Peppard Revels Film Club

The Theory of Everything (2014)
Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Emily Watson
The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanised, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen’s body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.

Hacksaw Ridge (2017)
Andrew Garfield, Teresa Palmer, Sam Worthington
Hacksaw Ridge' is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.

Rear Window (1954)
James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, Georgine Darcy, Thelma Ritter
A professional photographer with a broken leg whiles away the time by spying on his neighbours through his window. However, his pastime becomes serious when he witnesses an apparent murder.

Sully (2016)
Aaron Eckhart, Tom Hanks, Laura Linney
Tom Hanks stars in this thrilling portrait of heroic airline pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, re-enacting his incredible successful emergency landing of an Airbus A320 full of passengers on the Hudson River.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
Clair Bloom, Oskar Ritter, Richard Burton
The acclaimed adaptation of John Le Carre's novel about an aging British spy who attempts to infiltrate the East German agency. Gritty and superbly realistic, this is the prototypical Cold War thriller. Richard Burton was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor.

The Banshees of Iniskerin (2022)
Colin Farrell, Brendon Gleeson, Barry Keoghan
Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, 'The Banshees of Iniskerin' follows lifelong friends Padraic (Colin Farrell) and Colm (Brendan Gleeson), who find themselves at an impasse when Colin unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship.

The Post (2018)
Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep
In June 1971 The New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation's major newspapers took a brave stand for freedom of speech and reported on the Pentagon Papers, the massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned four decades and four Presidents.

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Simon Baker, Emily Blunt, Adrian Grenier, Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway star in this comedy about a young woman who moves to New York and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Dan Aykroyd, Morgan Freeman, Patti LuPone, Jessica Tandy
Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy star in the screen adaptation of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Over 25 years, as the American South changes profoundly, the friendship between a highly independent, eccentric Jewish matron and the stalwart and very patient black widower her son hires as chauffeur endures and deepens, testing the limits of their differences...and similarities.

The Go Between (1971)
Alan Bates, Julie Christie, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave
The story of the romance between a young woman of the aristocracy and a lowly farmer. Told through the eyes of the boy who is hired to deliver messages between the lovers. The story gives a critical view of society at the end of the Victorian era.

North by Northwest (1959)
Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Hamnet (2026)
Joe Alwyn Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson
From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Good Will Hunting (1997)
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Robin Williams
The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student, he's the kid who cleans the floors. Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him. Finally forced to deal with his past, Will discovers that the only one holding him back is himself.

The Social Network ( 2010)
Jesse Eisenberg, Dustin Fitzsimons, Justin Timberlake
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications. From director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin comes The Social Network, a film that proves you don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. The film is produced by Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Ceán Chaffin and based on the book "The Accidental Billionaires" by Ben Mezrich.

Barbie (2023)
Michael Cera, America Ferrera, Ryan Gosling, Margot Robbie
Eccentric and individualistic, Barbie is exiled from Barbieland because of her imperfections. When her home world is in peril, Barbie returns with the knowledge that what makes her different also makes her stronger.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Eddie Redmayne, Alison Sudol, Katherine Waterston
The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Fury 2014
Jon Bernthal, Scott Eastwood, Jason Isaacs, Shia Labeouf, Logan Lerman, Jim Parrack, Michael Pena, Brad Pitt
War-weary, cynical American tank crew which has survived 3 years of war against all odds is joined by a young replacement without combat experience as the war nears an end; they battle Nazis in Germany, end up having to take on an SS battalion alone in climactic battle, which only the new kid survives. Look out for Local scenes of The Chilterns as much of the outdoor shots were shot in Oxfordshire just North of here.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2018)
Woody Harrelson, Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police.

Wall Street (1987)
Michael Douglas, Daryl Hannah, Hal Holbrook, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Terence Stamp
Wall Street is without doubt the most seductive third-of-a square mile in the world — no other place in the world so epitomizes wealth, power and control. Quick gains are the lure for two players on this chessboard: one a seasoned multi-millionaire corporate raider; the other, a newly-minted young broker unprepared for the moral conflicts he will be forced to confront. Their dangerous friendship, set against the background of the Bull Market in the years 1985-1986, will become a mockery of mentor and aspirant, professor and student, father and son. Charlie Sheen is in the role of the protagonist, playing a young man challenged by the darker side of his nature. The character of corporate raider Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) is the Manhattan carnivore at his most lethal. Charming, unscrupulous and morally bankrupt, he will annihilate any and all rivals. Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah and Martin Sheen star in Oliver Stone's WALL STREET, an Edward R. Pressman production distributed by Twentieth Century Fox. WALL STREET also has a particularly strong supporting cast, which includes Terence Stamp, Hal Holbrook, James Spader, Sean Young and Sylvia Miles.

Yesterday (2019)
Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Himesh Patel, Ed Sheeran
Jack, a struggling musician, meets with an accident during a blackout and wakes up to find out that only he remembers The Beatles. Later, he starts singing the band's songs to gain fame.