The story of Otto Anderson (Tom Hanks), a grumpy widower who is very set in his ways. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leadi...

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• Sat 4 Feb to Thu 9 Feb
• 126 minutes

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an u...

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• Sun 5 Feb
• 90 minutes

A romance develops in a beautiful old cinema on the south coast of England in the 1980s. EMPIRE OF LIGHT features a stellar cast led by Academy Award winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite, Broadchurc...

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• Sun 5 Feb to Thu 9 Feb
• 119 minutes

Film Club is joining up with Hexham Book Group for this month’s film – why not read the book before seeing the film and join in the post-show discussion? Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always...

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• Tue 7 Feb
• 125 minutes

Filmed right here in Hexham's old middle school, we are delighted to have Blue Jean director, Georgia Oakley, introduce her film here at The Forum! To celebrate the award winning Blue Jean, we are ...

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• Wed 8 Feb
• 97 minutes

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of f...

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• Fri 10 Feb to Thu 16 Feb
• 151 minutes

Shrek, Fiona and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father. But not everyone is happy. Shrek and the King find it hard to get along, and there's tension in the marriage. The fa...

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• Sat 11 Feb to Sun 12 Feb
• 93 minutes

The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.

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• Sat 11 Feb to Thu 16 Feb
• 131 minutes

Peter von Kant, a successful director lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young ...

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• Mon 13 Feb to Wed 15 Feb
• 85 minutes

Join us this valentines day with a 30th anniversary screening of Nora Ephron's classic rom-com starring the irresistibly charismatic pairing of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. What if someone you never met...

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• Tue 14 Feb
• 105 minutes

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...

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• Wed 15 Feb
• 225 minutes

An old gunslinger (Nicolas Cage in his first Western!) and his daughter must face the consequences of his past, when the son of a man he murdered years ago arrives to take his revenge.

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• Fri 17 Feb to Thu 23 Feb
• 95 minutes

This award winning British feature set in 80's Newcastle was filmed right here in Hexham! England, 1988 – Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government are about to pass a law stigmatising gays and l...

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• Fri 17 Feb to Wed 8 Mar
• 97 minutes

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find ...

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• Sat 18 Feb to Sun 26 Feb
• 103 minutes

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...

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• Thu 23 Feb
• 150 minutes

Roman Holiday, the charming fairy-tale romance shot entirely on location in Rome that starred Audrey Hepburn in her first Hollywood feature is celebrating it's 70th anniversary with a beautiful 4K res...

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• Fri 24 Feb to Wed 1 Mar
• 118 minutes

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and t...

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• Fri 24 Feb to Thu 2 Mar
• 189 minutes

Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldi...

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• Fri 24 Feb to Wed 1 Mar
• 122 minutes

Please note this showing of Puss in Boots on Sunday 26th of February is a relaxed inclusive screening. The volume will be at a lower level and the house lights will be slightly raised during the pe...

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• Sun 26 Feb
• 103 minutes

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and t...

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• Mon 27 Feb
• 189 minutes

Brian Eno and Roger Eno have been recording together since 1983. This unique musical event not only sees the two brothers performing live together for the first time but unbelievably it’s one of the v...

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• Thu 2 Mar
• 80 minutes

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption. A career best performance from Brendan Fraser ...

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• Fri 3 Mar to Thu 9 Mar
• 117 minutes

Mike Lane (Channing Tatum) takes to the stage again after a lengthy hiatus, following a business deal that went bust, leaving him broke and taking bartender gigs in Florida. For what he hopes will be ...

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• Fri 3 Mar to Thu 9 Mar
• 112 minutes

The Fantastic Mr. Fox bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge against him and his family...

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• Sat 4 Mar to Sun 5 Mar
• 87 minutes

In the year 2035, a dream auditor working for an all-seeing surveillance state takes a surreal and cosmic journey through an eccentric woman’s unconscious archive and begins to fall in love with her y...

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• Tue 7 Mar
• 91 minutes

The inspiring true story of one woman's resolve to "walk myself back to the woman my mother thought I was.” In June 1995, despite a lack of hiking experience, recent divorcée Cheryl Strayed (Reese ...

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• Wed 8 Mar
• 111 minutes

Filmed live during its sold-out 2021 run at the Barbican in London, this major 5-star production of the classic musical comedy features an all-star cast led by renowned Broadway royalty Sutton Foster ...

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• Wed 15 Mar
• 156 minutes

This preview screening of Leonor Will Never Die is presented and introduced by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. Fiction and reality blur when Leonor, a retired filmmaker, ...

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• Fri 17 Mar
• 101 minutes

This screening of The Wizard of Oz (1939) presented by Forum Cinema Hexham as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival and will include free face painting in our cafe/bar courtesy of Hexham Youth Initiative....

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• Sat 18 Mar
• 102 minutes

Tune in to the TV Time Machine and take a look back at television programming in the North of England, curated and presented by the North East Film Archive, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival.. C...

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• Sat 18 Mar
• 100 minutes

This 4k screening of E.T. (1982) is presented by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by...

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• Sun 19 Mar
• 115 minutes

This screening of Hugo (2011) is presented by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in...

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• Sun 19 Mar
• 126 minutes

This preview screening of A Clever Woman (2023) is presented by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. The film will be followed by an in person Q+A with the film's director Jon...

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• Mon 20 Mar
• 88 minutes

This screening of How Green Was My Valley (1941) is presented by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans (he ste...

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• Tue 21 Mar
• 118 minutes

This screening of The Favourite (2018) is sponsored by Hexham Book Festival, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah C...

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• Tue 21 Mar
• 119 minutes

This screening of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) is presented by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. A young woman embraces her pregnancy while she and her family set out ...

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• Wed 22 Mar
• 119 minutes

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...

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• Wed 22 Mar
• 210 minutes

This 4K screening of Wings of Desire (1987) is sponsored by The Town Twinning Society, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, obs...

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• Thu 23 Mar
• 128 minutes

This screening of The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) is sponsored by Chrysalis Club, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival and will run as a Dementia Friendly Screening. A fresh and di...

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• Fri 24 Mar
• 119 minutes

This screening of Lady Bird (2017) is presented by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of...

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• Fri 24 Mar
• 94 minutes

This screening of Mo' Better Blues (1990) is sponsored by Core Music, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) is obsessed with h...

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• Fri 24 Mar
• 125 minutes

This screening of 2040 (2019) is sponsored by Hexham Town Council, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the ...

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• Sat 25 Mar
• 92 minutes

This screening of The Last Picture Show (1971) is presented by Forum Cinema Hexham, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texa...

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• Sat 25 Mar
• 118 minutes

This screening of The Lady in the Van (2015) is sponsored by Hexham Community Partnership, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the sing...

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• Sun 26 Mar
• 104 minutes

This screening of My Thoughts are Silent (2019) is presented by Ukrainian filmmaker Svitlana Pohasiy, as part of Tyne Valley Film Festival. Svitlana will introduce the film with a short talk on the...

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• Sun 26 Mar
• 104 minutes

Puppetry, magic and storytelling combine in a unique, Olivier Award-winning stage adaptation of the best-selling novel. After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a 16-year-o...

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• Thu 30 Mar to Sun 9 Apr
• 150 minutes

Greetings, salutations. Welcome to Westerberg High, where Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beaut...

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• Fri 31 Mar
• 124 minutes

Film Club is joining up with Hexham Book Group for this month’s film – why not read the book before seeing the film and join in the post-show discussion? Based on the lives of June and Jennifer Gib...

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• Tue 4 Apr
• 113 minutes

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...

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• Wed 12 Apr
• 180 minutes

David Tennant makes a much-anticipated return to the West End in a blistering reimagining of one of Britain’s most powerful, political plays. As the world faces its Second World War, John Halder, a...

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• Thu 20 Apr to Sun 23 Apr
• 160 minutes

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. ...

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• Thu 27 Apr
• 240 minutes

We are delighted to be partnering with Hexham Jazz Festival with a special screening of silent film clasic, The Wild Cat (1921), with a live band performing a brilliant score over the film. The wor...

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• Sun 14 May
• 82 minutes

David Harewood (Homeland) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek) play feuding political rivals in James Graham’s (Sherwood) multiple award-winning new drama. In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the...

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• Thu 18 May
• 180 minutes

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...

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• Wed 24 May
• 155 minutes

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...

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• Tue 13 Jun
• 205 minutes