welcome!
We’ve capped film tickets to £5 this August (excluding The Odyssey due to contractual agreements), so you can enjoy the cinema for less whilst The Amp is running (see below). From Peru and the islands of Finland to India and the glaciers of Iceland, we’re taking you around the world this month!
Audio Description Available
Check at Box Office or online for the latest available Audio Described films.
If you do require audio description, you can book a specific ticket with Box Office or online which will let us know to keep a headset aside for you.
Subtitles
Films which have either a HOH captioned screening or are in a foreign language with English subtitles.
Film Prices
Tickets £11 - £5
Member Prices
Courtyard Club & Card £3
Friends & Patrons 10% off courtyard.org.uk/memberships
Breakfast Movies
10am/11am films Monday to Friday include a pre-film pastry & tea or filter coffee.
No Adverts
These will not have adverts. Trailers will begin at the advertised time.
Relaxed Screenings
These screenings feature lowered sound, raised lighting and the freedom to move around the space.
This August The Amp, The Courtyard’s new 1,400 seat pop-up venue, will be hosting 20 live events in the car park. But don’t worry, the cinema will be open as usual, just with a few di erences:
1. No Car Park - With the size of The Amp our car park will be out of action throughout August. We recognise this may cause additional costs to travel or parking, and so our cinema ticket prices have been reduced to £5 (excluding The Odyssey) to compensate for this. Blue Badge holders should update their access tags with Box Office to find out directly how we are looking after our customers with access needs this summer.
2. Food & Drink - The Café Bar will be running a limited offering during August. Service will be provided from The Courtyard Lounge on the first floor including the usual tea, coffee and cakes as well as a lunch service between 12pm – 2pm of sandwiches, jacket potatoes, fries and soup of the day. This service will also continue into the evening on Tue 11, Wed 12, Mon 17, Tue 18 & Tue 25 August between 5pm – 7pm. For our Breakfast Movies, it’s business as usual, just up on The Courtyard Lounge instead.
3. Entrance - To enter The Courtyard on The Amp’s performance evenings you will need to pass through a security check nearby our main entrance. We have timed our screenings to avoid clashes with large crowds attending live events. The Box Office will be fully accessible from outside The Amp boundaries and with the same opening hours as usual.
This may all be a little different, but once you’re in the Studio Theatre, we can guarantee you the same great cinema experience you expect from us. Find out more at courtyard.org.uk/theamp
My Mother's Wedding (15)
UK/USA, 1h 35min
August
Tue 4 2.30pm, Thu 6 5pm (Subs), Sun 16 8pm, Tue 18 5.30pm, Tue 25 11am
Director: Kristen Scott Thomas
Cast: Kristen Scott Thomas, Scarlett Johannson, Emily Beecham
Back on our screens due to popular demand and rave reviews! Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twicewidowed mother.
July
Time & Water
(PG)
Iceland, 1h 33min
August
Sat 1 6pm, Thu 6 11am, Fri 14 8pm, Mon 17 11am
Director: Sara Dosa
An Icelandic writer preserves vanishing glaciers, grandparents, family memories, and flowing time in his personal archives, transforming loss into a time capsule.
Little White Lies
Fri 24 2pm & 7pm, Sat 25 1pm, 4.15pm (Subs) & 7.30pm, Sun 26 1.30pm & 5pm, Mon 27 2pm & 7.15pm, Tue 28 2pm & 7pm (35mm), Wed 29 2pm (Subs) & 7pm, Thu 30 2pm (35mm) & 7pm, Fri 31 7.45pm
August
Sat 1 2pm (35mm), Sun 2 5pm, Mon 3 11am, Tue 4 7.15pm (Subs), Wed 5 10am, Thu 6 7pm, Sat 8 2pm, Sun 9 5pm, Mon 10 2pm (Subs), Tue 11 7.30pm, Wed 12 11am, Fri 21 2pm, Wed 26 2pm, Thu 27 2.30pm
USA/UK, 2h 52min
Director: Christopher Nolan The Odyssey (15)
Cast: Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal, Elliot Page, Mia Goth, Himesh Patel, Benny Safdie
After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops, Polyphemus, and Calypso along the way.
All 35mm screenings will have a 10-minute interval in order to change reels.
Explore the world of cinema with the fourth edition of My First Film Festival! Grab a sticker at each film to fill in one of our Treasure Maps that you can grab in-house.
Kids watch for £3 Adults: £7.50 (£5 in Aug)
August
Sat 1 11am, Sun 2 2pm, Mon 3 2.30pm (Subs), Tue 4 5pm, Wed 5 2pm (Relaxed), Thu 6 2pm, Sun 9 2.30pm, Tue 11 2pm, Wed 12 3pm, Thu 13 2.30pm, Sun 16 5pm
Runtime: 1h 42min
Sat 1 Pre-activity: Make your own toy!
August
Sat 8 11am Runtime: TBC
Pre-activity: Make your own classic TV with interchangeable shows!
August
Sat 22 11am Runtime: 1h 28min
Pre-activity: Make an Eiffel Tower out of marshmallows and spaghetti!
August
Sat 15 11am Runtime: 1h 35min
Pre-activity: Search for treasure around The Courtyard!
August
Sat 29 11am, Sun 30 2.30pm
Runtime: 1h 55min
September Tue 1 2.30pm, Wed 2 2.30pm
Sat 29 Pre-activity: Make a heart of Te Fiti pin badge!
Savage House (15)
UK/USA, 1h 53min
August
Sat 1 8pm, Mon 3 7.30pm, Tue 4 11am, Wed 5 5pm (Subs), Tue 11 11am
Director: Peter Glanz
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Claire Foy
Set in 18th century England during pox outbreak and Jacobite uprising, Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage blindly pursue a better life. Their pursuit is filled with ironic decadence and bloodshed. A darkly satirical play on class and power.
Cactus Pears (15)
India, 1h 52min
August
Mon 3 5pm, Wed 12 8pm, Wed 19 11am, Thu 20 8pm
Director: Rohan Kanawade
Cast: Bhushaan Manoj, Suraaj Suman
Anand, a 30-something city dweller compelled to spend a 10-day mourning period for his father in the rugged countryside of western India, tenderly bonds with a local farmer struggling to stay unmarried. Original language with subtitles.
August Fri 7 8pm, Sat 8 8pm, Mon 10 11am, Tue 11 5pm (Subs), Thu 13 8pm
The Invite (15)
USA, 1h 47min
Director: Olivia Wilde
Cast: Seth Rogen, Olivia Wilde, Edward Norton, Penelope Cruz
Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.
“A side-splittingly funny
film”- The Times
“It is intriguing, amusing and bizarely moving”- The Guardian
“...mischievous fun!” - Daily Mail
“... the best foursome you may ever have!” - Metro
My Father's Island (15)
France, 1h 54min
August
Mon 10 8pm, Wed 12 5.30pm, Thu 13 11am
Director: Vladimir de Fontenay
Cast: Swann Arlaud, Woody Norman
A troubled young man travels to a remote island to reconnect with his father and confront the traumatic experience they shared ten years prior that transformed their relationship. In original language with English subtitles.
A Private Life (15)
Canada, 1h 47min
August Fri 14 11am, Sat 15 8pm, Tue 18 11am
Director: Rebecca Zlotowski
Cast: Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil
The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered. In original language with English subtitles.
“Jodie Foster is captivating in refreshing, French-language whodunnit” - Chezzelle Bingham, Radio Times
Effi O Blaenau (15)
UK, 1h 30min
August Tue 18 7.30pm, Wed 19 8pm, Thu 20 11am
Director: Marc Evans
Cast: Leisa Gwenllian, Tom Rhys Harries
Based on Gary Owen’s much lauded and widely performed monodrama, Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau is director Marc Evans’ cinematic interpretation set against the wide open landscapes of North Wales. In original language with English subtitles.
The Summer Book (PG)
August Fri 21 11am, Mon 24 11am, Tue 25 8pm, Wed 26 11am, Thu 27 8pm
Director: Charlie McDowell
Cast: Glenn Close, Anders Danielsen Lie
A young girl, Sophia, spends the summer with her father and grandmother on a small island in the Gulf of Finland, as the family grapples with the recent death of Sophia’s mother. Based on the international best-selling novel from Tove Jansson.
Finland/USA/UK, 1h 35min - rogerebert.com (out of 4)
RADIX Film Club is your once-a-month stop for exploring cinema! We aim to make each month a unique experience from past or present. From 35mm classics and iconic action titles to abstract world cinema and laugh-out-loud comedies, we’re here to try something new. After the film, you can get 10% off at the bar as we stick around to chat about the film. We’ll see you soon!
August Mon 17 6.30pm
Lost Highway (1997, 18)
USA, 2h 14min
Nirvanna The band the show the movie (15)
Canada, 1h 39min
Director: David Lynch
Director: Matt Johnson
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius
Cast: Matt Johnson, Jay MacCarrol, Ben Petrie
Having ticked off our first documentary of the year in July, we’re moving on to an oddball Canadian comedy in August! Based on the viral web series of the same name.
When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.
(4/4)
“...an early contender for the funniest and most charming movie of the year” - Clint Worthington, rogerebert.com
August
Mon 24 8pm
Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997, PG)
Lost Highway (1997, 18)
USA, 2h 14min
Director: Jan De Bont (yes, it was the same guy!)
Director: David Lynch
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Willem Dafoe, Jason Patric
Cast: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius USA, 2h 1min
Bonus RADIX screening alert! We had you vote at our Speed screening if you wanted to see the sequel, and it was a landslide yes... we thought you might be joking, and then you kept asking.. so here we go! Keanu Reeves might not be there, but the film club will be!
A computer hacker breaks into the computer system of the Seabourn Legend cruise liner and sets it speeding on a collision course into a gigantic oil tanker.
“Movies like this embrace goofiness with an almost sensual pleasure. And so, on a warm summer evening, do I.” - Roger Ebert (1997)
PAw Patrol:
The Dino Movie (PG)
USA, 1h 28min
August
Fri 14 2.30pm, Sat 15 2.30pm, Sun 16 2.30pm, Mon 17 2.30pm, Tue 18 2.30pm (Subs), Wed 19 2.30pm, Thu 20 2.30pm, Sat 22 2.30pm, Sun 23 2.30pm, Tue 25 2.30pm
The Paw Patrol lands on a mysterious dinosaur island after a storm, where they meet Rex, a stranded pup and a volcano eruptions forces a team rescue mission!
August
Fri 28 2.30pm, Sat 29 8pm
Lady (15)
UK, 1h 35min
September Tue 1 7.30pm, Wed 2 11am
Director: Samuel Abrahams
Spider-man:
Brand New Day (12a) USA, 2h 35min
August
Fri 21 8pm, Sat 22 8pm, Sun 23 5pm, Mon 24 2pm (Subs), Tue 25 5pm, Wed 26 8pm, Thu 27 11.15am
A forgotten Peter Parker (Tom Holland) lives alone as a full-time Spider-Man until mounting pressure triggers a dangerous change and a powerful new enemy emerges.
August Fri 28 11am, Sat 29 2.30pm, Sun 30 5pm
September Tue 1 5.15pm, Wed 2 7.30pm
Director: Nat Boltt Holy Days (12a)
New Zealand, 1h 41min
Cast: Jacki Weaver, Miriam Margolyes, Judy Davis
A lost boy in search of heaven, three odd nuns on a mission, a car powered by God (and stolen money). This is a road trip like no other. A comedic near tragedy that just keeps going South.
Cast: Sian Clifford, Juliet Cowan, Laurie Kynaston
Lady Isabella aspires to be in the spotlight, and local talent show ‘Stately Stars’ provides her with a break. However, high pressures and a loss of self lead to a surreal situation on her grand estate.
“Sian Cli ord’s Lady Isabella shines... in this barnstorming comedy.” - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
August
Fri 28 8pm
UK, 1h 29min
September Tue 1 11am
Director: Callum Burn Landship (15)
Cast: Vin Hawke, Matthew Canny, Sam Dowdy
Stranded and slowly sinking into the fetid mud of Passchendaele, the crew of a British WW1 Tank fight for their lives against an insidious and determined enemy. Some of you might recognise Matthew Canny, star of The Courtyard’s productions of Wuthering Heights and The Secret Garden!
Handa opera on sydney harbour
Puccini's Turandot (PG)
Tue 8 Sep, 7pm
Verdi's La Traviata (PG)
Tue 15 Sep, 7pm
Tickets £16
David Byrne's American Utopia (12A)
Wednesday 5 August, 7.30pm
A one night only spectacular on the big screen! Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman’s brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his album and tour of the same name.
Tickets: £10
Coming soon
Pressure
Expected to screen from Fri 18 Sep On Sale mid August
Director: Anthony Maras
Cast: Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Damian Lewis
The fate of the free world hangs in the balance as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Capt. James Stagg face an impossible choice; launch the D-Day invasion or risk losing World War II altogether.
We’d like to share our exciting new plans for the Studio
Theatre…
Our ground-floor Studio is a busy and versatile space - bringing together lovers of independent cinema, live screenings, children’s theatre, community showcases, folk music, stand-up comedy and much more. In 2025 alone, more than 45,000 tickets were issued for this space, welcoming thousands of people through its doors!
To ensure you can continue to enjoy inspiring experiences for years to come, we are launching the Make Room campaign to raise £130,000 by Spring 2027, with a view to refurbishing the Studio space for the autumn 2027 season.
What’s in the makeover
Wider padded seats with higher backs Cup holders
A new eco-friendly heating & cooling system
Additional soundproofing New flooring
The various improvements (see right) will transform the space, making it more comfortable, accessible and welcoming for everyone, while matching the quality of the experiences on stage and screen. All of which will support our charity to be here for future generations to enjoy what we all enjoy now!
To find out more and donate, please scan the QR code, or visit: courtyard.org.uk/makeroom
