THIS week the Ilkley Cinema is proud to welcome Quentin Tarantino’s latest triumph, The Hateful Eight, onto our screen for a week long run.

Set in 1800s Wyoming, the story centres around a group of strangers, stranded in a log cabin during a blizzard, but lousy coffee and awkward small talk are just the start of their problems.

It isn’t long before this skulk of ruffians begins to realise that one or more in their midst may be plotting something nefarious… So begins a long, hard, night, in which no one on the (frankly, stellar) cast-list is safe.

The Hateful Eight is Tarantino’s second western (according to him, it takes three to be considered a real Westerns director), but it’s a different beast entirely from his previous film – Django Unchained. Naturally, the Tarantino tropes are all there, and his trademark dialogue and gratuitous violence are sure to delight and disgust, respectively.

Featuring marvellous turns from Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth, and of course, Samuel L. Jackson who, by all accounts, steals the show. The Hateful Eight is one of Tarantino’s best, so why not forget your troubles for a few hours, Ilkley, and let us do the hating for you!

Also this week, Bridge of Spies returns for another week-long run. If you missed Spielberg’s Cold War era spy thriller first time around, here’s a chance to catch up before awards season.

After a CIA spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers, is shot down by the Soviet Union, American layer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is recruited to negotiate the release and exchange of Powers with a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US.

by Jack Hanson