Picton Cinemas

Thursday 6th - Wednesday 12th August

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MILITARY WIVES (New)

  Daily

1.00pm & 5.30pm

Duration: 112 mins   

Classification M

 

Following a group of women in England whose partners are away serving in Afghanistan. Faced with the men's absences, they form a choir and quickly find themselves at the centre of a media sensation and global movement. Inspired by global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates a band of misfit women who form a choir on a military base.

THIS TOWN  (New)

Daily

1.15pm & 5.30pm

Duration: 91 mins  

Classification  (M)

 

Five years ago, Sean's family was murdered. Charged but acquitted of the crime, he is now the most infamous person in the small community of Thiston - his whole life defined by this single event. Pam was the officer in charge of the investigation. Tormented by the murders and how a guilty man walked free, she's been soured against the justice system. Abandoning the police force, Pam has started a small petting zoo, but is unable to move on until justice has been served. Now, for the first time since ‘it' happened, Sean's world is blossoming.

THE SECRET DARE TO DREAM

Daily

 10.45am & 3.15pm

    Duration: 107mins 

Classification PG

  Miranda Wells is a hardworking young widow who's struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm soon brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson, into her life. In just a few short days, Bray's presence reignites the family's spirit -- but he carries a secret that could change everything.                                                                    

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THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

  Daily

10.30am, 3.15pm

Duration: 119 mins   

Classification M

 

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David's journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, colour and humanity.

BEL CANTO

Daily

10.15am, 1.50pm & 5.30pm

    Duration: 100 mins 

Classification M

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Roxane Coss (Moore), a famous American soprano, travels to South America to give a private concert at the birthday party of rich Japanese industrialist Katsumi Hosokawa (Watanabe). Just as a handsome gathering of local dignitaries convenes at Vice-President Ruben Ochoa's mansion, including French Ambassador Thibault and his wife, the house is taken over by guerrillas led by Comandante Benjamin (Huerta) demanding the release of their imprisoned comrades. Their only contact with the outside world is through Red Cross negotiator Messner (Koch). 

RADIOACTIVE

Daily

10.45am

Duration: 119 mins  

Classification  M

 

 In Paris, 1893, Marie meets fellow scientist Pierre Curie (Sam Riley). The pair go on to marry, raise two daughters and change the face of science forever by jointly winning the Nobel Prize for the discovery of radium in 1903. Marie Curie was the first female scientist to win the esteemed prize.But it soon becomes terrifyingly evident that her work could lead to applications in medicine that could save thousands of lives -- or applications in warfare that could destroy them by the billions.

KLIMT & SCHIELE

Daily

3.45pm

    Duration: 90 mins 

Classification E

                                                                      

As the roar of the First World War cannons is dying out, in Vienna, the heart of Central Europe, a golden age comes to an end. The Austro-Hungarian Empire is beginning to disintegrate. On the night of October 31st, in the bed of his home, Egon Schiele dies, one of the 20 million deaths caused by the Spanish flu. He dies looking at the invisible evil in the face, in the only way he can do: painting it. He is 28 years old. A few months earlier, his teacher and friend Gustav Klimt had died. From the turn of the century, he had fundamentally changed the feeling of art and founded a new group: the Secession.

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WATERLILLIES OF MONET 

Daily

12.10pm

Duration: 90 mins  

Classification  E

 

 When Claude Monet re-emerged from the depression that had led him to abandon painting, he devoted himself body and soul to his most colossal undertaking: The Grand Décoration - huge panels depicting his water lily pond, so all-enveloping that the viewer's gaze is lost in an atmosphere of serenity and peace