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Forthcoming films:
Saturday 24th October, 8pm
The Christophers
UK 2026, 100 minutes, 15 certificate (very stong language)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Starring Michaela Coel, Ian McKellan, James Cordern, Jessica Gunning
Soderbergh’s slick, witty, smart and stylish comedy is the veteran director at his best; an absolute delight. Michaela Coel is Lori, once an aspiring artist, still gamely keeping up her studio and dabbling in a bit of restoration – but reliant on her income from a food van to keep the wolf from the door. She gets an intriguing offer from a (comparatively talentless) woman she once knew at art school – Sallie (Gunning) and her brother Barnaby (Cordern). Their father is a celebrated painter, Julian Sklar (McKellan), once a titan of the London art scene but now very much past his best, earning a living churning out online cameos for his fans. The siblings, calculating that daddy must surely soon pop his clogs – and mindful of the contempt he has for both of them – want to hire Lori to complete Sklar’s uncompleted portrait series, the titular Christophers, thinking that they can cash in on them when the old man is out of the way. But Julian must not know anything about this. Lori gets a job as Julian’s assistant and the twists and turns ensue. She and Julian begin as sparring partners, cat and mouse, mutually contemptuous, deeply suspicious. But by degrees their relationship develops into something more complicated: kind of mentor and mentee but with power constantly swapping sides as they each figure out what they might mean to each other and learn from each other. McKellan is magnificent as a bitter and curmudgeonly old viper, a “victim” of the culture wars, venemous about the world of modern sensibilities that Lori epitomises. She is watchful, wounded, secretive and calculating – and Coel is every bit as magnetic as her legendary co-star. This is a hilarious, twisty, deeply satisfying satire of the art market as well as being an unexpectedly affectionate buddy movie. Watch the trailer here.
Sun 1st Nov, 7pm: & Sons, cert 15 (strong language)
Fri 6th Nov, 8pm: Rebuilding, cert PG (mild bad language, upsetting scenes, drug references)
