Here's a list of films that are screening with Flicks in the Sticks.
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles - from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
When ‘Lady’ Sandra Abbott discovers that her husband of forty years is having an affair with her best friend, she seeks refuge with her estranged, older sister Bif. Sandra is a fish out of water next to her outspoken, serial dating, free-spirited sibling. Sandra reluctantly lets Bif drag her along to her community dance class, where gradually she starts finding her feet... and romance.
Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl) and nominee Jude Law (Cold Mountain) star in a revisionist royal portrait of the last wife of Henry VIII. In a blood-soaked island kingdom, accomplished Katherine Parr (Vikander) becomes the sixth wife of King Henry VIII (Law) at great personal risk – all her predecessors are vanquished or dead – and when Henry leaves her to rule during his absence overseas, he lays out a dangerous path for her. Suspected of sympathy to radical Protestants, Katherine comes under increasing scrutiny from Henry on his return, and must unleash her own scheme for survival. Adapted from Elizabeth Fremantle’s novel The Queen’s Gambit, Karim Aïnouz’s (The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão) lavish historical drama features a scene-stealing performance from Law.
The riveting story of the 1969 moon landing. Much more focused on the "small step for man" and less on the "giant leap for mankind", this follows Neil Armstrong on his journey to becoming the first man to walk on the moon. The perils and exhilarations of spaceflight are brilliantly conveyed to give you the hair-raising feeling of what it was really like inside Apollo 11.
Starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, FLY ME TO THE MOON is a sharp, stylish romantic comedy set against the high-stakes backdrop of NASA's historic Apollo 11 moon landing. Brought in to fix NASA's public image, sparks fly in all directions as marketing maven Kelly Jones (Johansson) wreaks havoc on launch director Cole Davis's (Tatum) already difficult task. When the White House deems the mission too important to fail, the countdown truly begins
In his final days, Sigmund Freud, a recent escapee with his daughter from the Nazi regime, receives a visit from the formidable Oxford Don C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia). On this day, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century intimately engage in a monumental session over the belief in the future of mankind and the existence of God.
Julie lives away from her husband outside Paris with her two children. Every morning she has to travel into the city, where she works as a chambermaid in a luxury hotel. Every day is a race against time: while it is still dark, Julie takes the children to an elderly neighbor who acts as a childminder. She runs to the railway station, where she just manages to catch the train. Then the national strike begins: she has to change to a bus and it becomes impossible to get to work on time. She urgently needs her job because her ex-husband doesn't pay any maintenance. She has been trying for a long time to find a better-paid job near her home that would be commensurate with her training. When she finally gets a job interview, the problems start all over again. She can't stay away from work and has to persuade a colleague to cover for her.