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ARCO | Picturehouse RECOMMENDS

Nominated for Best Children’s & Family Film at the BAFTAs, Arco finds an affecting, earned sense of optimism and hope that persuasively argues if we work together, things will get better.

Ian Freer 17 Mar 26

Scorsese | Rediscover

We're thrilled to be spending a cinematic year in the company of Martin Scorsese, bringing one of his many masterworks to your local Picturehouse every month.

The Picturehouse Team 16 Mar 26

Announcing our headline films and events at Picturehouse Create 2026 | News

We're thrilled to unveil the first programme highlights and special guests at Picturehouse Create 2026, including our opening and closing films.

The Picturehouse Team 12 Mar 26

Awards Season at Picturehouse | 2026

Explore the contenders, fill out our Oscar ballot, and catch some of the best films of the year on the big screen.

The Picturehouse Team 03 Feb 26

Silver Screen sounds better with Specsavers!

Did you know Specsavers are hearing experts too? And have been for over 20 years.

The Picturehouse Team 02 Mar 26

Submissions are now open for the Picturehouse Create 2026 Short Film Showcase!

Celebrate the future of film with the Picturehouse Create Short Film Showcase, bringing the finalists for our short film competition together on the big screen.

The Picturehouse Team 03 Feb 26

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ARCO | Picturehouse RECOMMENDS

Nominated for Best Children’s & Family Film at the BAFTAs, Arco finds an affecting, earned sense of optimism and hope that persuasively argues if we work together, things will get better.

Ian Freer 17 Mar 26

The Bride | Picturehouse Recommends

The Bride! promises to be a film unlike any other, powered by a chaotic, incendiary love. All it asks in return is that we stop running from ourselves and finally embrace the monster inside us all.

26 Feb 26

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You | Picturehouse Recommends

In Mary Bronstein’s new film, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Rose Byrne’s Linda mostly skips the crying and just laughs and screams manically in all directions. The result is a film that’s easy to relish but hard to define; it’s probably best described as a dark comedy.

Helen O'Hara 20 Feb 26

The History Of Sound | Recommends

A moving story of two men who never took for granted what they felt for one another, and one man’s reflection on how that intimacy – however fleeting and singular – shaped so many other parts of himself.

Ella Kemp 21 Jan 26

Marty Supreme | Picturehouse Recommends

From the original chancer, Paul Newman, to Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can and The Wolf Of Wall Street to Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems, there’s something utterly irresistible about a guy who takes on the system – and wins.

Adam Smith 08 Jan 26

Hamnet | Picturehouse Recommends

From The Rider to the Oscar-winning Nomadland, we can always count on director Chloé Zhao for graceful, compassionate and gut-wrenching storytelling.

Miriam Balanescu 05 Jan 26

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News

Scorsese | Rediscover

We're thrilled to be spending a cinematic year in the company of Martin Scorsese, bringing one of his many masterworks to your local Picturehouse every month.

The Picturehouse Team 16 Mar 26

Announcing our headline films and events at Picturehouse Create 2026 | News

We're thrilled to unveil the first programme highlights and special guests at Picturehouse Create 2026, including our opening and closing films.

The Picturehouse Team 12 Mar 26

Awards Season at Picturehouse | 2026

Explore the contenders, fill out our Oscar ballot, and catch some of the best films of the year on the big screen.

The Picturehouse Team 03 Feb 26

Silver Screen sounds better with Specsavers!

Did you know Specsavers are hearing experts too? And have been for over 20 years.

The Picturehouse Team 02 Mar 26

Submissions are now open for the Picturehouse Create 2026 Short Film Showcase!

Celebrate the future of film with the Picturehouse Create Short Film Showcase, bringing the finalists for our short film competition together on the big screen.

The Picturehouse Team 03 Feb 26

BAFTA honours Picturehouse's Clare Binns | News

Our Creative Director was presented with the Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award at the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards. Find out more and watch her full speech.

The Picturehouse Team 24 Feb 26

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Podcast

Oscars 2024 Special | Podcast

The big day is coming up this weekend. So what are our - and your - picks for Best Picture?

Sam Clements 07 Mar 24

M. Night Shyamalan on Trap | Interview

Lucy Fenwick Elliott catches up with the master of suspense, director M. Night Shyamalan.

Lucy Fenwick Elliott 09 Aug 24

Chris Sanders on The Wild Robot | Interview

Writer, director and animation legend Chris Sanders (Lilo and Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon) joins us to dive into the making of The Wild Robot.

Lucy Fenwick Elliott 18 Oct 24

The Love Of Cinema: A Picturehouse Podcast

Did you know that Picturehouse Cinemas are home to the UK's longest-running cinema podcast?

The Picturehouse Team 05 Feb 24

10 Things I Hate About You | Interview with director Gil Junger

Dive into the making of 10 Things I Hate About You, the beloved 1999 rom-com that loosely adapted Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew into a teen hit.

Lucy Fenwick Elliott 16 Sep 24

Last Night In Soho with Edgar Wright | Podcast

Sam Clements talks to writer-director Edgar Wright about his new film, Last Night In Soho starting Anya Taylor Joy and Thomasin McKenzie.

Sam Clements 28 Oct 21

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Competitions

Competition | Book to win a luxury trip to the seaside to celebrate Exhibition on Screen’s Turner &...

To celebrate the release of Exhibition on Screen’s captivating Turner & Constable, we're giving away a two-night escape to Brighton – the city where both Turner and Constable famously painted The Chain Pier stretching out into the English Channel.

The Picturehouse Team 26 Feb 26

Book-to-Win | A Full Set of Signed Mortal Engines Books and a Bespoke Illustration by the author

We're delighted to have teamed up with Scholastic UK and Forbidden Planet to welcome the author to The Ritzy in Brixton for a live Q&A following a screening of the Peter Jackson-produced 2018 adaptation.

The Picturehouse Team 03 Feb 26

Competition | Win a Tonkotsu noodle-making workshop to celebrate the release of Rental Family

To celebrate the release of Rental Family, we've partnered with Tonkotsu to give 5 lucky winners the chance to win a noodle making workshop and meal.

The Picturehouse Team 13 Jan 26

Competition | Win a night at the ballet with Royal Ballet and Opera

To celebrate Woolf Works heading from the Royal Opera House's stage to Picturehouse's screens, we’ve partnered with the Royal Ballet and Opera to give one lucky winner a pair of tickets to see Giselle.

The Picturehouse Team 16 Jan 26

Book-to-Win | Win a cat café voucher with Sorry, Baby

To celebrate the release of Sorry, Baby, we’ve partnered with Java Whiskers Cat Café to give one lucky winner the chance to enjoy a £100 gift voucher at one of their iconic café. Don’t miss this purr-fect treat!

The Picturehouse Team 21 Aug 25

Competition | Win an exclusive signed illustration from Cressida Cowell when you see any family film this...

To celebrate the start of a summer of brilliant family films at Picturehouse, we’ve partnered with Hachette Children’s Group to bring you the chance to win an incredible, money-can’t-buy prize: an exclusive signed illustration from Cressida Cowell.

The Picturehouse Team 13 Jun 25

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Fresh Takes

Our 2025 Favourites, from Sinners to Frankenstein | Fresh Takes

2025 was filled with great cinema and great reading thanks to our Fresh Takes writers. To celebrate their work and look back on the year in film, we asked them to tell us about their favourites of the year.

Fresh Takes 09 Jan 26

Sorry, Baby | Fresh Takes

No apology necessary: this time, our writers were treated to Sorry, Baby, the fresh, hopeful, utterly authentic debut of writer, director and star Eva Victor.

Audrey, Tiffany, Olgalissia & Minnie 26 Aug 25

Bring Her Back | Fresh Takes

Prepare to be scared alongside our Fresh Takes writers, as they dig into the latest from the Philippou brothers: a domestic horror with a terrifying turn from Sally Hawkins.

Hannah, Jake and Lucy 04 Aug 25

From Hilde, With Love | Fresh Takes

This time, our Fresh Takes writers share their thoughts on a powerful true story of love during wartime: Andreas Dresen’s From Hilde, With Love is a portrait of Hilde and Hans, two young members of Nazi-resistance group the Red Orchestra, whose romance plays out against the backdrop of a

Mia, Oswald & Ben 26 Jun 25

Fantastic Machine | Fresh Takes

Here are some Fresh Takes on Fantastic Machine. Fantastic Machine is a film about film – one that calls into question not just the nature of “documentary” evidence and the “truth” of a photographic image, but the very art of filmmaking itself.

Jamie, Vanessa & Joe 12 Apr 24

Challengers | Fresh Takes

Here are some Fresh Takes on Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s latest film starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist as a love triangle of tennis players.

Jasmine, Joe G, Oviya, Josh & Tom 26 Apr 24

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Programme Notes

Scandalous! The Audacious World of Pre-Code Hollywood | reDiscover

Make it your New Year’s resolution to banish the January blues with some vicarious bad behaviour! Join us for our season of scandal and sin, as we celebrate some of the finest movies of Hollywood’s legendary pre-Code era.

Deborah Allison & Rose Butler 23 Dec 25

The Kids Are Not Alright | reDiscover

The world is theirs: join a revolution with our season celebrating cinema's most electrifying stories of rebels with (or without) a cause.

The Picturehouse Team 22 Mar 24

The Coen Brothers | reDiscover

With unmistakable wit and style, these fraternal filmmakers and their genre-bounding talents welcome you into an America all of their own.

The Picturehouse Team 12 Apr 24

Six Degrees of Shakespeare | reDiscover

Faithful or fast and loose, tragic or comedic, these six films may be worlds apart, but each plays a part in bringing The Bard to the big screen.

Johnathan Kirk 16 Aug 24

Noir in Nine Chapters | reDiscover

The greatest mysteries to grace the screen, from the genre that changed Hollywood forever.

The Picturehouse Team 04 Dec 24

New Hollywood | reDiscover

Trailblazing, transgressive, born to be wild: masterworks of American cinema from a rebel generation, from 1967–1973.

The Picturehouse Team 14 Mar 25

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Membership News

Members' Vote: The Best Films of 2025

As another year in film comes to a close, get the lowdown on the best of the big screen from our most loyal cinephiles.

Lara Peters, Hope Hopkinson, Lucy Fenwick Elliott 19 Dec 25

Mamoru Hosoda | reDiscover

A master of animation - and some bonus Japanese treats for Picturehouse Members!

The Picturehouse Team 01 Aug 25

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