What’s On
The Color Purple (12A) | Winter Warmers!
Produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones, The Color Purple is a bold new take on the classic story of love and resilience, adapted from the beloved novel and the Broadway musical. Torn apart from her sister and her children, Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately learns to find extraordinary strength in the unbreakable bonds of a new kind of sisterhood.
The Holdovers (15) | Winter Warmers!
From acclaimed director Alexander Payne, The Holdovers follows a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them -- a damaged, brainy troublemaker (newcomer Dominic Sessa) -- and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam (Da'Vine Joy Randolph).
Past Lives (12A) Winter Warmers!
One of the best films of 2023 returns to the RBCFT. Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.
Tickets for all Winter Warmer screenings include a complimentary hot beverage. Winter Warmer screenings will take place at 2.30pm on Monday afternoons.
Next Goal Wins (12A) | Winter Warmers!
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.
Winter Warmers! is a new addition to the RBCFT. Tickets for all Winter Warmers! screenings include a complimentary hot beverage and screenings will take place at 2.30pm on Monday afternoons throughout the winter months.
One Life (12A) Winter Warmers!
Drama about British humanitarian Nicholas Winton as he looks back on his past efforts to help groups of Jewish children in German-occupied Czechoslovakia to hide and flee in 1938–39, just before the beginning of World War II. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn as Winton.