Friday 14 February
The Kitchen Brigade (France 2022)
1hr 37m | Director: Louis-Julien Petit
Starring: Audrey Lamy, Francois Cluzet, Chantal Neuwirth, Fatou Kaba
Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children’s lives.
Friday 14 march
Romulus My Father (Australia 2009)
1hr 44m | Director: Richard Roxburgh
Starring: Eric Bana, Franka Potente, Martin Csokas
It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Friday 11 APRIL
The Holdovers (USA 2023)
1hr 32m | Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England school remains on campus during Christmas break. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.
Friday 09 MAY
Muriel’s Wedding (Australia 1994)
1hr 46m | Director: P J Hogan
Starring: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter, Jeanie Drynan, Dan Wylie, Sophie Lee, Daniel Lapaine
Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to ABBA and dreaming of her wedding day. A slight problem is she never had a date. She steals money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world upside down.
Friday 13 June
The Outfit (UK 2022)
1hr 45m | Director: Graham Moore
Starring: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Simon Russell Beale
Leonard (Mark Rylance), a master English tailor who’s ended up in Chicago, operates a corner tailor shop with his assistant (Zoey Deutch) where he makes beautiful clothes for the only people around who can afford them: a family of vicious gangsters.
Friday 11 JuLY
Much Ado About Nothing (UK 1993)
1hr 51m | Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Michael Keaton, Emma Thompson, Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves, Robert Sean Leonard
Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
Friday 08 aUGUST
Shayda (Australia 2023)
1hr 57m | Director: Noora Niasari
Starring: Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Leah Purcell, Mojean Aria
A young Iranian mother and her six-year-old daughter find refuge in an Australian women’s shelter during the two weeks of the Iranian New Year (Nowruz).
Friday 12 September
North By Northwest (USA 1959)
1hr 57m | Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Carey Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Friday 10 OCTOBER
Members’ Choice – Maggie Smith
Film to be advised following members’ voted choice of a film to honour the memory of the late, great, Maggie Smith (1934 – 2024).
Friday 14 NOVEMBER
The Blue Caftan (Morocco 2022)
2h02m | Director: Maryam Touzani
Starring: Lubna Azabal, Saleh Bakri, Ayoub Missioui
Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco’s oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is moved by his presence.
Friday 12 DECEMBER
Wild Rose (UK 2018)
1h41m | Director: Tom Harper
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters
A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star. Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is bursting with raw talent, charisma and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville.