Pop along to the cinema or grab a flyer at venues around town to see what's on this August. It's a slimmed-down brochure for this month while we gear up for the Autumn releases, but you'll see we have a packed out programme of new releases and rarely seen gems nonetheless.
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This month we have National Cinema Days Weekend (30-31 August) which includes a special film merchandise sale with a fantastic raffle with excellent prizes donated by local businesses, plus the launch of our Coastal Currents exhibition Haunted Cinema Buildings of Hastings and Bexhill.
Also continuing is our focus on 50th anniversary screenings of some absolute cinematic scorchers all released in 1975 - The Year that Changed Cinema Forever!
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Coming up during August 2025:
Fri 1 7:30pm Piranha
Sat 2 4pm Do You Remember? XOXO - story zine writing workshop
Sat 2 7:30pm Stories We Tell
Sun 2 3pm Desperately Seeking Susan - 40th Anniversary
Thu 7 11am A New Kind of Wilderness + subtitles
Thu 7 7.30pm A New Kind of Wilderness with intro from Project Rewild
Fri 8 7:30pm Re: A Pier with intro + Q&A
Sat 9 3pm Re: A Pier with intro
Sat 9 5pm Seaside Scenes of Hastings + Bar/cafe for Old Town Carnival
Sun 10 3pm Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Sun 10 6pm The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert
Thu 14 11am Jane Austen Wrecked My Life + subtitles
Thu 14 7:30pm Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Fri 15 7:30pm Becoming Led Zeppelin
Sat 16 7:30pm The Big Lebowski
Sun 17 6pm The Penguin Lessons
Thu 21 7:30pm No Other Land - hosted by Hastings and District Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Fri 22 7:30pm Gram Parsons Fallen Angel + Jason McNiff live set
Sat 23 7:30pm Becoming Led Zeppelin
Sun 24 3pm Nashville - 50th Anniversary
Thu 28 11am The Penguin Lessons
Fri 29 7:30pm Human Traffic - 4K Restoration
Sat 30 10:30am Electric Palace Open House
Sat 30 4pm The Smallest Show on Earth
Sat 30 7:30pm Scala!!!
Sun 31 11am Bon and the West
Sun 31 3pm Haunted Movie Buildings of Hastings and Bexhill plus Artist's Talk
Sun 31 4pm Surprise Screening! (PG, family friendly and very, very good!)
Sun 31 7:30pm B Movie: Plan 9 from Outer Space
Hire the cinema on Sunday mornings in August!
We've opened up a selection of sought after private hire slots that would usually be part of our public programme: Sunday mornings.
Other than Sunday 31 August when we're showing Bon and the West as part of National Cinema Days Weekend, grab your chance to book the cinema for your private do on this coveted Sunday AM weekend slot!
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