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Join us for Manchester’s first amateur gaming league! It’s a pub quiz vibe with a gaming angle! Form your team of four pals and head down to sit in our cinema playing the best video games out there on our absolutely stellar cinema screen and gut churning sound system vying to beat out 11 other teams of gaming nerds in a series of mystery console and PC based challenges. This IS NOT a serious gamin...

It's no secret that we love extreme metal at Interference HQ - so we have put together a double bill of our favourite metal themed movies - LORDS OF CHAOS + DEATHGASM!!! Mixing music and cinema is our core focus - so we can really let loose with this one! Digging deep into our record collections, expect some heavy as hell DJ mixes at the start and during the intermission from the Interference D...

Cult hit event Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is coming to CULTPLEX, Manchester with an interactive screening of the classic Murder, She Wrote episode “The Witch’s Curse”. A visitor to Cabot Cove is accused of being a witch and soon there’s a murder that only Jessica Fletcher (or you!) can solve! Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a unique and hilarious night featuring games, prizes and audience...

PART OF AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 Join us for a double bill of two amercian action classics, both directed by women and starring the legendary Keanu Reeves. Both films are an excellent exploration of identity, control, and rebellion against authority through the medium of american action cinema. Utah & Neo both find themselves torn between two opposing forces—order and chaos—and must confront...

Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken. This event is part of CULT...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 We are very proud to present ARROW VIDEO CLUB, a new collaboration with the almighty lords of physical media Arrow Video; where we will present some of the best titles from their back catalogue on our lovely big screen! Expect a variety of cult classics, deep cuts, Arrow Video trailers and a raffle for Arrow Video blu-rays at every event! The Way of the Drago...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 At home, Lola gets a call from her frightened boyfriend who has lost a large amount of gang money he was smuggling into the country. His only chance of staying alive is if she can get replacement cash to him in twenty minutes. Lola decides to try her father at the bank where he works. But exactly how things will turn out depends crucially, almost to the second, ...

Screening at CULTPLEX for ONE NIGHT ONLY! We are very excited to bring the smash cult hit HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS to our big screen for a special one off. This is going to be one of your last chances to see this in the cinema so do not miss out. Synopsis: In the 19th century, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hu...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 Leroy Green, a young martial artist living in New York City, trains tirelessly to attain the same level of mastery as the great Bruce Lee. One night, his life changes forever when he rescues television personality Laura Charles from evil businessman Eddie Arkadian. Impressed by Leroy's bravery, Laura falls for Leroy -- but to keep her safe, he will have to defea...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 While transporting a car from Chicago to San Diego, Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) picks up a mysterious hitchhiker (Rutger Hauer), who following a tense exchange claims to be a serial killer. After a daring escape, Jim hopes to never see the man again but after witnessing the hitchhiker murdering an entire family, he is dragged deeper into the killer’s path of v...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 Scott Pilgrim plays in a band which aspires to success. He dates Knives Chau, a high-school girl five years younger, and he hasn't recovered from being dumped by his former girlfriend, now a success with her own band. When Scott falls for Ramona Flowers, he has trouble breaking up with Knives and tries to romance Ramona. As if juggling two women wasn't enough, R...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 Baby is a young getaway driver, contracted to a master-criminal, Doc. Doc's specialty is armed robberies - he puts together teams for each heist, with Baby being the only constant. Baby completes his last job for Doc and is now free. He sets about leading a normal life, getting a legitimate job and starting a relationship. However, Doc views Baby as a sort of go...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 Featuring some of the most dangerous stunts ever performed on camera, these three films represent the pinnacle of Jackie Chan’s unique style of Hong Kong action filmmaking. A dazzling blend of gritty action cop drama, impeccably choreographed martial-arts sequences, and bone-crunching stuntwork – this series of films revitalised the Hong Kong action genre and es...

Join us for a special in-conversation event with legendary stuntman Rick English as part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 (part of the BFI's wider Art of Action season). With an impressive career spanning blockbuster hits, Rick will dive into the world of action cinema, sharing insights from his work on films such as The Batman, The Flash, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and Kingsman: The Secret Se...

Join us for a Christmas special of Manchester’s only cult film pub quiz! Every other month our own in-house quizmaster writes a completely original six round quiz which can ONLY be played within the walls of our cinema, YES IT’S A MOVIE PUB QUIZ THAT HAPPENS IN A CINEMA! This means you can expect a feast of multimedia rounds on top of the uber nerdy, classic trivia questions. Example rounds inc...

To round up 2024, Outside In brings Manchester born award-winning film-maker and Author Alex Bescoby to Cultplex. Alex will be regaling us with his epic journey ‘The Last Overland’ - Singapore to London in a Land Rover still kicking about from 1955. ‘A journey that I don’t think could be made again today‘. It was this comment by Sir David Attenborough on the fiftieth anniversary of the iconic f...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 - And our Michelle Yeoh Day! Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock star as a couple of tough-as-nails police inspectors investigating the murder of a British agent, which leads them to a pair of unlucky thieves (Mang Hoi and John Shum) who need protection from a ruthless crime boss (James Tien). Yes, Madam! was the first starring role for both Michelle Yeoh and ...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 - And our Michelle Yeoh Day! Michelle Yeoh stars as a daring secret agent during the Second Sino-Japanese War, who intervenes in characteristically explosive fashion to defend a remote mountain town from occupying Japanese forces. Following on from the success of Royal Warriors, David Chung and Michelle Yeoh teamed up again courtesy of D & B Films for this mu...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 - And our Michelle Yeoh Day! Ang Lee directs this martial arts action adventure starring Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh. Master warriors Li Mu Bai and Yu Shu Lien (Yun-Fat and Yeoh) are tasked with the mission of retrieving the stolen Green Destiny sword. When they discover a mysterious black-clad thief whose martial arts expertise outshines even that of Shu Lie...

Part of AWESOME ACTION FEST 2024 - And our Michelle Yeoh Day! With her laundromat teetering on the brink of failure and her marriage on the rocks, overworked Evelyn Wang struggles to cope with everything, including a tattered relationship with her judgmental father and daughter. And as if facing a gloomy midlife crisis wasn't enough, Evelyn must brace herself up for an unpleasant meeting with a...