The Screening Room

online payments

Kaye McAlpine — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:56:42 +0000

We have an issue with our online payment system (the first in 7 years!) insofar as it will not take any payments, so If you wish to make any bookings, please phone the hotel to make a card payment over the phone, or drop us a line of your intent to attend and you can pay at the hotel’s reception on the evening.

We hope to have this issue resolved as soon as possible!

To Kill a Mocking Bird

Kaye McAlpine — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:27:12 +0000

The triple Oscar-winning movie, based on Harper Lee’s influential and only novel, the movie stars Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a lawyer hired to defend Tom Robinson against a charge of rape: hard enough, but this is the 1930s in Southern States of America, the victim is white and the accused is black. However, this is no simple courtroom drama, as the plot unwinds through the eyes of Scout – Finch’s young daughter. Published in 1960, with the film following in ’62 – there’s a lot of unneverving relevance to modern life.

2012

Kaye McAlpine — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:12:33 +0000

The 2012 listings are now up and live.

Bah! Humbug!

Kaye McAlpine — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:19:48 +0000

Well, not really, folks – our final film in our Christmas Season is our traditional Christmas Eve Matinee, and it’s Scrooge: in our opinion, there’s only one live-action movie (becasue we love the Muppets too!), which does justice to Dickens’ classic, and that’s the 1951 version starring Alastair Sim, who is surely the best cast Scrooge in any of the movies. Alastair Sim may steal the show, but look our too for the likes of Sir Michael Hordern, George Cole and Patrick MacNee.

2012 screenings

Kaye McAlpine — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:55:35 +0000

Our new listings will be up very shortly – the season will kick off on the 18th January with something to shake off those Winter chills – High Society.

Look out for The Big Sleep, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, To Kill a Mocking Bird, 3.10 to Yuma and many more!

It’s the last opportunity to play the music and light the lights this year …

Kaye McAlpine — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:39:19 +0000

Yes, folks, this Saturday is the last opportunity for this festive season to get all Christmassy with the Muppets – and Michael Caine – in the Muppet Christmas Carol. It’s a hoot, so why not take some time off from the pre-Christmas shopping and preparation, sit back and take in the movie!

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Kaye McAlpine — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:31:03 +0000

Before the new movie hits the big screens with a vengeance, this is the time of year to enjoy their version of Charles Dickins’ A Christmas Carol – there is the additional bonus of Frank Oz (that means you get the ‘real’ voice for Fozzie Bear, amongst others) and of course, Michael Caine as Scrooge. Warm the cockle of your heart and enjoy a rather raucous Dickensian tale!

11th and 18th meal packages sold out

Kaye McAlpine — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:02:59 +0000

Please note that the meal package options on the above dates are now sold out. Seats are also very limited on the 18th for the film only.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells …

Kaye McAlpine — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:11:56 +0000

Christmas is on its way and the Screening Room is celebrating the season with a selection of our favourite Christmas films – Matinees and evening performances are screening.

It wouldn’t be Christmas at the Screening Room without Jimmy Stewart, so we’re delighted to show It’s a Wonderful Life once again: we know from what people tell us, that it’s the movie that really puts people in the festive mood – however, you can also croon along with Bing and Danny in White Christmas, or sing along with Fozzie Bear and Michael Caine in the brilliant Muppet Christmas Carol . As ever, our Christmas Eve Matinee is Scrooge from 1951, starring Alastair Sim, which is a must see.

Tickets, as ever, are going quickly, so make sure you book soon.

Secrets and Codes

Kaye McAlpine — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:56:05 +0000

A symbologist and a cryptologist may seem like an unlikely crime-fighting duo, but when the crime and the aftermath threaten to shake the basis of Christianity itself, no regular cop is going to have the wherewithal to solve the codex which the murder is linked to: no regular victim would have created a code from black light ink, his own body and his own blood …

This is, of course, the opening premise of The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou. The plot takes in a series of strange and sinister twists and turns, bringing in secret orders, dedicated assassins, cyphers, arts, science and all within the grey areas between. Ron Howard has an impressive cast at his calling(Hanks, Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen, Paul Bettany and Alfred Molina amongst others), and draws on their talents to provide the bones for a thriller, which has at its centre a secret which has been closely and zealously guarded for 2000 years … no more spoilers about that here. It’s more slowly paced than the page turner of the novel that spawned it – but is that really so very bad these days?