Events
Films
Come along and enjoy film as it was meant to be seen – on a big scale!
Whether it’s an action movie or a comedy, it’s better in a theatre environment – you get more impact from the special effects on the big screen, and the added bonus of being part of a group – whether holding you breath in suspense or laughing along at a comic scene – it’s all intensified when shared as part of an audience.
Please Note: Screenings in the film section may be subject to change. Please check details prior to booking.
New!
Remember, you can now reserve specific seats for events in the Eden Theatre when our raked seating system is in use - film shows, most theatre performances and some music concerts.Access to the theatre seating is via steps without a handrail. The front row is reserved for customers that would find these steps difficult. Please ask for details when buying your tickets and choosing your seats.
Please Note: We are unable to offer specific seats for productions set ‘in the round’, but will continue to make every attempt to allocate seats in specific areas in order to accommodate patrons with special requirements – please advise when purchasing tickets.
A Bunch of Amateurs
Thursday 9 July at 7.30pm
A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.
Comedy starring Burt Reynolds and a host of British stars.
Cert: 15
Tickets: £2.50
Movie Thursdays
Movies for children and adults every Thursday during the School Summer Holidays (excluding 27 August)
The Tales of Desperaux
Thursday 23 July at 3.00pm
The tale of three unlikely heroes - a misfit mouse who prefers reading books to eating them, an unhappy rat who schemes to leave the darkness of the dungeon, and a bumbling servant girl with cauliflower ears - whose fates are intertwined with that of the castle's princess.
Cert: U
Tickets: £2.50
Defiance
Thursday 23 July at 7.30pm
Three Jewish brothers (Daniel Craig, Jamie Bell and Liev Schreiber) escape from Nazi-occupied Poland into the Belarussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and others in danger.
Cert 15
Tickets: £2.50
Inkheart
Thursday 30 July at 3.00pm
A young girl discovers her father (Brendan Fraser) has an amazing talent to bring characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a storybook's hero.
Cert: PG
Tickets: £2.50
Twilight
Thursday 30 July at 7.30pm
Bella Swan is a clumsy, kind hearted teenager with a knack for getting into trouble. Edward Cullen is intelligent and good looking who is trying to hide his secret – that he’s a vampire. Against all odds, the two fall in love but will a pack of blood thirsty trackers and the disapproval of their family and friends separate them.
Cert: 12A
Tickets: £2.50
Madagascar II: Escape to Africa
Thursday 6 August at 3.00pm
Alex the lion (Ben Stiller) and friends have decided to head home from Madagascar. However, the help from the penguins isn’t quite up to scratch and the group only make it as far as Africa. Here, the zoo-raised crew encounter species of their own kind.
Cert: U
Tickets: £2.50
Frost/Nixon
Thursday 6 August at 7.30pm
A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Nominated for 5 Oscars.Cert: 15
Tickets: £2.50
Bedtime Stories
Thursday 13 August at 3.00pm
When Skeeter (Adam Sandler) is asked to put his niece and nephew to bed with a bedtime story he discovers that elements of the story he told comes true the following day. Thinking he has the power to mould his own future he begins to tell tales of beautiful women and masses of riches, little realising that it’s actually the kids who control what’s going on.
Cert PG
Tickets: £2.50
The Reader
Thursday 13 August at 7.30pm
Post-WWII Germany: nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Burk (Ralph Fiennes) re-encounters his former lover (Kate Winslet) as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
Oscar winner 2009 - 'Best actress'
Cert 15
Tickets: £2.50
Secret of Moonacre
Thursday 20 August at 3.00pm
When 13 year old Maria Merryweather's father dies she must live with Sir Benjamin (IIoan Gruffudd), an eccentric uncle she didn't know she had. Soon she finds herself in a crumbling moonlit world torn apart by the hatred of an ancient feud. Maria (Dakota Blue Richards) discovers that she is the last Moon Princess and, guided by an unlikely mix of allies, must unearth the secrets of the past before the 5000th moon rises and Moonacre disappears into the sea forever.
Cert: U
Tickets: £2.50
Valkyrie
Thursday 20 August at 7.30pm
Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII. Starring Tom Cruise as Col Claus von Stauffenber, and English starts, including Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Kevin McNally.
Cert: 12A
Tickets: £2.50
Slumdog Millionaire
Thursday 10 September at 7.30pm
The story of the life of an impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik, who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to be A Millionaire?’, wins, and is then suspected of cheating.
Winner of 8 Oscars, including 'Best Film'
Cert: 15
Tickets: £2.50
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Thursday 24 September at 7.30pm
Brad Pitt plays Button, who’s born with the body of a man in his eighties which ages in reverse as he mentally grows older. Set just before WWI we follow Ben’s life and loves – namely Daisy (Kate Blancett). Like ships in the night though, the two are moving in opposite directions.
Winner of 3 Oscars, including 'Best Visual Effects'.
Cert: 12A
Tickets: £2.50
Revolutionary Road
Thursday 8 October at 7.30pm
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Starring Leonardo diCaprio and Kate Winslet.
Cert 15
Tickets: £2.50