Brewcine Taunton August 2018 leaflet

BREWCINEMA

It’s aliiiiive!

Welcome to the first installment of BrewCinema’s monthly cinema programme, featuring: Rupert Everett as Oscar Wilde in The Happy Prince, Emily Mortimer starring alongside Bill Nighy in The Bookshop and we take a look at the life of the sci-fi queen and Frankenstein creator, Mary Shelley in the eponymously titled film starring Elle Fanning.

EARN FREE TICKETS Watching movies at home is great, but seeing them on the big screen is what it’s really all about; and if you’re a dieheard cinema fan then you’ll want to see as many great movies as possible each month. So why not earn yourself some free cinema tickets while giving something back to your local creative arts community by volunteering at The Brewhouse?

Aug 29 - 30 | TIMES VARY

Mamma Mia! Here we go again Director: Ol Parker Starring: Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Cher The phenomenal popularity and success of Mamma Mia! in 2008 has inevitably resulted in a follow-up, and fans of the original film and Abba won’t be disappointed.

cert: PG

dur: 1hr45

For more information contact: volunteers@thebrewhouse.net Aug 25 | 7:30PM

“The secret to film is that it’s an illusion” George Lucas

Director: Michael Gracey Starring: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron This all singing, all dancing boxoffice smash tells the story of PT Barnum’s quest to bring the circus to town. Join us for a sing-a-long experience with words on screen to help you belt out all of your

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favorite show tunes!

cert: PG

dur: 1hr05

mary shelley

the happy prince Dir: Rupert Everett Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson

Dir: Haifaa Al-Mansour Starring: Elle Fanning, Maisie Williams, Douglas Booth

The Happy Prince is a tour de force for Rupert Everett who has written, directed and stars in this poignant dramatisation of Oscar Wilde’s final years in exile in Naples and Paris after having been released from prison after his conviction for “gross indecency”.

The film expertly intersperses scenes from Wilde’s younger, more celebrated days with the squalor, illness and self-destructive urges of his last years.

Everett’s sensitive portrayal of a tortured soul and the hint of redemption that the film’s title offers makes it, as Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian says : “a deeply felt, tremendously acted tribute to courage”.

Mary Shelley will forever be remembered as the author of Frankenstein. But the real life story of Mary Shelley-and the creation of her immortal monsteris nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer, tempestuous of spirit and determined to make her mark on the world when she meets, and has a love affair with, the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth). Bohemian passion and personal tragedy subsequently fuel Mary’s writing of her masterpiece.

cert: 15

dur: 1hr54

cert: 12A Aug 18 | 7:30PM Aug 21 | 7:30PM

Aug 7 | 7:30PM

the bookshop Dir: Isabel Coixet Starring: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson Based on the novel by Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop is set in a small, culturally stale town in 1959 England. It is the story of a woman, played by Emily Mortimer, who, despite local apathy, narrowmindedness and outright opposition, decides to open a bookshop, thereby instigating a mild social revolution that divides the town and plunges the community into crisis. Bill Nighy as Mr.Brundish is an influential supporter of this cultural awakening as the film develops into a timeless comment on the value of literary culture as well as a poignant picture of a Britain still struggling to embrace cultural change. cert: PG

dur: 1hr53

dur: 2hr