Advance ticket purchase available as follows:
online via ticketsource.co.uk
or direct from Morpeth Tourist Information (Chantry) £6.50 including booking fee (card only)
Next Film Screening at
St James’ Community Centre
Refreshments are available before the screening begins.
Latest audio visual equipment, including large 4m wide screen.
Hearing loops are available for those who have a T setting on their hearing aids.
Friday 5 December 2025
at 7.00pm
Clips from “A portrait of Morpeth Through the Ages”
featuring a piece about J Smail & Sons, including an interview
with Miss Smail, herself, and tracing some of the events which
have taken place in Morpeth over the years.
(By permission of Northern Heritage)
Followed by an intermission in which ice creams will be available, and then
The Holly and the Ivy
Released 1952 – Cert U
Running time 1 hr 23 mins
Writers: Anatole de Grunwald & Wynyard Browne
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
Genre: Drama
This year we revive the tradition of showing a Christmas Film in December, and what a film. Very much a hidden gem of the British cinema. Brilliantly played by the cream of the 1950’s stars of stage and screen.
A family return home for Christmas to join their aging clergyman father, Ralph Richardson, and sister, his dutiful daughter, Celia Johnson, who appears to be prepared to give up her happiness, her relationship with her boyfriend, John Gregson, to care for him. Her sister, Margaret Leighton, and brother, Denholm Elliot, are pursuing their own paths. No-one feels able to speak freely about their lives as they fear that their father, a devout clergyman, will disapprove; to emphasise the point he seems more sympathetic to his parishioners than his own children. Gathered together under the same roof, the emotions, which the children have for so long sought to bury, come to the surface, causing them to doubt each other and themselves, and producing, for a time, a dramatic falling out. Added to this mix are two aging aunts, brilliantly played by Maureen Delaney and Margaret Halstan, who bring lightness and flashes of humour to the proceedings, expressing their own views on the conflicts unfolding before them, representing an older generation with a different approach. Without wishing to spoil it for the viewer, it turns out that talking is just what this family needed and as Christmas day progresses there is a resolution ending with a comforting sense of belonging and renewal, but without the syrupy conclusion to be found in so many films with a feel good ending.
Friday 6 February 2026
at 7.00 pm
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Released 2025 – Cert 12A
Running time 1 hr 39 mins
James Griffiths
Writers: Tom Basden & Tim Key
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Tom Basden, Tim Key, Sian Clifford
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romanc
An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favorite musicians to perform at his home.
Musician Herb McGwyer — formerly half of folk duo McGwyer Mortimer — arrives on the remote Wallis Island off the coast of Wales, where eccentric widowed superfan Charles Heath has contracted him to play a show before a select private audience. After winning the lottery, Charles travelled the world with his late wife Marie, who loved McGwyer Mortimer, spending all their money. They then won the lottery again and retired to the island, where Marie died five years prior to the events of the film.