We love a folk horror in Hastings. This is the uncanny, middle film in Mark Jenkin’s Cornish trilogy. A lone island wildlife volunteer is haunted by the past and consumed by the landscape. Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is ...

Andrzej Wajda’s 1958 Polish classic in which a Second World War Polish resistance fighter falls in love with a barmaid is a delirious, sad, intense exploration of identity and conflict. Ashes and Diamonds possesses extraordinary visual and emotional power. The themes—conflict and cultural identity—are universal; no knowledge of Polish history required. This is Wajda's most iconic film, and we are...

Who has the right to roam the British countryside? This documentary takes us to the heart of the mass trespassing, hard campaigning Right to Roam movement, while also exploring landowners’ concerns. OUR LAND dares to tread where few have trespassed before; who has the right to walk in the English countryside? The UK is a wild and beautiful place, but the vast majority of it is off limits to the g...

Guillermo del Toro’s breakthrough Mexican vampire movie blends skin-crawling body horror with a steampunk aesthetic. With Ron Perlman and Federico Luppi. Fresh and bracing, Guillermo del Toro’s feature debut announced the arrival of a strikingly original cinematic voice, and his take on the vampire movie has become regarded as one of the most important Mexican films, and horror films, of all time...

The third film in Mark Jenkin’s Cornish trilogy, this time-slipping, unsettling ghost ship story explores a claustrophobic coastal community. The latest new release from Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkins is an enigmatic drama steeped in loss, memory and the unsettling rhythms of coastal life, with themes that resonate in Hastings. Recommended by our very own head projectionist Gareth Jenkinson. Part ...

The turbulent life of alt rock pioneer Townes Van Zandt, a cult figure who sacrificed everything to be a guitar player and songwriter. Shown with the short film A Perfect Why Not?, a film about Larry Jon Wilson on which Music Meltdown curator James Endeacott was the executive producer. This short was originally made in 2006 but has never been publically screened. Americana pick as Part of Summer M...

Executive Producer Martin Scorsese presents: Alystyre Julian's OUTRIDER is a kinetic portal into fast-speaking poet Anne Waldman's transcendent role as a visionary word-worker, from the downtown New York scene and the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, to the ‘Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics,’ to Big Sur, Mexico City, Morocco, and onward. Guided by ancestors of the Beat generation and...

"The most beautiful man in the world" Terence Stamp died a year ago on August 17th and we celebrate him in this iconic road comedy that became a worldwide hit and cult classic. Two flamboyant drag queens (Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce) and transgender woman Bernadette (Stamp in a tour de force performance), journey across the Australian Outback on a tour bus named Priscilla. A comedy of errors lea...

Join us for the FIFA Men's World Cup Final 2026 live on the biggest screen in town - the must-see TV sporting event of the year! Watch the big match in style at the Electric Palace! The bar will be open selling beer, wine and our very own Electric Pale. Limited seating so book early for your guaranteed clear, comfy view to this year's must-see sporting event!

A24’s tunnel-dark comedy about the stresses of motherhood, illness, a missing person and therapy, with a monumental performance by Rose Byrne. While trying to manage her own life and career, a woman on the verge of a breakdown must cope with her daughter's illness, an absent husband, a missing person, and an unusual relationship with her therapist, played by Conan O'Brien. "Bronstein is brillian...