remarkably well suited to dance. He was particularly associated with Jerome Robbins, their credits together including Fancy Free and West Side Story. To celebrate the centenary year of the composer’s birth, The Royal Ballet has united all three of its associate choreographers to celebrate the dynamic range and danceability of Bernstein’s music.

The programme includes two world premieres by Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor and Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, marking each artist’s first foray into Bernstein. At the heart of the programme is the first revival of Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety, created in 2014 to Bernstein’s soul-searching Second Symphony. Both symphony and ballet are inspired by W.H. Auden’s masterful modernist poem, itself written in response to the atmosphere of disillusionment and uncertainty that followed the end of World War II.

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19.15 Royal Opera House Live. Screen Arts.

Saturday 31st Mar

MET Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte (2018) [12A]

2017, 236 mins

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Goaded by their cynical friend Don Alfonso, soldiers Ferrando and Guglielmo decide to test their fiancées’ fidelity. Pretending to leave with their regiment, they return in disguise and pay court to each other’s lover. Will the young women succumb to the charms of these two handsome ‘foreigners’? A co-production with English National Opera, this clever vision of the battle of the sexes is set in a carnivalesque environment inspired by 1950s Coney Island. The cast features Amanda Majeski and Serena Malfi as the sisters put to the test, with Broadway star Kelli O’Hara as their feisty maid, Ben Bliss and Adam Plachetka as their fiancés, and Christopher Maltman as Don Alfonso. David Robertson conducts Mozart’s delightful score.

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Members’ Priority Booking: Tickets for this show are currently available to Members only Met Opera.

Wednesday 4th Apr

ROH Live: Macbeth [12A]

2017, 200 mins

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Verdi’s life-long love affair with Shakespeare’s works began with Macbeth, a play he considered to be ‘one of the greatest creations of man’. With his librettist, Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi set out to create ‘something out of the ordinary’. Their success is borne out in every bar of a score that sees Verdi at his most theatrical: it bristles with demonic energy.

The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth and his wife to horrific acts.Murder makes Macbeth king, and intrigue and butchery are the hallmarks of his brief, doomed reign. The witches make another prediction, which also comes true: Macbeth and his lady lose their lives, and justice is restored.

Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 production for The Royal Opera is richly hued, shot through with black, red and gold. The witches – imagined by designer Anthony Ward as strange, scarlet-turbaned creatures – are ever-present agents of fate. Lloyd depicts the Macbeths’ childlessness as the dark sadness lurking behind their terrible deeds. The Royal Opera’s production uses Verdi’s 1865 Paris revision of the opera, which includes Lady Macbeth’s riveting aria ‘La luce langue’.

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19.15 Royal Opera House Live. Screen Arts.

Saturday 14th Apr

MET Opera: Luisa Miller [12A]

2017, 238 mins

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James Levine and Plácido Domingo add yet another chapter to their legendary Met collaboration with this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy based on Friedrich Schiller’s novel Intrigue and Love. The young maiden Luisa loves Rodolfo, unaware that he is actually the son of the local lord. An unscrupulous rival for her affections tells her father of Rodolfo’s true identity, turning the old man against him. Jealousy, suspicion, and betrayal tear the lovers apart, but Luisa remains loyal to her father to the last. In the first Met performances of the opera in more than ten years, Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role opposite Piotr Beczała as Rodolfo, with Domingo as Luisa’s stern-yet-loving father.

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17.30 Met Opera.

Saturday 28th Apr

MET Opera: Cendrillon [12A]

2017, 192 mins

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A fairy godmother, a glass slipper, an opulent ball, an enchanted forest, and a Prince Charming who loves her – did all that really happen, or was it just a dream? Long-suffering Cendrillon lives a life of drudgery with her good-natured father and his imperious wife, until fate, romance, and a touch of fairy magic intervene. For the first time ever, Massenet’s sumptuous version of the Cinderella story comes to the Met in this imaginative storybook production directed by Laurent Pelly. Superstar Joyce DiDonato sings the title role, alongside British mezzo-soprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the archetypal wicked stepmother.

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17.55 Met Opera.

Thursday 3rd May

ROH Live: Manon [12A]

2017, 155 mins

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Manon’s brother Lescaut is offering her to the highest bidder when she meets Des Grieux and falls in love. They elope to Paris, but when Monsieur G.M. offers Manon a life of luxury as his mistress she can’t resist. With the Lescauts’ encouragement Des Grieux cheats at cards in an attempt to win Monsieur G.M.’s fortune. They are caught. Manon is arrested as a prostitute and deported to New Orleans, followed by Des Grieux. On the run, Manon dies from exhaustion.

Kenneth MacMillan’s source for Manon was the 18th-century French novel already adapted for opera by Massenet and Puccini. The premiere was given on 7 March 1974, with the lead roles danced by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. The ballet quickly became a staple of The Royal Ballet’s repertory, and a touchstone of adult, dramatic dance.

MacMillan found new sympathy with the capricious Manon and her struggle to escape poverty. Designs by his regular collaborator Nicholas Georgiadis reflect this, depicting a world of lavish splendour polluted by miserable destitution. MacMillan’s spectacular ensemble scenes for the whole Company create vivid, complex portraits of the distinct societies of Paris and New Orleans. But it is Manon and Des Grieux’s impassioned pas de deux – recalling the intensity of MacMillan’s earlier Romeo and Juliet – that drive this tragic story, and make Manon one of MacMillan’s most powerful dramas.

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19.15 Royal Opera House Live. Screen Arts.

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