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Winter/Spring 2025 Film Season @ Rose Ash Community Cinema

Some great films coming soon at North Devon's best community cinema.

You voted and we listened. By POPULAR DEMAND we are proud to present the film selection for this winter and next spring! We think we've found some great films and we hope you'll agree! Don't sit on the sofa in front of netflix, come and enjoy the magical shared experience of proper cinema. Every second Friday of the month.

Only £5. Doors Open 7.00pm, films start 7.30

January 10th - THE CRITIC

Academy Award Nominee Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings, The Good Liar) stars as a powerful London theater critic who lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with deadly consequences. A suspenseful thriller co-starring Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace), Mark Strong (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and Lesley Manville (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) (IMDB)

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"The Critic" is a Chilling Descent into Moral Chaos Bohemia Magazine


February 14th - TOUCH

Baltasar Kormákur’s beautifully shot romance sees Kristófer try to track down Miko, a lifetime after their youthful love affair is unexpectedly cut short. (Guardian)

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An old-school weepie smothered in a syrupy string score, Touch is an unexpected offering from Icelandic action director Kormákur, who has made his name pitting humans against nature: the Himalayas in Everest, the sea in Adrift, a rogue lion in Beast. Stephanie Bunbury Financial Times

March 14th - SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE


Small Things Like These takes place over Christmas in 1985, when devoted father and coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) discovers startling secrets kept by the convent in his town, along with some shocking truths of his own. The film reveals truths about Ireland's Magdalene laundries – horrific asylums run by Roman Catholic institutions from the 1820s until 1996, ostensibly to reform "fallen young women." Adapted from the Booker Prize nominated novel by Claire Keegan. (Rotten Tomatoes)

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Uncomfortable truths surface in Tim Mielants’s Irish drama of iniquitous activities behind convent doors. (Film Review Daily)

Cast: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Clare Dunne, Amy De Bhrún, Louis Kirwar, Michelle Fairley, Mark McKenna, Agnes O’Casey, Zara Devlin, Liadan Dunlea, Abby Fitz, Helen Behan, and with Emily Watson.

Dir Tim Mielants, Pro Cillian Murphy, Alan Moloney, Matt Damon, Drew Vinton and Catherine Magee, Screenplay Enda Walsh, from the book by Claire Keegan, Ph Frank van den Eeden, Pro Des Paki Smith, Ed Alain Dessauvage, Music Senjan Jansen, Costumes Alison McCosh.

April 11th- PADDINGTON IN PERU

You can take the bear out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the bear.

Paddington returns to Peru to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey.

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No thread gets left behind, and everything is wrapped so neatly and tidily by the end – like an ornamental jar or marmalade. “Paddington In Peru” is an ooey-gooey sweet tale of returning home and finding where you truly belong. Next Best Picture

9th May - CONCLAVE

Ralph Fiennes takes charge of a tense papal election thriller (Guardian).

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Not just dramatically satisfying, but philosophically satisfying. Kermode and Mayo's Take