Three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River after an unexpected family tragedy. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life soon gets turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter discovers a mysterious portal to the afterlife. Michael Keaton returns to the titular role in the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s award-winning Beetlejuice, with Winona Ryder, and Catherine O'Hara reprising their roles alongside new cast members Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe.

Accessibility:

The screening on Wed 18 Sep 18:25, is a subtitled hard of hearing screening.

All screenings have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

In the year 1815, Edmond Dantès (Pierre Niney) finds himself incarcerated within the formidable fortress of the Château d’If for a crime he did not commit. Enduring fourteen years of imprisonment, he eventually engineers his escape, embarking on a meticulously crafted quest for vengeance. Assuming multiple identities – “the Count of Monte Cristo” among them – Dantès first courts his enemies, now highly placed dignitaries, the better to strike them down. But the price of revenge is heavy for one’s soul …

Alexandre Dumas’s epic novel The Count of Monte Cristo comes in a truly lavish adaptation with breathtaking backdrops and a mind-blowing pace.

Original language: French

Presented with English Subtitles

JAMES BALDWIN at 100. Lights, Camera, Baldwin. Celebrating a century of James Baldwin (1924 – 1987): the brilliant thinker, writer, and activist whose prescient essays, plays, and novels continue to shine a searing light on American racism 35 years after his death.

Each screening will be followed by a post-show audience discussion with Charmaine Simpson, founder of Black History Studies and Hakeem Kazeem, film maker, writer and host of the club and performance night Batty Mama, promoting queer black and brown bodies.

Based on Baldwin's novel of the same name, this Barry Jenkins-directed masterpiece follows the love story of Tish and Fonny, two young African Americans whose lives are shattered by false accusations and the criminal justice system.

"A terrific film, as sinewy as it is sensuous, interweaving stark social-realist themes of prejudice, oppression and imprisonment with a poetic evocation of love, loss and, ultimately, transcendence." - Mark Kermode, The Observer ★★★★★

We're delighted that the screening on Tuesday 1st October, will be followed by an in-person Q&A with Lee Miller's granddaughter and co-director of the Lee Miller Archives, Ami Bouhassane, hosted by Hannah Watson.

LEE tells the story of Lee Miller, American photographer. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee

captured some of the most important images of World War II, for which she paid an enormous personal price.

The film is not a biopic, instead it explores the most significant decade of Lee Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, she refused to be remembered as a model and male artists’ muse. Lee Miller defied the expectations and rules of the time and travelled to Europe to report from the frontline. There, in part as a reaction to her own well-hidden trauma, she used her Rolleiflex camera to give a voice to the voiceless. What Lee captured on film in Dachau and throughout Europe was shocking and horrific. Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the second world war. She changed war photography forever, but Lee paid an enormous personal price for what she witnessed and the stories she fought to tell.

Accessibility:

The screening on Wed 25 Sep 18:10, is a subtitled hard of hearing screening.

All screenings have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

THE CRITIC is a deliciously dark and sharp-witted thriller set in 1930s London ‘theatreland’ featuring an all-star cast including Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Ben Barnes, Alfred Enoch, Romola Garai and Lesley Manville.

When the most feared and vicious theatre critic in town Jimmy Erskine (McKellen), finds himself suddenly in the crosshairs of the Daily Chronicle’s new owner David Brooke (Strong), he strikes a sinister Faustian pact with struggling actress Nina Land (Arterton) who is desperate to win his favour.

Accessibility:

The screening on Mon 23 Sep 18:10, is a subtitled hard of hearing screening.

All screenings have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

In 1949, an American writer of westerns, Holly Martins, arrives in post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime. On arrival, he learns that his friend has been killed in a street accident and when he meets Calloway, chief of the British Military Police in Vienna, he is informed that Lime was in fact a black marketer wanted by the police. He decides to prove Harry's innocence, but is Harry really dead?

Charmaine Simpson, founder and CEO of Black History Studies, will introduce the film and host a Q&A with the director following this screening.

Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know is an original 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the policing, surveillance practices, and social movements of today. This is the first film where Walter’s widow reveals the personal impact on the family of Walter’s assassination. It feeds a growing global appetite for history from a different perspective, as we grapple with the legacy of empire and colonialism and its impact on the modern world.

Contributors include Angela Davis, Gina Miller, former President of Guyana Donald Ramotar, Edward and Donald Rodney, and Walter’s wife Patricia Rodney, as well as prominent historians.

Spend a year with Agnès Varda, at the Lexi in 2024. We'll be exploring this visionary director’s remarkable body of work, spanning 7 decades and celebrating a lifetime spent dedicated to cinema.

Each title will be introduced by Rosie, our Cinema Director and programmer.

“If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes. If we opened me up, we’d find beaches.” Originally intended to be Agnès Varda’s farewell to filmmaking, this enchanting auto-portrait, made in her eightieth year, is a freewheeling journey through her life, career, and artistic philosophy. Revisiting the places that shaped her—from the North Sea beaches of Belgium where she spent her childhood to the Mediterranean village where she shot her first film to the boardwalks of Los Angeles where she lived with her husband, Jacques Demy—Varda reflects on a lifetime of creation and inspiration, successes and setbacks, heartbreak and joy. Replete with images of wonder and whimsy—the ocean reflected in a kaleidoscope of mirrors, the streets of Paris transformed into a sandy beach, the filmmaker herself ensconced in the belly of a whale—The Beaches of Agnès is a playful and poignant record of a life lived fully and passionately in the name of cinema.

JAMES BALDWIN at 100. Lights, Camera, Baldwin. Celebrating a century of James Baldwin (1924 – 1987): the brilliant thinker, writer, and activist whose prescient essays, plays, and novels continue to shine a searing light on American racism 35 years after his death.

Each screening will be followed by a post-show audience discussion with Charmaine Simpson, founder of Black History Studies and Hakeem Kazeem, film maker, writer and host of the club and performance night Batty Mama, promoting queer black and brown bodies.

This documentary offers a poignant exploration of Baldwin's unfinished manuscript, "Remember This House," reflecting on the lives and assassinations of civil rights leaders. Through Baldwin's powerful words and archival footage, the film delves deep into the complexities of race, identity, and America's ongoing struggle with systemic racism.

"Raoul Peck’s fluid documentary uses the timeless anger of James Baldwin to animate his history of the black experience in America, from Hollywood stereotypes to police brutality." - Violet Lucca, Sight & Sound

Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself?

You. Only better in every way.

You’ve got to try this product: The Substance.

It changed my life.

Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio head Harvey (Dennis Quaid).

She is then drawn to the opportunity presented by a mysterious new drug: THE SUBSTANCE. All it takes is one injection and she is reborn – temporarily – as the gorgeous, twentysomething Sue (Margaret Qualley).

The only rule? Time needs to be split: exactly one week in one body, then one week in the other. No exceptions. A perfect balance. What could go wrong?

Deliriously entertaining and ruthlessly satirical, Coralie Fargeat’s Cannes sensation turns toxic beauty culture inside out with a be-careful-what-you-wish-for fable for the ages. Explosive, provocative and twisted, THE SUBSTANCE marks the arrival of a thrillingly visionary filmmaker.

Accessibility:

The screening on Wed 02 Oct 19:30, is a subtitled hard of hearing screening.

All screenings have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world’s favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem in Illumination’s Despicable Me 4.

The biggest global animated franchise in history now begins a new chapter as Gru (Steve Carrell) and Lucy (Kristen Wiig) and their girls —Margo (Miranda Cosgrove), Edith (Dana Gaier) and Agnes (Madison Polan)—welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad.

Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal (Will Ferrell) and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina (Sofia Vergara), and the family is forced to go on the run.

The film features fresh new characters voiced by Joey King (Bullet Train), Stephen Colbert (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and Chloe Fineman (Saturday Night Live). Pierre Coffin returns as the iconic voice of the Minions and Steve Coogan returns as Silas Ramsbottom.

Accessibility:

The screening on Mon 05 Aug at 13:00, is a subtitled hard of hearing screening.

The screening on Thu 08 Aug at 14:00 is a Relaxed/autism-friendly screening.

All screenings have audio description available if needed. Please ask at the Box Office for more information.

For more information on accessibility at the Lexi visit our accessibility page.

The film and live performance will be followed by a Q&A with Mark Burgess (owner of Flashback Records), and Chris Bailey.

This event is a collaboration between the Lexi Cinema, Flashback Records and Vi4YL.

The Vi4YL Documentary

After years filming interviews with fellow DJs, record shop owners, academics and other vinyl addicts (plus a healthy dose of hands-on action) all the ingredients were there...

...it was time for the Vi4YL documentary.

This unique 1 hour film takes you by the hand and into the wonderful world of vinyl. It is packed with stories, insight and exclusive footage from some of the worlds best loved DJs and commentators. Add into the mix a live DJ soundtrack with every screening, and you have an innovative, groundbreaking and immersive journey.

A true ‘Love Letter to Vinyl’.

Chris shares his obsession with records and explores what makes them so magical. As the world falls evermore into the unstoppable digital domain, these physical ‘plates of sound’ - ones you can touch, feel, smell and hear - continue to engage, enchant, and bring joy, why is that?!

A background on Vi4YL

Welcome to Vi4YL, a project committed to sharing the love and joy that vinyl brings. Mixtapes, DJ sets, events, a documentary, and the re-homing of these unique time-machines* are all core to what Vi4YL is about.

Vi4YL was imagined by Chris Bailey, an award winning radio producer combining his vast experience across the broadcast, podcast, and DJ performance worlds. The mission, simply to connect you with the stars of the show - the records. We are proudly addicted to vinyl and making beautiful, captivating, immersive experiences.

As Dr Karyln King says ”[VINYL] is going nowhere… it is the original OG.”

Event length: 110 mins including Q&A

The fascinating story of Cimarons, the first UK band to embrace the thrilling new sound coming out of Jamaica.

Reggae exploded in the 1970s, with Cimarons at its heart. Thousands of miles from Jamaica, they brought excitement, experimentation and sheer anticipation booming from speaker boxes, putting the new generation of Black British youth in touch with their roots – in contact with who they really were. Industry legends, Cimarons worked with reggae-royalty Bob Marley, Toots & the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and even Paul McCartney, but have been hugely under-recognised when it comes to their own music, impact and legacy. Having lost drummer Maurice Ellis to cancer, the band persists, despite decades of exploitation. Harder Than The Rock tells the story of their amazing history and follows the band’s final chapter as they dream of performing in front of live audiences again, one last time…

The screening will be followed by a recorded Q&A with the band, hosted by Don Letts.

Charmaine Simpson, founder and CEO of Black History Studies, will introduce the film and lead an informal discussion following this screening.

In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located right in the heart of Harlem. Fueled by the revolutionary fervor sweeping the nation, the strike soon turned into an uprising, leading to the extended occupation of the campus, classes being canceled, students being arrested, and the resignation of the college president. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, we follow the students’ struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this and other public universities. The Five Demands revisits the untold story of this explosive student takeover, and proves that a handful of ordinary citizens can band together to take action and effect meaningful change.

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.

Please Note: includes sensitive subject matter including reference to sex, violence and rape. There is more information about this on the Prima Facie website with links to further information and support: https://primafacieplay.com/trigger-warning/

Spend a year with Agnès Varda, at the Lexi in 2024. We'll be exploring this visionary director’s remarkable body of work, spanning 7 decades and celebrating a lifetime spent dedicated to cinema.

Each title will be introduced by Rosie, our Cinema Director and programmer.

A late-career triumph of lovingly handcrafted humanism, Agnès Varda’s Academy Award–nominated penultimate film sees the octogenarian director joining forces with the thirty-something street photographer JR. Crisscrossing rural France in their roving camera-mobile—a truck that produces larger-than-life portraits of the people they meet, which are then pasted onto local walls—the pair encounter an array of farmers, former miners, dockworkers, and others whose stories form a collage of a country where meaningful traditions persist in the face of encroaching modernity. A detour-rich road movie, a charming intergenerational buddy film, and an ode to artisans of all stripes, Faces Places finds Varda making new memories while revisiting old ones, yielding what is ultimately a bittersweet, puckishly profound reflection on the ephemeral nature of art, relationships, and life itself.

SNAPSHOT is a 12 month long season launching in April 2024 which explores the SNAPSHOTS of Black Girlhood found in cinema. The season will include re-releases, archive work and new releases.

By mixing contemporary with the classics, as T A P E has done many times before, this season will be an excellent deep dive into films by Black women across the decades. SNAPSHOT aims to engage a new audience for the films of Black female directors through activities, a live community built exhibition and social media material and assets. The tour includes films that offer a snapshot of a time and place, challenging our misconceptions of the cinema canon through their powerful depictions of Black, female led stories.

This screening will have a 15 min in-person intro by Rōgan Graham.

Milisuthando, dir. Milisuthando Bongela, 2022

Set in past and present South Africa, MILISUTHANDO is a poetic coming-of-age personal essay documentary on love and what it means to become human in the context of race, explored through the memories of Milisuthando herself – who grew up during apartheid but didn't know it was happening until it was over.

Rōgan Graham

Rōgan Graham is a writer and programmer from South London. Working broadly in film exhibition, her areas of interest are works by Women and Black filmmakers. When she isn’t writing or hosting events, she can be found on a soapbox talking about Mariah Carey.

Twitter: @ifursure Instagram: @roganisabella

Spend a year with Agnès Varda, at the Lexi in 2024. We'll be exploring this visionary director’s remarkable body of work, spanning 7 decades and celebrating a lifetime spent dedicated to cinema.

Each title will be introduced by Rosie, our Cinema Director and programmer.

The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, Varda acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging. Suffused with the people, places, and things she loved—Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes—the wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography Varda by Agnès is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.