Returning films by popular demand

THE Regal Picturehouse in Henley will have one-off screenings of two films from earlier in the year, back by popular demand.

Written by Bella and Sam Spewack, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, the musical comedy Kiss Me, Kate: The Musical (12A) is about a theatre company who are putting on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, taking it on a tour across America.

In a theatre performance directed by Bartlett Sher and filmed at the Barbican this summer, the director and star of the musical within the musical, Fred Graham (Adrian Dunbar), and his leading co-star, Lilli Vanessi (Stephanie J Block), who also happens to be his ex-wife, have a fraught relationship both on- and off-stage, as they take on the roles of Petruchio and Katherine respectively.

Fred is seeing actress Lois Lane (Georgina Onuorah), who plays Bianca in the stage show, but she has feelings for another actor, Bill Calhoun, or Lucentio (Charlie Stemp), who is facing gambling debts.

After mobsters show up and there is a case of mistaken identity, several hilarious mishaps and misunderstandings follow, wrapped up in songs such as Brush Up Your Shakespeare and Always True to You (In My Fashion).

The film has a running time of two hours and 40 minutes.

Directed by Andrew Haigh and based on the 1987 book by Taichi Yamada, the eerie and emotive drama All of Us Strangers (15) stars Andrew Scott (Fleabag’s “hot priest”) as gay screenwriter, Adam, who is struggling with writer’s block until he meets another lonely soulmate, Harry (Paul Mescal).

Somehow, with love in his life, Adam is drawn back to the Eighties and his childhood home, where his late parents (Jamie Bell and Claire Foy) appear to somehow exist, just as they were when they died 30 years previously and Adam was a child.

With a soundtrack of Pet Shop Boys and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the film encompasses themes of grief, love and the supernatural, with touches of magical realism.

The film has a running time of one hour and 45 minutes.

Star of many of the James Bond films, based on the novels by Nettlebed writer Ian Fleming, Roger Moore (third Bond actor in succession after George Lazenby and Sean Connery) was renowned for being both charming and comic and this is explored in new documentary, From Roger Moore With Love (12A).

The life and times behind the scenes of the four-times married actor are discussed by talking heads such as Joan Collins and Christopher Walken and his three children.

The film, which is one hour and 35 minutes long, is followed by a recorded question and answer session with the director, Jack Cocker.

Wicked (PG), Conclave (12A), Moana 2 (PG) and Gladiator II (15) continue.