WE'RE cracking out the bubbly and lighting the candles this week, for we are celebrating our second birthday at Ilkley Cinema! We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone, once again, for visiting our wonderful little cinema and making this the best two years for everyone here.

What better way to celebrate our birthday, you might wonder: by showing black comedy The Party of course. We couldn't have planned this better if we tried! This quirky British film shot in black and white isn't quite the soiree one would quite expect, in fact, it is the dinner party from hell. After politician Janet gets a new position as shadow minister for health, she decides to celebrate with a group of close friends and intellectuals. A night that begins in praise and clinking of glasses soon descends into chaos when secrets start to spill and bitterness seeps through the cracks. Before the evening ends however, blood will be spilt.

It's pretty difficult to wonder how a comedy film about the fall of notorious dictator Joseph Stalin could possibly be made, and yet The Death of Stalin is exactly that. In 1953, the Soviet leader suffers a fatal heart attack, leaving carnage in his wake. In the aftermath, Several Russian politicians scheme, plot and conspire against others in order to desperately attempt to solve the question of who is to assume leadership of the Soviet Union.

It must be said that The Death of Stalin is never dull and is hugely entertaining but also has a darker edge in exploring the full terror of Soviet life during the Great Terror, the struggle for power and the purge and not trivialising it, it's actually pretty harrowing and poignant.

Finally, we are bringing back The Jungle Bunch for Kids' Club this weekend, where a penguin raised by tigers and training to be a Kung-Fu master defends his jungle from an evil koala and an army of baboons.