Kirkgate Centre

The Bookshop

• 
• 2017
• 1h 53min
• PG

• Directed by: Isabel Coixet
• Cast: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson
• UK release: 29 June 2018

Florence (Mortimer) is a war widow who causes a stir in a 1950s Suffolk seaside town when she opens a bookshop. Like modern-day Brief Encounter, this adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel is all unspoken sentiment which never descends into mawkishness. Restrained but quietly subversive.

National Theatre Live: King Lear

• 2014
• UK

• Directed by: Sam Mendes
• Cast: Simon Russell Beale

Mendes returns to the National Theatre to direct Simon Russell Beale in the title role of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

Swimming with Men

• 
• 2018
• UK
• 1h 37min
• 12A

• Directed by: Oliver Parker
• Cast: Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Adeel Akhtar, Jim Carter, Jane Horrocks, Thomas Turgoose, Daniel Mays, Charlotte Riley
• UK release: 6 July 2018

Eric (Brydon) is a melancholy accountant in middle life who joins a synchronised swim team at his local pool. This ultra-low-budget offering has a game ensemble who work terrifically well as wisecracking comrades, and Riley as good as their tough coach. It may be The Full Monty with nose clips and goggles but it keeps…

Withnail & I

• 
• 1987
• UK
• 1h 47min
• 15

• Directed by: Bruce Robinson
• Written by: Bruce Robinson
• Cast: Paul McGann, Richard E Grant, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown

Two out-of-work actors surviving 1969 London giro squalor take a break in a picturesque Lake District cottage, where one of them suffers the attentions of the predatory owner. Entertaining British comedy with a dedicated following; do not attempt to drink along with it.