Upcoming Cinema January 2015

BIG HERO 6 - FROM 30 JANUARY

JANUARY 2015

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WELCOME TO MAREEL CINEMA

TICKET PRICES

This leaflet contains details of most of the films you can expect to see at Mareel this month. Please be aware that, due to the flexible nature of cinema programming, some details may be subject to change.

MATINEES:

CINEMA TICKETS Our prices vary depending on the day and time of the performance, and the type of screening. When booking you will be asked to choose between two different ticket types: adult or concession. Concessions include children aged up to 15 years old (those aged 16 and above must buy adult tickets), students (must produce valid ID), seniors (aged 60+), and people with disabilities.

Tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded once purchased. Customers are responsible for checking that they have booked the correct tickets at time of purchase as mistakes cannot be rectified at a later date. Only in the event of a screening being cancelled will your ticket be refunded.

FESTIVE OPENING HOURS

before 5pm

Price per ticket

Monday to Friday

£5.50 / £4.50

Saturday, Sunday, Holidays*

£7 / £5

EVENINGS:

from 5pm onwards Monday

£7 / £5

Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

£8 / £6

Friday, Saturday, Holidays*

£9 / £7

SPECIAL SCREENINGS: Senior Screening (includes refreshment ) £6

Sun - Thu: 10am - 11pm Fri - Sat: 10am - 1am Christmas Eve: 10am – 8pm

*Holidays include Bank Holidays, Christmas’ Eve, Boxing Day, & New Year’s Eve.

Boxing Day: 1pm – 8pm

• 3D screenings cost an extra £1 on top of ticket prices.

New Year’s Eve: 10am – 1am

• 3D glasses cost an additional £1 and are reusable.

Closed: Christmas Day, New Year’s Day & 2nd Jan Shetland Arts Development Agency manages Mareel, the Garrison Theatre & Bonhoga Gallery. We also develop and promote a year round programme of film, music, theatre, literature, visual arts, & dance events.

We do this because we want to see Shetland celebrated as a place where inspiration & innovation are valued; where people want to live, work & study; and we want the full social & economic potential of the islands to be achieved.

Shetland Arts is supported by Creative Scotland and core funded by the Shetland Charitable Trust. Shetland Arts is a registered charity (SCO37082).

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2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY Showing from: Fri 26 Dec Tickets on sale now Heralded in 1968 as the most striking sci-fi film ever, Stanley Kubrick’s epic meditation on human evolution shines brilliantly 46 years later in a new BFI restoration.

The film opens with the discovery of a mysterious monolith by prehistoric, ape-like hominids. The narrative then jumps to the 21st century, when a scientist (William Sylvester) landing on the moon discovers an identical obelisk. Eighteen months later, a pair of astronauts journey to Jupiter in search of the monoliths with the aid of their omnipresent speaking computer, known as HAL 9000 (eerily voiced by Douglas Rain). The mission is fraught with tension and murderous intent as HAL begins to endanger the astronauts’ lives.

EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS 3D & 2D NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB Showing from: Fri 19 Dec Tickets on sale now The third instalment of the blockbusting Night at the Museum franchise features an even starrier cast than its predecessors, with Ben Kingsley playing a pharaoh awakened from his tomb by the magical tablet wielded by security guard Larry Daley (Ben Stiller, as energised as ever). Thus begins a frantic journey to museums the world over to harness the magic before it fades forever, including a hilarious stopover at the British Museum.

With old reliables Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan and Owen Wilson back on board, as well as appearances by the late Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney.

Showing from: Fri 26 Dec Tickets on sale now An epic in the grand Hollywood tradition of Spartacus and Cleopatra, Exodus: Gods & Kings portrays the Old Testament story on the vast cinematic scale that Ridley Scott (Gladiator, Prometheus) has made his own.

Moses (Christian Bale) and Rhamses (Joel Edgerton) were raised as brothers, but are pitched against each other as warriors when Rhamses becomes pharaoh and Moses becomes the leader of the enslaved Israelites.

Their dramatic struggle is set against a spectacular backdrop of (super)natural disasters – the famous plagues of hail, boils, flies and frogs – and astonishing set pieces, most notably of course the parting of the Red Sea. Timeless themes of loyalty, honour and betrayal, state-of-the-art effects, a stellar cast, gripping storytelling, and thrilling direction by a master of the craft make this an unforgettable movie experience.

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TINKER BELL & THE LEGEND OF THE NEVERBEAST Showing from: Fri 26 Dec Tickets on sale now Fun and talented animal fairy Fawn believes you can’t judge a book by its cover, or an animal by its fangs, so she befriends a huge and mysterious creature known as the NeverBeast. While Tink and her friends aren’t so sure about this scary addition to Pixie Hollow, the elite Scout Fairies set out to capture the monster before he destroys their home. Fawn must trust her heart and take a leap of faith if she hopes to rally the girls to save the NeverBeast.

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE PRESENTS

ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Showing on Sunday 28 December Tickets on sale now

HOME ALONE Showing on: Sat 27 Dec Tickets on sale now FAMILY FAVOURITE The ultimate festive family comedy... without the family!

Chris Columbus’ much-loved madcap movie caper stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin, a tough little tyke who’s expecting someone to come down his chimney - but not Santa Claus. When his family rush off for a winter holiday in Paris, Kevin gets left behind on the wrong side of the Atlantic. Now he’s got little to do but decorate the home for Christmas. And not with sprigs of holly, but with a fiendish array of booby-traps that he devises to foil a bumbling pair of burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), who discover that little Kevin is indeed HOME ALONE when they target the house for a robbery.

Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland arrived on the stage in 2011 with a burst of colour, theatrical magic and inventive choreography. It was The Royal Ballet’s first new full-length work since 1995 and was greeted with delight by audiences. Joby Talbot’s score combines contemporary soundworlds with sweeping melodies that gesture to ballet scores of the 19th century.

Bob Crowley’s wildly imaginative sets and costumes draw on puppetry, projections and masks to make Wonderland wonderfully real.

Alice encounters a cast of extraordinary characters, from the highly-strung Queen of Hearts, who performs a hilarious send-up of The Sleeping Beauty’s famous Rose Adage, to dancing playing cards, a sinuous caterpillar and a tap-dancing Mad Hatter. Alice and the Knave of Hearts dance a tender, loving pas de deux of delicate beauty. But the ballet does not avoid the darker undercurrents of Lewis Carroll’s story – a nightmarish kitchen, an eerily disembodied Cheshire Cat and the unhinged tea party are all created in vivid detail. A perfect event for all the family this festive. £16 / £13

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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING Showing from: Sat 3 Jan Tickets on sale now The Theory of Everything is the story of one of the most brilliant and celebrated physicists of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children.

Over the course of their marriage as Stephen’s body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.

NIGHTCRAWLER Showing from: Sat 3 Jan Tickets on sale now Drifter and small-time crook Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) stumbles into the seedy world of freelance journalism in LA, where he goes armed with a camera and an increasingly perverse taste for car wrecks and shoot-outs. His work soon catches the eye of veteran TV journalist Nina, although his driver Rick is more troubled. As rival newshound Bill Paxton exhorts him to sensationalise his reporting on the basis that ‘if it bleeds, it leads,’ Bloom inevitably crosses the line, and instead of merely covering the story, he becomes it.

The Bourne Legacy writer Dan Gilroy makes a stunning directorial debut, combining tremendous action footage with a morally driven crime drama and a career best performance from Gyllenhaal.

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INTO THE WOODS Showing from: Fri 9 Jan

Tickets on sale: Wed 17 Dec

Based on Stephen Sondheim’s acclaimed stage musical, Into The Woods brings together the heroes of many fairy tales – including Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (with Johnny Depp as the Wolf) and Jack (of Beanstalk fame) – in a tale about a baker and his wife (James Corden and Emily Blunt). Cursed by a witch (Meryl Streep) to remain childless, the couple must venture into the forest and locate magical objects that will break her spell, encountering various fantastical characters along the way. The irreverent tone of their quest and accompanying songs eventually gives way to more thoughtful messages about the dangers of wishful thinking and avarice, and the whole is a wonderfully engaging, family-friendly entertainment in the best Disney tradition.

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PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR Showing from: Fri 16 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 7 Jan BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! The lovably boisterous penguins from the Madagascar films return in this spin-off espionage adventure.

Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico lead double lives as super spies and their latest mission is nothing less than saving the world from the evil ambitions of sinister octopus Dr Octavious Brine (John Malkovich). They must join forces with an elite inter-species task force, North Wind, led by a wolf named Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch) to sabotage Dr Octavious’ villainous plans for world domination. Eric Darnell (Co-director and writer of the other Madagascar films) and Simon J. Smith bring us gasps and laughs aplenty in their latest feature.

DreamWorks have pulled out all the visual stops and it promises to be a family favourite this Christmas.

THE HOMESMAN Showing from: Fri 9 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 17 Dec When the harsh realities facing an 1850s Nebraska community take their toll, the men draw lots to decide who will accompany the ladies back to civilisation.

Resolute and principled Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank) insists on participating in the draw, and winds up with the short straw. While she is preparing for the journey, she saves George Briggs (Tommy Lee Jones) from a lynching, and offers to pay him to come along.

This vivid adaptation of the 1988 novel by Glendon Swarthout mixes bone-dry comedy with moments of tragedy, and its top-notch cast includes John Lithgow as the preacher who advises the women to go back east, Tim Blake Nelson as a lustful cowboy, and Meryl Streep as the Methodist minister’s wife set to receive the human cargo.

WINTER SLEEP Showing from: Fri 16 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 7 Jan Turkish & English language film with some subtitles.

Winter Sleep tells the story of a former actor, presently a small town newspaper columnist and proprietor of a mountaintop hotel, his much younger activist wife Nihal, and his sister, verbal sparring partner and confidante Necla. A seemingly insignificant incident involving the young son of a former hotel employee casts a huge shadow on the failing marriage of the property owner, and acts as a catalyst for a fierce debate over the class struggle that tears at the fabric of his family and friends.

BABES IN ARMS

Mondays at 11am For parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING p5 INTO THE WOODS p6 TESTAMENT OF YOUTH p10 ST. VINCENT p13 BIG HERO 6 2D p15

We are also happy for parents/guardians with babies up to 18 months old to attend any morning or afternoon screening with a U, PG or 12A certification.

ST. VINCENT

5 Jan 12 Jan 19 Jan 26 Jan 2 Feb

SENIOR SCREENINGS

Wednesdays at 2pm Weekly screenings for our mature guests (60+), offered at a discounted rate with refreshments included in the ticket price.

7 Jan 14 Jan 21 Jan 28 Jan 4 Feb

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING p5 INTO THE WOODS p6 TESTAMENT OF YOUTH p10 MY OLD LADY p10 THE GREEN RAY p15

FILM WEDNESDAYS

Wednesdays at 8pm + additional Sunday screenings The best of independent & world cinema, classic films & documentaries, for film lovers.

7 Jan 14 Jan 21 Jan 28 Jan 4 Feb

NIGHTCRAWLER p5 THE HOMESMAN p7 WINTER SLEEP p7 THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS p15 THE GREEN RAY p15

Access to unlimited film at Mareel for just £22.50 a month.

Access to unlimited off-peak film at Mareel for just £18 a month.

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MY OLD LADY

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THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS

PROMOTIONS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS

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SUBTITLED SCREENINGS

Mondays at 8.15pm And where possible additional week day matinees.

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING p5 INTO THE WOODS p6 TESTAMENT OF YOUTH p10 AMERICAN SNIPER p12 KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE p16

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING

5 Jan 12 Jan 19 Jan 26 Jan 2 Feb

Some screenings may be subject to change.

Please check weekly film flyer for updates.

ASN FRIENDLY SCREENINGS

Twice per month* For people with additional support needs & their families, friends, & carers. It is fine for customers to move around, make noise, or take a break during the film.

BIG HERO 6

4 Jan TINKERBELL: LEGEND OF THE NEVERBEAST p4 18 Jan PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR p7 1 Feb BIG HERO 6 2D p15

AUTISM FRIENDLY SCREENINGS

11 Jan INTO THE WOODS

INTO THE WOODS

Monthly screening for people on the autistic spectrum & their families, friends, & carers. Soundtrack volume is reduced & low lights are left on. It is fine for customers to move around, make noise, or take a break during the film. p6

FAMILY & FRIENDS

TEN 4 NINE

For groups of 4 including 2+ children & 1+ adult, all pay concession prices for any U, PG, 12A, 12, or 15 film.

Buy 10 tickets in one purchase for any one screening for the cost of 9.

(subject to age restrictions)

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McCULLIN Showing on: Tue 20 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 7 Jan Showing in light of the ARTIST ROOMS Don McCullin exhibition, entitled ‘Fallen’, showing at Bonhoga Gallery and Da Gadderie in Shetland Museum & Archives from 29 November 2014 – 22 February 2015.

Granted unprecedented access to the archives of veteran Times war photographer Don McCullin, directors Jacqui and David Morris interweave candid interviews with the man himself, archive footage of the conflicts he covered and a huge range of his devastating photographs. The result is a vivid and moving portrait of one of the most important photojournalists of the 20th century. By turns emotionally demanding and strangely uplifting, this powerful documentary proves a fitting tribute to a truly remarkable man.

TESTAMENT OF YOUTH Showing from: Fri 16 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 7 Jan Testament of Youth is a searing story of love and war.

Based on the classic First World War memoir, this is the incredible true story of one young woman’s struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit.

Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother’s close friend Roland Leighton as they go to University to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so she volunteers as a nurse.

MY OLD LADY Showing from: Fri 23 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 14 Jan Mathias (Kevin Kline), a down-and-out New Yorker, travels to Paris to liquidate a huge, valuable apartment he has inherited from his estranged father. Once there, however, he discovers a refined old woman, Mathilde, (Maggie Smith) living in the apartment with her daughter Chloe (Kristin Scott Thomas). While working with a Parisian real-estate dealer (Dominique Pinon), to sell his contract for the apartment, Mathias discovers that Mathilde and his father were more to each other than mere tenant and landlord. The trio are connected in unexpected ways with the help of a hidden truth which is revealed by Mathilde.

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FIERY FILMS Showing on: Tue 27 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 7 Jan The Shetland Moving Image Archive and Shetland Arts presents a selection of archive and contemporary film on Up Helly Aa. Seven short films will take you on a journey of the festival through the ages - from Lerwick in 1949 to the newest fire festival in Shetland, the South Mainland Up Helly Aa.

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AMERICAN SNIPER Showing from: Fri 23 Jan

Tickets on sale: Wed 14 Jan

Based on the hit memoir by real-life Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, American Sniper marks director Clint Eastwood’s return to violence, and especially the gun-related violence that’s hallmarked his greatest films. Bradley Cooper plays the unerringly accurate rifleman charged with taking down dangerous targets in Iraq. But Chris has another life back in Texas with Taya (Sienna Miller), the new wife he met just before a tour of duty.

The brutalisation of war puts a strain on this relationship, which Eastwood and scriptwriter Jason Hall weave into a powerful subplot that rivals the battleground scenes in intensity.

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THE LEGO MOVIE Showing from: Fri 23 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 14 Jan FAMILY FAVOURITE The Lego Movie follows Emmet, an ordinary, rulesfollowing, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as a most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. Emmet (Chris Pratt) is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil tyrant, a journey for which he is hopelessly and hilariously underprepared. Will Ferrell, Morgan Freeman, Liam Neeson, Will Arnett, Elizabeth Banks, Nick Offerman and Alison Brie join Chris Pratt to form the cast of the first-ever full length theatrical LEGO movie, the greatest movie ever assembled.

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS Showing on: Mon 26 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 14 Jan SHOWING FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY Adapted from John Boyne’s bestselling novel, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas is a fictional story that offers a unique and powerful perspective on how prejudice, hatred and violence affect innocent people during wartime. Told through the eyes of an eight-year-old German boy shielded from the reality of World War II, this unforgettable tale follows an unlikely friendship that forms between Bruno (Asa Butterfield), the son of a Nazi commandant, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy held captive in a concentration camp.

Though a barbed-wire fence physically separates the two, their friendship grows and their lives become inescapably and tragically entwined. This is an enlightening, sobering and informative work for all generations of filmgoers.

ST. VINCENT Showing from: Fri 23 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 14 Jan The titular St Vincent de Van Nuys (Bill Murray) is a grouchy, hard-drinking war veteran who lives a rackety, self-indulgent suburban life when along comes a new neighbour (Melissa McCarthy) with a smarty-pants 12 year-old son (impressive newcomer Jaeden Lieberher) who needs babysitting. Inevitable chaos ensues, which makes Murray’s performance all the more terrific as he resolves to teach the boy “how the world works”. St Vincent’s world of course, embraces strip clubs, horse racing and eating tinned sardines under the guise of sushi. Melfi’s script brilliantly complements Murray’s trademark deadpan delivery and faultless timing, with (a fabulously against type) Naomi Watts as a Russian hooker, and Chris O’Dowd as a do-gooding priest weighing-in perfectly.

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DUMB AND DUMBER TO Showing from: Fri 23 Jan

Tickets on sale: Wed 14 Jan

Two decades after their smash-hit Dumb and Dumber, Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey reprise their roles as two good-hearted friends who happen to be incredibly stupid. Dumb and Dumber To (sic) begins with Harry Dunne (Daniels) and Lloyd Christmas (Carrey) in a home for the elderly insane, where Lloyd is about to execute a gross-out gag that the Farrelly brothers have created at their most imaginatively outrageous. The plot centres on the search for Harry’s long-lost daughter, who Lloyd falls in love with. The amazing dog-shaped Mutts Cutts van makes a welcome return, plus there’s marvellous support from the legendary Kathleen Turner and Ron Riggle.

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THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS Showing from: Fri 23 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 14 Jan The celebrated lyricist, Edwyn Collins could only say two phrases after waking up: ‘Grace Maxwell’ and ‘the possibilities are endless’. This is the incredible story of Collins, a songwriter who had the contents of his mind effectively deleted after experiencing a stroke. Placed inside Edwyn’s mind, we embark on a remarkable journey from the brink of death back to language, music, life and love. With the help of his wife Grace, Edwyn submerges himself in a landscape of memories, as he tries to unlock the story of his past. More than a story of determination against all odds; it is an intimate and life-affirming tale of rediscovery.

THE GREEN RAY Showing from: Fri 30 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 21 Jan French language film with English subtitles. Delphine’s traveling companion cancels two weeks before her holiday, so Delphine, a Parisian secretary, is a at loose end. She doesn’t want to travel by herself, but has no boyfriend and seems unable to meet new people. A friend takes her to Cherbourg; after a few days there, the weepy and self-pitying Delphine goes back to Paris. She tries the Alps, but returns the same day. Next, it’s the beach: once there, she chats with an outgoing Swede, a party girl, and a friendship seems to bud. Then, suddenly, Delphine bolts, heading back to Paris. As she waits at Biarritz’ train station, a young man catches her eye perhaps a sunset and the sun’s green ray await...

BIG HERO 6 3D & 2D Showing from: Fri 30 Jan Tickets on sale: Wed 21 Jan Big Hero 6 is a heartfelt comedy adventure about robotics prodigy Hiro Hamada, who learns to harness his genius - thanks to his brilliant brother Tadashi and their like-minded friends: adrenaline junkie Go Go Tamago, clean freak Wasabi No-Ginger, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. When a devastating turn of events catapults them into the midst of a dangerous plot unfolding in the streets of San Fransokyo, Hiro turns to his closest companion - a cutting-edge robot named Baymax - and transforms the group into a band of high-tech heroes determined to solve the mystery.

Inspired by the Marvel comics of the same name, and featuring comic-book style action and all the heart and humour audiences expect from Disney.

KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE Showing from: Fri 30 Jan

Tickets on sale: Wed 21 Jan

The Kingsman is an elite band of super-secret intelligence agents who operate above MI6, wear splendid suits, know exactly which wine to order with their fish, and can do deadly things with an umbrella. Head honcho Harry Hart ruffles his colleagues’ feathers when he recruits a council-estate kid named Eggsy into the training programme and attempts to turn him into both a spy and a gentleman. But they must all pull together to take on the dastardly Valentine, an evil genius with a penchant for villainous lairs and bombastic schemes. Jaw-dropping gadgets, flamboyant sets, and tremendous wit and style make this a genuine treat.