20 Oct

20th Oct 2018 – Machars Movies – Il Postino

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Directors: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi
Stars: Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Runtime: 1hr 48mins
Released: 1995 (UK)
Language: Italian (English Subtitles)

27 Oct

27th Oct 2018 – Dalry – The Shape of Water

From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes THE SHAPE OF WATER, an otherworldly fable set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa’s life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer)

Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon
Runtime: 2hrs 3mins
Released: 2018

28 Oct

28th Oct 2018 – Twynholm – In The Heat of the Night

An African-American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

Director: Norman Jewison
Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Released: 1967
Runtime: 1 hr 50 mins

01 Nov

1st Nov 2018 – Lochans – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter’s murder when they fail to catch the culprit. After months have passed, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message

Director: Martin McDonagh
Stars: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Runtime: 1hr 55mins
Released: 2018

02 Nov

2nd Nov 2018 – Port Logan – Untouchable

After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.

Directors: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Stars: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny
Released: 2012
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

07 Nov

7th Nov 2018 – Kirkcudbright – The Piano

A mute woman is sent to 1850s New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation.

Director: Jane Campion
Stars: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill
Released: 1993
Runtime: 2 hrs 1 min

09 Nov

9th Nov 2018 – Borgue – Not Another Happy Ending

When a struggling publisher discovers his only successful author is blocked he knows he has to unblock her or he’s finished. With her newfound success, she’s become too damn happy and she can’t write when she’s happy.The only trouble is, the worse he makes her feel, the more he realises he’s in love with her.

Director: John McKay
Stars: Karen Gillan, Stanley Weber, Iain De Caestecker
Released: 2013
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

10 Nov

10th Nov 2018 – Machars Movies – Paddington 2

Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.

Director: Paul King
Stars: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville
Released: 2017
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

14 Nov

14th Nov 2018 – Dalry – Some Like It Hot

When two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They’re desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords.

Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Runtime:2hrs 1min
Released: 1959

15 Nov

15th Nov 2018 – Portpatrick – Edie

83 year old Edie believes that it is never too late – packing an old camping bag, leaving her life behind and embarking on an adventure she never got to have – climbing the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland.

Director: Simon Hunter
Stars: Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Paul Brannigan
Runtime: 1hr 42mins
Released: 2017

16 Nov

16th Nov 2018 – Ballantrae – The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Society

A writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island in the aftermath of World War II, when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Glen Powell
Released: 2018
Runtime: 2hr 4mins

16 Nov

16th Nov 2018 – Ballantrae – Peter Rabbit

Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer’s vegetable garden.

Director: Will Gluck
Stars: James Corden, Fayssal Bazzi, Domhnall Gleeson
Released: 2018
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

16 Nov

16th Nov 2018 – Canonbie – Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Hunt for the Wilderpeople is charming and funny, it is a drama masquerading as a comedy about an unloved boy whom nobody wants until someone says, Yes, I’ll love him. Much of the humor comes from the child, who’s at once a pip and a gloriously expressive ambassador for the director Taika Waititi’s cleareyed take on human nature and movies. Mr. Waititi knows that we love to cry at sad and bad times, but he also knows that people in pain need to get on with their lives.

Director: Taika Waititi
Stars: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata
Released: 2016
Runtime: 1hr 41Mins

28 Nov

28th Nov 2018 – Dalry – The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

A writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island in the aftermath of World War II, when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war.

Director: Mike Newell
Stars: Lily James, Jessica Brown Findlay, Glen Powell
Released: 2018
Runtime: 2hr 4mins

05 Dec

5th Dec 2018 – Tolbooth – The Man Who Invented Christmas

The Man Who Invented Christmas tells of the magical journey that led to the creation of Ebenezer Scrooge (Christopher Plummer), Tiny Tim and other classic characters from A Christmas Carol. Directed by Bharat Nalluri the film shows how Charles Dickens mixed real life inspirations with his vivid imagination to conjure up unforgettable characters and a timeless tale, forever changing the holiday season into the celebration we know today.

Director: Bharat Nalluri
Stars: Dan Stevens, Mark Schrier, Patrick Joseph Byrnes, Christopher Plummer
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Released: 2017

14 Dec

14th Dec 2018 – Dalry – Hugo

Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton (mechanical man) that doesn’t work without a special key. Hugo needs to find the key to unlock the secret he believes it contains. On his adventures, he meets George Melies, a shopkeeper, who works in the train station, and his adventure-seeking god-daughter. Hugo finds that they have a surprising connection to his father and the automaton, and he discovers it unlocks some memories the old man has buried inside regarding his past.

Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
Released: 2011
Runtime: 2hrs 6mins

Cheese and Wine to accompany the film

28 Dec

28th Dec 2018 – Dalry – Lost In Paris

Fiona (Fiona Gordon) is a small-town Canadian librarian. When her orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Emmanuelle Riva), who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Dominique Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. Replete with the amazing antics and intricately choreographed slapstick that has come to define Abel and Gordon’s work, Lost in Paris is a wondrously fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Lights.
Directors: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Stars: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva
Year: 2016
Runtime: 83 Mins