January - February Brochure

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WHITGIFT FILM THEATRE, CROSLAND ROAD, GRIMSBY, DN37 9EH
WHITGIFT FILM THEATRE DIARY
ADULTS: £6.00 ALL CONCESSIONS: £5.00
Whitgift Film Theatre is within John Whitgift Academy on the
Willows Estate by the No 16 Bus Route and the No 45 Cleethorpes
/Immingham Bus. Car parking is free and plentiful.
www.whitgiftfilmtheatre.co.uk
January – February 2015
WHITGIFT FILM THEATRE NEWS
We are pleased to announce our new Special Events
page on the website, where you will find all the up and
coming Special Events such as live ballet, opera, plays
and concerts. To find out more please go to:
http://www.whitgiftfilmtheatre.co.uk/special-events.html
We now have the facility for you to request seats when
pre- booking your tickets online.
Please note if you wish to pay by debit or credit card we
only have the facility to accept cards online. The Box
Office can only accept payment in cash.
Do not forget to sign up to our weekly news email for a
reminder of what will be showing at Whitgift Film
Theatre in the coming weeks.
Enjoy the programme!
Advance tickets & seats can be purchased from:
THE MANAGMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE PROGRAMME WTHOUT NOTICE.
TICKETS BOUGHT IN ADVANCE CANNOT BE EXCHANGED, NOR REFUNDS OFFERED UNLESS AN
EVENT IS CANCELLED.
www.whitgiftfilmtheatre.co.uk
January 2015
The Judge (15)
141 mins Wed 28th
Director: David Dobkin
Stars: Robert Downey Jr, Robert Duvall
Big city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his
childhood home where his father, the town's
judge, is suspected of murder. Hank sets out to
discover the truth and, along the way, reconnects
with his estranged family.
What We Did On Our Holiday (12A)
95 mins Wed7th, Thur 8th
Directors: Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin
Stars: David Tennant, Billy Connolly
Doug (David Tennant) and Abi (Rosamund Pike)
and their three children travel to the Scottish
Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's (Billy
Connolly) birthday party. It's soon clear that
when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps
from the rest of the family, their children are
their biggest liability.
Pride (15)
120 mins Fri 9th, Sat 10th
Director: Matthew Warchus
Stars: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton
U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their
lengthy strike of the National Union of
Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Effie Gray (12A)
108 mins Wed 14th
Director: Richard Laxton
Stars: Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson
A look at the mysterious relationship between
Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage
bride Effie Gray.
Mr. Turner (12A)
150 mins Thur 15th, Fri 16th, Sat 17th
Writer: Mike Leigh
Stars: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson
An exploration of the last quarter century of the
great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's
life.(pre-booking through the website is highly
recommended for this film).
The Babadook (15)
94 mins Wed 21st
Director: Jennifer Kent
Stars: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of
her husband, battles with her son's fear of a
monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers
a sinister presence all around her.
The Drop (15)
106 mins Thur 22nd
Director: Michaël R. Roskam
Stars: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a
robbery gone awry and entwined in an
investigation that digs deep into the
neighborhood's past where friends, families, and
foes all work together to make a living - no
matter the cost.
'71 (15)
99 mins Fri 23rd, Sat 24th
Director: Yann Demange
Stars: Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid
A young and disoriented British soldier is
accidentally abandoned by his unit following a
riot on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971.
Andrea Chénier (Giordano) presented live from
the Royal Opera House on Thursday 29th
January 2015, 7:00 pm. £12 concessions/ £15
full price. Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier
(1896) presents a fictionalised account of the
last years of the French poet André Chénier,
guillotined during the Reign of Terror in 1794.
(Opera in four acts, sung in Italian, including one
interval)
Frozen (PG)
108 mins Fri 30th (7.30pm) Sat 31st (2.00pm)
Directors: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Stars: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel
When a princess with the power to turn things
into ice curses her home in infinite winter, her
sister, Anna teams up with a mountain man, his
playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the
weather condition.
February 2015
Nightcrawler (15)
117 mins Wed 4th, Thur 5th
Director: Dan Gilroy
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo
A young man stumbles upon the underground
world of L.A. freelance crime journalism.
Serena (15)
110 mins Fri 6th, Sat 7th
Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence
In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of
George Pemberton's timber empire becomes
complicated when it is revealed his wife, Serena,
cannot bear children.
Love’s Labours Lost presented live from the
Royal Shakespeare Company on Wednesday
11th February 2015, 7:00 pm. £12 concessions/
£15 full price. Returning to the RSC are Edward
Bennett and Michelle Terry who will play the
lovers in this production: In Love’s Labour’s Lost,
the mischievous Rosaline tests Berowne’s highminded resolve in the summer of 1914. At the
end of the play the merriment is curtailed as the
lovers agree to submit to a period apart, unaware
the world around them is about to be
transformed by a war to end all wars. The Imitation Game (12A)
Director: Morten Tyldum
113 mins Thur 12th, Fri 13th, Sat 14th
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley
English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing,
helps crack the Enigma code during World War II.
(pre-booking through the website is highly
recommended for this film).
Interstellar (12A)
164 mins Wed 18th, Thur 19th
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway
A group of explorers make use of a newly
discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations
on human space travel and conquer the vast
distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,
Very Bad Day (PG)
81 mins Fri 20th
Director: Miguel Arteta
Stars: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair,
followed by more calamities. Though he finds
little sympathy from his family and begins to
wonder if bad things only happen to him, his
mom, dad, brother, and sister all find themselves
living through their own terrible, horrible, no
good, very bad day.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (12A)
125 mins Sat 21st
Director: Francis Lawrence
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson
Katniss Everdeen is in District 13 after she
shatters the games forever. Under the leadership
of President Coin and the advice of her trusted
friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to
save Peeta and a nation moved by her courage.
What We Do In The Shadows (15)
85 mins Wed 25th
Directors: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Stars: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Follows the lives of Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon
(Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine
Clement) - three flatmates who are just trying to
get by and overcome life's obstacles-like being
immortal vampires who must feast on human
blood.
My Old Lady (12A)
107 mins Thur 26th
Director: Israel Horovitz
Stars: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas
An American inherits an apartment in Paris that
comes with an unexpected resident.
The Homesman (15)
123 mins Fri 27th, Sat 28th
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank
A claim jumper and a pioneer woman team up to
escort three insane women from Nebraska to
Iowa.
Adults: £6.00 All Concessions: £5.00
Evening Performances start at 7.30pm (unless otherwise stated) Doors open 7.00pm
Patrons claiming a Concession Ticket should bring an appropriate form of identification such as a student ID card or driving licence etc