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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: DEAD RECKONING PART ONE

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: to track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan’s past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than his mission - not even the lives of those he cares about most. Hayley

Atwell (star of ‘Agent Carter’) is a new face to the franchise, with director McQuarrie hinting, “She’s somebody who does not come from this world, she’s not a spy, she’s not an agent. If anything, she’s an agent of chaos, and is something of a random element that’s thrown into this story.” We are also introduced to a new villain played by Esai Morales (‘Titans’), here the director says, “I can tell you that he’s definitely the antagonist in our story. He’s something of an enigma. There’s definitely more to him than meets the eye and he’s something of a ghost of the past.” This film is rumoured to have the biggest stunt in cinema history. The brilliant cast also includes Angela Bassett, Indira Varma, Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Hoult, Rebecca Ferguson, Rob Delaney and Simon Pegg. USA 2013 CHRISTOPHER MCQUARRIE 156M

Tangmere And The Enigma Story Exhibition At Tangmere Museum

In conjunction with the screening of ‘The Imitation Game’ (below) to complement this event at Tangmere. This tour is only available as a joint Film & Tour offer. For ‘tour only’ tickets, please contact Tangmere Museum.

A temporary exhibition on ‘Tangmere and the Enigma Story’ will be held at Tangmere Military Aviation Museum from 1 July until 2 September 2023. It will cover how in 1933 three Polish mathematicians broke the encoded messages of the German Military Enigma cipher machine and how a French Colonel who had assisted in breaking the Enigma codes was rescued in 1944 by a Special Duties Lysander aircraft from RAF Tangmere. The exhibition will be located in the Museum’s Merston aircraft hall adjacent to a full-size replica of a Special Duties Lysander aircraft. Also on display will be a replica Enigma machine built in-house for the exhibition by the Museum’s Engineering Special Projects Team.

The Imitation Game

Screening to complement the ‘Tangmere and the Enigma Story’ (above) at Tangmere Museum.

During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.

1939. Newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma - which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing’s team, including Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley), analyse Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison. With an outstanding starring performance from Cumberbatch illuminating its fact-based story, ‘The Imitation Game’ serves as an eminently well-made entry in the “prestige biopic” genre.

UK 2014 MORTEN TYLDUM 116M

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning ‘Spider-Verse’ saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse.

He joins forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse’s very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other Spiders and must set out on his own to save those he loves most. Anyone can wear the mask - it’s how you wear it that makes you a hero. 2018’s ‘Into the Spider-Verse’ was hailed as one of the most unique comic book adaptations placed on the big screen, and this one is even better.

Elemental

An original new feature film from Pixar Studios (‘Toy Story’) set in a city where fire, water, land and air residents live together. Arriving at the culturally diverse Elemental City, the fiery Lumen family (Bernie, his wife Cinder, and their tough and quick-witted daughter Ember) start a new life for themselves. No one knows how to pronounce their names, and in a city primarily occupied by inhabitants comprised of water, they’re considered not welcome. Years later, a chance meeting with charismatic water element Wade, leads them on a journey where opposites attract and the two elements who physically cannot be together (literally, they cannot touch, as Ember will evaporate him, and Wade will extinguish her if they do) will come to realize just how compatible they truly are.

USA 2023 PETER SOHN 93M

Oppenheimer

Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer works with a team of scientists to develop the atomic bomb in this eagerly awaited biopic from one of the premium directors of the 21st Century, Christopher Nolan (‘Inception,’ Interstellar’ and ‘Dunkirk’).

Oppenheimer served as the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, and is often credited as the “father of the atomic bomb” for his role in the Manhattan Project, the research and development undertaking that created the world’s first-ever nuclear weapons. This is a story rife with controversies and drama, which takes on nobody less than the man who ushered in a new level of war, whether he wanted it or not. Christopher Nolan wrote the film with Cillian Murphy in mind for the lead. Even though he has excelled as Tommy Shelby in ‘Peaky Blinders,’ carrying a major movie for the first time is a responsibility he takes very seriously, and has made a stunning job of it.

Nolan has commented on a unique aspect of the film where parts are presented in colour and others in black & white. “I wrote the script in the first person, which I’d never done before. I don’t know if anyone has ever done that, or if that’s a thing people do or not… The film is objective and subjective. The colour scenes are subjective; the black-and-white scenes are objective. I wrote the colour scenes from the first person.” The incredible cast includes Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Gustaf Skarsgård, Gary Oldman, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh, Rami Malek and Casey Affleck.

USA 2023 CHRISTOPHER NOLAN 179M