The Old Court Cinema: May Films

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Knock at the Cabin (15)

While vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. Confused, scared and with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

Friday 5 May 19:45
Sunday 7 May 19:45

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Rupert Grint

Length: 100 minutes

Women Talking (15)

Women Talking is based on the true story of a Mennonite colony in Bolivia, where, from 2005 to 2009, hundreds of women young and old were routinely drugged with animal anesthetic spray and raped.

They awoke to pain, bruises, and bleeding.

A "group of eight" men had violated almost every female member of the colony.

Tuesday 9 May 19:45
Thursday 11 May 19:45
Sunday 14 May 15:00

Director: Sarah Polley

Cast: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley

Length: 104 minutes

Water for Elephants (15)

2011 film telling the story of Jacob Jankowski, who recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train and enters a world of freaks, drifters, and misfits in a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town.

Friday 12 May 19:45
Saturday 13 May 19:45

Director: Francis Lawrence

Cast: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz

Length: 120 minutes

What's Love Got To Do With It? (12)

In London, an award-winning film-maker documents her best friend's journey into an assisted marriage in line with his family's Pakistani heritage.

In the process, she challenges her own attitude towards relationships.

Saturday 20 May 19:45
Sunday 21 May 19:45
Thursday 25 May 19:45
Saturday 27 May 19:45

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Cast: Lily James, Emma Thompson, Shazad Latif

Length: 108 minutes

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (U)

Classic 1954 film set in 1850 Oregon.

When a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. 

Wednesday 24 May 15:00

Director: Stanley Donan

Cast: Jane Powell, Howard Keel, Jeff Richards

Length: 102 minutes

The Inspection (15)

A young, gay Black man, rejected by his mother and with few options for his future, decides to join the Marines, doing whatever it takes to succeed in a system that would cast him aside.

Sunday 28 May 19:45
Wednesday 31 May 19:45

Director: Elegance Bratton

Cast: Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union, Bokeem Woodbine

Length: 95 minutes