Featuring Tilda Swinton as the voice of Scottish painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, this documentary tells the story of a remarkable artist and a magnificent obsession.

In 1949, a young Scottish painter climbed a Swiss glacier. The experience rewired her brain and transformed her art. Barns-Graham was synaesthetic – associating letters, names and people with particular colours – and Cousins explores how her neurodiversity and her encounter with the glacier shaped her vision of the world.

The glacier paintings inspired by her experience in Switzerland were the breakthrough in her artistic career. Through a cinematic immersion into her art and life, the film explores themes of gender, neurodiversity, climate change, and the nature of creativity from youth to old age.

Featuring a recorded introduction with director, Mark Cousins.

Our Friends of the Forum members can claim a £5 ticket for any showing of A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things by simply booking using their membership.

Magical comedy romance starring Kim Novak, James Stewart and Jack Lemmon.

A modern-day witch likes her neighbour but despises his fiancée, so she enchants him to love her instead… only to fall in love with him for real.

Our Friends of the Forum can claim a free ticket to Bell Book and Candle by simply booking using their membership.

The popular annual CBeebies Panto is back! Oh yes, it is!

This year’s panto is Beauty and the Beast, an all-singing, all-dancing, and storytelling cinema experience bound to delight people of all ages. It makes a perfect family outing and a great way to introduce the little ones to the panto.

Cbeebies brings the fairytale story to life in a magical land inspired by Scottish landscapes and introduces garden gnomes, mischievous wolves and a sneaky Thorn Fairy.

Narrated by Snow Raven and featuring a top-tapping soundtrack from Banks & Wag, this fun-filled event has a star-studded cast including everyone’s favourite, Dodge T Dog and special guest star, Gladiator Steel!

Following his Oscar-winning success with All Quiet on the Western Front, Edward Berger presents us with another tale of conflict, albeit one where battles are waged in hushed tones in hallowed hallways.

Conclave follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting a new Pope. 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 finds himself at the centre of a conspiracy and discovers a secret that could shake the very foundation of The Church.

"Ralph Fiennes leads a top-tier ensemble, including Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini, in an entertainingly juicy adaptation of Robert Harris’s novel.”

- The Guardian

200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood.

This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionised his style. Van Gogh became consumed with a passion for storytelling in his art, turning the world around him into vibrant, idealised spaces and symbolic characters.

Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece. Explore one of art history’s most pivotal periods in this once-in-a-century show.

Made in close collaboration with the National Gallery.

This is a free screening presented by Escapes. Tickets may be reserved through escapetothecinema.co.uk/tickets.

Escapes, supported by the BFI, awarding National Lottery funding, offers everyone the opportunity to enjoy the big screen experience and discover independent cinema.

Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: They want to stage Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.

As Christmas approaches, one man must decide to open his heart and let love take flight in this hilarious festive rom-com, shot entirely in Northumberland!

We are delighted to be able to welcome the cast and crew who will introduce the film.

For single dad, and veterinarian, Martin, Christmas is all about upholding regular family traditions to keep the memory of his late wife alive. But when an ailing pet chicken arrives at his home-run animal sanctuary, the family’s festive plans, and entire world, are turned upside down, as new love blossoms and spreads its wings!

Tickets are just £5!

Prepare to be entertained! Ridley Scott returns to the Roman arena in this sequel to the 2000 Academy-Award winning epic.

Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius (Paul Mescal) is forced to enter the Colosseum after his home is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find strength and honour to return the glory of Rome to its people.

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, (a deliciously wicked Hugh Grant), becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Our 16-25 members can claim a £3 ticket to Heretic by booking using their membership.

A certified Christmas favourite for generations. Beset with personal and professional problems, George Bailey finds his previously happy life falling apart around him on Christmas Eve. When he is visited by his guardian angel, Clarence, he is shown what his beloved hometown of Bedford Falls would be like without him.

PADDINGTON IN PERU brings Paddington back home to the Peruvian jungle to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, now a resident at the Home for Retired Bears.

With the Brown Family and Mrs Bird in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mysterious disappearance plunges them into an unexpected journey from the Amazon rainforest to the mountain peaks of Peru.

The mission to save Christmas is on.

After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas.

16-25 members can claim a £3 ticket to Red One by booking using their membership.

The 1951 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol is considered by many to be one of the best versions of the classic story. Starring Alastair Sim as the crotchety Victorian businessman, Ebenezer Scrooge, who on Christmas Eve is visited by three spirits forcing him to confront his unpleasant behaviour and standing in society.

Our Friends of the Forum can claim a £5 ticket for Scrooge by simply booking using their membership.

Cillian Murphy stars in this moving Irish drama adapted from the much admired novella by Clare Keegan. Murphy’s first role since his Oppenheimer Oscar win is similarly filled with powerful, quiet intensity.

While working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

Join us for a pyjama party this Christmas Eve with a 20th anniversary screening of beloved family classic, The Polar Express.

Any valid ticket entitles you to a free hot chocolate from our cafe/bar. PJ's not mandatory but recommended!

When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

Magician with Wood is screening in collaboration with Living Woods as part of National Tree Week. Living Woods will be accepting cash donations on the night, you can find out more about the work Living Woods do, that you can help support at living-woods.org.uk

Filmmaker Beatrix Wood will be joining us for a in person Q&A session following the film.

The battle to secure the future of one of Scotland’s most extraordinary homes is captured in this award-winning documentary. The Steading is a Grade A-listed work of art, sculpted from wood by late artist Tim Stead. His wife, Maggy, Is fighting to protect Tim's legacy and inspire future generations to create work with wood.

The film traces how Tim’s belief to put back in more than he took out of the environment led to pioneering the creation of the first community woodland in Britain which kickstarted the community land ownership movement in Scotland and internationally.   The action is punctuated by a selection of Tim’s eloquent poems.  

The film is an inspirational story about a family, the bonds of love and grief, loyalty and friendship, collaboration and community alongside our relationship with trees and Nature as a catalyst for our creativity and well-being in the face of climate change.

“If we didn’t have trees, our planet would be dead,” reflects Giles Sutherland.

Friends of the Forum can claim a £5 ticket to Magician With Wood by booking using their membership.

We can’t wait for the new Wallace and Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, coming this Christmas. In anticipation, we are holding two double bill screenings of the pair's previous outings. There will be an interval between films with themed crafts and activities and cheese and Christmas cake available in our cafe bar… Cracking lad!

Join us on Sunday 15th where we will be screening A Grand Day out and A Matter of Loaf and Death, and again on Sunday 22nd where we finish with A Close Shave and The Wrong Trousers.

THE MOST FABULOUS MUSIC-AND-MIRTH SHOW IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY!

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.

Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca, Mildred Pierce), this technicolor holiday classic celebrates its 70th anniversary in 4K.

Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart.

The two meet as students at Shiz University in the fantastical Land of Oz and forge an unlikely but profound friendship. Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power, while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences on her future. Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfil their destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Every good thing in this world started with a dream.

Willy Wonka – chock-full of ideas and determined to change the world one delectable bite at a time – is proof that the best things in life begin with a dream, and if you’re lucky enough to meet Willy Wonka, anything is possible.

Tickets for Wonka are just £5.