Small Things Like These
Oakwood Cinema audiences may remember a film we showed a couple of years ago, the excellent The Quiet Girl, based on a Claire Keegan novel. Keegan’s Small Things Like These…
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Conclave
Who would have thought a film about choosing a new Pope could be so gripping? Conclave is based on the book by best-selling historical fiction writer Robert Harris, who also…
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A Real Pain
A Real Pain has been one of the low budget ‘indie’ hits of 2025, and won a BAFTA in February for Best Original Screenplay. It is written and directed by…
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A Complete Unknown
Despite being one of the greatest singer-songwriters of the last 60 years, Bob Dylan has always been tricky to pin down - indeed, he has often shed his creative skin,…
Past Shows
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Licorice Pizza
The film itself is fast moving, beautifully scripted, surprising and joyous, focusing on the burgeoning but rocky relationship between a precocious Hoffman and the older Haim, set in Southern California…
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Belfast
Whilst sectarian violence is a key theme in Belfast, it is not the overwhelming one. Rather, the film focuses on the need for normality and family in what is a…
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Petite Maman
Peter Bradshaw gave it a five star review in the Guardian: “Céline Sciamma’s beautiful fairytale reverie is occasioned by the dual mysteries of memory and the future: simple, elegant and…
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Ali & Ava
In his four star Guardian review, Paul Bradshaw wrote: “There’s a tremendous human warmth to this love story from writer-director Clio Barnard, a social-realist tale that you might compare to…
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
The Guardian gave it a four star review: “The heart of The Peanut Butter Falcon beats to a rhythm that harks back to the ragged romanticism of a Huck…