Ida
Members’ Rating: 82% Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she goes to visit her only living relative and discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of...
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance)
Members’ Rating: 64% – this film was the Members’ Choice Attempting to revive his fading career, a washed-up actor – famous for playing a superhero – writes, directs and stars in a Broadway production. USA, 2014, Alejandro G Iñárritu. Comedy/Drama,...
The Wind Rises
Members’ Rating: 76% A thought-provoking, heartbreaking, animated story, inspired by the life of innovative WWII Zero fighter plane designer Jiro Horikoshi. A rich treat for the eye and soul alike, transposed with weighty issues of conflict, death and destruction. Japan,...
Les Salauds
Members’ Rating: 36% A jagged, daringly fragmented and dark film. Captain Marco Silvestri is called back to Paris after his brother-in-law commits suicide. He targets the man believed to have caused it, but he hasn’t planned for his sister’s secrets...
The Double
Members’ Rating: 49% The life of a nerdy office clerk is overturned by the appearance of a gregarious doppelganger. He finds his identity being eaten away by a mirror image of himself, possessing all the confidence, charisma and charm that...
Omar
Members’ Rating: 83% A Palestinian baker regularly climbs the separation wall to meet his girlfriend. By night he risks his life to attack the Israeli military. Combines multiple reversals and plot twists with action sequences – and personal and political...
The Lady Eve
Members’ Rating: 72% – The Derek Goddard Memorial Film – featured classic Romantic comedy with Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck. Returning from a trip up the Amazon, rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike falls in love with con-artist Jean, but a...
Dallas Buyers Club
Members’ Rating: 79% 1980s Dallas – Racist, homophobic electrician Ron Woodroof lives a life of heavy smoking, drugs and casual sex. When diagnosed with AIDS and told by doctors he will die, he works around the system to help patients...
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared
Members’ Rating: 83% A 100-year-old man decides to leave his care home and embark on another adventure. For a century he has made the world uncertain and now he is on the loose again. Sweden, 2013, Felix Herngren. Adventure/Comedy, 1hr...
The Lunchbox
Members’ Rating: 90% – our favourite film of the season A mistake by Mumbai’s lunchbox delivery service leads to a relationship between a lonely widower and an unhappy housewife as they begin exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox. India/France, 2013,...
