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Cult classics washing up every fortnight: an £11 ticket provides one free drink, illustrated introductions and a rare chance to see a lost pearl on the big screen. Black Pearl’s curators take a regular theme and dim the lights...

Mark Banville
Mark has been a cult movie freak for way too long and has scars to prove it! He runs the Cave of Cult socials and blog, reviewing Horror and Exploitation movies. He is the author of Theme '70 (Headpress) and is currently working on The Bad Bunch: Exploitation Cinema's Heavy-Hitters.

Michael O’Connell 
Co-producer of a forthcoming Steve Marriott biopic and editor of numerous film books, the Art Decades talks have allowed Michael to show some favourite clips - now The Horsebridge lets him loose behind a projector. 


Wednesdays fortnightly. Doors and bar open at 6.30pm, with the programme starting at 7pm.
Tickets are £11 or £10 for Friends.

Disaster Movies

Black Pearl Cinema understands that January is the perfect time of year for people to watch films where things go wrong for someone else - so disaster movies is our first theme of 2026.

14 January

Airplane! (1980)


Running time: 1hr 28m 
Certificate: 12A

Occasionally crass, politically incorrect before the term even existed and seemingly directed by three semi-hysterics, Airplane is also wildly funny, its cult status richly deserved for its merciless parody of movie producers relentlessly pushing successful film formulas almost beyond reason - which they still do today. One distinguished poll recently placed Airplane! second only to Life of Brian as the greatest comedy film ever. Surely you can't be serious.

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Disaster Movies

28 January

Two-Minute Warning (1976)


Running time: 1hr 51m 
Certificate: 15

Director: Larry Peerce
Starring: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Beau Bridges, Martin Balsam and Gena Rowlands.

"He just butt-stroked a maintenance man off a 60-foot ladder!"
Chuck Heston,king of '70s Disaster Movies, leads an all-star cast in this explosive thriller.
A motiveless psychotic sniper targets the audience of a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. Who will bite the big one?

Featuring TV heavyweights Jack 'Quincy' Klugman and David 'Harry O' Janssen.

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