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.
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.
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.
Wednesday 28 January7:00pm to 9:00pm
Disaster Movie Season! "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.
Wednesday 11 February7:00pm to 9:00pm
Valentines. Uma Thurman and Maria De Madeiros light up the screen in Philip Kaufman's erotically-charged drama of the romance of Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin in Thirties Paris.
Wednesday 25 February7:00pm to 8:30pm
Valentines. You survived Halloween and dodged a Black Christmas but has your lucky streak run out? Will you lose your heart to....My Bloody Valentine?
Wednesday 11 March7:00pm to 8:45pm
A landmark movie in the New Hollywood genre with a landmark performance from Jack Nicholson, as a well-born piano prodigy scratching a living in blue-collar work
Wednesday 25 March7:00pm to 8:30pm
Wedged between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74) and The Hills Have Eyes ('82), this Satanic-Redneck-Occult-Biker-Road Movie is dripping with Southern Fried action and creeping dread.
