Christmas Gift Vouchers
Give the gift of a great night out...
With such a great programme of events at Pavilion Theatre, a gift voucher is the perfect present.
monday night cinema
The Shiny Shrimps
Mon 16 Dec, 5pm & 8pm
An Olympic swimmer must make amends for a homophobic outburst by coaching an gay water polo team in this feel-good French comedy about acceptance, humanity and understanding.
sold out
The Snowman & Stick Man
Wed 18 Dec, 4pm
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★ BBC
A double bill of animated Christmas family shorts, one old and one new.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
Fri 20 Dec, 5.30pm
★★★★★ The Guardian
What happens when you give a classic Dickens story the Muppet treatment? A lot of laughs, songs and a terrific story too!
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It’s a Wonderful Life
Fri 20 Dec, 8pm
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ Empire
A timeless Christmas classic restored in stunning 4K which recounts the trials and tribulations of George Bailey as an angel performs a Christmas miracle just in the nick of time.
selling fast
Elf
Sat 21 Dec, 5.30pm
Will Ferrel stars as Buddy the Elf in this modern Christmas classic about a human raised in the North Pole who heads to New York looking for his real father.
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Home Alone
Sun 22 Dec, 5.30pm
★★★★ The Telegraph
★★★★ Radio Times
Family comedy starring Macaulay Culkin as ten-year-old Kevin McCallister who is inadvertently left home alone by his family when they go on vacation.
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Merry Christmas
Mon 23 Dec, 5pm & 8pm
★★★★ Associated Press
This moving WWI film tells the incredible true story of how British, French and German soldiers laid down their weapons in December 1914 and put aside their differences to celebrate Christmas together. Starring Diane Krüger and Daniel Brühl.
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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
Thu 2 Jan, 5pm & 8pm
★★★★★ The Playlist
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen - the inspiration for his song So Long, Marianne.
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Downton Abbey
Sat 4 Jan, 8pm
★★★★ Chicago Sun-Times
The continuing story of the Crawley family follows the wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in the early 20th Century.
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The Farewell
Mon 6 Jan, 5pm & 8pm
★★★★★ Irish Independent
★★★★★ Washington Post
The Farewell is a humorous and moving story of intergenerational family dynamics.
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Walk with Me
Wed 8 Jan, 8pm
Shot over a period of three years and narrated by Benedict Cumberbatch, this latest documentary from Max Pugh and Marc J Francis, gains unprecedented access to the Zen Buddhist Community.
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La Traviata on Sydney Harbour
Fri 10 Jan, 4pm & 8pm
Encore Screening
World class opera in a spectacular setting…
La Traviata, one of the world’s best-loved romantic operas, is performed under the stars on a floating, mirrored stage on Sydney Harbour, with the city, Opera House and Harbour Bridge as stunning backdrop.
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Monos
Mon 13 Jan, 5pm & 8pm
★★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★★ The Observer
Monos is a powerful, beautifully surreal film with a pulsating soundtrack and an immersive visual style and mesmerising experience for the viewer.
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Lucian Freud: A Self Portrait
Tue 14 Jan, 8pm
Exhibition on Screen
Bringing together Lucian Freud’s self-portraits, this compelling film will display more than 50 paintings, prints and drawings. Turning his unflinching eye firmly on himself, the self-portraits give a fascinating insight into both his psyche and his development as a painter.
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Good Posture
Mon 20 Jan, 5pm & 8pm
★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ The Guardian
In her feature debut, Dolly Wells crafts a charming, contemporary, sharp-witted comedy in a tale of two women whose eccentricities unexpectedly draw out change and growth in the other.
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Rojo
Mon 27 Jan, 5pm & 8pm
★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ The Telegraph
Part mystery, part thriller, Rojo is a disarming allegory simmering with malevolence, about middleclass society turning a blind eye to the brutality of an emergent dictatorship.
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Puccini’s La Bohème: Live
Wed 29 Jan, 7.45pm
Royal Opera House
Live Screening
★★★★★ The Guardian
Puccini’s passionate music and Richard Jones’s production capture the joy and heartache of young love in 19th-century Paris.
Packed with beautiful music with beautiful music and with striking designs by Stewart Laing.
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Gaza
Thu 30 Jan, 8pm
★★★★ The Irish Times
Irish directors Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell go beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal the heart of the Gaza Strip - a world rich with extraordinary stories and resilient characters leading meaningful lives beyond the rubble of perennial conflict.
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Subtitle Spotlight European Film Festival 2020
Fri 31 Jan - Sun 2 Feb
Subtitle Spotlight European Film Festival is back once more, bringing a selection of European subtitled films that invite you to see cinema in a whole new way. With a total of ten titles there’ll be something to suit all tastes.