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Electric Picture House
Wotton-under-Edge

Showing from 6th May

Tuesday 6th May
7.45pm - 27 Dresses, Cert 12A, 107 mins
               Always a bridesmaid (with 27 dresses crammed into here wardrobe to prove it), Jane (Katherine Heigl) is heartbroken when her sister (Malin Akerman) snaps up the boss (Edward Burns) she pines for. While organising their big day she is oblivious to a cynical journalist’s (James Marsden) interest in her sad wedding obsession.

Thursday 8th May

2.00pm - The Other Boleyn Girl, Cert 12A, 115 mins 
               Recruited by their socially ambitious father and uncle, the two Boleyn sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scarlett Johansson), are encouraged to woo King Henry VIII (Eric Bana). Thrust into life at court, a terrible rivalry unfolds as the two battle for the king’s affection.

7.45pm - The Orphanage, Cert 15, 100 mins
               Laura (Belén Rueda) returns to the orphanage that was once her home with the intention of reopening it. As soon as her son (Roger Príncep) finds an imaginary friend who once lived in the same institution, things take a definite turn for the spooky. A superbly atmospheric and emotionally powerful tale of love, loss and guilt. Spanish, sub-titled.

Friday 9th May

7.45pm - The Bucket List, Cert 12A, 97 mins
               Corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before they ‘kick the bucket’ and an unrealised need to come to terms with who they are.
               

Saturday 10th May

4.30pm - Horton Hears a Who!, Cert U, 88 mins
               Eccentric elephant Horton (voiced by Jim Carrey) hears a voice calling from a speck of dust, home to the ‘Whos’. He befriends their mayor (Steve Carell), but both face disbelief from friends as Horton tries to get the speck to safety.

7.45pm - Shine a Light, Cert 12A, 122 mins
               Martin Scorsese captures the Rolling Stones during their A Bigger Bang world tour. Filmed over two nights at New York’s historic Beacon Theatre in the autumn of 2006, the band's powers show no signs of waning.

Sunday 11th May

2.00pm - The Spiderwick Chronicles, Cert PG, 97 mins
               After his family move into a long-disappeared relative’s country house, young Jared Grace (Freddie Highmore) discovers a field guide to fantastical creatures. Opening the book, however, alerts its presence to a very real, very nasty ogre who wants it for himself. A fantasy adventure for the child in all of us based on the best-selling series of books.             

7.45pm - The Bucket List, Cert 12A, 97 mins
               Corporate billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do before they ‘kick the bucket’ and an unrealised need to come to terms with who they are.

Tuesday 13th May
7.45pm - The 39 Steps, Cert U, 86 mins
                Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) is on vacation in London when a frightened young woman approaches Hannay and asks for his help. When she is later killed, Hannay finds himself both framed as the man responsible for her death as well as the next potential victim of a spy ring. This film established Hitchcock as the master of the mystery spy-thriller.