WHAT'S ON AT HOME, MANCHESTER
What's On at HOME, Manchester
Most Popular Shows and Events at HOME, Manchester
What's On at HOME, Manchester
Maestro (15)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 14 December 2023
★★★★★ "In his head-flingingly heartfelt Leonard Bernstein biopic, Bradley Cooper's impersonation of the great composer is eerily exact, and gets to the heart of the sacrifices great artists feel they need to make." ~ The Guardia...
Queendom (15)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 7 December 2023
★★★★ This documentary about a queer drag artist's dangerous protest in Putin's Russia suggests that when performer Gena Marvin takes to the streets she is squaring up not only to prejudice but to the state. ~ The Guardian. --- Gena...
Anatomy of a Fall (15)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 7 December 2023
★★★★✭ A sparkling intellectual thriller that lingers for days, Justine Triet's breathtaking new film unpicks the aftermath of a fatal accident in the Alps. Did the victim fall - or were they pushed? ~ The Telegraph. Winner of th...
Dream Scenario (15)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 7 December 2023
★★★★ In this viral fame comedy, Nicolas Cage makes his Nicolas Cagiest performance yet as a dull academic whose image somehow arrives in millions of sleeping minds in a combination of Freddy Krueger and Leonard Zelig. ~ The Guardi...
May December (15)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 7 December 2023
★★★★ "Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman revel in Todd Haynes's wildly enjoyable, deliciously kitsch tale of a woman with a scandal in her past and the film actor who's going to play her." ~ Daily Telegraph. --- With a trifecta o...
Napoleon (15)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 14 December 2023
★★★★ "Ridley Scott's awe-inspiring epic biopic sees Joaquin Phoenix - albeit with an American accent - and Vanessa Kirby in captivating form as this abridged delightfully deadpan take on French history proves to be a gripping two...
Saltburn (15)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 14 December 2023
★★★ "Emerald Fennell's followup to Promising Young Woman boasts dazzling turns from Rosamund Pike and Carey Mulligan, but the script could have used another all-nighter in the library." ~ The Guardian. --- Academy Award winner Emerald...
Tótem (12A)
Wednesday 6 - Thursday 7 December 2023
★★★ "Family tensions feel real in this heartfelt Mexican cancer drama." ~ The Guardian. --- In her second film after The Chambermaid in 2018, Lila Aviles leaves behind the cramped hotel rooms of her debut but continues to work on th...
Earth Mama (15)
Friday 8 - Thursday 14 December 2023
★★★★✭ "An unflinching, authentic portrait of when motherhood, sisterhood, and womanhood converge with class and race." ~ Roger Ebert. Savanah Leaf's directorial feature debut is an intimate depiction of a mother's fear and love. G...
The Red Shoes
Friday 8 - Thursday 14 December 2023
In a blazing manifesto for The Archers production company, dance, music, design and ?high style? combine in ?total cinema?. Ballet dancer Vicky (Moira Shearer) achieves stardom under impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), but at what ...
Home Alone (PG)
Saturday 9 - Friday 22 December 2023
★★★✭ "Tom & Jerry - or should that be Itchy & Scratchy? - as played by Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in the festive family favourite that has become as synonymous with Christmas as mince pies and turkey." ~ ManchesterT...
The Creative Genius of Powell and Pressburger: Reflections
Sunday 10 December 2023
This one hour discussion between Pamela Hutchinson, a freelance critic, curator and film historian whose publications include BFI Film Classics on The Red Shoes and Pandora's Box, and Andrew Moor, Reader in Cinema History at Manchester Me...
Groundhog Day (PG)
Monday 11 - Thursday 21 December 2023
★★★★✭ A charming and well-crafted comedy, Groundhog Day is that rare Bill Murray vehicle in which the material (and its execution) are every bit as good as the star's performance. ~ AllMovie. --- Teamed with a relentlessly cheerf...
Jingle All The Way (PG)
Wednesday 13 December 2023
★✭ "Arnie and a Christmas movie about the absurdity of festive materialism. What's not to like? Actually, loads. His acting is as wooden as a Nutcracker doll and the slapstick comedy isn't even comparable to Cannon & Ball, Trevor & Simo...
The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG)
Saturday 16 - Saturday 23 December 2023
★★★★ "A stop-motion animation classic which, it turns out, that it's not only in Tim Burton's mind that Santa being tortured on a rack and a severed head left in a children's Christmas stocking, are essential scenes for festive fa...
Hook (U)
Sunday 17 December 2023
★★✭ "Less JM Barrie's classic tale, and more swashbuckling adventure, Steven Spielberg's self-indulgent family fantasy boasts a great cast but is widely regarded as one of his worst movies." ~ ManchesterTheatres. --- A high-flying a...
Jurassic Park (12A)
Tuesday 19 December 2023
★★★★✭ "Don't miss the opportunity to see Spielberg's animatronic masterpiece on the big screen with the best sound system you can find." ~ ManchesterTheatres. --- Experience one of the biggest films in motion picture history wit...
Death Becomes Her (PG)
Friday 22 December 2023
★★★ "Essentially this clumsy but nonetheless amusing satire on the desperation of the beauty obsessed movie industry is an old fashioned morality fable for the rich and famous, dressed in the genre togs of a horror spoof, and jazzed u...
The Weak and the Wicked (15)
Sunday 7 January 2024
★★★ "The title says it all. This is one of those riveting women's prison pictures full of sneering warders and snarling, sulky inmates that alternates alarmingly between enlightening social comment and overloaded melodrama." ~ Radio T...
Yield to the Night (15)
Tuesday 9 January 2024
★★★✭ "This stunning but grim British classic makes a good case for the abolition of capital punishment, released barely a year after nightclub hostess Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, following the fatal sh...
Elmer Gantry (PG)
Sunday 14 January 2024
★★★★✭ "This once scandalous adaptation of the trenchant Sinclair Lewis novel pulls few punches in its story of the hypocrisy, materialism, and opportunism at the heart of the evangelical world of Bible-thumping barnstorming reviva...
Your Fat Friend - Preview + Q&A with Jeanie Finlay & Aubrey Gordon
Wednesday 17 January 2024
A film about fatness, family, the complexities of change and the messy feelings we hold about our bodies. Acclaimed director Jeanie Finlay charts the rise of Aubrey Gordon. Shot over six years we see Aubrey go from anonymous blogger Yrfat...
Spartacus (PG)
Sunday 21 January 2024
★★★★✭ "One of the greatest Hollywood epics of all time with an unbelievable cast, it was initially directed by Anthony Mann who was replaced by a young Stanley Kubrick after the first week of filming. Its parallels with American p...
Dracula (12A)
Friday 26 January 2024
★★★★ "Of course, the impact of this 1958 hit has lessened over the decades, slipping from an X to a 12A and with original plot points now seeming like cliches-in-waiting after so many rehashed sequels. What does remain incredibly p...
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (PG)
Sunday 28 January 2024
★★★★ "Not just the most authentic Cold War film, but also one of the best, this gritty adaptation of John le Carre's gruelling novel finally offered Richard Burton a role worthy of his wonderfully world-weary style, after years wast...
Most Popular Shows and Events at HOME, Manchester
