Fill your life with film
The shortlist has been announced for the National Campaign for the Arts' (NCA) Hearts for the Arts Awards 2022. The awards celebrate the unsung heroes of Local Authorities who are championing the arts against all odds.
Following the announcement from the First Minister on Tuesday 21 December advising of increased safety measures that will be implemented from 26 December onwards, we are making changes to our range of services until further notice from this date.
This month’s Hippodrome guest blog comes from Valerie Bruce – a Trustee of Bo’ness Community Bus.
This month’s Hippodrome blog is a guest entry by Fatima, a refugee from Syria currently living in Falkirk. The local charity – Friends of Scottish Settlers – put me in touch with Fatima who attended one of our Hippodrome screenings of BAFTA-nominated Limbo (2020). Fatima’s mother tongue is Arabic but she has written this blog in English.
The Hippodrome has announced that multi-talented Scottish artist Clare Grogan will be presenting four films, showcasing the work of some of the most inspirational women film directors of recent years and all chosen by Clare as personal picks.
This blog post is by Manjeet Cross who visited the Hippodrome in June to see Sound of Metal along with fellow members of the Forth Valley Sensory Centre ‘Talk and Sign’ Group, coordinated by Linsey Stock. Although the group’s activities have temporarily moved online, members got together for this cinema visit as part of one of their weekly sessions.
This month’s Hippodrome blog is a guest entry by Stirling-based Jack Ferguson, age 26-years, who writes about his visit to the Hippodrome to see Enter the Dragon, the first in the Black Enough season playing throughout July.
The first of a regular blog post for our website from Alison Strauss, Arts Development Officer (Film and Media), Falkirk Community Trust – programmer of the Hippodrome year-round since it re-opened in 2009 and founding Director of the annual Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (2011 – present).
Falkirk Community Trust is excited to announce that young people aged 16 – 25 years old can now attend screenings at The Hippodrome Cinema, Bo’ness for only £4.50 per ticket.
Today (Tue 16 Feb) Falkirk Community Trust announced the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival’s 10th festival programme, Wed 17 – Sat 21 March 2021. The festival, which is affectionately known as HippFest, is usually housed in Scotland’s oldest purpose-built cinema The Hippodrome in Bo’ness.
Leaving her island for the first time, young Moana embarks on an epic seafaring adventure to restore prosperity to her people. This film contains several sequences with flashing lights that may affect those who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy or have other photosensitivities
SOLD OUT! Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote is a screening of an episode of Murder, She Wrote with games and laughs. Approximately 120 minutes including interval.
A dinner party spirals into unexpected places when a couple invite their enigmatic neighbours over. Have they reignited the spark in their troubled marriage -- or lit the match that burns it all down?
Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.
André Rieu's 2026 Summer Concert: Viva Maastricht!
London 1910: a passionate astronomer does everything she can to avoid romantic love and marriage. Her bold challenge to Edwardian patriarchy is set against the suffragette movement and advances in science and technology.
"500 Miles" is a 2026 Irish drama and road movie about two brothers who run away from home to reconnect with their estranged grandfather on Ireland's west coast.
Screen Queens Season: Four legendary stars, four landmark birthdays and four films guaranteed to lift the spirits. Celebrate the class of ’46 with a run of big-screen favourites featuring four trailblazing, talented and tenacious women: Cher, Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton and Susan Sarandon. Raise a glass to these eighty-year-old icons at our celebratory season bringing together beloved musicals, sharp comedy, unforgettable drama and feel-good hits. Great stars and great films never go out of style! Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again dances between past and present as Sophie prepares to reopen her mother’s Greek island hotel while uncovering stories from Donna’s adventurous youth. Blending ABBA’s iconic songs with vibrant performances
Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs get exponentially harder when they go head-to-head with a new threat to playtime.
The Minions band together to save the day after unleashing monsters upon an unsuspecting world.
A young boy finds refuge with three delightfully eccentric elderly nuns at a run-down convent facing shutdown. A road trip like no other, Holy Days is a joyful comedy packed with heart, humour, and high-speed hijinks. It’s a story about letting go, holding on, and finding home in the most unexpected places.
Top Hat the Musical is a stage adaptation of the 1935 film, featuring Irving Berlin’s iconic songs, dazzling choreography, and a romantic comedy plot set in the golden age of Hollywood.
A young girl, Sophia (Emily Matthews) spends the summer with her father (Anders Danielsen Lie) and grandmother (Glenn Close) on a small island in the Gulf of Finland, as the family grapples with the recent death of Sophia's mother.
Thelma & Louise follows two best friends whose weekend getaway takes a shocking turn, pushing them into an unplanned flight from the law. Along the way, they discover strength, resilience, and the depth of their bond, challenging societal norms. Praised for its powerful performances, sharp direction, and feminist edge, it’s a gripping road movie that blends suspense, humor, and emotional depth—widely regarded as a modern classic worth watching.
Sing along with the wonderful songs as Moana embarks on a daring ocean voyage to fulfill an ancient quest and save her people, teaming up with the demigod Maui on an action-packed journey of self-discovery.
"After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighbourhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their now unrecognizable surroundings."
When an alien with amazing powers crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organization can capture her.
Verdi’s hugely popular La Traviata returns to the Sydney Harbour water stage featuring a breath-taking soaring 9 metre high, 3.5 ton chandelier covered in 10,000 shimmering Swarovski crystals. This glamorous production was captured on location on Sydney Harbour in 2021 in front of a sold out audience. La Traviata features timeless romantic arias, lively choreography, beautiful costumes and spectacular fireworks.
In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.
June, 1940. France collapses and signs the armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man refuses to give up. Alone against the odds, this unknown general flees to London to save what remains of freedom.
The Paw Patrol lands on a mysterious dinosaur island after a storm, where they meet Rex, a stranded pup. When Humdinger's reckless mining triggers a volcano, the team faces their biggest rescue mission yet to save the island.
Celebrate International Chocolate Day with us at the Hippodrome with our latest chocolate taste-along screening: the entrancing Amélie. Join us for this unique melt-in-the-mouth movie experience. The showing of Amélie will be paired with a bespoke tasting-box selection – each chocolate lovingly crafted to match the film’s most sensuous moments. Amélie (adorably played by Audrey Tautou) is a shy waitress beset with social anxieties who enjoys life's small pleasures from a safe distance… until a chance discovery sets her on a path to begin her life as a mender of broken hearts. A tremendously seductive modern fairytale, set against the beautiful landmarks and cafés of Paris – that most romantic and magical of cities. “A deeply lovely movie about the importance, and the rewards, of kindness.” The Times
Screen Queens Season: Four legendary stars, four landmark birthdays and four films guaranteed to lift the spirits. Celebrate the class of ’46 with a run of big-screen favourites featuring four trailblazing, talented and tenacious women: Cher, Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton and Susan Sarandon. Raise a glass to these eighty-year-old icons at our celebratory season bringing together beloved musicals, sharp comedy, unforgettable drama and feel-good hits. Great stars and great films never go out of style! Cabaret (1972) follows the intertwined lives of an American cabaret singer, a British academic, and a wealthy playboy in 1931 Berlin, set against the growing shadow of Nazism. With musical numbers confined mainly to the decadent Kit Kat Klub, Bob Fosse’s film blends dazzling performances with a sobering political undercurrent.
In 2004, an ad director faces a turbulent Christmas weekend. In 2026, a filmmaker turns her story into a screenplay, blurring the lines between reality, fiction, and the people closest to him.
Screen Queens Season: Four legendary stars, four landmark birthdays and four films guaranteed to lift the spirits. Celebrate the class of ’46 with a run of big-screen favourites featuring four trailblazing, talented and tenacious women: Cher, Liza Minnelli, Dolly Parton and Susan Sarandon. Raise a glass to these eighty-year-old icons at our celebratory season bringing together beloved musicals, sharp comedy, unforgettable drama and feel-good hits. Great stars and great films never go out of style! 9 to 5 (1980) is a sharp, satirical workplace comedy where three women—a newcomer, a seasoned supervisor, and a harassed secretary—bond over their shared frustrations with their sexist, egotistical boss. Their alliance leads to a daring turn of events that transforms their office into a model workplace.
Momo, based on the 1973 fantasy novel by Michael Ende (and adapted into the Momo (2025/2026) film), follows Momo, a young orphan girl living in an old ruin. When mysterious grey gentlemen from a corporation start stealing people's time, Momo and the Guardian of Time must fight to save humanity.
Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the hollow contemporary mantras of kindness and respect. But the bolder she becomes in speaking out, the more colleagues avoid her, and the more her personal relationships begin to fracture. As she challenges fashionable ideas and lends her voice to causes others are afraid to touch, she faces intense criticism and backlash. Alice will soon learn the price she must pay as an artist and as a woman for daring to speak her mind. Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) is the Misanthrope in Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) cutting new version of Molière’s dark comedy, directed by National Theatre Director Indhu Rubasingham (The Father and the Assassin).
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.
Two sea creatures journey across the deep ocean to locate a legendary wish-granting creature before a pod of cuttlefish beats them to it.
A lavish late silent masterpiece by Erich von Stroheim with a production almost as dramatic as its plot. In an ancient kingdom in the middle of Europe, handsome Prince Wolfram falls in love with hot-headed orphan Patricia Kelly (Gloria Swanson), inciting the cruel jealousy of his betrothed – the “mad queen” Regina. Patricia and Wolfram try desperately to overcome the crazed Queen's efforts to drive them apart, but her rage knows no bounds… will the couple find happiness in the name of true love? Legendary screen icon Gloria Swanson was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood when she hired, and then fired, von Stroheim from this project, making Queen Kelly the most infamous unfinished film in cinema history. Using Swanson's own prints and outtakes, preserved at the George Eastman Museum, archivists Dennis Doros and Amy Heller of Milestone Films have now brought von Stroheim's original script to life, fashioning this remarkable reconstruction of Queen Kelly in its most complete and spectacular form to date. In-person introduction with critic, film historian and author of The Curse of Queen Kelly, Pamela Hutchinson (captioned). Post-screening Q&A with Pamela Hutchinson and Neil Brand (captioned). Dir. Erich von Stroheim | USA | 1929 | N/C 12A | b&w | 1h 45m + intro + Q&A (captioned)
Silent comedy's 'third genius' Harold Lloyd is at his charming best in this rollicking comedy set on the vibrant streets of Roaring Twenties New York. Harold 'Speedy' Swift (Lloyd) is an ambitious romantic who seems to find himself in a new job every week. Speedy dreams of settling down with Jean, but first he must help her grandfather protect his horse-drawn tram from a ruthless businessman. Featuring a show-stopping and hilarious chase scene, Lloyd's last silent film is packed with personality and great gags. Look out for some gorgeous on-location shots from around New York and a major cameo from baseball legend Babe Ruth.
Two men go off on a golfing trip, leaving their wives to amuse themselves as best they can. The wives each receive a postcard from Maurice Duclos, a former lover both had before their marriages.
What deal is worth your soul? A cosmic wager between the cunning devil Mephisto (Emil Jannings) and an archangel sees a medieval city engulfed by plague, anguish and fog. Provoked by the surrounding suffering, the ageing scholar Faust (Gösta Ekman) strikes a bargain: his soul in exchange for the city's salvation and the gift of eternal youth. But every pact has its price, and Faust's dodgy dealings soon give way to hijinks, temptation, and tragedy. Regarded as one of the pinnacles of German Expressionist cinema, Faust was the final German production of F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu; Sunrise). Drawing on centuries of enduring folk tale, Murnau transforms the metaphysical morality tale of Faust into an atmospheric drama, where shadows loom and supernatural spectacles inspire awe.
CHOCOLATE TASTE ALONG EVENT Who ya gonna call…! The Hippodrome Box Office of course! Snap up your ticket for our, spooktackularly good, Halloween chocolate taste-along screening. Join us for our latest immersive presentation – the supernatural comedy classic Ghostbusters featuring bespoke chocolate tasting-box pairing, with each chocolate hand-crafted by expert chocolatier Nadia to match the film’s most celebrated moments. Buy your chocolate tasting box when buying your movie ticket.
A groundbreaking celebration of cinematic possibility, transforming images of everyday life into a dazzling city symphony. Often ranked amongst the greatest films of all time, this fascinating portrait of a society in transition uses dynamic camera effects to explore a day in the life of a fictional Soviet city, carrying with it the ambition to create “a truly international absolute language of cinema”. Produced by a Ukrainian film studio and filmed mostly in Kyiv, Odessa and Moscow, the film was made without sets, actors, intertitles or a script to place the emphasis firmly on the unique language of cinema. Director David Abelevich Kaufman (aka Dziga Vertov – a Ukrainian phrase roughly meaning ‘spinning top’), articulates his concept of “kino-eye” (camera-eye) throughout the film: the belief that the camera can reveal truths beyond the perception of the human eye. Together with his brother, cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman, and wife, editor Elizaveta Svilova, Vertov experiments with techniques of perspective, editing, slow motion, split screens and superimposition in ways that attempt to revolutionise visual thinking. Part documentary part artistic manifesto, the film’s exhilarating invention remains as fresh and as stimulating as when it was first screened almost a century ago.
Giant is a 2024 play written by Mark Rosenblatt. It premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in 2024 in a production starring John Lithgow as Roald Dahl and won three Laurence Olivier Awards, including Best New Play.
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