Special Screenings Coming Up At Junction NT LIVE: JULIUS CAESAR (15) Thursday 22 March, 7pm All tickets £11 Ben Whishaw, Michelle Fairley, David Calder and David Morrissey star in Nicholas Hytner’s new production, broadcast live from The Bridge Theatre, London. Caesar returns in triumph to Rome and the people pour out of their Cinema Programme homes to celebrate. Alarmed by his popularity, the élite conspire to bring him down and civil war erupts on the March 2018 streets of the capital. Nicholas Hytner’s production will thrust the audience into the street party that greets Caesar’s return, the congress that witnesses his murder, the rally that assembles for his funeral and the chaos that explodes in its wake. Please note that Julius Caesar contains strobe lighting. NT LIVE: MACBETH (15) Thursday 10 May, 7pm All tickets £11 Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying tragedy, directed by Rufus Norris, will see Rory Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff return to the National Theatre to play Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The ruined aftermath of a bloody civil war. Ruthlessly fighting to survive, the Macbeths are propelled towards the crown by forces of elemental darkness. AN AMERICAN IN PARIS: THE MUSICAL Wednesday 16 May, 7pm All tickets £11 Inspired by the Oscar winning MGM film, this Award-winning Broadway musical tells the impassioned story of discovering love in the ‘City of Light’. Featuring the gorgeous music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin, stunning designs, and showstopping choreography, An American in Paris is coming from London’s West End to a cinema near you. Jerry Mulligan is an American GI striving to make it as a painter in a city suddenly bursting with hope and possibility. Following a chance encounter with a beautiful young dancer named Lise, the streets of Paris become the backdrop to a sensuous, modern romance of art, friendship and love in the aftermath of war… GET CINEMA LISTINGS AND ALL THE LATEST NEWS DIRECT TO YOUR INBOX BOX OFFICE: 01405 763652 www.junctiongoole.co.uk To receive our monthly cinema listings email, sign up at www.junctiongoole.co.uk MONSTER FAMILY (PG) COCO (PG) Friday 2 March, 5.30pm Tuesday 27 & Thursday 29 March, 2pm Saturday 3 March, 2pm Wednesday 28 March, 11am (AF) & 2pm The Wishbones seem like normal family, but they are far from happy. A night out to a fancy dress Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, party should be fun, but Emma’s ex-husband is young Miguel dreams of becoming a musician Count Dracula and he’s hired a witch to turn like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to Emma into a vampire to try to win her back! prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the When the spell is cast it turns the whole family into technicolour Land of the Dead during the Dia de the monsters they were dressed as for the party and it’s a race against time to los Muertos celebration and sets out to find his hero. Along the way, he meets see if they can be turned back! Fun, family animation based on the children’s charming skeletal trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary book by David Safier. journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history and importance of memory. Fall into stunning visuals and heartfelt story telling in this extraordinary Directed by: Holger Tappe (2017, 93 mins) journey from animation giants Pixar. Starring: Emily Watson, Jason Isaacs, Nick Frost, Celia Imrie, Catherine Tate Directed by: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina (2017, 105 mins) Starring: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING Renée Victor, Jaime Camil MISSOURI (15) Wednesday 7 & Thursday 8 March, 7.30pm THE POST (12A) Mildred is a grieving mother frustrated by the local Wednesday 28 & Thursday 29 March, 7.30pm police’s failure to find her daughter’s killer. In an Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, still effort to track down the culprit, she has three reeling from the suicide of her husband, is the first billboards erected outside her town of Ebbing, female publisher of a major American Missouri, accusing the Sheriff of doing nothing to newspaper, The Washington Post. When her catch the killer. Thus begins a rapidly escalating and very public feud between editor comes across leaked government Mildred and the town’s Police, not least the sheriff's hot-headed deputy. A documents relating to the Vietnam war, they blistering performance from Frances McDormand lies at the centre of Martin begin an unprecedented battle between the McDonagh’s follow-up to In Bruges, a characteristically bold, dark comedy. press and the government as they push to print the shocking revelations about a Directed by: Martin McDonagh (2017, 115 mins) cover-up that spanned three decades and four US presidents. Going to print risks Starring: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, their careers and the freedoms of everyone involved, and President Nixon will do Peter Dinklage, Samara Weaving anything to take them down. A taut, and daring drama based on real events, with stunning performances from its acclaimed cast. THE SHAPE OF WATER (15) Directed by: Steven Spielberg (2017, 116 mins) Tuesday 13 & Wednesday 14 March, 7.30pm Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Alison Brie, Sarah Paulson, Bruce Greenwood, At the height of the Cold War, in a secret US Carrie Coon, Matthew Rhys, Jesse Plemons, Bob Odenkirk, Bradley Whitford, laboratory, lonely mute cleaner Elisa discovers a Michael Stuhlbarg, Tracy Letts, Pat Healy, Zach Woods, David Cross, Rick Holmes classified experiment in the government lab where she works – a mysterious, scaled creature living in a watertank. As she begins to TAKEOVER FESTIVAL 2018 communicate with the creature and the bond 12 - 24 March between them grows, so does the threat from the Year 5 at Boothferry Primary School invite you to join research team, headed by the vindictive Strickland. Guillermo del Toro them for the TakeOver Festival! intertwines classic 1950s B-movie sci-fi, horror and gothic romance to spellbinding Highlights include folklore storytelling in The Boggle effect, in a film about love, shape-shifting though it may be, and tolerance. (Sat 17 March) circus acrobatics from Alula Cyr (Fri 23 March) Directed by: Guillermo del Toro (2017, 123 mins) and family friendly stand-up comedy in The Hilariously Funny Starring: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael World of James Campbell (Sat 24 March). Pick up a copy of Stuhlbarg, Octavia Spencer the brochure designed by the children for full details! .