What’s On
Elf (PG)
Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.
WILD GOOSE FESTIVAL: Baraka (PG) plus Short Film and Intro from GSA Biopshere
Wild Goose Festival is back for another year with a fun-filled programme of inspiring and educational family-friendly activities and events across Dumfries & Galloway.
Baraka is a documentary film with no narrative or voice-over. It explores themes via a compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period. The film is named after the Islamic concept of baraka, meaning blessing, essence or breath.
Plus Heart of the Biosphere: A Year in the Life of Merric-Kells and Silver Flowe. Filmed over twelve months among some of Southwest Scotland’s most dramatic mountain and wetland landscapes.
WILD GOOSE FESTIVAL: My Neighbour Totoro (U) DUBBED
Wild Goose Festival is back for another year with a fun-filled programme of inspiring and educational family-friendly activities and events across Dumfries & Galloway.
Satsuki and Mei's mother has taken ill. In order to be closer to her while she recovers in a rural convalescent hospital, their father moves the two sisters from their home in a city to the countryside. The house they move into is a ramshackle old place in the shadow of an ancient camphor tree, and Satsuki and Mei embark on adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby. This version is in dubbed in English.
Some Like It Hot (12A) Tween Film Club
Our aim for the Tween Film Club is to inspire a love of film in young people and an enthusiasm for discovery in an exciting, safe and comfortable environment. There are no ads or trailers with this film and it will start promptly at 2.00pm.
After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band's sexy singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in.
The film contains mild comic sex references and some brief and undetailed violence which are unlikely to upset even young children (BBFC).
Napoleon Dynamite (PG) Tween Film Club
Napoleon Dynamite turns 20 this year and we're delighted to bring it back to the big screen as our next Tween Film Club. A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Back in 2004, a quirky indie movie starring an odd teenager with an even stranger name became a surprise hit at the box office. Napoleon Dynamite doesn't have much of a plot, and it is probably fair to say that it's a bit of a Marmite film. But over the past twenty years, it has built up a loyal cult following of fans who love Rex Kwon Do, Tina the llama, ligers and own several 'Vote for Pedro' t-shirts. We love it!
There are no ads or trailers with this film and it will start promptly at 2.00pm.
Next Goal Wins (12A) Tween Film Club
Inspiring comedy drama directed by Taika Waititi (Hunt for The Wilderpeople, Thor: Ragnarok) based on true events in which a hapless football coach is drafted in to help lead the struggling American Samoa team to World Cup glory.
Tickets for Tween Film Club screenings are only £3 each. All are welcome to attend though.
Wonka | Tween Film Club (PG)
Based on the extraordinary character at the centre of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world's greatest inventor, magician and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka we know today.
Elf (PG) Tween Film Club
Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.
Tickets for Tween Film Club screenings are only £3 each. All are welcome to attend though.
The Creator (12A) TWEEN FILM CLUB
As a future war between the human race and artificial intelligence rages on, ex-special forces agent Joshua is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI. The Creator has developed a mysterious weapon that has the power to end the war and all of mankind. As Joshua and his team of elite operatives venture into enemy-occupied territory, they soon discover the world-ending weapon is actually an AI in the form of a young child.
Tickets for Tween Film Club screenings are only £3 each. All are welcome to attend though.
Hocus Pocus (PG) Tween Film Club at Halloween
Our Tween Film Club presentation for Halloween weekend is Hocus Pocus (now 30 years old!). Three witches resurrect after 300 years to exact revenge and begin a reign of terror after Max, a young boy who moves to Salem with his family, lights the cursed Candle of Black Flame.
A Haunting In Venice (12A) TWEEN FILM CLUB
In post-World War II Venice, a retired Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) lives alone in his own exile when he receives a visit from an old friend: the world’s number one mystery writer Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey). Enlisting his assistance in the debunking of famed clairvoyant Joyce Reynolds (Michelle Yeoh), they attend a séance at the faded and decaying palazzo of famed opera singer Rowena Drake (Kelly Reilly). When one of the guests is suddenly found murdered, could there be more at play than Poirot’s logic can explain?
All tickets for Tween Film Club are £3 per person.
The Princess Bride (PG) TWEEN FILM CLUB / NATIONAL CINEMA DAY Tickets £3
A wonderful fairy tale adventure about a swashbuckling farmhand named Westley who is accompanied by companions befriended along the way, who must rescue his true love Princess Buttercup from the odious Prince Humperdinck. It's not difficult to see why The Princess Bride has become a classic in the years since its 1987 release, with such great characters and quotable lines such as "My name is Inigo Montoya! Prepare to die!"
"Golden-age throwback glows brighter than ever" ★★★★★ The Guardian
Elemental (PG) TWEEN FILM CLUB
Animated family adventure from the Pixar Studio (Toy Story 1 - 4). In a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (PG) TWEEN FILM CLUB (Captioned Screening)
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered.
Our aim for the Tween Film Club is to inspire a love of film in young people and an enthusiasm for discovery in an exciting, safe, and comfortable environment. All tickets £3. This version will also be captioned for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (PG) | TWEEN FILM CLUB
When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence. Wonderful coming-of-age period comedy-drama film based on the 1970 novel of the same name by Judy Blume.
Our aim for the Tween Film Club is to inspire a love of film in young people and an enthusiasm for discovery in an exciting, safe, and comfortable environment. Young people are welcome to come unaccompanied and therefore most films will be certificate PG or U. All tickets £3.
Tween Film Club: Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (12A)
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. The film is rated 12A for moderate violence, threat, horror, language.