Treats for all ages at Victoria Hall cinema
NO MATTER your age, there will be something to entertain you when the cinema returns to the Victoria Hall on Saturday and Sunday March 11 and 12.
For the children, two animated movies will be on offer in the afternoons courtesy of Sing and the LEGO Batman Movie.
From the team behind Despicable Me, Minions and The Secret Life of Pets, Sing sees impresario koala Buster Moon trying to find a way to revive the fortunes of his once grand theatre by putting on the world’s greatest singing competition, open to all – and all turn up! Pigs in sparkly spandex, a gorilla trying to break away from the family criminal business, porcupines, rats … they all get up on stage to sing their hearts out and try to win the grand prize.
Everything is awesome in the LEGO Batman Movie, the brilliantly funny spinoff focusing on crimefighting vigilante Batman. He gets to spend every night punching evil in the face on the streets of Gotham, equipped with a gadget and outfit for every occasion but, to his horror, Batman now has a responsibility, to look after the orphan boy he accidentally adopted. Batman must learn to be a team player and deal with the handful that is the boy wonder to defeat his greatest foe – The Joker.
Once the children have gone to bed, mums and dads can head to the hall to see Fifty Shades Darker,
the eagerly awaited follow-up to Fifty Shades
of Grey, adapted from E L James’ bestseller. Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan star, as dark secrets, old flames and new rules add up to another erotic smash in the record-breaking second chapter.
Also for the grownups, Hacksaw Ridge tells the incredible true story of Desmond Doss, a committed pacifist who insisted on his right to serve as a medic during the Second World War. Andrew Garfield stars in this BAFTA- and Oscar-winning film as the man who was bullied by his colleagues and branded a coward, but ultimately went above and beyond the call of duty, and saved the lives of 75 men on Okinawa, one of the war’s bloodiest battlefields.
Hidden Figures takes viewers back to 1962 when the space race was on. NASA might be a putting a man into space, but it’s the women on the ground who are the mathematicians and engineers making it happen, who are the unsung heroes. This true story of three pioneering African-American women who played a pivotal role in history is an inspirational feelgood film about dreaming big and overcoming every obstacle.
For more feelgood vibes, Lion is the extraordinary true story of Saroo Brierley, who got lost on a train in India when he was five. Frightened and bewildered, he ends up in chaotic Kolkata and somehow survives until he’s eventually adopted by an Australian couple. He grows up in safety, but years later, with the faintest of memories and the help of a new technology, Google Earth, he decides to track down his family. This is a critically acclaimed movie that would be impossible to believe if it hadn’t actually happened. To see listings, go to http://www. campbeltownpicturehouse.co.uk.