Highworth Community Cinema

25/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to see Conclave on Friday. There were 45 attendees and 36 submitted a voting slip. The results were as follows:
Excellent 15
Very Good 19
Good 2

This film closes the current season of films. If there are any films you would like us to include on the long list for the next season please do let me know.

We will be back in September with the new programme of films.

18/04/2026

Highworth Community Cinema's 2025/26 season comes to a close on Friday 24th April. We will then spend the summer putting together the programme for the next season. If there are any films that you would like the committee to consider please let me know on film night or send me an email.

We have a stall booked at the May Day Market on 2nd May so we look forward to seeing you there. We would be pleased to receive any donations for our tombola/bottle stall on film night.

Friday 24th April Conclave

United Reformed Church, High Street, SN6 7AG 7.45 p.m.

Doors open 7.15 p.m.

Admission £6 on the door. Tea/coffee and biscuits 50p

Conclave follows one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events – selecting the new Pope. Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with running this covert process after the unexpected death of the beloved Pope. Once the Catholic Church’s most powerful leaders have gathered from around the world and are locked together in the Vatican halls, Lawrence uncovers a trail of deep secrets left in the dead Pope’s wake, secrets which could shake the foundations of the Church. The film is based on the book by Robert Harris and also stars Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow.

120 mins. Cert PG

The pope is dead. The throne is vacant. Conclave is only in theaters this October 25, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossel...

29/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to see Mr Burton on Friday. There were 24 attendees and 23 submitted a voting slip.
The results were as follows:
Excellent 17
Very Good 4
Good 2

The final film of the current season is Conclave which we will be showing on 24th April - more details nearer the time.

18/02/2026

As the nights begin to get lighter the film we are showing in February is also more light-hearted – a romantic comedy starring Renee Zellweger, Chiwetel Eijiofor, Hugh Grant, and Colin Firth.

Friday 27th February Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
United Reformed Church, High Street, SN6 7AG 7.45 p.m.
Doors open 7.15 p.m.

Admission £6 on the door. Tea/coffee and biscuits 50p

In Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark was killed on a humanitarian mission in the Sudan. She’s now a single mother to 9 year-old Billy and 4 year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver. Pressured by her Urban Family – Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynaecologist Dr. Rawlings (Emma Thompson) – to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man (White Lotus’s Leo Woodall). Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher (Chiwetel Ejiofor).

124 mins Cert 15

We look forward to seeing you.

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is streaming February 13 on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-movies/bridget-jones-mad-about-the-boyTwo-time Academy...

25/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to see Hard Truths on Friday. There were 42 attendees and 40 submitted a voting slip. The results were very mixed and are as follows:

Excellent 5
Very good 8
Good 11
Poor 13
Awful 3

We will be showing Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy on 27th February. More details nearer the time.

14/01/2026

We commence 2026 with a film directed by Mike Leigh which Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated four out of five stars, describing it as "a deeply sober, sombre, compassionate drama about a black British family".

Friday 23rd January Hard Truths 7.45 p.m. (doors open 7.15 p.m.)

United Reformed Church, High Street, SN6 7AG

Admission £6 on the door. Tea/coffee and biscuits 50p

Legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the contemporary world with a fierce, compassionate, and often darkly humorous study of family and the thorny ties that bind us. Reunited with Leigh for the first time since multiple Oscar-nominated Secrets and Lies, the astonishing Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman wracked by fear, tormented by afflictions, and prone to raging tirades against her husband, son, and anyone who looks her way. Meanwhile, her easygoing younger sister, played by Michele Austin is a single mother with a life as different from Pansy’s as their clashing temperaments - brimming with communal warmth from her salon clients and daughters alike. This expansive film from a master dramatist takes us into the intensities of kinship, duty, and the most enduring of human mysteries: that even through lifetimes of hurt and hardship, we still find ways to love those we call family.

97 mins Cert 12

From acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh, comes Hard Truths. Starring BAFTA award- winner Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin. ...

30/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to see Small Things Like These on Friday. There were 36 attendees and 36 submitted a voting slip. The results are as follows:

Excellent 15
Very Good 14
Good 7

We do not show a film in December. The next film will be 'Hard Truths' on Friday 23rd January. More details will be sent nearer the time.

20/11/2025

Dear All

AGM
We will be holding our AGM before we show the film 'Small Things Like These'. This will take about 15 minutes. Please find attached agenda and minutes of last year's meeting – they will also be available on the night.

We do need one or two more people to join the committee as we are small in number. The role mainly involves helping out on film nights such as putting up equipment, refreshments etc (maximum 7 each season), and helping to choose the programme of films we show. We meet up once or twice a year and most communication is via email. Please do think about joining us and if you are interested you can contact me to discuss or you can nominate yourself at the meeting. Thank you.

Film
Friday 28th November Small Things Like These (doors open 7.15 p.m.)
United Reformed Church, High Street

Admission £6 on the door. Tea/coffee and biscuits 50p

Small Things Like These is based on a novella of the same name by Claire Keegan. It tells the story of coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) in 1985's Ireland who uncovers the abuse and secrets at his local convent, a Magdalene laundry. While delivering coal to the convent, he finds a girl locked in a shed and becomes increasingly aware of the heartless treatment of the young women there. The story is about Bill's internal struggle to confront his own past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church. It is a quiet tale of empathy and hope against a backdrop of historical trauma.

98 mins Cert 12

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16/10/2025

This month we are showing 'The Critic' with Ian Mckellen in the main role, about which one reviewer has said 'If you’ve been lamenting the lack of British period dramas with an edge, in these modern, seemingly somewhat sanitised cinematic times, then take this critic’s advice and rush along to a theatre near you'.

The Critic Friday 24th October (doors open 7.15 p.m.)
United Reformed Church, High Street

Admission £6 on the door. Tea/coffee and biscuits 50p

London, 1934. Jimmy Erskine (McKellen) is the most feared theatre critic of the age. He lives as flamboyantly as he writes and takes pleasure in savagely taking down any actor who fails to meet his standards. When the owner of the Daily Chronicle newspaper dies, and his son David Brooke (Strong) takes over, Jimmy quickly finds himself at odds with his new boss and his position under threat. In an attempt to preserve the power and influence he holds so sacred, Jimmy strikes a faustian pact with struggling actress Nina Land (Arterton), entangling them and Brooke in a thrilling but deadly web of desire, blackmail and betrayal.

101 mins. Cert 15

We look forward to seeing you.

IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 13Academy Award Nominee Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, The Good Liar) stars as a powerful London theater critic who lures a s...

28/09/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to see The Penguin Lessons on Friday. There were 64 attendees and 55 submitted a voting slip. The results are as follows:

Excellent 36
Very Good 18
Good 1