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PRIDE OF MANCHESTER SELF ISOLATION CINEMA CLUB |
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SHREK  |
| Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz & John Lithgow are all brilliant in this beautifully written, gloriously animated and groundbreaking 2001 DreamWorks fairytale comedy. |
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| An all star roaring, belching, farting, brilliant 2004 sequel. |
SHREK THE THIRD  |
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| The breathtakingly innovative wit of the earlier films was missing in the 2007 release. |
SHREK FOREVER AFTER  |
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| Enjoyable good-natured 2010 family comedy and a nice way for the series to finish. |
PUSS IN BOOTS  |
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| Antonio Banderas's suave, scene-stealing cat from 'Shrek 2' got his own swashbuckling adventure in 2011. |
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| The 2013 Broadway musical adaptation. |
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120 BPM |
| Demanding – almost vocational - French historical drama which won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix in 2017. Fly on the wall filmmaking at its best, it tells the story of the activist group ACT UP Paris who demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s. A jubilant battle cry that demands to be witnessed. (Subtitles). |
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SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE |
| Laugh out loud funny 2018 animation, released just a month after Stan Lee died. Fresh, funny and frequently bonkers, this spectacular, savvy and sublime animated reimagining of the webbed superhero introduces multiple Spideys. |
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THE HANDMAIDEN |
| Park Chan-wook's ravishing BAFTA-winning period piece that simmers with explicit sexual tension and exquisite set design, to intoxicating effect. An intensely romantic Korean adaptation of Sarah Waters’s spicy bestseller ‘Fingersmith,’ shifting the action from Victorian England to pre-war Korea under Japanese rule. (Korean and Japanese with Subtitles). |
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FORCE MAJEURE |
| Ruben Östlund's Swedish dark comedy in which a family on a ski holiday in the French Alps is confronted with a devastating avalanche. Swedish, English, French and Norwegian with subtitles. |
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| Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus crash with this redundant American remake which was released just a few days before the cinemas closed. |
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THE RED TURTLE |
| Hugely recommended 2016 Oscar-nominated wordless animation from Studio Ghibli and UK-based Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit that is a beautifully drawn fable - like Herge meets Turner - which tells the poignant story of a man shipwrecked on a desert island. A masterpiece that will melt your heart. |
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13th |
| Ava DuVernay's 2016 informative and harrowing fiercely radical documentary about the prison system, "Law and Order" political campaigns, and the economic forces behind racism in America, where a significant sub-clause in the US constitution's 13th Amendment states that the abolition of slavery does not apply to those convicted of a crime. |
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WHEN THEY SEE US  |
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| Ava DuVernay's fast-moving drama series which tells the tale of the Central Park Five, who after a campaign by Doanld Trump, were sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit. |
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WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY |
| The fabulous 1971 musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's evergreen story, sees Gene Wilder bring a pinch of the macabre to the wide-eyed candy-maker, as great fun, disturbing and fault-ridden but compelling as the book described. |
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| CHARLIE & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY |
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| Witty, wonderful and wildly imaginative, Tim Burton's 2005 bizarre and funny take on the story sees Johnny Depp given free rein to craft a hilarious, yet sinister, loveable Wonka. |
| TOM & JERRY: WILLY WONKA |
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| An animated 2019 retelling of the 1971 film, starring Tom and Jerry. |
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FOXCATCHER |
| Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo star in this horribly magnificent multi-Oscar nominated based-on-a-true-story tragedy; a superb spellbinding exploration of sport, American patriotism and personal mania, for which it's best to learn as little about as possible, in order to fully savour the surprises and shocks. |
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THE BIG SICK |
| Romantic comedy, a true tale, written by and starring Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani (alongside Zoe Kazan & Holly Hunter) in which he falls in love with a grad student but struggles as their cultures clash. When she contracts a mysterious illness, he finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings. |
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BLACK PANTHER |
| One of 2018's best films, that transcends the superhero genre to emerge as an epic of operatic proportions, Chadwick Boseman stars in Marvel's solo outing for the African superhero introduced in 'Captain America: Civil War'. An entirely stand-alone adventure - you don’t have to have seen the other Marvel films to enjoy it - it's enjoyable, exciting and borderline witty. |
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THE FLU THAT KILLED 50 MILLION |
| Christopher Eccleston narrates this timely and prophetic docudrama from 2018, which tells the story of the Spanish flu, and how a Manchester doctor managed to help turn the tide in the fight against it. |
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THIS IS ENGLAND |
| Shane Meadows BAFTA winning semi-autobiographical "Best British Film 2007" about a young boy who becomes friends with a gang of skinheads. Career changing performances by Thomas Turgoose & Stephen Graham whilst Mancunians in the cast include Jo Hartley, Joseph Gilgun and Andrew Ellis. |
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AFTER THE STORM |
| Hirokazu Koreeda's Japanese drama which follows a private detective who struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife, after the death of his own father. (Subtitles). |
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SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE |
| Funny, endearing and a shear delight, Aardman Animation remind us why they are a national treasure with this full length delectable stop-motion sheep movie featuring the scuttly lamb who first found fame as a supporting character from Wallace and Gromit’s 'A Close Shave'. |
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| With the 2019 sheepquel, Aardman seriously upped the ante, delivering a Spielbergian sci-fi epic that is an utter delight crammed with gags and something-for-all-ages charm. |
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1917 |
| Sam Mendes's 2018 Oscar-winning World War I drama plunges the viewer into the trenches alongside two young British soldiers to breathless effect. It's a staggering technical achievement that's seemingly filmed in one take. |
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BLACKKKSMAN |
| Spike Lee's Cannes grand prix winning fiercely funny takedown of institutional racism. Veering from blaxploitation spoof to undercover thriller it tells the extraordinary real life story of Ron Stallworth, the black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in 1972. |
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THE GUARDIANS |
| Nathalie Baye stars in 2018's most handsome film, the painterly French World War I drama "Les Gardiennes" which follows a stoic female farmer who protects the land, and her family’s reputation, while her boys fight on the front. (French with English subtitles). |
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LOGAN |
| Hugh Jackman bids farewell in the final Marvel film of the Wolverine trilogy. Set in a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety. |
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X MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE  |
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| While not a disaster, 2009's spin off lacks the magic of the previous X-Men films. |
| THE WOLVERINE |
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| 2013's middle serving was an improvement on the first outing but still ponderous stuff. |
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COCO |
| Pixar's charming but complex 2018 superbly polished, technically flawless family film about an aspiring musician who looks for his ancestor in the Land of the Dead. |
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28 DAYS LATER |
| Cillian Murphy, Christopher Ecclestone & Naomie Harris star in Danny Boyle's tense, exciting and terrifying 2002 horror, which sees London desserted and Manchester reduced to burning rubble following an apocalyptic nightmare virus. |
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| Robert Carlyle, Idris Elba, Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Imogen Poots & Emily Beecham star in the 2007 slightly pedestrian sequel, produced but not directed by Danny Boyle. |
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MARY AND THE WITCH'S FLOWER |
| Hiromasa Yonebayashi's Japanese animation based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, in which a strange flower grants a girl magic powers. Voices from Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent and Mancunian actors Ruby Barnhill, Lynda Baron & Louis Ashbourne Serkis. |
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RECOUNT |
| Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern and John Hurt are amongst an all star cast in this TV docudrama from 2008, about the disputed 2000 U.S.election that blends actual news footage and verbatim dialogue into fictionalized recreations that are both highly entertaining and deeply dramatic. |
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A HIDDEN LIFE |
| Terrence Malick's exquisitely emotional, gorgeous and thorough 2020 account of Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstatter, an Austrian conscientious objector during the second world war who made a personal stand for his anti-Nazi beliefs. |
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BREXIT: THE UNCIVIL WAR |
| Dripping with great British humour, Benedict Cumberbatch portrays Dominic Cummings in this rollickingly entertaining political tragicomedy about the Brexit Referendum, which has all the verve of a tech thriller. No matter which way you voted, or how exhausted you are with the whole subject of Brexit or Cummings, this is a must-watch. |
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MATILDA |
| Danny DeVito stars in Roald Dahl's story of a wonderful little girl, who happens to be a genius, and her wonderful teacher vs. the worst parents ever and the worst school principal imaginable. |
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PETERLOO |
| Salford director Mike Leigh's part history lesson, part establishment satire which reinacts the tragic and entirely avoidable 1819 massacre in Manchester, that fundamentally changed Britain, after thousands of ordinary men, women and children were attacked by troops for protesting the right to vote and putting an end to rising poverty. |
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THE FAMILY WAY |
| Based on a stage play by Boltonian "Alfie" author Bill Naughton, this 1966 comedy stars Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills and her father John Mills in a sentimental story of claustrophobic lives endured by the working-class poor, having to share the maritial home with their parents. Filmed in Bolton and Rochdale, and featuring a soundtrack from Paul McCartney. |
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SUFFRAGETTE |
| Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter & Meryl Streep star in this historic drama about a young working mother who is galvanized into radical political activism, supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end. |
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FLASH GORDON |
| The 40th anniversary 4K restoration of Dino De Laurentiis' 1980 Queen-soundtracked cult classic sci-fi guilty pleasure in which an American football player travels to the planet Mongo and finds himself fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless. It looks even camper and madder than ever. Deliberately tongue-in-cheek, laughably bad and fantastically good all at once, this big-budget fantasy comic book movie is great fun. Gordon's Alive! |
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HELL IS A CITY |
| Stanley Baxter stars in this 1960 gritty, urbane and stylish first-rate Mancunian cops-and-robbers crime thriller about a dangerous escaped convict and the police inspector who goes after him through the streets of Manchester. (Black & White). |
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CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER |
| Filmed on location in the Northern Quarter, Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Stanley Tucci, and Hugo Weaving star in this fast, thrilling and unashamedly old-fashioned comic book adventure, set in the 1940's, that falls in with Marvel’s best superhero movies. |
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| THE WINTER SOLDIER |
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| Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson and Robert Redford kept this second outing from 2014 fun with the feel of an old-school political thriller. |
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| Marvel's finest movie yet, the final instalment of the trilogy in 2016 has been called Avengers 2.5, there are so many of the superteam featured. |
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THERE'S ONLY ONE JIMMY GRIMBLE |
| Ray Winstone & Robert Carlyle star in this ironic, fanzine post-Hornby story about supporting a faintly hopeless football team - a metonym for life's uphill struggle. The team in question being. Manchester City; the film released in 2000 long before their current success, with the team still in the lower leagues whilst neighbours United were world champions. |
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LOVE ON THE DOLE |
| Originally banned in the USA, this 1941 film noir adaptation of Walter Greenwood's influential novel about working-class life stars Deborah Kerr as a 1930's mill girl in Hanky Park, Salford. As her family struggles with poverty and unemployment, it resonates with strong feeling for the genuine harshness and brutal truths of life in Depression-era Manchester (Black & White). |
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UNITED |
| David Tennant, Dougray Scott & Jack O'Donnell star in this brilliant 2011 biopic of the `Busby Babes' - the Manchester United side who became the youngest-ever winners of the English Football League in 1956. Having won the league again in 1957, the team reaches the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 1958 - but disaster strikes as their plane crashes in Munich. |
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BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY / |
| Panned by the critics but loved by the public and film industry alike - winning 3 Oscars and becoming the best-selling home video in the UK in 2019 with almost 2 million copies sold! - the highest grossing drama in cinema history saw Rami Malek win an Oscar for his portrayal as Freddie Mercury in this hugely enjoyable, singalong Queen biopic that can be enjoyed by all the family. |
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