GLADIATOR II (2024)
Thursday 19 December 2024 at 2.30pm (HOH)
Thursday 19 December 2024 at 7.00pm
2024 | Dir Ridley Scott | 130m | 
UK | 
USA
Stars: Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal
If you loved Gladiator, you will also love this more powerful, bloody sequel. Although it is hard to compete with Russell Crowe’s original iconic performance, film critics have called Gladiator II the ‘best movie of the year’ and a ‘true epic’, praising Paul Mescal’s and Denzel Washington’s scene-stealing. This is another epic from Ridley Scott that may be in the running for a few Oscars at the next Academy Awards.
Connie Nielsen (Lucilla) gives a short introduction to the film
The afternoon screening is subtitled for those with a hearing loss.
The 2.30pm screening will be followed by an informal discussion with the Croydon u3a Film Group. All are welcome to attend.
We do not show adverts. Please arrive to take your seat by the time shown.
Kidnapped on a Rome evening in 1973, the fate of 16-year-old Paul Getty fascinated the world’s media and pushed his mother Gail (Williams) into the spotlight. His grandfather John Paul had ‘all the money in the world’ yet refused to pay the ransom, forcing his adviser Fletcher (Wahlberg), Paul, Gail and the kidnappers towards a potentially deadly endgame. Famously reshot with Plummer replacing Kevin Spacey as the cold-blooded tycoon, this tense drama weighs up the relative value of