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Bangor Aye Film of the Week: Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG)

Thursday 28 March – Saturday 27 April

Audience Reviews: Sixteen years after the original, the Kung Fu Panda universe continues to expand in the fourth instalment. It feels like reuniting with the best of your childhood for another amazing adventure – great family entertainment.

For more information about what’s on at Pontio and to buy tickets visit: https://www.pontio.co.uk/

Cinema:

Wicked Little Letters (15)

Friday 22 – Thursday 28 March

When people in Littlehampton–including conservative local Edith–begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town’s women investigate.

The Jungle Bunch World Tour (U)

Saturday 23 – Thursday 28 March

A vicious beaver blankets the jungle with a dangerous pink substance that explodes when coming into contact with water. With the rainy season approaching, the miscellaneous team of animals must hurry to find the antidote.

ROH Live Madama Butterfly (12A)

Tuesday 26 March

The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets.

The Taste of Things (12A)

Wednesday 27 March, 2pm

Thursday 28 March, 8.15 pm

Cook Eugenie and her boss Dodin grow fond of one another over 20 years, and their romance gives rise to dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie’s reluctance to commit, he begins to cook for her.

Twin Town: 25th Anniversary + Q&A with Kevin Allen & Llŷr Ifans (18)

Wednesday 27 March 7.30pm

Join us for a special 25th anniversary screening of the iconic dark comedy Twin Town with our special guests director of the film Kevin Allen and actor Llŷr Ifans (Julian Lewis, Twin Town).

Julian and Jeremy, two brothers known as the “Lewis Twins”, prefer to spend their time on drugs and joyriding. When their father, Fatty Lewis, breaks his leg working for local bigwig Bryn Cartwright, they show up demanding compensation. Underestimating the vicious humour of the twins Bryn brusquely refuses to pay for the un-insured Fatty and unleashes a ferocious feud.

Kung Fu Panda 4 (PG)

Thursday 28 March – Saturday 27 April

After Po is tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace, he needs to find and train a new Dragon Warrior, while a wicked sorceress plans to re-summon all the master villains whom Po has vanquished to the spirit realm.

The Taste of Things (12A)

Wednesday 27 March, 2pm Thursday 28 March, 8.15 pm

Cook Eugenie and her boss Dodin grow fond of one another over 20 years, and their romance gives rise to dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie’s reluctance to commit, he begins to cook for her.

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Theatr Bryn Terfel

Cabaret Pontio presents The Breath

Thursday 28 March 8pm

The Breath is Manchester-based guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. They met on the city’s gig circuit in the late noughties. An unlikely pairing though it was, he an acclaimed guitar whiz, ex long-time member of The Cinematic Orchestra and a softly spoken Manchester urbanite, she a folk singer with a larger-than-life personality and a powerful voice to match. Their connection was immediate; they formed The Breath in 2016, a singer-songwriter duo to present their contemporary take on alt-folk.

For them, it’s all about the song. Connolly is a storyteller and their exquisitely crafted, honest, personal, heartfelt songs are as likely to touch on childhood summers and first love as cultural dislocation, post- colonial injustices and grief. But it’s Ríoghnach’s impassioned delivery and extraordinary stop-you-in- your-tracks voice, coupled with Stuart’s understated brilliance that is so engaging.

The Breath in Autumn 2023 build to their new album, ‘Land Of My Other’. Ten original tracks of raw, gorgeous, acoustic-minded music. Songs that tell stories in ways that soothe, stir, exalt, and touch emotional chords that will bring tears of lamenting joy, to your eyes.

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Studio Theatre:

Teulu Pontio Family The Selfish Giant

Wednesday 27 March 10.30am & 1.30pm

Inspired by the touching children’s story ‘The Selfish Giant’ by Oscar Wilde, Bristol’s two leading family theatre experts are combining forces to explore an unusual friendship, and how even the grumpiest giant’s heart can melt when Spring finally comes.

Grinter is a giant. She lives happily alone in her huge cold house, surrounded by her huge snowy gardens, enclosed by her high, frost-covered walls. She shuts out the world, because long ago, the world shut her out, and so she hides, safe and quiet in her peaceful, icy home. Outside the towering walls of her enormous garden, the world has been changing and there is very little green left. One day, the children – tired of playing on hard roads and grey rooftops – find a chink in the giant’s wall and climb through, changing the course of the children’s and Grinter’s lives forever.

Powerful storytelling, captivating puppetry, beautiful design, enchanting music and a sprinkling of magic sums up this very special show.