Film Group

Forthcoming films are as follows:

• Friday 10th January: Judy
• Friday 7th February: Downton
• Friday 6th March: Mrs Lowry and Son
• Friday 3rd April: Official Secrets

As usual, ice creams, wine and nibbles will be on sale.

Tickets cost £5 each – having the exact money is very helpful.

If you have any particular views on types of films or a certain film that you may wish to see, please inform those on the committee and they will do their best to accommodate them.

It’s 1969 and the showbiz legend is in Swinging London to perform a five-week, sold-out run at The Talk of the Town.

It’s thirty years since she’d first shot to fame in The Wizard of Oz, and the film sees her forced into a painful decision. She must leave behind her son and daughter and travel to London for the concerts so that she can earn enough money to buy a house and ensure she won’t lose custody of the children.

The setting is 1927, and the grand house is all of a flutter (upstairs and down) with news that King George V and Queen Mary will be coming to stay the night and make a military inspection of local troops.

But the downstairs staff are enraged when the monarch brings all his own royal servants who pull rank on them, some silver pieces around the house go missing and a mysterious military chap takes a room in a pub with a view overlooking where His Majesty will stand on the village green.

This film depicts LS Lowry’s life in Lancashire in the 1930s, when he lived at home, caring for his widowed mother – devoted but lonely.

Bed-ridden and bitter, his mother actively tries to dissuade her son from pursuing his artistic ambitions, whilst never failing to voice her opinion at what a disappointment he is to her.

Elizabeth’s deadpan gloom spans the entire movie. At one point Lowry patiently asks her to be cheerful and she replies acidly: “I haven’t been cheerful since 1898.” 

A spy drama based on the true story of Katharine Gun whose job involved routine handling of classified information for the British security services at GCHQ.

In 2003, she was astonished to receive an email making it plain that she was expected to find out incriminating personal details in the lives of UN representatives from small countries so that they could be blackmailed into voting for the war in Iraq. 

Joan Stanley is a widow living out a quiet retirement in the suburbs when, shockingly, the British Secret Service places her under arrest. The charge: providing classified scientific information - including details on the building of the atomic bomb - to the Soviet government for decades. As the interrogation gets underway, Joan relives the dramatic events that shaped her life and her beliefs.

A tense thriller, flipping back and forth between Joan’s younger years as the mystery of her involvement in subterfuge becomes more apparent. 

As a young student, JRR Tolkien finds love, friendship and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow outcasts. Their brotherhood soon strengthens as Tolkien weathers the storm of a tumultuous courtship with Edith Bratt and the outbreak of World War I. These early life experiences later inspire the budding author to write the classic fantasy novels “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings”. 

Starring Nicholas Hoult and with popular actors in central roles, ’Tolkien’ aims to link the novels to real life occurrences to discover the inspiration to his cherished works.

Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a British comic coasting as a longtime host of a chat show. She keeps her writers’ room on a short leash - and all male. But when her ratings plummet, her material is felt to be stale and she is accused of being a “woman who hates women” a new head of the network (Amy Ryan) is itching to replace her. 

Katherine puts gender equality on her to-do list and impulsively hires Molly Patel (Mindy Kaling), a chemical plant efficiency expert, as the first and only female on her writing staff. 

Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a struggling singer-songwriter in a tiny English seaside town whose dreams of fame are rapidly fading, despite the fierce devotion and support of his childhood best friend, Ellie. After a freak bus accident during a mysterious global blackout, Jack wakes in a parallel dimension in which the Beatles never existed and he alone remembers their music. Painstakingly recreating the songs from memory, he passes them off as his own. 

As her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) flounders, High Court judge Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) has a life-changing decision to make at work: should she force a teenage boy, Adam (Fionn Whitehead), to have the blood transfusion that will save his life?

With Adam’s parents, both fanatical Jehovah Witnesses, having taught their son never to donate or receive blood, as per their belief, Fiona must review the case in a battle between belief and fact.

Films are shown in Buriton Village Hall near Petersfield at 7.30pm (doors open at 7pm).