Cultplex

Join us in a celebration of bargain bin cinema, of the filmmaking masterpieces you see at supermarkets and think 'What? That is a real film was was made by humans and is now in front of me?'. Your Sharknado's of the world, but we're aiming for worse (or better) than that!

Each film pick will be a total mystery until the first frames hit the cinema screen.
Previous films have included Velocipastor, Birdemic, Leprechaun 4: In Space, The Garbage Pail Kids and Food Fight to name a few...

Check out some letterboxd reviews for our August edition!

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Along with Wings Of Desire (1987), Wim Wenders’s Palme d’Or-winning Paris, Texas arguably shows the director at the absolute height of his powers.

Travis Henderson (the late, great Harry Dean Stanton in one of his finest performances) emerges from the desert and stumbles into a bar. A call to a telephone number in his possession reaches his brother Walt (Dean Stockwell), who has not heard from him in four years. Travis’s young son has been in the care of Walt and his wife after his disappearance and the subsequent abandonment of the boy by mother Jane (Nastassja Kinski). Determined to reunite his family, he and the boy set out in search of her.

Wenders’s presentation of America, taking on overtones of the Western, allow him to explore its myths while also offering a vehicle for a quietly devastating exploration of love and loss.

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A heart-breaking period piece told with a distinctly modern feminist energy, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the first female-directed film to win the Q***r Palm at the Cannes Film Festival and cements Sciamma’s reputation as a world-class filmmaker.

Noémie and Adèle Haenel turn the subtle act of looking into a dangerous, engrossing thrill, crafting the most breathtaking and elegant performances of the year. To watch Marianne and Héloïse fall in love is to see love itself invented onscreen. With contemporary themes in period dress, Portrait of a Lady On Fire is one of the greatest love stories ever told.

France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the guise of companionship, observing Héloïse by day and secretly painting her by firelight at night. As the two women orbit one another, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Héloïse’s first moments of freedom. Héloïse's portrait soon becomes a collaborative act of and testament to their love.

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French Language with English Subtitles

WE'RE DOING OUR PART!

In the distant future, humanity is locked in a brutal war against a race of giant alien insects. Little is known about the Bugs, except that they exist to exterminate humankind. To fight back, the Mobile Infantry launches relentless assaults on distant planets, taking the war to the enemy.

Initially dismissed as flashy militaristic propaganda, Starship Troopers has since been recognised as sharp satire, and even a chilling state of the nation address. Paul Verhoeven’s all-action sci-fi thriller explores the dehumanising effects of imperialism and military fascism, wrapped in explosive action and dark humour.

And let's not forget the creature design and action sequences that earned Phil Tippett an Oscar nomination!

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Celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2026, we are delighted to bring this one back to the big screen!

With intense performances and hauntingly powerful scenes and images, Blue Velvet is an unforgettable vision of innocence lost, and one of the most influential American films of the late twentieth century.

Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life.

Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)—and facing the fury of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to keep Dorothy in his grasp.

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BUTTON MASHER RETURNS TO MANCHESTER

Lower the lights, and turn every night into Halloween with MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY.

After months away, crawling the internet for more weird and wonderful cinema gimmicks, the wild cats at Button Masher have stumbled across the often overlooked gem MONSTERS CRASH THE PAJAMA PARTY, a staple of the now defunct touring spook show circuit.

A group of teenage girls spends the night in an old dark mansion as an initiation into a college sorority. What they don’t know is that the building is actually the headquarters for a mad scientist and his hunchbacked assistant, who are experimenting with turning humans into gorillas.

Join Button Masher as they attempt to recreate the spectacle of this original spook show through the extravaganza of clicking on a dvd menu together!

So get ready to Scream Your Brains Out! Scaredy-Cats Stay Away! In the event you pass out...TOUGH! Pleasant Nightmares!

Courtesy of Something Weird

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Join us one last time (for this cycle of Araki films) at Cultplex for the beginning and for us the finale, dubbed as teen angst in 15 random celluloid fragments, this is Gregg Araki's TOTALLY F***ED UP.

Following, in true Araki style, gay and alienated teenagers, four gay men and two le****ns, who've formed in their own way a familial unit as they traverse LA. Almost episodic in ways and deeply moving this film is one of Araki's loosest and harkens more to the French New Wave than it does New Q***r Cinema; Araki's Masculin Féminin.

As the original poster proclaims, this film also has ANOTHER stacked soundtrack: Ministry, This Mortal Coil, Red House Painters, Coil, Ride, Jesus and Mary Chain, Unrest, The Wolfgang Press, just an insanely stacked soundtrack.

Once again if you enjoyed the previous Araki screenings you won't want to miss this one and it is SURE to sell out again!

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You can't say we don't treat you! See the iconic The Mummy for just £1!

A remake of the 1932 film of the same name, producers in the ‘90s were determined to update the myth for contemporary audiences – wanting to shift the image of the shambling, bandaged Mummy of the Universal Monsters franchise. The result, rather than a horror film as originally intended, is a sweeping action-adventure romance.

The starring role was offered to a number of the decade’s other heartthrobs – Brad Pitt, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck – before it went to Brendan Fraser, who stars as American adventurer Rick O’Connell, hired by siblings and aspiring Egyptologists Evelyn and Johnathan Carnahan to guide them to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead.

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Alongside Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg is one of Danish cinemas finest modern exports. Perhaps his greatest film, The Hunt, is a sublimely orchestrated exercise in tension which features a tour-de-force central performance from Mads Mikkelsen, who was awarded Best Actor at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival for his performance.

Mikkelsen is Lukas, a recently-divorced primary school teacher locked in an acrimonious custody battle over his teenage son but just as his fortunes begin to change with the arrival of a new love his world is torn apart by an innocent lie. Persecuted by his local community, accusations escalate and Lukas soon faces unanimous condemnation from everyone around him, including his closest friends.

Featuring a stellar supporting cast from Danish Film and TV s finest including Thomas Bo Larsen, Anne Louise Hassing and Susse Wold, The Hunt, eschews the rules of Vinterberg and his colleagues filmmaking manifesto Dogme95 for one of the most beautifully photographed and perfectly scripted films in recent years.

Danish Language with English Subtitles

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A toon hating detective must put his feelings aside to help a love sick rabbit framed for murder. A whodunnit with an animated twist, including the unforgettable femme fatale, Jessica Rabbit.

Set in 1940s Hollywood, down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit, the sultry wife of Maroon’s biggest star, Roger Rabbit.

But when Marvin Acme, Jessica’s alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) vows to catch and destroy Roger.

An amazing blend of live-action and animation, directed by legendary director Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, The Witches), Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a nostalgia trip for the whole family. And whatever you do, watch out for "the dip!"

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