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  • The Descendants

    Fri 27th Jan to Thu 9th Feb

    Seven years since he gave us the instant classic Sideways, writer-director Alexander Payne returns to cinemas with The Descendants, a wise and witty drama that gives George Clooney what could be the role of his career. Read more

  • J. Edgar

    Fri 3rd to Thu 9th Feb

    Clint Eastwood directs Leonardo DiCaprio in this classy drama about the man who built the world famous Federal Bureau of Investigation while simultaneously breaking the law himself. Read more

  • Coriolanus

    Sun 5th to Thu 9th Feb

    Ralph Fiennes makes an impressive directorial debut with this brutal, Belgrade-set take on the lesser known Shakespeare play Coriolanus, starring Fiennes himself as a Roman general banished from his own city. Read more

  • Shame

    Fri 3rd to Thu 9th Feb

    Michael Fassbender and director Steve McQueen team up again for this moving, haunting and truly brilliant portrait of a dysfunctional sex addict and his emotionally unstable sister (Carey Mulligan). Read more

  • Carnage

    Fri 10th to Thu 16th Feb

    Roman Polanski returns with this hugely entertaining adaptation of the hit stageplay God Of Carnage, a sardonic farce about four parents who all loathe one other, played by Kate Winslet, Christopher Waltz, Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly. Read more

  • Martha Marcy May Marlene

    Fri 10th to Thu 16th Feb

    Elizabeth Olsen gives a star-making performance in this first-rate US indie hit about a young woman trying to recover from having spent two years as part of a terrifying cult. Read more

  • Casablanca: 70th Anniversary

    Sat 11th to Tue 14th Feb

    70 years ago, one of the all-time movie classics was released into cinemas – Casablanca, which has now been given a polish for a special digital re-release just in time for Valentine’s Day. Read more

  • The Artist

    Fri 17th to Thu 23rd Feb

    Michel Hazanavicius’s wonderful film The Artist finally arrives at The Electric, paying tribute to the kind of silent movies that would have played here when the cinema first opened in the early twentieth century. Read more

  • Cult Film Friday: The Dark Crystal

    Fri 17th Feb

    Following our sell-out screenings of Labyrinth, it's time to screen the OTHER cult Jim Henson favourite - The Dark Crystal, a hugely ambitious fantasy epic set on an alien planet of Gelflings and UrSkeks. Read more

  • Shock & Gore presents Repo Man

    Fri 17th Feb

    Prepare to enter the completely insane world of Repo Man, the 80s cult flick with the punk aesthetic that centres around a car with something mysterious in its trunk; something that glows in the dark... Read more

  • The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

    Fri 24th Feb to Thu 1st Mar

    The cream of British acting unite for this inspiring film from director John Madden, who’s enticed Bill Nighy, Judie Dench, Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith to populate a heartwarming story about British retirees heading to India for their golden years. Read more

  • Steven Severin’s Music For Silents: Vampyr

    Sun 26th Feb - SOLD OUT!

    Following last year’s sell-out visit to The Electric when he performed a new score for Jean Cocteau’s Blood Of A Poet, former Siousxie & The Banshees member Steven Severin returns to perform another live score to a classic silent film – namely Carl Dreyer’s unsettling classic Vampyr. Read more