Thursday 16 July · Central London

Fancy a film? 🎬

Evening screenings (7pm onwards) at the two central spots — Curzon Soho & Picturehouse Central. Pick one and I'll book.

A few of these — The Invite, Backrooms: Everything Must Go and Obsession — play at both cinemas, so lots of start-time choice. Both venues are a couple of minutes apart around Piccadilly / Shaftesbury Avenue, easy after work. Tap ▶ Trailer to preview any of them.

Curzon Soho 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5DY · Book →

The Invite

Thriller · 1h 46m

Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places. Have they reignited the spark, or lit the match that burns it all down?

20:40

Backrooms: Everything Must Go

Sci-fi / Horror · 2h 6m

In the basement of a furniture showroom, a man (Chiwetel Ejiofor) stumbles upon a strange doorway leading into a mysterious, otherworldly labyrinth. His therapist (Renate Reinsve) doesn't believe him — so he sets out to gather proof.

20:00

Obsession

Dark romance · 1h 49m

After picking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic gets exactly what he asked for — then discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

21:15

Picturehouse Central Corner of Great Windmill St & Shaftesbury Ave, W1D 7DH · Book →

The Invite Also at Curzon 35mm

Thriller · 1h 47m · shown on 35mm film

The same dinner-party thriller as at Curzon — here in a special 35mm print. Marriage on thin ice, enigmatic new neighbours, and a night that spirals somewhere neither couple expected.

20:00

Backrooms: Everything Must Go Also at Curzon

Sci-fi / Horror · 2h 6m

A man discovers a doorway in a furniture showroom basement that opens onto an endless, otherworldly labyrinth — and has to prove to a disbelieving world (and his therapist) that it's real. With Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve.

19:45

The Christophers

Comedy-drama · 1h 40m · cert 15 · dir. Steven Soderbergh

An eccentric London painter (Ian McKellen) hires a struggling young artist as his assistant — not realising she's secretly working for his scheming children to finish his valuable unfinished canvases. When he uncovers the plot, the two form an unlikely friendship and start completing the works in a deliberately unsellable style. With Michaela Coel and James Corden.

20:00

Disclosure Day

Sci-fi · 2h 25m · cert 12A · dir. Steven Spielberg

Spielberg's return to extraterrestrial territory: a Kansas City TV meteorologist (Emily Blunt) is pulled into a UFO-disclosure mystery that spirals well beyond the weather map. With Josh O'Connor and Colin Firth.

19:50

The Furious

Martial-arts action · 1h 54m · cert 18 · subtitled · dir. Kenji Tanigaki

An ordinary tradesman has to tear through an entire criminal empire to rescue his kidnapped daughter, in a bone-crunching Hong Kong action film built around some seriously balletic fight choreography. Starring Joe Taslim, Jeeja Yanin and Yayan Ruhian.

20:20

Our Hero, Balthazar

Comedy-drama-thriller · 1h 36m · cert 18 · dir. Oscar Boyson

A wealthy teenager starts posting gun-control videos to impress his crush, then becomes fixated on an online troll he's convinced is a would-be mass shooter — and travels to Texas to confront him. A sharp debut on "fake empathy" and how the online world bleeds into the real one. With Jaeden Martell, Asa Butterfield and Noah Centineo.

20:20