Hitchcock’s classic thriller SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943), starring Joseph Cotton and Theresa Wright. The film will be showing at Film Club at the Cut on Tuesday 2nd June at 2pm - more details to follow. Read more

This month's film is a Member’s Choice recommendation, a comedy-drama not as well known as it deserves. In MY OLD LADY, Jim, an impoverished New Yorker, travels to Paris to sell an apartment he has inherited. However, he has not reckoned on the French property laws, nor the fact that Mathilde and her daughter Chloe… Read more

On stage, Ian McKellen rivalled Olivier as the definitive performance of Shakespeare’s (though not history’s) dazzling villain, and then transformed it into this pacy, very cinematic political thriller.  Ingeniously updated to a 1930’s Britain on the brink of fascism, director Richard Loncraine dynamically stages every scene in magnificent UK locations and stylish Art Deco interiors.… Read more

EYES WIDE OPEN: THE FILMS OF STANLEY KUBRICK Join us for a day exploring the dazzling world of film director Stanley Kubrick, one of post-war Hollywood’s most brilliant directors. With titles like DR STRANGELOVE, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, BARRY LYNDON, FULL METAL JACKET and EYES WIDE SHUT, each film revolutionised the way movies… Read more

 "MID-AUGUST LUNCH" (U, 75 mins, 2008). Take a seat for a charming Italian comedy set in Trastevere, Rome.  Middle-aged Gianni is unemployed and looks after his ageing and demanding mother in her apartment.  During the August holiday of Ferragosto, Gianni is reluctantly persuaded by his landlord to look after his mother and aunt as well.  Over… Read more

With Valentine’s Day approaching, we offer a George Clooney romcom to lift the spirits.  He plays Ryan Bingham, a literally high-flying executive who criss-crosses the US, and develops a relationship with fellow-traveller Vera Farmiga in the various cities they meet.  Back at base in Omaha, however, ambitious, cost-cutting young executive Anna Kendrick insists on accompanying… Read more

As announced in an earlier email, the new u3a Film Day is being launched in January 2026.  Below are the details and timings for the day:  SHADOWS & SIN: 1940s FILM NOIR and 1980s NEO-NOIR Join us for a day indulging in Hollywood’s most stylish genre, a shadowy world of wise-cracking investigators and enigmatic dames,… Read more

To start the new year, we bring you one of the most acclaimed westerns ever made, Sam Peckinpah’s early classic RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (1962).  Two veteran gunslingers Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott reluctantly agree to guard a gold shipment from a high country encampment to the town’s bank.  However, the unexpected rescue of farmer's… Read more

We are showing this year’s most acclaimed British comedy-drama THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND (2025).  A lonely Lottery winner (Tim Kay) on his own Welsh island invites a once-famous folk singer (Tom Basden) to perform a concert.  However, when a former musician girlfriend (Carey Mulligan) also arrives, there are professional and personal rivalries that threaten… Read more

As a tribute to Hollywood star Robert Redford, who passed away a few weeks ago, we will be screening one of his best and most popular films THE STING.  A comedy thriller set in 1930’s Chicago, Redford and Paul Newman reunite again to play two charismatic conmen, who try to take on ruthless Irish gangster… Read more