The Eclectic Cinema

19/04/2026

Hope to see you this Wednesday 22 April for our next screening.

24/03/2026

Picnic at Hanging Rock I 12A I Australia I 1975

Directed by Peter Weir

22 April 2026 - 7.30pm - Auditorium

ON ST. VALENTINE’S DAY IN 1900 A PARTY OF SCHOOLGIRLS SET OUT TO PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK…SOME WERE NEVER TO RETURN.

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine’s Day, the school’s typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It’s not until the end of the day that the faculty realises the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously.

Tickets £10.25 I £6.25 (under 26)
Inclusive of fees

28/02/2026

Looking for a break from the races?

Join us on Wednesday 11 March 2026 for our next screening, 'Volver', from two-time Academy Award winner, Pedro Almodóvar. A comedic and compassionate tribute to women and their resilience in the face of life's most outrageous tribulations.

A luminous Penélope Cruz leads an ensemble of gifted actresses, including Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Raimunda (Cruz) and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago...or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls' departed mother, Irene (Maura), has been seen wandering around their Aunt Paula's home. When Irene appears to Sole, she explains that she has returned to set right her daughters' troubled lives and reveal shocking secrets that will impact everyone! Raimunda has "female troubles" of her own, least of which is a co**se in the freezer! Winner of numerous film festival and critics' awards, 'Volver' is a hilarious tale of love, loss and forgiveness.

Volver 15 I 2006 I Spain
11 March 2026 Wednesday 7:30pm
AUDITORIUM
Tickets £10.25 | £6.25 (under 26)
inclusive of fees

22/02/2026

This Wednesday, 25th February, join us for our next screening of 'Fried Green Tomatoes', at the Cheltenham Playhouse ....

Our next screening is 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.....

If the traditional Valentine’s Day with its emphasis on Love, Truth and Beauty didn’t quite work for you, then try this film with its emphasis on Friendship, Truth and Beauty. Actually, the friendship between Ruth and tomboy Idgie looks a lot like love as well. But being set in 1920s Alabama, it was never spoken of by that name.

But this is also a film very much about female empowerment. Jessica Tandy excels as N***y Threadgoode, an old lady in a nursing home whom Evelyn Couch (played by Kathy Bates) meets when visiting her husband’s aunt. Evelyn’s marriage has reached middle age and is going nowhere, so N***y’s stories of life back in the day become a form of therapy, helping her to regain her confidence that has been sapped by many years of being the trad wife to husband Ed.

So, the film moves between the present and the past when Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker) and Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) developed their bond while running the Whistle Stop Café.

It’s a moving story as well as being very funny, and it’s the perfect alternative and follow-up to Valentine’s Day. Perhaps you’ve seen the film before, but it’s certainly worth re-visiting for the fantastic cast and the eye-popping colours. If you haven’t come across it before, then make a date to see it. You won’t regret it!

Fried Green Tomatoes PG
USA | 1991 130 minutes

DIRECTED BY
Jon Avnet
STARRING
Kathy Bates | Jessica Tandy | Mary Stuart Masterson

25 February 2026 WEDNESDAY 19:30
AUDITORIUM

30/01/2026

Our next screening is 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.....

If the traditional Valentine’s Day with its emphasis on Love, Truth and Beauty didn’t quite work for you, then try this film with its emphasis on Friendship, Truth and Beauty. Actually, the friendship between Ruth and tomboy Idgie looks a lot like love as well. But being set in 1920s Alabama, it was never spoken of by that name.

But this is also a film very much about female empowerment. Jessica Tandy excels as N***y Threadgoode, an old lady in a nursing home whom Evelyn Couch (played by Kathy Bates) meets when visiting her husband’s aunt. Evelyn’s marriage has reached middle age and is going nowhere, so N***y’s stories of life back in the day become a form of therapy, helping her to regain her confidence that has been sapped by many years of being the trad wife to husband Ed.

So, the film moves between the present and the past when Ruth (Mary-Louise Parker) and Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) developed their bond while running the Whistle Stop Café.

It’s a moving story as well as being very funny, and it’s the perfect alternative and follow-up to Valentine’s Day. Perhaps you’ve seen the film before, but it’s certainly worth re-visiting for the fantastic cast and the eye-popping colours. If you haven’t come across it before, then make a date to see it. You won’t regret it!

Fried Green Tomatoes PG
USA | 1991 130 minutes

DIRECTED BY
Jon Avnet
STARRING
Kathy Bates | Jessica Tandy | Mary Stuart Masterson

25 February 2026 WEDNESDAY 19:30
AUDITORIUM

30/01/2026

Great turn out for the Blues Brothers on Wednesday….

07/01/2026

Our first film for 2026 will be The Blues Brothers.
A cult classic; it's funny; has an extraordinary soundtrack; an astounding cast, and is the perfect antidote to the January blues.

The Blues Brothers 15
USA | 1980 | 133 minutes I John Landis
28th January 2026 WEDNESDAY 19:30
AUDITORIUM

Starring John Belushi, Dan Ackroyd, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Chaka Khan, Carrie Fisher and Twiggy, the story centres around brothers Jake and Elwood, (Belushi and Ackroyd), who get their band together again after a break that has been necessitated by Jake's incarceration. Finding and persuading the old band members to come back takes time, ingenuity and plenty of bu****it, but despite every setback, the brothers succeed where others might have failed because they...they are on a mission...a mission...from God (or at least Sister Mary Stigmata). Hallelujah!

Tickets can be purchased from the Cheltenham Playhouse.
Prices....
£9.00
£5.00 concession (25 years and under)

29/10/2025

Our next screening, '12 Monkeys', directed by Terry Gilliam, is a dystopian time travelling sci-fi film, portraying a vision of a future where we can't tell what's real or not. Gilliam transforms Chris Marker's 1962 short film 'La Jetée', into a dense, paranoid narrative that remains unsettlingly prescient.

The storyline unfolds in a post-apocalyptic future where the remnants of humanity live underground after a virus has devastated the Earth’s population. James Cole (Bruce Willis), a convict, is sent back to the 1990s to gather intelligence on the supposed origins of the plague, but his mission quickly becomes entangled in questions of perception and reality. His encounters with psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) and the anarchic Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) destabilise any narrative certainty, leaving both Cole and the audience to wonder whether he is a time traveller or merely a madman caught in delusion.

We would love to have your feedback on this film...

Tickets for this screening are £10
& £7 for those under 26 (concession unavailable online)
Venue - AUDITORIUM
Date - MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2025 at 7.30pm

For a film review......
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/12_monkeys

And for a film trailer.....
https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=Xwh1xBzsc1Q


Gloucestershire Cinemas, Associated Listings And Movie Recommendations

22/10/2025

Next week we have a treat for Halloween, a 'Dracula' double bill.

First we will be screening 'Dracula', one of the most influential horror movies ever made with screen icon, Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. Lugosi’s performance, complete with distinctive Hungarian accent, piercing stare and deliberate movements, defined the vampire archetype for decades....
..we then follow with 'Dracula's Daughter', a sequel beginning immediately after the events of the original, with Van Helsing's arrest for the murder of Count Dracula. The narrative then shifts to Countess Marya Zaleska, Dracula’s daughter, played by Gloria Holden. Unlike her father, Zaleska struggles with her vampiric curse, yearning for freedom and normality. Her story explores themes of repression, desire, and identity in ways that set it apart from its predecessor.

Tickets for this screening are £10
& £7 for those under 26 (concession unavailable online)
Venue - THE GREEN ROOM
Date - MONDAY 27 OCTOBER at 7.30pm

For reviews of both films...
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1006234-dracula/reviews
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/draculas_daughter/reviews

And for trailers...
https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=VoaMw91MC9k
https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=Qa0jV3wsgZs


Gloucestershire Cinemas, Associated Listings And Movie Recommendations

15/10/2025

We have yet another classic for you next week, Stanley Kubrick's provocative film, ‘A Clockwork Orange'. Delving into free will and government control, despite varied opinions on its merit, Kubrick's film is recognised as a significant cinematic work, lauded for its striking visuals, classical music integration.

For more information click on https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/clockwork_orange
or
https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=T54uZPI4Z8A

Tickets for this screening are £3.00
Venue - AUDITORIUM
Date - MONDAY 20 OCTOBER at 7.30pm

BA (Hons) Film Production at the University of Gloucestershire

07/10/2025

Great turn out for last nights film, thank you to everyone who came.

Our next film is Michael Powell's 'Peeping Tom', a film celebrated as a masterpiece of psychological horror, studied alongside Hitchcock's 'Psycho'.

At the time of its release, in 1960, it was one of the most significant psychological horror films ever made, though it was met with outrage and condemnation.

The story follows Mark Lewis, a reserved young man who works at a film studio and moonlights as a glamour photographer. Beneath his quiet demeanour lies deep psychological trauma as a result of disturbing childhood experiments conducted by his scientist father.

A film that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0pOdgj4zKKA?si=qICQtJYnt1GRmYIW

Tickets for this screening are £3.00
Venue: THE GREEN ROOM
Date: 13 October 7.30pm