Another great week of film at Pontio in Bangor with highlights including Minions, Thor and a live broadcast of Prima Facie starring Jodie Comer

Special offer: £5 tickets for all 2pm showings Monday-Wednesday.

Events for the community include: Vertical Dance and Trychfilod a’r Campau Campus (The Great Insect Games)

For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/

 

Cinema:

Minions: The Rise of Gru (U)

Kyle Balda, 2022, 88m

Cast – Steve Carell, Alan Alda, Michelle Yeoh

Friday 15 – Saturday 23 July

£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)

School’s out and the Minions are back! In the 1970s, a 12Yr old Gru (Steve Carell) is growing up in the suburbs. A fanboy of a supervillain group known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them. When the Vicious 6 fire their leader, legendary fighter Wild Knuckles (Alan Arkin), Gru interviews to become their newest member. It does not go well, and Gru and the minions find themselves the mortal enemy of the apex of evil and go on the run.

Brian and Charles (PG)

Jim Archer, 2022, 90m

Cast – Chris Hayward, David Earl, Louise Brealey

Friday 15 – Tuesday 19 July

£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)

An unconventional award-winning gem of a comedy film, acclaimed globally and all filmed locally (Penmachno).

Brian, is a lonely inventor in rural Wales, who spends his days building quirky, unconventional contraptions that seldom work. Undeterred Brian attempts his biggest project yet. Three days, a washing machine, and various spare parts later, he’s invented Charles, an artificially intelligent robot who learns English from a dictionary and has an obsession with cabbages. Come and enjoy a humorous and entirely heart-warming story about loneliness, friendship, family, finding love, and letting go.

NT LIVE: Prima Facie (15)

Suzie Miller, 2022, 180m

Cast – Jodie Comer

Thursday 21 July 7pm + Sunday 24 July 2pm (Encore)

£13/£11/£10

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

Prima Facie takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game.

Justin Martin directs this solo tour de force, captured live from the intimate Harold Pinter Theatre in London’s West End.

THOR: Love and Thunder (12A)

Taika Waititi, 2022, 119m

Cast – Chris Hemsworth, Christian Bale, Natalie Portman, Matt Damon

Friday 22 July – Thursday 4 August

£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)

We catch up with Thor as he embarks on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced — a quest for inner peace. However, his retirement gets interrupted by Gorr the God Butcher, a galactic killer who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who – to Thor’s surprise – inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher’s vengeance and stop him before it’s too late.

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Events for the community

Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence and Pontio presents Lunch on the Fly

Monday 18 July

This is a fun session in which you can have a go at vertical dance. Starting with an easy warm up, you will then try to stand on and jump off a vertical floor using waist harnesses. You will be guided through some simple positions, and then you will fly!

Wear comfortable clothing with snug layers around waist and top of legs.

Age: 16+

Limited capacity – space for 12 people only.

No experience necessary

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Trychfilod a’r Campau Campus

(The Great Insect Games)

Saturday 23 July

10.30am / 1.30pm

Outside Pontio on Level 2 (weather pending)

£6.50

£22 (Family ticket for 4 people with at least 1 under 18)

Flex your muscles and practise your lunges, it’s time for the Great Insect Games!

Hosted by our gym junkie grasshoppers you can take part in the hare brained events. Who will win at synchronised swimming, the spider or the slug?! And how will the butterfly fare at weightlifting?! How does a snail wear boxing gloves?

Join us for the gloriously bug infested opening ceremony and sing along to the Insect National Anthem at this fun packed show for all the family.

Created by Familia De La Noche with new music from HMS Morris and produced in association with Wales Millennium Centre, Articulture, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru, Theatr Clwyd, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and Cardiff Summer of Smiles.