Black Pearl Cinema: Five Easy Pieces (1970)
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 workCult 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
This evening includes a guest introduction from Whitstable writer and native Angeleno Peggy Riley, on hand to pinpoint some iconic LAX locations and some long-forgotten LA celebrities circa 1980. An evening not to be missed...
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.
All Black Pearl Cinema Screenings
Black Pearl Cinema: Race With The Devil
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.