Dir. Pablo Larraín, 2024
Runtime: 124 mins

The Sky Room Cinema’s best films of 2025

Set in 1970s Paris, Maria chronicles the final days of Maria Callas, the world’s greatest opera singer. As she reflects on her life and legacy, she grapples with her identity and the personal sacrifices behind her fame

Showings
Friday 16 January, 11am (Milk & Baby)
Tuesday 20 January, 7pm

Dir. Ira Sachs (2025)
Runtime: 76 mins

Conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz from 1974 sheds light on New York’s vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist’s life.

Showings
Friday 16 January, 4.40pm
Saturday 17 January, 2.00pm
Saturday 17 January, 7.00pm
Tuesday 20 January, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)
Wednesday 21 January, 2.00pm
Friday 23 January, 2.00pm
Sunday 25 January, 2.00pm

Dir. Josh Safdie (2025)
Runtime: 150 mins

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

Showings
Friday 16 January, 1.40pm
Friday 16 January, 6.30pm
Saturday 17 January, 4.00pm
Tuesday 20 January, 1.50pm
Wednesday 21 January, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)
Friday 23 January, 11.00am (Milk & Baby)
Friday 23 January, 4.45pm
Saturday 24 January, 4.00pm

Dir. Derek Drymon (2025)
Runtime: 96 mins

SpongeBob and his friends Patrick, Squidward, Sandy, and Mr. Krabs journey to the ocean’s depths to face the Flying Dutchman’s ghost, encountering challenges and uncovering marine mysteries.

Showings
Saturday 17 January, 11.00am
Sunday 18 January, 11.00am (Relaxed Viewing)
Tuesday 20 January, 4.50pm
Saturday 24 January, 11.00am
Sunday 25 January, 11.00am (Relaxed Viewing)

Dir. Richard Eyre

240 mins

As intimate as it is sumptuous, La traviata features some of opera’s most famous melodies, and is a star vehicle for its leading soprano role sung by Ermonela Jaho. In director Richard Eyre’s world of seductive grandeur, the tender and devastating beauty at the centre of Verdi’s opera shines bright.

Screening
Sunday 18 January, 2pm

Dir. Maurice Elvey, George Ridgwell (2025)
Runtime: 75 mins

For decades, Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide have been waiting for the restoration of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series.

Showings
Friday 23 January, 7.45pm
Saturday 24 January, 2.00pm

Dir: Robert Hastie
Runtime: 180 mins

Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.

Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one.

National Theatre Deputy Artistic Director, Robert Hastie (Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Operation Mincemeat) directs this sharp, stylish and darkly funny reimagining.

Screening
Saturday 24 January, 7pm
Wednesday 28 January, 2pm

Dir. James Mangold, 2024
Runtime: 141 mins

The Sky Room Cinema’s best films of 2025

At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, a young Bob Dylan shakes up his act on the folk music scene by going electric and siring rock as the voice of a generation – defining one of the most transformative moments in 20th century music.

Showings
Tuesday 27 January, 6:45pm
Wednesday 28 January, 11am (Silver Screenings)

Dir Lee Shulman (2024)
Runtime: 67 mins

The Sky Room Cinema’s best films of 2025

Since the 1970s, Martin Parr has held up a sometimes tender, sometimes critical and always mischievous mirror to our times. Through this intimate road trip across England, discover the men who revolutionised contemporary photography.

Showings
Friday 30 January, 2pm
Saturday 31 January, 4:30pm
Tuesday 3 February, 5:10pm

Dir. Joachim Trier (2026)
Runtime: 133 mins

Following the success of global phenomenon The Worst Person in the World, Academy Award®-nominee Joachim Trier reunites with BAFTA nominee Renate Reinsve.

Showings
Friday 30 January, 11.00am (Milk & Baby)
Friday 30 January, 4.00pm
Saturday 31 January, 10.30am
Saturday 31 January, 6.30pm
Sunday 1 February, 2.00pm
Tuesday 3 February, 2.00pm
Tuesday 3 February, 6.50pm
Wednesday 4 February, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)
Friday 6 February, 2.00pm
Saturday 7 February, 10.30am
Tuesday 10 February, 2.00pm

Dir. Craig Brewer (2026)
Runtime: 133 mins

Based on a true story, two down-on-their-luck musicians (Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson) form a joyous Neil Diamond tribute band, proving it’s never too late to find love and follow your dreams.

Showings
Friday 30 January, 7.00pm
Saturday 31 January, 1.50pm
Sunday 1 February, 11.00am
Tuesday 3 February, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)
Wednesday 4 February, 2.00pm

Dir. Chloé Zhao (2026)
Runtime: 126 mins

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Showings
Friday 6 February, 10.30am
Friday 6 February, 6.50pm
Saturday 7 February, 4.30pm
Wednesday 11 February, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)
Friday 13 February, 2.00pm
Tuesday 17 February, 11.00am

Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania (2026)
Runtime: 89 mins

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab.

Showings
Friday 6 February, 4.45pm
Saturday 7 February, 7.15pm
Sunday 8 February, 10.30am
Tuesday 10 February, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)
Tuesday 10 February, 4.30pm
Wednesday 11 February, 2.00pm
Friday 13 February, 4.30pm
Tuesday 17 February, 2.00pm

Dir. Dr. Peter Knapp (2025)
Runtime: 57 mins

FIRES AND FASCISM is a new 57-min documentary that shows the wildfires in Europe are more than just climate change and mismanagement. It links the growing wildfires of Europe with past fascism, big business, organised crime, and the far right. It showcases how communities are engaging in direct action, protest, rewilding, and suppressing the uncontrollable fires and the far right.

Screening followed by an in-person Q&A with filmmaker, Dr. Peter Knapp, and will last for approximately 45 mins.

Showings
Saturday 7 Feb, 2.00pm (Q&A)

Runtime: 74 mins

Keaton’s 1924 comedy classic is reimagined with R.E.M. ‘s alt-rock masterpieces Monster (1994) and New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996).

In this sublime comedy teetering between reality and illusion, Buster Keaton stars as a film projectionist who dreams of becoming a detective. He uses his limited skills when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocket watch. Keaton reportedly broke his neck performing one of the many dangerous practical stunts in the film.

Whether you’re a movie lover or a rock music fan this is an experience you won’t want to miss!!

Sherlock Jr. will be preceded by a special presentation of one of Keaton’s classic short film works, The Balloonatic (1923), soundtracked by a new composition by renowned Brazilian electronic artist, Amon Tobin.

Showings
Sunday 8 February, 2.00pm

Dir. Marianne Elliott, 2025
Runtime: 115 mins

The Sky Room Cinema’s best films of 2025

The profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline.

Showings
Tuesday 10 February, 7pm

Dir. James Griffiths, 2025
Runtime: 100 mins

The Sky Room Cinema’s best films of 2025

Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favourite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy becomes real when the bandmates and former lovers agree to play a private show at his home on Wallis Island. Old tensions resurface as Charles tries desperately to salvage his dream gig.

Showings
Friday 13 February, 11am (Milk & Baby)
Tuesday 17 February, 7pm
Wednesday 18 February, 11am (Silver Screenings)

Dir. Nia DaCosta (2026)
Runtime: 110 mins

In a continuation of Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s epic story, Dr. Kelson (Ralph Fiennes) finds himself in a shocking new relationship – with consequences that could change the world as they know it – and Spike’s (Alfie Williams) encounter with Jimmy Crystal (Jack O’Connell) becomes a nightmare he can’t escape. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival – the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.

Showings
Friday 13 February, 7.00pm
Tuesday 17 February, 4.30pm
Wednesday 18 February, 2.00pm

Choreography. Wayne McGregor, 2026
210 mins

Virginia Woolf defied literary conventions to depict rich inner worlds – her heightened, startling and poignant reality.

Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor leads a luminous artistic team to evoke Woolf’s signature stream of consciousness writing style in this immense work that rejects traditional narrative structures. Woolf Works is a collage of themes from Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves and Woolf’s other writings. Created in 2015 for The Royal Ballet, this Olivier-award winning ballet triptych captures the heart of Woolf’s uniquely artistic spirit.

Screening
Sunday 15 February, 2pm

Dir. Oliver Hermanus (2026)
Runtime: 128 mins

In 1917, Lionel — a young, talented music student — meets David at the Boston Conservatory, where they bond over a deep love of folk music. Years later, Lionel receives a letter from David, leading to an impromptu journey through the backwoods of Maine to collect traditional songs. This unexpected reunion, ensuing love affair, and the music they collect and preserve, will shape the course of Lionel’s life far beyond his own awareness.

Showings
Friday 20 February, 7.00pm
Saturday 21 February, 1.30pm
Sunday 22 February, 10.30am
Tuesday 24 February, 4.10pm
Wednesday 25 February, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)

Dir. Phillippa Lowthorpe
Runtime: 115 mins

When Helen’s beloved father passes away, she is knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home into her life, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own.

Showings
Friday 20 February, 11.00am (Milk & Baby)
Friday 20 February, 4.30pm
Saturday 21 February, 10.30am
Saturday 21 February, 7.00pm
Sunday 22 February, 2.00pm
Tuesday 24 February, 1.40pm

Dir. Park Chan-wook (2026)
Runtime: 139 mins

After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.

Showings
Friday 20 February, 1.40pm
Saturday 21 February, 4.10pm
Tuesday 24 February, 10.30am (Silver Screenings)
Tuesday 24 February, 6.45pm
Wednesday 25 February, 2.00pm

Dir. Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn (2026)
Runtime: 90 mins

Ahead of the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Irish football player Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy explosively clashed on the island of Saipan. Their feud, rooted in differing standards and personalities, shook the Irish team and nation. As Keane walked out, McCarthy faced chaos. This gripping true story goes beyond sport, it’s a dramatic, often comic tale of leadership, loyalty, and a rivalry that captured global attention.

Showings
Friday 27 February, 4.30pm
Sunday 1 March, 2.00pm
Tuesday 3 March, 4.30pm

Dir. Bradley Cooper (2026)
Runtime: 121 mins

As their marriage quietly unravels, Alex (Will Arnett) seeks new purpose in the New York comedy scene while Tess (Laura Dern) confronts the sacrifices she made for their family — forcing them to navigate co-parenting, identity, and whether love can take a new form.

Showings
Friday 27 February, 11.00am (Milk & Baby)
Friday 27 February, 7.00pm
Saturday 28 February, 10.30am
Saturday 28 February, 4.30pm
Tuesday 3 March, 2.00pm
Wednesday 4 March, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)

Dir. Richard Linklater (2026)
Runtime: 106 mins

A playful, poignant love letter to cinema, Nouvelle Vague reimagines the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless in an exuberant exploration of the youthful rebellion and creative chaos that shaped the French New Wave, starring Zoey Deutch, Guillaume Marbeck, and Aubry Dullin.

Showings
Friday 27 February, 2.00pm
Saturday 28 February, 2.00pm
Sunday 1 March, 11.00am
Tuesday 3 March, 11.00am (Silver Screenings)
Tuesday 3 March, 7.00pm

Dir. Stephen Daldry, 2013
Runtime: 180 mins

Returning to cinemas for the first time in over a decade, Helen Mirren plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Olivier and Tony Award® -winning hit production, directed by Stephen Daldry. For 60 years, Queen Elizabeth II met with each of her 12 prime ministers in a private weekly meeting.

Showings
Saturday 28 February, 7.00pm
Wednesday 4 March, 2.00pm

Choreography. Peter Wright,
210 mins

The peasant girl Giselle has fallen in love with Albrecht. When she discovers that he is actually a nobleman promised to another, she kills herself in despair. Her spirit joins the Wilis: the vengeful ghosts of women hell-bent on killing any man who crosses their path in a dance to the death. Wracked with guilt, Albrecht visits Giselle’s grave, where he must face the Wilis – and Giselle’s ghost.
Peter Wright’s 1985 production of this quintessential Romantic ballet is a classic of The Royal Ballet repertory.

Set to Adolphe Adam’s evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane, Giselle conjures up the earthly and otherworldly realms in a tale of love, betrayal and redemption.

Screening
Sunday 8 March, 2pm

The incredible story of Britain’s greatest landscape artists and their fierce rivalry, made in close collaboration with Tate Britain to celebrate the 250th anniversary of their births.

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen in February so that you can enjoy both together. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time.

Screening
Tuesday 10 March, 7pm
Wednesday 11 March, 2pm

Dir. Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte
Runtime: 178 mins

The Count of Monte Cristo (Le comte de Monte-Cristo) is a 2024 adaptation of the famous novel by Alexandre Dumas.

This screening is presented by Alliance Française MK

Showing
Saturday 14 March, 6pm

Alliance Française MK book club will be returning to MK Gallery on 14 April 2026, 5:30 – 7pm to discuss Alexandre Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo (Le comte de Monte-Cristo). The session will take place in the Café and is free to attend. Second-hand copies of the book can be purchased from AFMK

Dir. Barrie Kosky
330 mins

Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber…

Screening
Sunday 5 April, 2pm

Dir. Ivo Van Hove, 2026
Runtime: 180 mins

Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).

Showings
Saturday 18 April, 7.00pm
Wednesday 22 April, 2.00pm

Dir. David McVicar, 2026
210 mins

Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. But when Tamino and his friendly sidekick, Papageno, embark on their adventure, they soon learn that when it comes to the quest for love, nothing is as it really seems. Guided by a magic flute, they encounter monsters, villains, and a mysterious brotherhood of men – but help, it turns out, comes when you least expect it.

Mozart’s fantastical opera glitters in David McVicar’s enchanting production. A star cast including Julia Bullock as Pamina, Amitai Pati as Tamino, Huw Montague Rendall as Papageno, Kathryn Lewek as the Queen of the Night, and Soloman Howard as Sarastro, led by French conductor Marie Jacquot in her Covent Garden debut.

Screening
Sunday 26 April, 2pm

Dir. Frank Pavich (2013)
Runtime: 90 mins

All Flows 2026 presents: Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)

Selected by illustrator Murugiah, Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013) is a documentary telling the fascinating story of the Chilean auteur’s attempt to adapt and film Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic in the mid 70s. Featuring a mind-blowing line up of collaborators including HR Giger, Salvador Dali, Mick Jagger, Udo Kier, Pink Floyd & Magma, this ambitious project is considered ‘one of the greatest films never made’. Prior to the screening, Murugiah will be in conversation with David Sheldon-Hicks, whose studio Territory are responsible for VFX on the current Dune films.

Showing
Wednesday, 13 May, 7pm

Frida Kahlo is a phenomenon. She is arguably the world’s favourite female artist – beloved by young and old. Exhibition on Screen’s award-winning film – first released during covid to a restricted audience – is back by popular demand with an exciting new addition from the blockbuster transatlantic exhibition from Tate Britain and MFA Houston ‘Frida Kahlo: the Making of an Icon’. Back in the cinemas in May 2026, one month before the Tate exhibition opens, allowing audiences to watch both the film and see the show.

Screening 
Tuesday 19 May, 7pm
Wednesday 20 May, 2pm

Dir. Caitríona McLaughlin, 2026
Runtime: 15o mins

Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play of youth and self-discovery.

Showings
Saturday 30 May, 7.00pm
Wednesday 3 June, 2.00pm

Dir. Marianne Elliott, 2026
Runtime: 150 mins

BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos’ classic novel from 1782, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin.

Showings
Saturday 27 June, 7.00pm
Wednesday 1 July, 2.00pm