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Can you hear me? I can see you!
“If you could jump back in time, what advice would you give to yourself?” This exhibition of prototype communication devices was developed through an experimental workshop and training programme with residents of Your Housing sheltered and supported accommodation across the North West. Through activities and practical advice sessions, artist collective Re-Dock and artist/educator Jon Turton have worked with Your Housing residents aged 55 to 95 to discuss technological innova… Read on >
Friday 17 May - Sunday 2 June
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Weekdays & Sunday: 12.00pm - 6.00pm
Saturday: 11.00am - 6.00pm
NT Encore: This House
It’s 1974, and the corridors of Westminster ring with the sound of infighting and backbiting as Britain’s political parties battle to change the future of the nation, whatever it takes. In this hung parliament, the ruling party holds on by a thread. Votes are won and lost by one, fistfights erupt in the bars, and ill MPs are hauled in to cast their votes. It’s a time when a staggering number of politicians die, and age-old traditions and allegiances are thrown aside in the st… Read on >
- 12:00
The Great Gatsby 2D
For this new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s bittersweet novel set during New York’s gaudy jazz era, director Luhrmann (ROMEO + JULIET, MOULIN ROUGE!) has considerably upped the ante. Arguably eclipsing Robert Redford’s portrayal in the 1974 version, Leonardo DiCaprio as the maverick millionaire Jay Gatsby was an inspired casting move; but dramatically enhancing the glitz and glamour of 1920s Manhattan by shooting it in 3D was a real masterstroke. Add to that Mulligan (… Read on >
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The Hangover Part III
The staggering success of the first two HANGOVER movies means that the final part of director Phillips’ hilariously hapless trilogy has lots to live up to, and it doesn’t disappoint. Alan, Stu, Phil and Doug are all present and politically incorrect, again played by Galifianakis, Helms, Cooper and Bartha, abetted by Jeffrey Tambor as Alan’s father Sid, and Heather Graham as Jade, Stu’s accidental wife from episode one. It begins on an oddly sober note at Sid’s funeral, but … Read on >
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My Neighbour Totoro (Subtitled Version)
Miyazaki’s superbly animated tale is considered to be one of the best-loved family films of all time. The story follows Satsuki (Hidaka) and Mei (Sakamoto), two young girls who find their new home is by a mystical forest inhabited by a menagerie of fantastical creatures called Totoros. They befriend O-Totoro, the biggest and eldest of them, and king of the forest. While the girls' mother lies sick in hospital, O-Totoro takes them on a magical adventure and helps them to unde… Read on >
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Star Trek into Darkness 2D
Opening as Spock (Quinto) battles to stop a volcano on the planet Nibiru from destroying the fleeing Enterprise, and then descending into a breathtaking vision of 23rd-century London, director Abrams’ second STAR TREK outing visually out-stuns even his first. With Cumberbatch’s much-teased, much hushed-up role as the heinous villain, plus many old hands back on board – including Pine as Kirk, Karl Urban as Bones, Zoe Saldana as Uhura, and Pegg’s permanently rattled Scotty ut… Read on >
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Mud
For his follow-up to the much-acclaimed and brilliantly complex thriller TAKE SHELTER, director Jeff Nichols opts for the more direct, but no less attention-grabbing, Mud, paying homage to great American novels and films such as HUCKLEBERRY FINN, STAND BY ME and BADLANDS in the process. The premise is straight-forward enough: on an island there is a boat, and in that boat there lives a man called Mud, whose past is as murky and as dangerous as the vast Mississippi that swirl… Read on >
- 15:10
Reality
In the long-awaited follow-up to his searing GOMORRAH, director Matteo Garrone again takes Naples as his setting – and like GOMORRAH, REALITY won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes. This poweful depiction of reality TV shows and their social consequences is built around a larger-than-life Neapolitan fishmonger (Aniello Arena on fine, bustling form) whose dream is to appear in a popular series. The film chronicles the tragi-comic consequences of his efforts to realise this drea… Read on >
- 18:00
Beware of Mr Baker
When a documentary opens with its subject belting the director hard on the nose, you know you’re in for something pretty unusual – but then legendary drummer Ginger Baker is exactly that. Inspired by great post-war jazz players like Phil Seamen and Max Roach, Baker is best known for playing with Cream, Traffic and Ginger Baker’s Airforce, although he later abandoned Britain to settle in Nigeria to join the equally eccentric Fela Kuti. Following an interview he did with Baker… Read on >
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