Country: USA
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Micheal Keaton plays the ‘ghost with the most’ in this zany comedy-horror that kick-started Tim Burton’s career and introduced us to Winona Ryder. When the recently deceased Maitlands find that their house is now owned by the tasteless Deetzs, they turn to the bio-exorcist Beetlejuice for help, which may be the biggest mistake of their [...]Click to read more about this film »
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Tim Burton’s adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s novel fits the ‘Lives and Loves’ theme of this year’s Headingley Litfest perfectly. The story tells of a man trying to learn more about his dying father’s life by recreating the fantastic stories he has been told over the years.
Starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Helena Bonham Carter, Marion Cotillard, [...]Click to read more about this film »
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Chronicle is a dark urban take on the superhero genre that looks at what might happen if we possess power we can’t control or fully understand. For Andrew, Matt and Steve these powers are initially fun but soon their abilities threaten to tear their friendship, themselves and the world apart.
The screening will be preceded by [...]Click to read more about this film »
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Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. When a hundred year storm raises the waters around her town, Wink is suddenly stricken with illness, and fierce pre-historic creatures awaken from their frozen graves to come charging across the planet, [...]Click to read more about this film »
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When a film crew travels to Skull Island to finish their picture, none of them can imagine the horror that awaits them in the form of a giant gorilla. One of the most famous monster movies of all time, King Kong made an instant star out of actress Fay Wray. The first film ever to [...]Click to read more about this film »
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Continuing the Great Big Family Film Day we are inviting you to a very special tea party. Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy with us in the cinema while watching Tim Burton’s magical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, where 19 year old Alice finds herself back down the rabbit hole after years of being away. [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Following many failed attempts a young couple discover that they cannot have children. Drowning their sorrows they list all the wonderful attributes and achievements a child of theirs would have and bury them in a box in the garden. Next morning, following a terrible storm, a young boy appears, although Timothy Green is not all [...]Click to read more about this film »
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Kicking off our 2013 Great Big Family Film Day we have an extra-special Scooby Doo event aimed at getting our younger audience involved with the Film Festival. Recommended 3+ (and for bigger kids as well) ther will be a Scooby Doo treasure hunt, lots of Scooby Doo related activities and a screening of the 2006 [...]Click to read more about this film »
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Having only just met, spoiled socialite Melanie Daniels pursues lawyer Mitch Brenner to the coastal town of Bodega Bay. When Melanie sails across the bay to deliver a lovebird to Mitch’s sister, she is attacked by a gull on her way back. Before long the town is attacked by marauding birds of all varieties. As [...]Click to read more about this film »
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Playful Leeds invite you to enjoy a special screening of the classic 1999 animation The Iron Giant, based on the 1968 novel The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Set in 1957 it tells the story of a lonely boy named Hogarth raised by his mother (the widow of an Air Force pilot), who discovers an [...]Click to read more about this film »
