Director Lone Scherfig
Cast Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Tim Mison, Patricia Clarkson
(107 mins)

After one day together - July 15th, 1988, their college graduation - Emma Morley (Anne Hathaway) and Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) begin a friendship that will last a lifetime. She is a working-class girl of principle and ambition who dreams of making the world a better place. He is a wealthy charmer who dreams that the world will be his playground. For the next two decades, key moments of their relationship are experienced over several July 15ths in their lives.

Together and apart, we see Dex and Em through their friendship and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Somewhere along their journey, these two people realize that what they are searching and hoping for has been there for them all along. As the true meaning of that one day back in 1988 is revealed, they come to terms with the nature of love and life itself.

Robin Hood – A Saxon rebel? No. An exiled Nobleman? No. Swashbuckling nemesis of early Plantagenet usurpers? No.

Who or what really lies behind this famous name? Find out in this fast forward of the lowdown on the earliest known tales and legends of Robin Hood. Discover essential handy hints and tips for would be forester outlaws and what really happens when you try to be.

Your storyteller Simon Heywood lectures in Folklore and Creative Writing at Derby University and is an internationally acclaimed writer whose work has been recorded and broadcast nationally.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (U) 1939

Directos: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley

Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone

(102mins)

The 1939 classic..... brought to new life by the preceding talk!
When Prince John and the Norman lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.

Director: George Clooney
Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti
(101 mins)

With excellent performances by Clooney and Gosling, The Ides of March takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, in which Morris is competing in the Democratic primary elections with his eye on the presidency. All seems set for a victory that will likely propel Morris towards the White House. However an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate's ambitions.

This isn't a movie about good guys finishing last or virtue being rewarded, but it’s an intelligent, consistently involving thriller with the kind of unexpected melodramatic events that crop up in all US elections. Everyone ends up fighting to save themselves, their careers and ambitions, trapped by human weakness rather than being persuaded by superior arguments or circumstances

A gripping political drama in which loyalty, principles and integrity tumble like a house of cards when betrayals alter perceptions. Rotten Tomatoes

Director Lynne Ramsay
Cast Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, John C Reilly, Siobhan Fallon
(112 mins)

Director Lynne Ramsay hurtles herself into Oscar contention with this riveting adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s bestselling 2003 novel. Tilda Swinton turns in a typically stellar performance as Eva, the mother of a teenage boy (Miller) who commits an unimaginably heinous crime. As she struggles to deal with her grief the story flashes back to before the incident, when snapshots of Eva’s troubled relationship with her son prompt the audience to question whether evil is something that derives from nature or nurture.

A powerful domestic drama with a killer twist. Tilda Swinton has never been better. The Observer

It’s a testament to [Ramsay’s] skill as a director that even though her adaptation of Shriver’s book is a ruthless one, the film feels entirely faithful to its spirit. More importantly, Kevin is a piece of vital, visceral cinema in its own right; teeming with words and images to mull over, pick apart and talk about. And you will need to talk about it. The Daily Telegraph