Another great week of film at Pontio in Bangor this week. There’s still chance to see Spider-Man: No Way Home, with new films including Becoming Cousteau, Save the Cinema and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home (12A)
Jon Watts, 2021, 148m
Cast – Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Foxx, Zendaya
Tuesday 4 – Saturday 15 January
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Tom Holland is back! And for the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighbourhood hero is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a Super Hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange (Cumberbatch) the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.
Becoming Cousteau (12A)
Liz Garbus, 2021, 94m
Cast – Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Wednesday 12 January, 7pm
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
BECOMING COUSTEAU examines the epic life of Jacques Yves Cousteau, the ocean explorer who spanned the globe with a misfit crew of divers and filmmakers, under the lifelong creed, “Il faut aller voir” — “We must go and see for ourselves”.
The Frenchman who first sounded the alarm to save the oceans was born with a dream to fly, but a car accident grounded his aviation career, and he found rehabilitation and inspiration through free-diving in the South of France.
His desire to go deeper and further led him to inventions that would forever change the way we see and know the undersea world, co-inventing the “aqualung” and revolutionizing underwater cinematography.
The television industry made him an international star. His trailblazing underwater cinematography and high sea adventures aboard the Calypso introduced generations around the world to the wonders of the seas, but when Cousteau started to see with his own eyes the destruction and degradation of the oceans, he sounded the alarm. But was it too late?
Save the Cinema (12A)
Sara Sugarman, 2021, 108m
Cast – Samantha Morton, Tom Felton, Jonathan Pryce
Friday 14 – Thursday 20 January
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Inspired by the extraordinary real-life events put in motion by hairdresser Liz Evans (Samantha Morton), Save The Cinema illustrates how the resolve of a small Welsh town, inspired by the magic of cinema, was able to bring Hollywood to their doorstep. In 1993 in the West Walian town of Carmarthen the town council made the unwelcome announcement that The Lyric Theatre – the town’s much-loved but financially stricken cinema – would be demolished so a shopping centre could be built in its place. It’s down to Liz Evans, to stand up for the ailing cinema and stop the bulldozers and bring about a monster film premiere no-one will forget.
West Side Story (12A)
Steven Spielberg, 2021, 156m
Cast – Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana De Bose
Friday 14 – Thursday 20 January
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Steven Spielberg’s new version of the legendary stage musical by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim has been hailed as a dazzling success and his best film in years. Love at first sight strikes when young Tony spots Maria at a high school dance in 1957 New York City. Their burgeoning romance helps to fuel the fire between the warring Jets and Sharks — two rival gangs vying for control of the streets. Come and experience this thrilling musical re-imagining by Spielberg and playwright Tony Kushner on the big screen.
