Movies

Saturday 27 January: 13.05–14.25

A vintage case for Arthur Conan Doyle’s renowned Victorian detective (Basil Rathbone), in which Holmes and Watson hunt for three music boxes containing directions to the whereabouts of six valuable engraving plates stolen from the Bank of England. They find themselves in competition with professional thieves also out to find the clues, which were hidden by a spiteful jailbird before the music boxes went up for auction.

Saturday 27 January 11.45–13.05

Atmospheric western about a group of settlers who are forced to defend their new home town from a long and violent Apache attack. Luckily, a gunslinging gambler is on hand to save the day…

Jack (2004)

Friday 26 January: 15.30–17.30
Emotional drama in which a soft-hearted 15-yearold high school student finds his simple, middleclass life turned upside down when his parents divorce and he discovers that his father is gay.

Friday 26 January: 13.30–15.30
Tense drama about an amnesiac woman who reestablishes her relationship with her estranged husband, only to discover that she may have put his life in danger.

Thursday 25 January: 15.30–17.30
Sci-fi adventure tale about a team of underwater specialists who must save Earth from contamination when an island explodes and a black poison is released into the ocean.

Thusday 25 January: 13.35–15.30
Sci-fi spy caper based on HG Wells’s classic novel ‘The Invisible Man’. The after-effects of a nuclear explosion bestow a secret agent with the power of invisibility, making him a valuable weapon against a network of international saboteurs.

Solo (1996)

Wednesday 24 January: 21.00–23.00
Sci-fi adventure about a US military droid which, having been created as the ultimate killing machine, develops a sense of the value of human life. As the government tries to hunt down its creation, the droid takes refuge in a village of oppressed peasants and teaches them effective military tactics.

Wednesday 24 January: 15.30–17.30
Thriller in which a woman who was framed by her husband and sent to prison is released and seeks vengeance, after having her face remodelled by plastic surgery and creating a new identity for herself.

Wednesday 24 January: 13.40–15.30
Murder mystery in which a father and son join forces to take on a high-profile case. When a famous fashion designer is murdered, the police inspector assigned the case is baffled and must call upon the services of his son, an amateur criminologist, to unravel the mystery.

Tuesday 23 January: 15.35–17.30
Emotional drama about a young girl who suffers abuse at the hands of family members – until she meets an elderly African-American couple who provide the child with comfort and nuturing. Based on the book ‘Childhood’s Thief’ by Rose Mary Evans.

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