This week’s film highlights at Pontio in Bangor include

Minions: The Rise of Gru (U)

Critically acclaimed modern Welsh language horror film Gwledd (The Feast) (18)

Nope (15) A science fiction horror film that follows the residents of a lonely and isolated town in rural California who witness a mysterious and abnormal event.

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

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

15 July – 1 September

£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.

Gwledd (The Feast) (18)

Welsh with English Subtitles

PREVIEW: Thursday 18 August with cast and crew, 8.15pm

Lee Haven Jones, 2021, 93m

Cast – Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones

Thursday 18 – Thursday 25 August

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

The wait is over. Dinner is served. THE FEAST is a critically acclaimed modern Welsh language horror film that has been wowing festival audiences around the world over the past 12 months. Come and join us for a special premiere screening with cast and crew on the 18th of August.

Directed by Lee Haven Jones and written by Roger Williams this eco-themed folk horror sees a wealthy couple host a luxury dinner party in order to convince a neighbour to sell land to a local businessman. As a mysterious girl arrives at the house to be maid for the evening, things start to turn very strange and horribly sour.

Nope (15)

Jordan Peele, 2022, TBC

Cast – Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun

Saturday 27 August – Thursday 1 September

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

Jordan Peele (Get Out, US) new film is arguably the most anticipated film of the Summer. A science fiction horror film that follows the residents of a lonely and isolated town in rural California who witness a mysterious and abnormal event.