Film Screenings
True Grit
True Grit is a powerful story of vengeance and valor set in an unforgiving and unpredictable frontier where justice is simple and mercy is rare. Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), is determined to avenge her father’s blood by capturing Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn (Academy Award Winner Jeff Bridges), a one-eyed, triggered-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf (Academy Award Winner Matt Damon) to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads them on a perilous adventure that can only have one outcome: retribution.
(Image courtesy of Paramount Pictures)
The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady tells the compelling story of Margaret Thatcher, a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.
(Jim Broadbent as Denis Thatcher and Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady. Image courtesy of Pathe.)
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