FLIC Launceston

LIFE OF PI Saturday 25th May 3pm. Doors open at 2:30pm. £5 individual tickets,  £4 concessions, £3 children, £10 family (2 adults, 2 children or 1 adult, 3 children). Tickets are available on the door, at the Tourist Information Centre in Launceston or can be ordered online at Cornish Riviera Box Office

SUMMARY  A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger.

STARRING  Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain

DIRECTOR  Ang Lee

FILM LENGTH 127 minutes

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The Guardian – The versatile Ang Lee brings Yann Martel’s tale of shipwreck and spirituality to the big screen in magnificent fashion – Philip French

Telegraph – Ang Lee’s adaptation of Life of Pi restores your faith in cinema - Robbie Collin.

ARGO Friday 03 May 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00pm. £5 individual tickets,  £4 concessions. Tickets are available on the door, at the Tourist Information Centre in Launceston or can be ordered online at Cornish Riviera Box Office.

SUMMARY  A dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian secret operation to extract six fugitive American diplomatic personnel out of revolutionary Iran.

STARRING  Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman

DIRECTOR Ben Affleck

FILM LENGTH 120 minutes

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Rotten Tomatoes – Tense, exciting, and often darkly comic, Argo recreates a historical event with vivid attention to detail and finely wrought characters.

HUGO Saturday 13 April 3pm. Doors open at 2:30pm. £5 individual tickets,  £4 concessions. Tickets are available on the door, at the Tourist Information Centre in Launceston or can be ordered online at Cornish Riviera Box Office.

SUMMARY  Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

STARRING Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee

DIRECTOR Martin Scorsese

FILM LENGTH 126 minutes

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Rotten Tomatoes – Hugo is an extravagant, elegant fantasy with an innocence lacking in many modern kids’ movies, and one that emanates an unabashed love for the magic of cinema.

THE SAPPHIRES Friday 05 April 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00pm. £5 individual tickets,  £4 concessions. Tickets are available on the door, at the Tourist Information Centre in Launceston or can be ordered online at Cornish Riviera Box Office.

SUMMARY  It’s 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.

STARRING Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy

DIRECTOR Wayne Blair

FILM LENGTH 103 minutes

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Rotten Tomatoes – While it’s plenty predictable and sentimental, The Sapphires also has an irresistible feel-good vibe, winning music and charming performances to spare.

Anna Karenina Friday 01 February 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00pm. £5 individual tickets,  £4 concessions. Tickets are available on the door, at the Tourist Information Centre in Launceston or can be ordered online at Cornish Riviera Box Office.

SUMMARY  The story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart. As Anna (Ms. Knightley) questions her happiness and marriage, change comes to all around her.

STARRING Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Taylor-Johnson

DIRECTOR Joe Wright

FILM LENGTH 129 minutes

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Rotten Tomatoes – Joe Wright’s energetic adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic romance is a bold, visually stylized work — for both better and worse.

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS Saturday 22 December 3:00pm. Doors open at 2:30pm. £10 for a family tickets (2 x adults and 3 children), £ 5 individual tickets,  £4 concessions and £3 children. Tickets are available on the door, at the Tourist Information Centre in Launceston or can be ordered online at Cornish Riviera Box Office.

SUMMARY Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child’s question: ‘So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?’ The answer: Santa’s exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.

STARRING James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy

DIRECTOR Sarah Smith, Barry Cook

FILM LENGTH 97 minutes

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Rotten Tomatoes – 91% - Aardman Animations broadens their humor a bit for Arthur Christmas, a clever and earnest holiday film with surprising emotional strength.

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