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0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE WHAT’S ON BOX OFFICE PHOENIX.ORG.UK FEB 2019 0116 242 2800 BAR É Available as Midweek Matinees – see p8 CINEMA / ART / CAF CINEMA / ART BOX OFFICE 0116 242 2800 FILMS STAGE ON PHOENIX.ORG.UK P. 8 SCREEN Made possible with the support of P. 12 SHORT COURSES GREEN BOOK Fri 1 – Thu 14 Feb P. 13 Phoenix is a registered charity, No 701078 According to 80s R&B star Billy For lovers of world cinema there are FAMILY FUN Ocean red lights spell danger, treats aplenty, including South Korean JAPAN thriller Burning and our annual showcase but unfortunately he didn’t offer & VR PLAYGROUND of Japanese films courtesy of the Japan TOURING any advice on red carpets… P. 4 – 5 Foundation. PROGRAMME a shame, as they’re being given We also celebrate LGBT History Month their annual airing (anyone know P. 6 with DMU’s Pride season. where the Henry hoover is?) We’ve got half-term family fun in the for the BAFTAs and Academy COMING NEXT MONTH form of How to Train Your Dragon: Awards this month. The Hidden World and the brilliant It’s February, the height of the awards VR Playground (p4). season, and superlative cinema is the Grown-up Harry Potter fans can delve order of the day. After The Favourite deep into the film adaptations with our packed out our screens last month we’re A PRIVATE WAR 4-week Harry Potter on Screen course, bringing you another huge period drama, which starts on 7 Feb (p13). this time in the form of Shakespeare biopic, All Is True starring Kenneth And as the annual comedy festival rolls Branagh and Judi Dench. Barry Jenkins, into town we turn off the lights for who scooped a Best Picture Oscar for Comedy in the Dark (p10)… with CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? Moonlight in 2017, returns with another a family-friendly version too (p4). soulful love story, If Beale Street Could Whatever you’re into, Talk; and don’t miss Golden Globe winner you’ll find it at Phoenix. Green Book, an entertaining crowd- pleaser with a strong underlying message. THUNDER ROAD PHOENIX 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE + FAMILIES = FUN PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE Half term already, but fear not – we’ve got plenty to keep you and your little ones entertained. FAMILY FAVOURITE: NORTHERN BALLET: HOW TO TRAIN YOUR CLASH OF THE BITE-SIZED BALLETS DRAGON: THE HIDDEN VR PLAYGROUND TITANS PG TORTOISE & WORLD PG Sat 2 – Sun 3 Feb THE HARE U Fri 15 – Sun 24 Feb Tue 19 – Thu 21 Feb UK/USA 1981, 1hr 58mins Sat 9 – Sun 10 Feb USA 2019, 1hr 44mins 1hr This month’s Family Favourite has As Hiccup fulfils his dream of 11am – 4.30pm been chosen by Front of House Northern Ballet’s Bite Sized Ballets creating a peaceful dragon utopia, COMEDY IN team member Chet. Perseus, the are the perfect way for your little he discovers that Toothless isn’t the THE DARK FOR KIDS Courtyard, free son of Greek god Zeus (Laurence ones to enjoy the magic of dance, only Night Fury when he meets an Sat 16 Feb and Sat 23 Feb Olivier, no less) must battle Medusa music and storytelling on the big elusive and untamed mate. When 6pm, doors open 5.40pm and the Kraken to save the love screen! See Tortoise & The Hare danger mounts, testing Hiccup's Tickets £7 Don a virtual reality headset, Alongside the swings we’ll also of his life, Princess Andromeda. brought to life by Northern Ballet’s reign as village chief, he and jump on a swing and get ready to have a drop-in virtual reality cinema Maggie Smith and a host of stars amazing dancers in this colourful Toothless face a battle to save A special family version of Comedy be transported into an exhilarating where adults and children alike can Available as Midweek Matinees – see p8 appear in this heroic fantasy and highly entertaining film made their kind. in the Dark at Leicester Comedy virtual adventure in the VR experience an amazing selection of adventure. especially for children. Festival. It’s still comedy, and Playground by Thrill Laboratory. VR films and animations. Visit our it’s still pitch black! Line-up to website for more details. be announced. Recommended Propelled by the swing, you can for ages 8-12. 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Laboratory, a collective of artists, Council England and produced Free, drop-in This is a free, drop-in event but designers, engineers, scientists by Thrill Laboratory, Horizon Digital In Weather Vision you can transform there may be a short wait to take and technologists who have been Economy Research, and Norfolk the view from your window by part at busy times. Children must perfecting the art of creating, & Norwich Festival. creating your own stained glass be accompanied by an adult. producing and examining new inspired winter weather scene. Best for ages 3 – 8. forms of thrilling experience. 4 5 THE JAPAN 0116 242 2800 BOX OFFICE FOUNDATION TOURING FILM PROGRAMME 2019 PHOENIX.ORG.UK BOOK ONLINE LOVE, SIMON 12A Mon 4 Feb, 6.15pm MyPhoenix Members Dir: Greg Berlanti and Friends tickets £5 Cast: Nick Robinson USA 2018, 1hr 50mins HER LOVE BOILS BATHWATER CERT TBC – The Guardian. Call Me Tue 12 Feb, 7.45pm #DMU By Your Name and Moonlight Dir: Ryôta Nakano broke barriers in independent Cast: Rie Miyazawa, Hana Sugisaki film, but Love, Simon marked Japan 2016, 2hrs 5mins, subtitled PRIDE a watershed moment for representation as the first major Single mother Futaba (Miyazawa) studio movie to focus on a gay is struggling to make ends meet De Montfort University teenage romance. High-school after the failure of her marriage and is delighted to present student Simon (Robinson) longs her business. When she’s diagnosed for romance, but he hasn’t with terminal cancer she sets out a short season of told his friends or family that to reconcile her splintered family emotive and insightful he is gay. When he falls for an and secure a stable future for her anonymous classmate online who PEOPLE STILL CALL IT LOVE: daughter (Sugisaki). Ryota Nakano’s films as part of is experiencing similar problems, heartrending drama won six Japan #DMUpride, marking Simon longs to broadcast his PASSION, AFFECTION AND Academy prizes, including Best true feelings but fears the DESTRUCTION IN JAPANESE CINEMA Picture and Best Actress. LGBT History Month. repercussions. The Japan Foundation’s DAD’S LUNCH BOX U BLINDLY IN LOVE PENGUIN THE HAPPY PRINCE 15 THE MISEDUCATION annual touring film Sun 3 Feb, 3pm CERT TBC HIGHWAY 12A Thu 21 Feb, 6pm OF CAMERON POST 15 Dir: Masakazu Fukatsu Tue 19 Feb, 8.15pm Sun 24 Feb, 5pm Dir: Rupert Everett Tue 26 Feb, 6.15pm programme returns with Cast: Toshimi Watanabe, Dir: Masahide Ichii Dir: Hiroyasu Ishida Cast: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth Dir: Desiree Akhavan a showcase of Japanese Rena Takeda Cast: Gen Hoshino, Kaho Cast: Kana Kita, Yu Aoi Ger/Bel/UK/It 2018, 1hr 45mins, Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz Available as Midweek Matinees – see p8 Japan 2017, 1hr 16mins, subtitled Japan 2013, 1hr 57mins, subtitled Japan 2018, 1hr 58mins, subtitled subtitled (parts) USA 2018, 1hr 31mins cinema, this year around the universal theme of love. Based on a simple yet touching Introverted and socially inept, 35 10-year-old Aoyama (Kita) loves – The Times. Rupert – The Guardian. true story which became a social year old local council employee two things in life – science and a Everett delivers an astonishing Acclaimed director Akhavan As conventional definitions media sensation, director Masakazu Kentaro (Hoshino) lives with his charming young dental hygienist performance in this deeply (Appropriate Behaviour) has of love give way to new Fukatsu highlights the profound parents, has no friends and spends known only as ‘Miss’ (Aoi). When his moving biopic of playwright famously raged against the relationships between single fathers his time playing video games. home town experiences a puzzling and poet Oscar Wilde, who was lack of women directors telling understandings, the 2019 and their children. Having never Concerned for their son, his parents influx of penguins he and his friends imprisoned in 1895 and sentenced mainstream queer female stories: programme offers insights cooked a meal in his life, a newly start matchmaking and find a investigate the mystery and discover to two years’ hard labour for with Cameron Post she delivers a divorced dad (Watanabe) is faced beautiful woman (Kaho) for him a connection to ‘Miss’! This the homosexuality. The film reveals deeply affecting drama that packs into a wider context of with the unfamiliar challenge of to meet. Will love blossom? Gen first feature from Studio Colorido, his post-prison ordeal – virtually a heavy emotional punch. 1993, love in Japanese society. preparing his daughter’s daily Hoshino won a Japan Academy founded by director Ishida and friendless, ill and living in squalor, and when teenager Cameron’s lunchbox.