Tuesday 21^st September - 7.45pm

"Hurt Locker"

Year: 2009
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Language: English, Arabic, Turkish
Length: 2hr 10min
Rating: 15

Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Wednesday 20^th October - 7.45pm

"Up in the Air"

Year: 2010
Starring: George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Jason Bateman
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Director: Jason Reitman
Language: English
Length: 1hr 49min
Rating: 15

With a job that has him travelling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Tuesday 23^rd November - 7.45pm

"The Lovely Bones"

Year: 2010
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Director: Peter Jackson
Language: English
Length: 2hr 15min
Rating: 12A

A young girl has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Wednesday 15^th December - 7.45pm

"Eden"

Year: 2008
Starring: Josef Ostendorf, Charlotte Roche
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Director: Michael Hofmann
Language: English
Length: 1hr 33min
Rating: 15

A lonely mother falls in love with the art and skill of an obese chef, who fuels his creative inspiration with his infatuation with her, leading to a tricky relationship and a confrontation with the husband.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Tuesday 18^th January 2011 - 7.45pm

"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"

Year: 2010
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Sven-Bertil Taube
Genre: Drama
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Language: Swedish, English
Length: 2hr 30min
Rating: 18

A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing - or dead - for forty years by a young female hacker.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Wednesday 23^rd February - 7.45pm

"Mr Holland's Opus"

Year: 1995
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis
Genre: Drama
Director: Stephen Herek
Language: English
Length: 2hr 23min
Rating: PG

A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Tuesday 22^nd March 2011 - 7.45pm

"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas"

Year: 2008
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Amber Beattie, David Thewlis
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Director: Mark Herman
Language: English
Length: 1hr 34min
Rating: 12A

Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Tuesday 26^th April - 7.45pm

"The Night Porter" (classic)

Year: 1974
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Isa Miranda
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Lialiana Cavani
Language: Italian
Length: 1hr 55min
Rating: 18

Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Wednesday 25^th May 2011 - 7.45pm

"Nowhere Boy"

Year: 2009
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, Amber Beattie, David Thewlis
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Director: Sam Taylor-Wood
Language: English
Length: 1hr 38min
Rating: 15

Set in Liverpool in 1955, "Nowhere Boy" follows a 15-year-old John Lennon as he goes through the life experiences that will give birth to "Nowhere Man."

For more details: IMDB and RottenTomatoes

Tuesday 21^st June 2010 - 7.00pm - Early Start!

AGM + End of Season Surprise Film

As in previous years we reserve this space to bring you a surprise film so that we can end our year on a high.

We don't know what it will be yet, so we will all have to wait and see.

Film Ratings

At every film evening you will be given a simple feedback form so that you can give each film a rating. This is important. However, we are sure that you will all have opinions and suggestions, and it's those very opinions and suggestions that we really need you to give us. That way we can learn, and this will help us shape the future of the society. That's why, at each screening we always have a suggestions box.

So please jot your suggestions down on a sheet of paper (match boxes ok) and put them in our suggestion box. You can send in your thoughts and suggestions at anytime. Simply send them to us using the details on our Contact page. Help us to make - "The Wincanton Film Society" - The Best!

See you next time.