Cinema

The great Ellen Burstyn hand-picked Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas, Shutter Island) to direct this brilliant and sensitive tale of Alice, a woman desperately trying to find her independence at age 35 with a young precocious son in tow. Thrust into the world of the mid 1970's American southwest to fend for herself, Alice is determined to […]

Kicking off our new ‘Black Cinema Goes Boom’ programming strand focusing on the explosion of early ‘90s popular black cinema is John Singleton’s tale of three childhood friends, Darrin, Tre and Ricky, living in a hotbed of gang violence in early 90s South Central L.A. The film is both a brilliant coming of age tale […]

SECRET MOVIE CLUB || Murder They Write - Not A Knives A Knives Out Mystery || For our NOT a Knives Out mystery film, we are providing the kind of drama, twisting plot, meta humour and delightfully dark fun you might expect. Deliciously macabre, both silly and clever and unexpected throughout this all time great cast […]

Perhaps lesser known than his younger brother Martin McDonagh (director of In Bruges, Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri, and The Banshees of Inisherin) John Michael McDonagh makes films that are equally fascinating and no less brilliant. His latest work The Forgiven can be said to be part of the current wave of extreme biting […]

 + OPTIONAL POST FILM DISCUSSION  GROUP  White Wall Cinema's discussion group returns! Join us for a screening of this restored celebrated 60s classic with an optional chance to stay on and discuss the film in a relaxed informal post film group chat. Contribute or just listen in, it's a fun and interesting way to understand […]

DOUBLE BILL SPECIAL A ridiculously good looking double bill, this Easter Sunday starts with ‘A Night At The Roxbury’ the story of two brothers who dream of opening their own nightclub or at the very least, being allowed into the coolest nightclub in town, The Roxbury. Filled with SNL regulars headed by Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan […]

Perhaps the first outright masterpiece by Italian great Federico Fellini who would later create such legendary cinematic experiences as La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Satyricon, Roma, and Amarcord, this 1954 screen classic stars the director’s wife and collaborator Giulietta Masina as Gelsomina, as a young care-free girl who is sold by her impoverished mother to […]

A completely unique and organic take on the animation / mockumentary genres, director Dean Fleischer Camp and Jenny Slate have upscaled their small series of You Tube shorts into a feature film about the inimitable Marcel the Shell. The story begins when documentary filmmaker Dean (Dean Fleischer Camp) moves into an Airbnb following the end […]

Next up in our ‘Black Cinema Goes Boom’ programming strand (which focuses on the explosion of early ‘90s popular black cinema) it's the bombastic New Jack City. This highly stylised neo-noir crime thriller classic is directed by Mario Van Peebles (son of pioneer director Melvin Van Peebles) and is an era-defining piece of black cinema. […]

SECRET MOVIE CLUB || You Can't Get The Staff These Days || This time we bring you a forgotten gem that arguably kicked off an entire genre. A comedy about the pitfalls of being mega rich (you can’t get the staff these days!), an insightful look at the class divide, it’s a bona-fide classic that […]

+ PRINCE 'DEEP CUTS' DJ SET His royal purpleness takes to the screen in his legendary 1984 motion picture that offers a fictionalised story of his rise to fame. Starring as ‘The Kid’, this fictional Prince origin story nonetheless features his real life backing band The Revolution, protégés Morris Day and The Time as well as the […]

Transform Brighton and Hove brings together the local community and groups working for social change. In Germany, concerned citizens step forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s biggest coal mines. They form an unlikely alliance with a frustrated community in rural England who are forced into action to protect their homes from […]

+PRE FILM INTERVIEW WITH SPECIAL GUEST - AUTHOR HANNAH STRONG Join us for a special screening of Sofia Coppola's Somewhere, plus a pre-film discussion with Little White Lies Associate Editor and author of 'Sofia Coppola Forever Young', Hannah Strong. ​Hannah's book explores the 'tonally diverse, meticulously crafted, and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic' of the great Sofia Coppola, […]

One of the most aesthetically attuned directors of all time, Terrence Malick’s ability to conjure up breath taking images on screen is virtually unparalleled. Days of Heaven is one of only two movies Malick made in the ‘70s (prior to a near 20 year absence as a director) and is an undoubted masterpiece of ethereal […]

(4K RESTORATION) Quite clearly the biggest single inspiration for the Nicolas Winding Refn/Ryan Gosling film ‘Drive’,  The Driver is the product of cult film director Walter Hill (also responsible for The Warriors, 48hrs and more) who crafts a taught pulp noir thriller about a getaway driver (Ryan O’Neal), his crooked cop nemesis (Bruce Dern) and the […]

+ OPTIONAL POST FILM DISCUSSION GROUP White Wall Cinema's discussion group returns! Join us for a screening of this brilliant new film with an optional chance to stay on and discuss the film in a relaxed informal post film group chat. Contribute or just listen in, it's a fun and interesting way to better understand the […]