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The Forum Cinema: A History (Talk)
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We are celebrating our 85th birthday this august with a selection of special events including a free presentation from local historian, Mark Benjamin of Hexham History Society, in our cafe/bar detaili...
- Sat 13 Aug
- 30 minutes
Minions: The Rise of Gru
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Long before he becomes the master of evil, Gru (Oscar® nominee Steve Carell) is just a 12-year-old boy in 1970s suburbia, plotting to take over the world from his basement. It’s not going particularly...
- Sat 13 Aug to Sun 4 Sep
- 90 minutes
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NT Live: Prima Facie
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Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play. Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origi...
- Sat 13 Aug to Sun 21 Aug
- 120 minutes
DC League of Super-Pets
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Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman and the rest of the Justice League are kidn...
- Sun 14 Aug to Thu 1 Sep
- 105 minutes
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya, an abandoned girl who raised herself to adulthood in the dangerous marshlands of North Carolina. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" haunted Barkley C...
- Sun 14 Aug to Wed 17 Aug
- 125 minutes
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Elvis
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Starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks and directed by Baz Luhrmann, Elvis brings the life and career of legendary singer and actor Elvis Presley to the big screen! From his early days as a child to ...
- Sun 14 Aug to Thu 18 Aug
- 159 minutes
The Princess + Q&A
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THE PRINCESS tells the story of Princess Diana exclusively through contemporaneous archival footage creating a bold and immersive narrative of her life and death. Turning the camera back on ourselves,...
- Tue 16 Aug
- 106 minutes
The Railway Children Return
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THE RAILWAY CHILDREN RETURN is an enchanting, moving and heart-warming adventure for a new generation. 1944 – As life in Britain’s cities becomes increasingly perilous, three evacuee children – Lil...
- Fri 19 Aug to Fri 26 Aug
- 98 minutes
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Bullet Train
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Based on the Japanese novel, Maria Beetle by Kotaro Isaka, five assassins find themselves on a fast-moving bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with only a few stops in between. They discover their miss...
- Fri 19 Aug to Thu 25 Aug
- 126 minutes
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Top Gun: Maverick 
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After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank...
- Tue 23 Aug to Fri 26 Aug
- 131 minutes
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A Star is Born (1937 - 85th Birthday)
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WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR 85TH BIRTHDAY THIS AUGUST WITH A SELECTION OF SPECIAL EVENTS INCLUDING A SCREENING OF THE CLASSIC A STAR IS BORN RELEASED IN OUR OPENING YEAR OF 1937! When a young actress (J...
- Tue 23 Aug
- 111 minutes
Nope
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Oscar winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope. The film reu...
- Fri 26 Aug to Thu 1 Sep
- 130 minutes
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (85th Birthday)
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WE ARE CELEBRATING OUR 85TH BIRTHDAY THIS AUGUST WITH A SELECTION OF SPECIAL EVENTS INCLUDING A SCREENING OF DISNEY'S FIRST FULL LENGTH ANIMATED FEATURE, SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES RELEASED IN O...
- Sat 27 Aug
- 83 minutes
Andre Rieu's 2022 Maastricht Concert: Happy Days are Here Again
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The wait is over! After 2 long years, maestro André Rieu is performing from his hometown of Maastricht once again! We are proud to present André’s brand-new summer concert - Happy Days are Here Again!
- Sun 28 Aug
- 180 minutes
Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
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Eric Ravilious was as compelling and enigmatic as his art. Set against the dramatic wartime locations that inspired him, Kinmonth’s film brings to life this brilliant but still grossly undervalued Bri...
- Tue 30 Aug
- 88 minutes
Fisherman's Friends: One and All
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Following the unexpected success of their debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues” we rejoin the world's oldest ‘buoy band’ a year later struggling to navigate the pressures, pitfalls and temptation...
- Fri 2 Sep to Thu 15 Sep
- 112 minutes
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Hit the Road
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Our September Forum Film Club screening is the Persian film, Hit the Road, and it will be followed by a free post-film discussion open to all (no signing up required)! Dad (Hassan Madjooni) sits mo...
- Tue 6 Sep
- 94 minutes
NT Live: Much Ado About Nothing
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Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd) and John Heffernan (Dracula) lead the cast in Shakespeare’s romcom of sun, sea and mistaken identity. The legendary family-run Hotel Messina on the Italian Riveri...
- Thu 8 Sep
- 180 minutes
Fire of Love
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Award-winning filmmaker Sara Dosa (The Seer and the Unseen) crafts a spectacular documentary following the passionate (and lethal) obsession of volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, a married Frenc...
- Tue 13 Sep
- 93 minutes
The Forgiven
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Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident wit...
- Fri 16 Sep to Thu 22 Sep
- 117 minutes
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My Old School + Q&A
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In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. B...
- Tue 20 Sep
- 134 minutes
Royal Opera: Madama Butterfly
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‘Love cannot kill: it brings new life’ On a starlit night in Nagasaki, these are the words spoken by American naval officerPinkerton to young geisha Cio-Cio-San. But as they both learn, words and ...
- Tue 27 Sep
- 190 minutes
Landscape Photography with Joe Cornish (Talk)
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Hexham and District Photographic Society presents: Landscape Photography with Joe Cornish. Internationally renowned landscape photographer, Joe Cornish, is presenting a talk detailing his life and ...
- Thu 29 Sep
- 120 minutes
Royal Ballet: Mayerling
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Inspired by dark and gripping real life events, this Royal Ballet classic depicts the sexual and morbid obsessions of Crown Prince Rudolf leading to the murder-suicide scandal with his ...
- Wed 5 Oct
- 205 minutes
NT Live: Jack Absolute Flies Again
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A rollicking new comedy by Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night). After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame,...
- Thu 6 Oct
- 180 minutes
Royal Opera: Aida
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Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the ambitious soldier Radames wrestles with his feelings for her. As they draw closer together, each ...
- Wed 12 Oct
- 205 minutes
Royal Opera: La Boheme
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Paris, 1900. Penniless writer Rodolfo believes that art is all he needs – until he meets Mimì, the lonely seamstress who lives upstairs. So begins a timeless love story that blooms, fades, and rekindl...
- Thu 20 Oct
- 180 minutes
NT Live: The Seagull
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Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) makes her West End debut in this 21st-century retelling of Anton Chekhov’s tale of love and loneliness. A young woman is desperate for fame and a way out. A young ma...
- Thu 3 Nov
- 150 minutes
Royal Ballet: A Diamond Celebration
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The Royal Ballet’s dazzling Principals lead an evening not to be missed, their sparkling talents a perfect fit for a diamond anniversary. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Friends of Covent G...
- Wed 16 Nov
- 180 minutes
Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
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Join Clara at a delightful Christmas Eve party that becomes a magical adventure once everyone else is tucked up in bed. Marvel at the brilliance of Tchaikovsky’s score, as Clara and her enchanted Nutc...
- Thu 8 Dec
- 165 minutes
Royal Ballet: Like Water for Chocolate
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A modern Mexican classic of magic realism provides the basis for The Royal Ballet’s new full-length work, reuniting Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon with the creative team who transformed Alic...
- Thu 19 Jan
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NT Live: The Crucible
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A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller’s captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem ...
- Thu 26 Jan
- 150 minutes
Royal Opera: The Barber of Seville
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When Rosina falls in love with amysterious young suitorwho calls himself Lindoro, she must use all her cunning – and a little help from her local barber – to outwit her calculating guardian Dr Bartolo...
- Wed 15 Feb
- 225 minutes
NT Live: Othello
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An extraordinary new production of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedy, directed by Clint Dyer with a cast that includes Giles Terera (Hamilton), Rosy McEwean (The Alienist) and Paul Hilton (The Inher...
- Thu 23 Feb
- 150 minutes
Royal Opera: Turandot
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In the court of Princess Turandot, suitors who fail to solve her riddles are brutally killed. But when a mysterious Prince answers one correctly, suddenly he holds all the power – and a glorious secre...
- Wed 22 Mar
- 210 minutes
Royal Ballet: Cinderella
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Royal Ballet Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton’s Cinderellacelebrates its 75th anniversary this Season. The ballet’s opening night in 1948, featuring Moira Shearer and Michael Somes in the lead r...
- Wed 12 Apr
- 180 minutes
Royal Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
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Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but there’s a hitch: their employer, the Count Almaviva, has dishonourable intentions of his own towards the bride-to-be. ...
- Thu 27 Apr
- 240 minutes
Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
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The Sleepin Beauty holds a very special place in The Royal Ballet’s heart and history. It was the first performance given by the Company when the Royal Opera House reopened at Covent Garden in 1946 a...
- Wed 24 May
- 155 minutes
Royal Opera: Il Trovatore
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Passions run high as Manrico and the Count di Luna compete for the affections of Leonora. Little do they know, Manrico’s mother Azucena has been keeping a terrible secret for decades. Soon a curse fro...
- Tue 13 Jun
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Mr Malcolm's List
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Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife. As the target of matchmaking mothers and desperate debutantes, he's determined to avoid the fortune hunters and find a near-perfect woman...
- Opening Fri 9 Sep
- 117 minutes
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Three Thousand Years of Longing 
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While attending a conference in Istanbul, Dr. Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) happens to encounter a djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This presents two proble...
- Opening Fri 23 Sep
- 108 minutes
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It Snows in Benidorm
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Peter has worked all his life at a Manchester bank. When he is awarded an early retirement, he decides to visit his brother in Benidorm, only to discover that his brother has disappeared. Stars Timoth...
- Opening Fri 23 Sep
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