Moran’s Film Appreciation Society 2023/2024

Films for 2023/2024

 

Monday 5th February

Crazy, Stupid Love
2011

When Cal Weaver’s wife asks him for a divorce, he moves out to his own apartment. In his local bar he meets Jacob who offers to teach him how to meet and seduce other women.

Monday 4th March

Road to Perdition
2002

Based on the graphic novel of the same name, the story follows a mob enforcer and his son during the Great Depression who set out to find the hit-man from a rival gang responsible for killing the rest of their family.

Monday 8th April

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
1975

Facing a lengthy prison sentence, Randall McMurphy pretends to be insane thinking life will be easier in a mental institution. Unfortunately, Nurse Ratched has other ideas. The film won five Academy Awards.

 

Tuesday 7th May

Some Like it Hot
1959

After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguised as women they join an all-female jazz band on a train heading for Miami. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band's sexy singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire.

Monday 3rd June

The Intouchables

(French with Subtitles)
2011

A Parisian aristocrat, quadriplegic since a paragliding accident, hires a young man to be his live-in caretaker. Although very different the two men bond and develop a close friendship.

Monday 1st July

Million Dollar Baby
2004

Maggie, a waitress from the Ozarks, asks trainer Frankie Dunn to help her become a champion boxer. At first he refuses, as he never trains women and also he considers Maggie too old. However, her determination and talent are enough to win him over and she succeeds in her ambition – but at a price.

 

Monday 5th August

Tick, Tick…Boom!
2021

Just before his 30th birthday, a promising young theatre composer deals with love, friendship and the pressures of life in modern-day New York.

Monday 2nd September

1917
2019

On April 6th, 1917 an infantry battalion assemble to attack the German forces deep in enemy territory. In a race against time, two soldiers are assigned to navigate across “No Man’s Land” delivering a message which will prevent the possible death of 1600 soldiers.