OUR NEXT Film Club showing is on Thursday, September 27 and features a delightful British film, The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society.

Based on the best-selling and much-loved novel by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, the film tells how Julies Ashton, a London-based writer, in 1946 began exchanging letters with residents on the island of Guernsey, which had been occupied by the Germans during World War Two.

The strangely-named society had begun as a cover for residents breaking curfew. Feeling compelled to visit the island, Ashton, played by Lily James, gradually begins to get a picture of what life was like during the occupation.

The film show starts at 2pm and, as always, admission is strictly for Library members only. There is no admission fee and refreshments, including ice cream, will be on sale during the intermission.

Check out the film trailer below.

THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED account of Winston Churchill’s early days as Prime Minister, as the Nazi armies swept all before them in their march across Western Europe, is the subject of our next Film Club showing on Thursday, June 28.

Darkest Hour tells how the mounting threat of invasion and imminent defeat for Britain in the early months of World War Two led to friction at the highest levels of government between those who wanted peace with Hitler at any cost and Churchill, who flatly refused to even consider such an approach.

Gary Oldman’s brilliant portrayal of the wartime leader deservedly earned him a 2018 Best Actor Academy Award, a performance that truly makes Darkest Hour a must-see film.

As always, Film Club screenings are strictly for members only and there is no charge for admission. There is, however, a small charge for refreshments, which will be available during the interval.

View the trailer below to get a flavour of this excellent movie:

THE FEVERISHLY-DEBATED DECISION behind The Washington Post’s 1971 publication of top-secret information in the Pentagon Papers is dramatically brought to life in the multi award-winning movie The Post, in which Meryl Streep plays legendary publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks takes on the role of the gruff but brilliant executive editor Ben Bradlee.

As Graham, Streep plays a leader who decides to publish the incendiary information about the Vietnam War amid great pressure, in both directions, from government officials, her lawyers and many of her own fellow board members.

This is every bit as compelling a story as All The Presidents Men, which exposed the Watergate scandal and caused Richard Nixon’s resignation, only this time The Post is exposing 30 years of Government lies and cover-ups spanning six US presidents.

The Post is our next Film Club screening, on Thursday, May 31st, starting at 2pm. Film Club screenings are strictly for members only and there is no charge for admission. There is, however, a small charge for refreshments, which will be available during the interval.