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Jeff Nichols / USA 2023/ 116 min / Cert 15 / Speech subtitles, to help audience members with hearing loss

Set in 1960s Chicago, this is an absorbing drama based on true events. We follow the rise and decline of fictional motorbike club, The Vandals, through the eyes of Kathy (Jodie Comer, giving a riveting performance). She is married to Benny (Austin Butler), who is expected to be the successor to leader Johnny (Tom Hardy).

The country changes with the return of the Vietnam veterans, as does the bikers club. “Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy are magnetic in this power struggle-cum-love triangle inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1968 photographic study of

Chicago bikers.” (The Guardian).

See Stafford Film Theatre’s full programme from as little as £5.50 per film.

Ticket prices

Full price:       £12 *

Senior (Over 60): £11 *

Junior (Under 25): £7.50 *

Membership (cost for 12 films)

Full member:                   £114 (price per film £9.50) *

Senior:                £102 (price per film £8.50) *

Junior:                £66 (price per film £5.50) *

See six of Stafford Film Theatre’s fantastic new line-up of films from as little as £5.50 each.

Ticket prices

Full price:       £12 *

Senior (Over 60): £11 *

Junior (Under 25): £7.50 *

Half season membership (either films 1-6 or 7-12)

Full member:     £57 (price per film £9.50) *

Senior:                £51 (price per film £8.50) *

Junior:                £33 (price per film £5.50) *

Cord Jefferson / USA 2023 / 116 min / Cert 15

Thelonius “Monk” Ellison is a literature professor and novelist whose highbrow fiction works sell poorly.

Angered by the accusation that his writing ignores ‘the African-American experience’, Monk pseudonymously pens a stereotypical ‘Black’ novel which gains widespread acclaim.

Soon he’s complaining to his agent: “The dumber I behave, the richer I get.” This delightful satirical comedy is an Oscar and Critic’s Choice winner for best adapted screenplay.

“Elegantly walking a line between absurdist satire and family drama, this is a clever send-up of how the broadness of Black culture gets reduced to cliché.” (Empire).

Blood Tea and Red String – with live musical accompaniment performed by Rosie Brownhill

Blood Tea and Red String is a surreal handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults created and animated entirely by director Christiane Cegavske over a period of 13 years. It tells the story of aristocratic white mice who commission gentle oak dwelling artisans to create a doll for them. When the Oak Dwellers fall in love with the doll they refuse to give her up. Resorting to thievery, the jilted mice abscond with her in the middle of the night. The Oak Dwellers must journey through their mystical and dangerous land to reclaim their love.

The film is dialogue-free, which has enabled it to reach audiences worldwide and allows viewers to find their own interpretations of the story. This special screening will include a live musical accompaniment by Rosie Brownhill, a folk and traditional inspired multi-instrumentalist from Staffordshire. Rosie will be accompanying the film with new musical material, playing a mixture of instruments including penny whistles, finger style guitar, and chord organ.

When his family go away for the summer a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbour.

Mind you, the neighbour is Marilyn Monroe in one of her most famous roles . . !

Includes a hot drink and a cake and a cake from our theatre cafe. Food served from 12noon, film starts at 1.00pm.

£6.00 per ticket, £10.00 for two.

Join us for our legendary Classic Film Afternoons; a hot drink, a cake and great movie, all for just £6.00 (£10.00 for two).

Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father’s favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.

Join us for our legendary Classic Film Afternoons; a hot drink, a cake and great movie, all for just £6.00 (£10.00 for two).

Two Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesar. That all sounds quite serious doesn’t it. It really isn’t. All together now: Infamy, infamy..!

Join us for our legendary Classic Film Afternoons; a hot drink, a cake and great movie, all for just £6.00 (£10.00 for two).

After his wife leaves him, a work obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple’s young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.