UPCOMING SCREENINGS
Algonquin Theatre, Main Street Huntsville - 7pm for all films
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Monday, September 22, 2025
As a clerk in the legendary British bookshop in Paris, Shakespeare & Co, Agathe (Camille Rutherford) loves her job. But there are faint stirrings of discontentment when she realizes how long she has been surrounded by stories of others’ desires and adventures instead of chasing her own. Perpetually single, she hopes to find a romance like those in the novels of her favourite author, Jane Austen, in which love triangles, ardent admirers, and reckless unrequited crushes abound. Supported by her encouraging — and conspicuously rakish — best friend Felix (Pablo Pauly), Agathe leaves for a Jane Austen writing residency. Upon arrival, she meets a distant relation of the author, the handsome — and haughty — Oliver Lowe (Charlie Anson). Between the writing obligations, realizing that she may miss Felix, and constantly running into the intriguing Mr. Lowe, Agathe’s life has taken a stressful, yet strangely familiar, turn….
France | 2024 | 94m | English, French
Director: Laura Piani
Cast & Crew - Camille Rutherford, Pablo Pauly. Charlie Anson, Annabelle Lengronne
Content advisory: Nudity
One to One: John and Yoko
Monday, October 6, 2025
Just in advance of what would have been John Lennon's 85th birthday, we present this expansive and revelatory inside look at John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s life in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s. Set in New York in 1972 this documentary explores John and Yoko’s musical, personal, artistic, social, and political world against the backdrop of a turbulent era in American history. At the core of the film is the One to One charity concert for special needs children, John Lennon’s only full-length concert between the final ticketed Beatles concert in 1966 and his death. The film includes a wealth of previously unseen Lennon archives, including personal phone calls, home movies filmed by John and Yoko, and restored and remastered footage from the One to One concert with remixed audio overseen by Sean Ono Lennon.
United Kingdom – English – 2025 - 100 minutes
Director - Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards
Featuring: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Shirley Chisholm, Stan Bronstein
Distributor - Photon Films
Content Advisory: Nudity, drug use, coarse language
The Life of Chuck
Monday, October 20, 2025
TIFF 2024 People's Choice Award Winner
With The Life of Chuck, Mike Flanagan explores one of Stephen King’s most optimistic works. The world feels like it’s ending, and everybody’s saying goodbye to Chuck. Wherever Marty (Chiwetel Ejiofor) goes, he can’t get away from Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston). His face shows up on billboards, window signs, and even TV commercials. What’s so special about this seemingly ordinary accountant? Fans of Flanagan’s skillful storytelling iwill easily see why he gravitated towards the unorthodox structure of this King novella that manages a rare feat: finding warmth in melancholy. The Life of Chuck starts grand and ends intimate, like a setting sun. It’s a Stand By Me for the multiple lives within each of us, pulled between our dreams and down-to-earth pragmatism.
USA | 2024 | 110m | English | PG – no content advisory
Mike Flanagan (Stephen King is one of the executive producers)
Cast - Tom Hiddleston, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jacob Tremblay, Benjamin Pajak
The Penguin Lessons
Monday, November 3, 2025
Propelled by the deliciously dry wit of Oscar nominee Steve Coogan, this poignant dramedy follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history. Inspired by true events, The Penguin Lessons takes to heart the notion that saving someone’s life begins a new responsibility. In this case, that someone is a surprisingly wise, utterly adorable penguin. Helmed by Peter Cattaneo (The Full Monty), The Penguin Lessons delivers this delightful story with wit, warmth, and subtle insight into just how rewarding it can be to do the right thing.
Spain, United Kingdom | English, Spanish | 2024 | 110 minutes
Director - Peter Cattaneo
Featuring: Steve Coogan, Jonathan Pryce, Vivian El Jaber
The Wedding Banquet
Monday, November 17, 2025 (Our last film for 2025)
From director Andrew Ahn comes a joyful comedy of errors about a chosen family navigating cultural identity, queerness and family expectations. Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, a gay man, Min, makes a deal with his lesbian friend: a green-card marriage for him in exchange for in vitro fertilization treatments for her. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min’s grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet. Starring Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live), Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone (Flowers of the Killer Moon), Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and Han Gi-chan, The Wedding Banquet is a poignant and heartfelt reminder that being part of a family means learning to both accept and forgive.
United States of America | 2025 | 102m | English, Korean
Director: Andrew Ahn
Featuring: Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran
Content Advisory - Sexual content, nudity, coarse language