Ramsden Community Cinema
Ramsden Community Cinema launched in September 2022, showing a mixture of brand new films, recent releases and old favourites in Ramsden Memorial Hall. The Cinema is all about welcoming members of the Ramsden community into the Hall for a good-value night out with friends and neighbours, with 6-8 films a year. The films are chosen by the Cinema Club Committee - new members always welcome.
The autumn 2024 season featured WILDING and the brand new film from Steve McQueen and Working Title Films - BLITZ.
The next movie nights will be 14 February and 14 March, and you can help choose the movie. The shortlist is:
CONCLAVE: Based on Robert Harris’s best-selling novel about a papal election. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church's most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope's wake - secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX9jasdi3ic. DRAMA/THRILLER 2023 Cert 12A.
THE CRITIC: Set in 1930s London, The Critic revolves around a feared theatre critic named Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen), his loyal assistant, a newspaper owner (Mark Strong) who wants to get rid of the critic, and an actress (Gemma Arterton) who has been devastated by his excoriating theatrical reviews. The critic's determination to survive ensures that the other characters are caught in a web of blackmail, deceit and murder. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRHzyeesTA4 . DRAMA/CRIME/NYSTERY 2023 Cert 15.
FREUD’S LAST SESSION: It’s the onset of WWII and Sigmund Freud (Anthony Hopkins), who is nearing the end of his life, invites the celebrated Christian author C S Lewis for a debate over the existence of God. Exploring Freud's unique relationship with his lesbian daughter Anna (Liv Lisa Fries) and Lewis' unconventional romance with his best friend's mother (Orla Brady), the film interweaves past, present and fantasy, opening out from the confines of Freud's study on a dynamic journey. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPJM9lEMyV4 . DRAMA 2023 Cert 12A.
GLADIATOR: After his North African home is conquered by the tyrannical twin emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum as a gladiator under the control of Macrinus (Denzel Washington). He must look to his past to find strength to return the glory of Rome to its people. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZf8zpchbXE . ACTION EPIC 2024 Cert 15.
PADDINGTON IN PERU: Paddington Bear has been living with the Brown family in London for many years now, but he still feels the tug of his Peruvian roots. Hearing that his Aunt Lucy, now living in the Home for Retired Bears, has been missing him terribly, Paddington and the Browns set off to Darkest Peru, only to discover on arrival that Aunt Lucy has disappeared. So off they go into the Amazon to find her, accompanied by a boat captain, Hunter Cabot (Antonio Banderas) and his daughter Gina. What could possibly go wrong? Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTvudSGfHRI . FAMILY/COMEDY 2024 Cert PG
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE: Based on the novella by Claire Keegan. Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) is a coal merchant in small-town 1980s Ireland. Everybody in the town knows that the local convent is one of the infamous Magdalene Laundries, but everybody feigns ignorance because the nuns have far-reaching power and influence in the community. When Bill, himself the child of a single mother, finds a bruised and shivering young woman locked in the convent coalshed on a bitterly cold December day, he knows that any action on his part will cost him dear. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqwn5Y_Y4xs. DRAMA 2024 Cert 12A.
THELMA: June Squibb, who did most of her own stunts in the film, plays Thelma Post, a feisty 93-year-old grandmother who gets conned by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson (Fred Hechinger), and sets out on a treacherous quest across Los Angeles, accompanied by an aging friend (Richard Roundtree) and his motorized scooter, to reclaim what was taken from her. With Malcolm McDowell. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0NlEIXbjcw. COMEDY/ACTION 2024 Cert 12A.
TWISTERS: Kate Carter (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years, is lured back to the open plains by her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Glen Powell), a charming and reckless social-media superstar who posts his storm-chasing adventures, the more dangerous the better. As storm season intensifies, terrifying new phenomena are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma. Watch the trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdok0rZdmx4 DRAMA/ACTION 2024 Cert 12A.