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OBAN PHOENIX

Friday 6 January – Thursday 12 January

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PASSENGERS l 12A l 136 MIN

Fri, Sat: 15:00, 20:15. Sun: 12.30, 17:30. Mon, Tue: 16:30, 19:15. Wed: 16:00, 17:00. On a routine journey through space to a new home, two passengers, sleeping in suspended animation, are awakened 90 years too early when their ship malfunctio­ns. As Jim (Chris Pratt) and Aurora (Jennifer Lawrence) face living the rest of their lives on board, with every luxury they could ever ask for, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction... until they discover the ship is in grave danger. With the lives of 5000 sleeping passengers at stake, only Jim and Aurora can save them all. Parent and Baby Screening: Tues 11.30 (Lights dimmed. Baby changing available)

RSC LIVE: THE TEMPEST l 12a l 210 MIN

Wed: 19:00 On a distant island a man waits. Robbed of his position, power and wealth, his enemies have left him in isolation. But this is no ordinary man, and this no ordinary island. Prospero is a magician, able to control the very elements and bend nature to his will. When a sail appears on the horizon, he reaches out across the ocean to the ship that carries the men who wronged him. Creating a vast magical storm he wrecks the ship and washes his enemies up on the shore. When they wake they find themselves lost on a fantastica­l island where nothing is as it seems.

BALLERINA | U | 119 MIN

Fri: 12:30 Children’s animation. Set in 1879 Paris. An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.

KIDS CLUB: BALLERINA | U | 119 MIN

Sat: 12:30

SILVER SCREEN: A UNITED KINGDOM l 12a l 131 MIN

Sun: 14:30 Silver Screening - ‘Last Chance to See’ - Concession­s (age 60+) entry just £3! Tea and cake £1.50. Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an internatio­nal stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s

MOANA | PG | 133 MIN

Fri: 2:30, Sat: 2:30 From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurou­s teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people.

THE BIRTH OF A NATION l 15 L 140 MIN

Fri, Sat: 17:45. Sun: 17:00. Mon, Tues: 19:00. Wed: 19:30 Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner (Nate Parker), a literate slave and preacher, whose financiall­y strained owner, Samuel Turner (Armie Hammer), accepts an offer to use Nat’s preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities - against himself and his fellow slaves - Nat orchestrat­es an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.

SULLY | 12A | 116 MIN

Fri: 20:00, Sat: 20:00 On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the “Miracle on the Hudson” when Captain “Sully” Sullenberg­er ( Tom Hanks) glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unpreceden­ted feat of aviation skill, an investigat­ion was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and his career.

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY | 12A | 153 MIN

Fri: 17:00, Sat: 17:00, Mon, Tue: 16:00, 3D: Fri: 12.00, Sat: 12:00, Mon: 14:45 ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’, is the first film in the new standalone movies from Lucasfilm. It tells the story of how a group of unlikely heroes unite to undertake a daring and seemingly impossible mission to steal the plans for the Death Star.

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