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Arthur Seaton, a machinist at a bicycle factory in Nottingham, is a young rebel with a cause; the cause of not ending up tied down to living a life of domestic drudgery (as he sees it) like his parents and others around him. With his cheery mantras of “ah well, work tomorrow” and “don’t let the bastards grind you down” Arthur is out for a good life of drinking and partying at weekends whilst cocking a snook at all forms of authority and conformity. An affair with the married Brenda, and then...

Frank Capra's evergreen classic It's A Wonderful Life (1946) didn't embed itself in the collective 'Christmas movie consciousness' of film lovers overnight. In fact, it's only in recent decades that this much-loved drama of small-town American life has acquired its lofty status as the  Christmas movie. A cultural institution that probably doesn't need highlighting, let's focus instead on a couple of perhaps less well known or remembered festive favourites. Joe Dante's 1984 film Gremlins is...

Original 1981 US One-sheet 1981 Original International One-sheet When we select the film for our monthly Flicks Film Club at Patch , often the majority of the audience hasn’t seen the chosen film. However, for the Halloween screening of John Landis’s 1981 An American Werewolf in London , the opposite likely applies. It’s a much-loved classic that has endured as a genuine cult phenomenon in the 44 years since its original release. Playing on our recognition of earlier genre classics - the...