We are Global Justice Now Youth MCR, a youth-run activist organization helping mobilize young people in Manchester for change by drawing attention to global issues so that we can challenge the powerful and help work towards a fairer and more equal world
For our third screening at CULTPLEX we are proud to present Woman at War. The movie follows Halla, a choir conductor in her 50s who lives a secret double life as a passionate eco activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain”, Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminium industry. As Halla’s actions grow bolder, from petty vandalism to outright industrial sabotage, she succeeds in pausing the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building a new aluminum smelter. But right as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that changes everything. Her application to adopt a child has finally been accepted and there is a little girl waiting for her in Ukraine. As Halla papers to abandon her role as saboteur and saviour of the Highlands to fulfill her dream of becoming a mother, she decides to plot one final attack to deal the aluminium industry a crippling blow.
We found this to be one of the most surreal, funny, and frankly odd climate change films that we have seen! Join us for a film that succeeds in tackling an urgent global issue with compassion, humour, and a gripping story!
Proceeds remaining after licensing expenses will go to fossilfueltreaty.org as a donation.
All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, the film starts at the advertised time above.
SPEED + STRIKE PRESENTS: CRASH David Cronenberg's perverted, erotic, grotesque and nihilistic masterpiece CRASH. Banned in Westminster upon release, dragged through the mud in rags up and down the country and now coming to Cultplex for all of the freaks of Manchester for its 30th anniversary. Following director James Ballard (James Spader) as he finds himself entwined in the sexual lives of a gr...
All About My Mother cemented Almodóvar’s status as the Spanish auteur to watch. The film’s commercial success went hand in hand with prestigious accolades, including an Academy Award for Best International Film, and BAFTAs for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Not in the English Language. Manuela, an Argentine living in Madrid with her son Esteban hides a secret. She has never...
Diane, 19:00-22:00pm February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. There will be a cabaret night dedicated to the incredible show Twin Peaks. With 6 performers bringing Lyncian themed acts that will make you laugh, cry and fall in love all over again with the series. Alongside these performances we will also be doing a Twin Peaks raffle where you could win some themed goodies to take home with y...
Welcome to our annual Twin Peaks Day Celebration event! Join us for an unforgettable evening as we delve into the surreal mind of David Lynch! This year we'll be going into the event we'll be going into the event a little more heavy hearted than previous years due it being a year since the loss of the master David Lynch. But as always, we'll be celebrating his genius all day We will be screening...
"Hello wall!" Shirley Valentine , as played by the late great Pauline Collins is a 1980s Liverpool housewife with an ungrateful family, a cracked kitchen wall and to-camera monologues so sharp they could slice a frozen Viennetta. This 1989 comedy is powered by sassy northern women who shouldn't have to suffer the sheer indignity of making chips for someone who doesn’t deserve them and have so muc...
Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese ...
Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore feature is a boldly conceived story of self-discovery, defined by the ecstatic highs and devastating pitfalls of pop-cultural obsession. Teenager Owen (Justice Smith) is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the te...
A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an...
The spirit of John Waters lives on in this gloriously deranged meeting of gross-out comedy and gonzo horror. A bitter love-triangle erupts between Braden and his father Ronnie after they become jointly smitten by an attendee of their downtown Disco walking tour, Janet. A conflict further complicated by an upsurge in nocturnal attacks by the mysterious Greasy Strangler. British director Jim Hoskin...
Another world, another time… in the age of Wonder. From genius filmmaker Jim Henson comes The Dark Crystal , a masterful live-action fantasy starring some of the most imaginative creatures ever put on film. In this immersive and fantastical adventure from the creators of the Muppets, a mystical planet has fallen under the barbaric rule of the evil Skeksis. These vulture-like beasts have all but e...
One of Powell and Pressburger’s masterpieces is a celebration of art, dance, music and the power of cinema to move and inspire. Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young comp...
“You Are the Universe” (2025, 102 min, directed by Pavlo Ostrikov) is a Ukrainian science fiction film about loneliness, human connection, and choice in a world after catastrophe. This film is not only a film about space, but about humanity, hope, and responsibility in times of destruction — themes that deeply resonate with the experience of contemporary Ukraine. “You Are the Universe” in Manches...
' A search for a lost budgie quickly unravels into a chaotic journey through the city... Heart Cooks Brain and Farewell Theatre Company invite you to a premiere screening of If You’re Lost I’ll Come Find You , a Manchester-made short film by Sam Bond that follows four housemates as they navigate the uncertainties of their 20s amid the restless pull of city life. Will they find Connor’s beloved ...
Since its release back in 2009, this high-camp and super queer horror comedy has gone on to receive well-deserved cult status thanks to its fantastic performances, killer soundtrack, hilarious humour, and effective themes within a sharp script that is so quintessentially 2009 while still standing strong to this very day. After tragedy strikes the small town of Devil’s Kettle on the night of a pop...
Gurinder Chadha’s feel-good sports comedy is a smart, funny and uplifting tale of ambition, identity and friendship. Desperate to join a team, much to the disapproval of her strict Punjabi parents, Jess is ecstatic when semi-pro footballer Jules notices her skills and she joins her team in secret. Roping in her sister and friends to help her hide it from her parents, Jess struggles to keepie uppi...
Rose Glass’ gothic-tinged psychological drama is a wickedly playful piece of work, by turns insidiously creepy, darkly humorous and heartbreakingly sad. The two leads crackle with palpable chemistry, with Jennifer Ehle’s beautifully nuanced performance proving the perfect complement to Morfydd Clark’s star-making turn as the unsaintly Maud. Consistently upending expectations, this thrilling one-of...
Everyone can relate to feeling nostalgic and homesick for a memory. Charlotte Wells bundled up those exact feelings and packaged them into Aftersun, her first feature film and the winner of the French Touch Jury Prize at the Cannes 2022 Critics’ Week. Aftersun follows a young father, Calum (played by Paul Mescal), and his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie (newcomer Frankie Corio), who are spending a w...
We are Global Justice Now Youth MCR, a youth-run activist organization helping mobilize young people in Manchester for change by drawing attention to global issues so that we can challenge the powerful and help work towards a fairer and more equal world For our third screening at CULTPLEX we are proud to present Woman at War. The movie follows Halla, a choir conductor in her 50s who lives a secret...
Mary Harron’s pitch-black adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial novel turns the horror of capitalism into literal bloodsport with American Psycho. Set in a world of business cards, designer suits, and haute cuisine no one actually eats, American Psycho is as much a razor-wire satire as it is a psychological thriller. Harron directs with icy precision, peeling back the layers of toxic ma...
Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship! Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but in 2023 one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her sermon Barbi...
SPEED + STRIKE PRESENTS: CRASH David Cronenberg's perverted, erotic, grotesque and nihilistic masterpiece CRASH. Banned in Westminster upon release, dragged through the mud in rags up and down the country and now coming to Cultplex for all of the freaks of Manchester for its 30th anniversary. Following director James Ballard (James Spader) as he finds himself entwined in the sexual lives of a gr...
All About My Mother cemented Almodóvar’s status as the Spanish auteur to watch. The film’s commercial success went hand in hand with prestigious accolades, including an Academy Award for Best International Film, and BAFTAs for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Not in the English Language. Manuela, an Argentine living in Madrid with her son Esteban hides a secret. She has never...
Diane, 19:00-22:00pm February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks. There will be a cabaret night dedicated to the incredible show Twin Peaks. With 6 performers bringing Lyncian themed acts that will make you laugh, cry and fall in love all over again with the series. Alongside these performances we will also be doing a Twin Peaks raffle where you could win some themed goodies to take home with y...
Welcome to our annual Twin Peaks Day Celebration event! Join us for an unforgettable evening as we delve into the surreal mind of David Lynch! This year we'll be going into the event we'll be going into the event a little more heavy hearted than previous years due it being a year since the loss of the master David Lynch. But as always, we'll be celebrating his genius all day We will be screening...
"Hello wall!" Shirley Valentine , as played by the late great Pauline Collins is a 1980s Liverpool housewife with an ungrateful family, a cracked kitchen wall and to-camera monologues so sharp they could slice a frozen Viennetta. This 1989 comedy is powered by sassy northern women who shouldn't have to suffer the sheer indignity of making chips for someone who doesn’t deserve them and have so muc...
Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese ...
Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore feature is a boldly conceived story of self-discovery, defined by the ecstatic highs and devastating pitfalls of pop-cultural obsession. Teenager Owen (Justice Smith) is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the te...
A full moon, a New York City night, and love and music in the air . . . One of the most enchanting romantic comedies of all time assembles a flawless ensemble cast for a tender and boisterously funny look at a multigenerational Italian American family in Brooklyn, wrestling with the complexities of love and marriage at every stage of life. At the center of it all is a radiant Cher as Loretta, an...
The spirit of John Waters lives on in this gloriously deranged meeting of gross-out comedy and gonzo horror. A bitter love-triangle erupts between Braden and his father Ronnie after they become jointly smitten by an attendee of their downtown Disco walking tour, Janet. A conflict further complicated by an upsurge in nocturnal attacks by the mysterious Greasy Strangler. British director Jim Hoskin...
Another world, another time… in the age of Wonder. From genius filmmaker Jim Henson comes The Dark Crystal , a masterful live-action fantasy starring some of the most imaginative creatures ever put on film. In this immersive and fantastical adventure from the creators of the Muppets, a mystical planet has fallen under the barbaric rule of the evil Skeksis. These vulture-like beasts have all but e...
One of Powell and Pressburger’s masterpieces is a celebration of art, dance, music and the power of cinema to move and inspire. Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young comp...
“You Are the Universe” (2025, 102 min, directed by Pavlo Ostrikov) is a Ukrainian science fiction film about loneliness, human connection, and choice in a world after catastrophe. This film is not only a film about space, but about humanity, hope, and responsibility in times of destruction — themes that deeply resonate with the experience of contemporary Ukraine. “You Are the Universe” in Manches...
' A search for a lost budgie quickly unravels into a chaotic journey through the city... Heart Cooks Brain and Farewell Theatre Company invite you to a premiere screening of If You’re Lost I’ll Come Find You , a Manchester-made short film by Sam Bond that follows four housemates as they navigate the uncertainties of their 20s amid the restless pull of city life. Will they find Connor’s beloved ...
Since its release back in 2009, this high-camp and super queer horror comedy has gone on to receive well-deserved cult status thanks to its fantastic performances, killer soundtrack, hilarious humour, and effective themes within a sharp script that is so quintessentially 2009 while still standing strong to this very day. After tragedy strikes the small town of Devil’s Kettle on the night of a pop...
Gurinder Chadha’s feel-good sports comedy is a smart, funny and uplifting tale of ambition, identity and friendship. Desperate to join a team, much to the disapproval of her strict Punjabi parents, Jess is ecstatic when semi-pro footballer Jules notices her skills and she joins her team in secret. Roping in her sister and friends to help her hide it from her parents, Jess struggles to keepie uppi...
Rose Glass’ gothic-tinged psychological drama is a wickedly playful piece of work, by turns insidiously creepy, darkly humorous and heartbreakingly sad. The two leads crackle with palpable chemistry, with Jennifer Ehle’s beautifully nuanced performance proving the perfect complement to Morfydd Clark’s star-making turn as the unsaintly Maud. Consistently upending expectations, this thrilling one-of...
Everyone can relate to feeling nostalgic and homesick for a memory. Charlotte Wells bundled up those exact feelings and packaged them into Aftersun, her first feature film and the winner of the French Touch Jury Prize at the Cannes 2022 Critics’ Week. Aftersun follows a young father, Calum (played by Paul Mescal), and his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie (newcomer Frankie Corio), who are spending a w...
We are Global Justice Now Youth MCR, a youth-run activist organization helping mobilize young people in Manchester for change by drawing attention to global issues so that we can challenge the powerful and help work towards a fairer and more equal world For our third screening at CULTPLEX we are proud to present Woman at War. The movie follows Halla, a choir conductor in her 50s who lives a secret...
Mary Harron’s pitch-black adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s controversial novel turns the horror of capitalism into literal bloodsport with American Psycho. Set in a world of business cards, designer suits, and haute cuisine no one actually eats, American Psycho is as much a razor-wire satire as it is a psychological thriller. Harron directs with icy precision, peeling back the layers of toxic ma...
Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship! Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but in 2023 one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her sermon Barbi...
