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Friday 28 July Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 2:30pm Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 5:00pm Asteroid City 8:00pm
Saturday 29 July Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 12:00pm Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 2:30pm Asteroid City 5:30pm The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert 8:00pm
Sunday 30 July The Little Mermaid 1:30pm Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 4:30pm Asteroid City 7:30pm
Monday 31 July Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 3:00pm Asteroid City 5:30pm Chevalier 8:00pm
Tuesday 01 August Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 2:30pm The Little Mermaid 5:00pm Asteroid City 8:00pm
Wednesday 02 August Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 2:45pm Asteroid City 5:45pm Chevalier 8:15pm
Thursday 03 August Asteroid City 10:30am, 8:00pm Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 2:30pm Chevalier 5:30pm
Friday 04 August Elemental 3:00pm Barbie 5:30pm, 8:00pm
Saturday 05 August Elemental 3:00pm Barbie 5:30pm, 8:00pm
Sunday 06 August Elemental 1:30pm Barbie 4:00pm, 6:30pm
Monday 07 August Elemental 3:00pm Barbie 5:30pm, 8:00pm
Tuesday 08 August Elemental 12:15pm Barbie 2:45pm, 7:30pm (Pizza) EOS: Tokyo Stories 5:15pm
Wednesday 09 August Elemental 3:00pm Barbie 5:30pm, 8:00pm
Thursday 10 August Barbie 10:30am, 3:30pm, 6:00pm, 8:30pm Elemental 1:00pm
Friday 11 August Elemental 1:30pm Oppenheimer 4:00pm, 7:45pm
Saturday 12 August On Our Doorstep 2:00pm Oppenheimer 4:15pm (Captioned), 8:00pm
Sunday 13 August Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 12:00pm Oppenheimer 3:15pm, 7:00pm
Monday 14 August Elemental 3:00pm Full Time 5:30pm Oppenheimer 7:30pm
Tuesday 15 August Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse 2:00pm Full Time 5:00pm Oppenheimer 7:15pm
Wednesday 16 August Elemental 1:30pm Oppenheimer 4:00pm, 7:45pm
Thursday 17 August Oppenheimer 10:30am, 4:00pm, 7:45pm
Friday 18 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3:00pm The Flash 5:30pm No Hard Feelings 8:30pm
Saturday 19 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 1:30pm Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 4:00pm The Flash 7:30pm
Sunday 20 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 1:30pm Barbie 4:00pm Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One 6:30pm
Monday 21 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3:00pm Jesus Revolution 5:30pm Oppenheimer 8:00pm
Tuesday 22 August Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 1:00pm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3:15pm No Hard Feelings 5:45pm Barbie 8:15pm
Wednesday 23 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3:00pm Jesus Revolution 5:30pm The Flash 8:00pm
Thursday 24 August Jesus Revolution 10:30am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 1:45pm Oppenheimer 4:15pm No Hard Feelings 8:00pm
Friday 25 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3:00pm Joy Ride 5:30pm The Meg 2: The Trench 8:15pm
Saturday 26 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2:00pm Barbie 4:30pm Andre Rieu's 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around 7:00pm
Sunday 27 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 11:30am Andre Rieu's 2023 Maastricht Concert: Love Is All Around 2:00pm Oppenheimer 5:45pm
Monday 28 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 1:30pm Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny 4:00pm The Meg 2: The Trench 7:15pm
Tuesday 29 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2:00pm The Flash 4:30pm Oppenheimer 7:30pm
Wednesday 30 August Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 3:00pm The Meg 2: The Trench 5:30pm Barbie 8:15pm
Thursday 31 August The Meg 2: The Trench 10:30am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2:30pm The Flash 5:00pm Joy Ride 8:00pm
Sunday 17 September Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake 4:00pm
Sunday 24 September ROH: Das Rheingold 2:00pm
Thursday 28 September A Little Life 7:00pm
Saturday 30 September A Little Life 7:00pm
Thursday 05 October ROH 2024: L’elisir d’amore 7:15pm
Sunday 12 November ROH 2024: Don Quixote 2:00pm
Sunday 17 December ROH: The Nutcracker 2:00pm
ASTEROID CITY (12A)
Director: Wes Anderson. Starring: Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman. USA. 2023. 139 mins.
Renowned director, Wes Anderson, brings us aliens, uncanny wit, and a star studded cast in his next quirky masterpiece where sci-fi meets love. A circa 1955 American desert town is rocked by life - and world - changing events when their Junior Stargazer convention is unexpectedly interrupted. With it's stunning visuals and heart-warming nature, this film is sure to astound any audience!
FRI 28 JUL 8.00 · SAT 29 JUL 5.30 · SUN 30 JUL 7.30 · MON 31 JUL 5.30 · TUE 01 AUG 8.00 · WED 02 AUG 5.45 · THU 03 AUG 10.30am, 8.00 · TUE 22 AUG 1.00
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT (15)
Director: Stephen Elliott. Starring: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, John Casey. 103mins.
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Bernadette journey across the Australian Outback in their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals.
Director: Stephen Williams. Starring: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving,Lucy Boynton & Minnie Driver. UK/USA. 2023. 108mins.
Inspired by the incredible story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette herself and her court.
MON 31 JUL 8.00 · WED 02 AUG 8.15 · THU 03 AUG 5.30
Director: Kirk DeMicco. Voice Talent: Lana Condor, Toni Collette, Annie Murphy & Jane Fonda. USA. 2023. 91mins
Ruby is desperate to fit in at school, but she mostly just feels invisible. She's prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach because her over-protective mum has forbidden her from ever getting in the water. But when she goes against her, Ruby discovers that she is a descendant of the warrior Kraken queens.
FRI 28 JUL 2.30 · SAT 29 JUL 12.00 · MON 31 JUL 3.00 · TUE 01 AUG 2.30 · TUE 22 AUG 1.00
Directors: Joaquim Dos Santos,Kemp Powers,Justin K. Thompson. Voices: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfield, Oscar Issac. USA. 2023. 115 mins.
After 5 years, Brooklyn's friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man Miles Morales is launched across the Multiverse, where he discovers a team of Spider-People fighting to protect its existence, not against evil but from themselves. He must soon redefine what it means to be a hero before he loses the people he loves the most.
FRI 28 JUL 5.00 · SAT 29 JUL 2.30 · SUN 30 JUL 4.30 · WED 02 AUG 2.45 · THU 03 AUG 2.30 · SUN 13 AUG 12.00 · TUE 15 AUG 2.00
Director: Rob Marshall. Starring: Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Melissa McCarthy, Javier Bardem. US 2023. 100 mins.
Dive under the sea for a musical extravaganza including iconic songs like ‘Kiss the Girl,’ ‘Part of Your World’ and ‘Under the Sea.’ This beautiful reimagining of the 1989 classic brings a fairy tale into the modern age; Ariel (Halle Bailey) must follow her heart and experience life on land but what will the price be? This tale of dreams, love, and magic is a treat for all ages!
Director: Greta Gerwig. Starring: Margot Robbie & Ryan Gosling. USA. 2023. 114mins.
To live in Greta Gerwig's Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existenial crisis. Or you're Ken. Barbie and Ken (Margo Robbie and Ryan Gosling) are having the time of their lives in the colourful nd seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land but when they get chance to enter the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.
FRI 04 AUG 5.30, 8.00 · SAT 05 AUG 5.30, 8.00 · SUN 06 AUG 4.00, 6.30 · MON 07 AUG 5.30, 8.00 · TUE 08 AUG 2.45, 7.30 (PIZZA) · WED 09 AUG 5.30, 8.00 · THU 10 AUG 10.30am, 3.30, 6.00, 8.30 · SUN 20 AUG 4.00 · TUE 22 AUG 8.15 · SAT 26 AUG 4.30 · WED 30 AUG 8.15
Director: Peter Sohn. Voice Talent: Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Mason Wertheimer & Catherine O'Hara. USA. 2023. 109mins.
A Pixar original feature film set in Element City, where fire, water, land and air residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they live in.
FRI 04 AUG 3.00 · SAT 05 AUG 3.00 · SUN 06 AUG 1.30 · MON 07 AUG 3.00 · TUE 08 AUG 12.15 · WED 09 AUG 3.00 · THU 10 AUG 1.00 · FRI 11 AUG 1.30 · MON 14 AUG 3.00 · WED 16 AUG 1.30
Based on a major exhibition Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art – ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, Manga, film, and brand-new artworks that were created on the streets. A beautifully illustrated and richly detailed film, looking at the city of Tokyo.
Director: Christopher Nolan. Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Kenneth Branagh & Florence Pugh. USA/UK. 2023. 180mins.
Christopher Nolan creates big screen experiences like no other director. His latest film, Oppenheimer, follows the titular chracter as he works with a team of scientists to develop the atomic bomb - and change the world forever. This devastating biographical thriller is a must watch on the big screen.
FRI 11 AUG 4.00, 7.45 · SAT 12 AUG 4.15 (CAPTIONED), 8.00 · SUN 13 AUG 3.15, 7.00 · MON 14 AUG 7.30 · TUE 15 AUG 7.15 · WED 16 AUG 4.00, 7.45 · THU 17 AUG 10.30am, 4.00, 7.45 · MON 21 AUG 8.00 · THU 24 AUG 4.15 · SUN 27 AUG 5.45 · TUE 29 AUG 7.30
Director: Thomas Laurence. Documentary. UK. 2022. 91mins.
When the Calais 'Jungle' refugee camp was ignored & condemned bye authorities. ordinary people stepped in to support the refugees stranded there. This is the untold story of the volunteers and those they tried to help.
Director: Eric Gravel Starring: Laure Calamy. 2021. France with English Subtitles. 88 mins
Julie struggles alone to raise her two children in the countryside and keep her job in a Parisian palace. When she finally gets an interview for a position corresponding to her aspirations, a general strike breaks out, paralyzing transport. It is all of Julie's fragile balance that falters. She will then embark on a frantic race, at the risk of sinking.
Director: Jeff Rowe. Starring: Rose Byrne, John Cena, Jackie Chan, Ice Cube, Post Malone & Seth Rogen. USA. 2023. Duration TBC.
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers. Their new friend, April O'Neil, helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them. Classic TMNT fun!
FRI 18 AUG 3.00 · SAT 19 AUG 1.30 · SUN 20 AUG 1.30 · MON 21 AUG 3.00 · TUE 22 AUG 3.15 · WED 23 AUG 3.00 · THU 24 AUG 1.45 · FRI 25 AUG 3.00 · SAT 26 AUG 2.00 · SUN 27 AUG 11.30am · MON 28 AUG 1.30 · TUE 29 AUG 2.00 · WED 30 AUG 3.00 · THU 31 AUG 2.30
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE (12A)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie. Starring: Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson & Vanessa Kirby. USA/UK. 2023. 163mins.
Hot on the heels of Top Gun, Tom Cruise is back! Your mission if you choose to accept it is to watch the most death defying stunts in cinema history on the big screen! Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission -- not even the lives of those he cares about most.
Director: Andy Muschietti. Starring: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton & Michael Shannon. USA 2023. 144mins.
Worlds collide when Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time in order to change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned, threatening annihilation, and there are no super heroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can coax a very different Batman out of retirement...
FRI 18 AUG 5.30 · SAT 19 AUG 7.30 · WED 23 AUG 8.00 · TUE 29 AUG 4.30 · THU 31 AUG 5.00
Director: Gene Stupnitsky. Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Matthew Broderick. US. 2023. 103mins.
A down on her luck Uber driver is one step away from rock bottom, facing the repossession of her car and bankruptcy. Her salvation comes from a very unusual source: a post on craigslist from a couple asking someone to date their awkward teenage son. With his social standing at a big zero, it becomes her full time job to help him get it up and enter the world of adulthood in this raunchy comedy.
FRI 18 AUG 8.30 · TUE 22 AUG 5.45 · THU 24 AUG 8.00
Director: Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle. Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Joel Courtney, Jonathan Roumie and Kimberley Williams Paisley. USA. 2023. 120mins..
In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee, a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to an unexpected revival of radical and newfound love, leading to what TIME Magazine dubbed a JESUS REVOLUTION.
MON 21 AUG 5.30 · WED 23 AUG 5.30 · THU 24 AUG 10.30am
ANDRE RIEU'S 2023 MAASTRICHT CONCERT: LOVE IS ALL AROUND
The King of the Waltz invites you to his new cinema concert! André Rieu will stage his glorious annual summer event in the iconic Vrijthof Square again this year. The concert will be a musical feast of heart-warming pieces lovingly chosen by André - classics, sing-alongs, and waltzes that make you want to dance. A concert experience filled with music, dance, love and happiness - Only in cinemas!
Director: Adele Lim. Starring: Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu & Sabrina Wu. USA. 2023.
This hilarious story of identity and self-discovery centres on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure.Their epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are. Produced by Seth Rogen, if you loved the Hangover or Bad Neighbours & Bridesmaids, this is for you!
Director: James Mangold. Starring: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Mads Mikkelson & Antonio Banderas. USA. 2023. 154mins.
Indie is back! Harrison Ford returns to the role of the legendary hero archaeologist for this fifth instalment of the iconic franchise. Expect a fun-filled, action-packed, adventure with incredible special effects. Not to mention the unforgettable theme tune. A Summer blockbuster for all the family!
Director: Ben Wheatley. Starring: Jason Statham, Jing Wu. USA. 2023.
Get ready for the ultimate adrenaline rush, this larger-than-life thrill ride that supersizes the 2018 blockbuster and takes the action to higher heights and even greater depths with multiple massive Megs. Dive into uncharted waters with Jason Statham and action icon Wu Jing as they lead a daring research team on a dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Action-packed adventure!
FRI 25 AUG 8.15 · MON 28 AUG 7.15 · WED 30 AUG 5.30 · THU 31 AUG 10.30am
Directed and choreographed by: Matthew Bourne / Starring: Will Bozier, Liam Mower and Nicole Kabera UK 2019. 127 mins
Award-winner Matthew Bourne brings us another stunning performance as his reimagining of Swan Lake takes to the screen! Filmed at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London in 2019, this breath-taking retelling of Tchaikovsky's classic tale defies tradition with it's gender-bending male ensemble and contemporary choreography that is sure to entrance any audience.
Director: Ivo van Hove. Starring: Luke Thompson (Bridgerton), Omari Douglas (It’s A Sin), Zach Wyatt (The Witcher), Elliot Cowan (The Crown), Zubin Varla (Tammy Faye), Nathalie Armin (Force Majeure) and Emilio Doorgasingh (Best of Enemies).
A LITTLE LIFE follows four college friends in New York City: aspiring actor Willem, successful architect Malcolm, struggling artist JB, and prodigious lawyer Jude. As ambition, addiction, and pride threaten to pull the group apart, they always find themselves bound by their love for Jude and the mysteries of his past. But when those secrets come to light, they finally learn that to know Jude St Francis is to understand the limitless potential of love in the face of life.