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Mockingbird Cinema & The Nest Bar and Kitchen, Mockingbird House The Custard Factory Gibb Street, Birmingham (2026)

03/09/2026

🥄Having a clear out. Do you want your own framed spoon?

Just pop in and shout either “I’m tired, I’m wasted... I love you, darling!” Or “You don’t understand anything, man. Leave your stupid comments in your pocket! Or “Why, Johnny? Why? Johnny, why? Why?” Or something like that and you can have one

There’s a chance some of the staff haven’t seen The Room and think your mad, but that’s part of the fun.

One frame per person while spoons last

Greg Sestero

02/09/2026

📚 WHAT IF SOMEONE REDISCOVERED THE DREAM YOU GAVE UP ON 40 YEARS AGO?

LATE FAME opens at Mockingbird Cinema this Friday 4 September.

Ed Saxberger published a slim book of poetry in his twenties. It disappeared almost without trace, and Ed eventually settled into a quiet life working for the post office.

Then, decades later, a young writer appears at his door carrying a copy.

Meyers thinks Ed is a forgotten literary genius and introduces him to a group of young New York creatives calling themselves The Enthusiasm Society. Suddenly there are readings, parties, admirers and people hanging on words Ed assumed nobody remembered.

There is also Gloria, a magnetic actress played by Greta Lee, who makes this unexpected return to the spotlight even more complicated.

Willem Dafoe is superb as a man enjoying the attention while quietly wondering what it means. Is this the recognition he always deserved, nostalgia dressed up as discovery, or simply one last chance to feel creatively alive?

Directed by Kent Jones and written by MAY DECEMBER screenwriter Samy Burch, LATE FAME adapts Arthur Schnitzler’s 1895 novella into a warm, funny and melancholy New York story about ambition, ageing, vanity and the strange business of being noticed.

⭐ THE REVIEWS

★★★★ “Willem Dafoe superb as ever as twilight-years bohemian getting a second chance.” — The Guardian

★★★★ “Willem Dafoe is outstanding in this observant character study.” — Radio Times

“A perfect Willem Dafoe.” — Sight & Sound

🍅 The film currently sits at 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

🎟️ Plus, this weekend is National Cinema Weekend:
Saturday & Sunday tickets £4
🐦 Mockingbird Members £3

Book via the link in our bio or directly here:

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=1855284

LATE FAME
📅 From Friday 4 September
🔞 Cert 15 | 97 mins
🎬 Dir. Kent Jones

01/09/2026

🛎️ A VACANCY HAS OPENED AT THE GRAND BUDAPEST.

Check in is tonight at 8pm.

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL returns to Mockingbird Cinema as part of our Wes Anderson Season, and for one evening only you are invited to spend the night in Zubrowka’s most famous establishment.

Your concierge is Monsieur Gustave H.

Immaculately dressed, impeccably mannered and permanently surrounded by trouble, Gustave runs the Grand Budapest with military precision until the death of one of his wealthiest guests drags him and his young lobby boy Zero into a stolen painting, a vast inheritance, a prison break and a rapidly changing Europe.

🏨 Ralph Fiennes is on glorious form as Gustave, joined by Tony Revolori, Saoirse Ronan, Willem Dafoe, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray and enough familiar faces to fill every room in the hotel.

Wes Anderson packs every corridor, train carriage, lift and pastry box with ridiculous detail, while Alexandre Desplat’s Oscar-winning score keeps the whole thing moving at full speed.

⭐ THE REVIEWS

★★★★ “One of Anderson’s very best films.” — Time Out

“A deeply pleasurable immersion.” — The Guardian

“Ralph Fiennes in roaring form.” — The Observer

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL went on to receive nine Academy Award nominations and win four, including Production Design, Costume Design and Original Score.

So if you are free tonight, we happen to have a room available.

The concierge is expecting you.

🎟️ Book via the link in our bio or directly here:

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=53662

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
📅 Tonight, Tuesday 1 September
🕗 8pm
🏨 Wes Anderson Season
🔞 Cert 15 | 100 mins
🎬 Dir. Wes Anderson

31/08/2026

🎬 ED WOOD returns to the big screen at Mockingbird Cinema this Saturday 5 September at 5.30pm as part of our Tim Burton Season.

And for NATIONAL CINEMA WEEKEND, tickets are just £4 or £3 for Mockingbird Members. 🍿

Johnny Depp stars as Edward D. Wood Jr., the endlessly enthusiastic filmmaker responsible for PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, GLEN OR GLENDA and a handful of films that became famous for reasons he probably didn’t intend.

Wood has very little money, questionable judgement and a remarkable ability to carry on regardless. Around him gathers a wonderfully odd collection of actors, producers and outsiders, including an ageing Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau in the performance that won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Shot in black and white, ED WOOD is one of Tim Burton’s warmest films. There’s plenty of fun at Wood’s expense, but Burton clearly loves him too, particularly his optimism, his strange little filmmaking family and his absolute refusal to let bad reviews, empty pockets or common sense stop him making another movie.

⭐ THE REVIEWS

“A funny, touching tribute to tenacity, energy, ambition and friendship.” — Time Out

“No more affectionate, even admiring tribute to a failure has been made.” — The Guardian

The Guardian later ranked ED WOOD as the best film of Tim Burton’s career.

For anyone who has ever made something because they loved it, regardless of whether anybody else understood why.

🎟️ One screening only.

Book via the link in our bio or directly here:

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=1273040

ED WOOD
📅 Saturday 5 September
🕠 5.30pm
🎬 Tim Burton Season
🎟️ £4 | Members £3
🔞 Cert 15 | 127 mins
Dir. Tim Burton

31/08/2026

🎬 £4 CINEMA. ALL WEEKEND.

NATIONAL CINEMA WEEKEND takes over Mockingbird Cinema this Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 September.

Two days. 20 screenings. Every single ticket just £4.

🐦 Mockingbird Members pay only £3.

New releases, cult films, Studio Ghibli, horror, comedy, Pedro Almodóvar, Saoirse Ronan, Gregg Araki and some properly strange stuff thrown in for good measure.

Basically, if there was ever a weekend to disappear into a cinema, this is it.

🍿 SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER

10:25 — Kiki’s Delivery Service
10:50 — Coyote vs. Acme
12:40 — Late Fame
13:00 — The Incomer
14:45 — I Want Your S*x
15:10 — Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma
16:40 — Bitter Christmas
17:30 — Ed Wood
20:05 — Bad Apples
21:05 — Leviticus

🎥 SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER

10:25 — Coyote vs. Acme
11:45 — Kiki’s Delivery Service
12:35 — Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma
14:00 — Late Fame
14:55 — The Hunger Games
16:05 — I Want Your S*x
17:50 — The Incomer
18:05 — Leviticus
20:00 — Bitter Christmas
20:00 — Tony

🎟️ EVERY SCREENING £4
🐦 MEMBERS £3

Come for one. Stay for three. Spend the entire weekend here.

At these prices, we’re practically encouraging it.

Tickets are on sale now.

Book via the link in our bio or directly here:

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn

31/08/2026

🎬 £4 CINEMA. ALL WEEKEND.

NATIONAL CINEMA WEEKEND takes over Mockingbird Cinema this Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 September.

Two days. 20 screenings. Every single ticket just £4.

🐦 Mockingbird Members pay only £3.

New releases, cult films, Studio Ghibli, horror, comedy, Pedro Almodóvar, Saoirse Ronan, Gregg Araki and some properly strange stuff thrown in for good measure.

Basically, if there was ever a weekend to disappear into a cinema, this is it.

🍿 SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER

10:25 — Kiki’s Delivery Service
10:50 — Coyote vs. Acme
12:40 — Late Fame
13:00 — The Incomer
14:45 — I Want Your S*x
15:10 — Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma
16:40 — Bitter Christmas
17:30 — Ed Wood
20:05 — Bad Apples
21:05 — Leviticus

🎥 SUNDAY 6 SEPTEMBER

10:25 — Coyote vs. Acme
11:45 — Kiki’s Delivery Service
12:35 — Teenage S*x and Death at Camp Miasma
14:00 — Late Fame
14:55 — The Hunger Games
16:05 — I Want Your S*x
17:50 — The Incomer
18:05 — Leviticus
20:00 — Bitter Christmas
20:00 — Tony

🎟️ EVERY SCREENING £4
🐦 MEMBERS £3

Come for one. Stay for three. Spend the entire weekend here.

At these prices, we’re practically encouraging it.

Tickets are on sale now.

Book via the link in our bio or directly here:

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn

30/08/2026

🩸 TAKASHI MIIKE’S 100TH FILM WAS NEVER GOING TO BE QUIET.

BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL returns to the big screen at Mockingbird Cinema on Tuesday 15 September at 8pm as part of our Arrow Video Season.

⚔️ Manji is a samurai cursed with something far worse than death: immortality.

Sacred bloodworms repair his broken body again and again, leaving him condemned to survive every blade, bullet and wound thrown at him.

Then he meets Rin.

Her parents have been murdered by the ruthless Ittō-ryū sword school and she wants revenge. Manji, haunted by the violence of his own past, agrees to become her protector.

What follows is pure Takashi Miike.

Impossible weapons. Severed limbs. Black humour. Beautifully choreographed sword fights. Rivers of blood. And, eventually, a battle so absurdly huge that Cannes described it as 300 against one.

🔥 This was Miike’s 100TH FEATURE FILM.

Rather than slowing down, the director of AUDITION, ICHI THE KILLER and 13 ASSASSINS celebrated the milestone by adapting Hiroaki Samura’s epic 30-volume manga into a 140-minute samurai bloodbath, selected for Cannes.

THE REVIEWS ⭐

★★★★ “A samurai epic so wince-inducingly violent, you practically need anaesthetic just to watch it.” — Time Out

“It’s a stylish slash fest, which delivers visceral thrills along with quietly striking moments of beauty.” — The Observer

“For pure samurai action, it’s a must-see.” — RogerEbert.com

This isn’t elegant historical drama.

This is an immortal swordsman walking into an army and discovering exactly how many pieces a human body can come apart in.

🩸 One immortal samurai.
⚔️ Hundreds of enemies.
🔥 Takashi Miike at full power.

ONE SCREENING ONLY.

🎟️ Book via the link in our bio or directly here:

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=1215053

BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL
📅 Tuesday 15 September
🕗 8pm
🏹 Arrow Video Season
🔞 Cert 18 | 140 mins
🎬 Dir. Takashi Miike

29/08/2026

FIVE STORIES. ONE FILM. ABSOLUTELY NO RULES.

SURVIVE STYLE 5+ comes to Mockingbird Cinema on Friday 11 September at 8pm as part of our WTF? JAPAN season.

A man repeatedly murders his wife. She repeatedly comes back from the dead, increasingly furious.

An advertising executive dreams up increasingly deranged commercials.

A suburban father attends a hypnosis show and becomes convinced he is a bird.

A trio of burglars stumble through one very strange night.

And a British hitman, played by VINNIE JONES, travels around Japan asking people one simple question:

“What is your function in life?”

Eventually, somehow, all five stories collide.

Directed by Gen Sekiguchi, SURVIVE STYLE 5+ is one of the great underseen oddities of 2000s Japanese cinema: a hyper-colour collision of black comedy, horror, romance, crime, music-video aesthetics and complete surrealist chaos.

Tadanobu Asano leads an extraordinary cast alongside Reika Hashimoto, Kyōko Koizumi, Hiroshi Abe and Vinnie Jones, while British electronic artist James Shimoji provides the film’s eclectic score.

“An exhilarating, eye-popping visual feast.” — Variety

“A work of such visual invention that every frame is crammed with ideas.” — Midnight Eye

“Wildly inventive, frequently hilarious and completely unpredictable.” — Film Threat

It is violent. It is romantic. It is ridiculous. It has Vinnie Jones threatening people in Japan.

In other words, it belongs in WTF? JAPAN.

One screening only.

Book via the link in our bio or at mockingbirdcinema.com.

SURVIVE STYLE 5+
Friday 11 September at 8pm
Part of WTF? JAPAN
Cert 15 | 120 mins
Dir. Gen Sekiguchi

29/08/2026

ONE BAD APPLE. ONE VERY BAD DECISION.

BAD APPLES comes to Mockingbird Cinema for a special early screening on Saturday 5 September at 8.05pm, ahead of its full run from Friday 18 to Thursday 24 September.

Maria is a primary school teacher trying to inspire a class of ten-year-olds. But one violent and relentlessly disruptive pupil, Danny, has pushed her to breaking point.

When a confrontation spirals out of control, Maria ends up taking Danny home and locking him in her basement.

She intends to put things right.

Then her classroom starts flourishing.

The other children are learning, the staff are impressed and the parents are delighted. As everyone celebrates the improvement, Maria finds herself trapped inside an increasingly outrageous lie and facing an impossible question:

How far will people look the other way when the results suit them?

Saoirse Ronan plays sharply against type in Jonatan Etzler’s pitch-black comedy thriller, adapted from Rasmus Lindgren’s novel De Oönskade. What begins as one teacher’s catastrophic mistake becomes a wickedly uncomfortable satire about failing systems, collective hypocrisy and the excuses ordinary people make for doing the indefensible.

Also starring Eddie Waller, Jacob Anderson, Rakie Ayola, Robert Emms, Sean Gilder and Kerry Howard.

★★★★ “Asking just how far you’d go for your child’s education, this is howlingly funny.” — Radio Times

“One of her best, funniest performances to date.” — TheWrap

“An entertaining and unpredictably exciting debut.” — Collider

Class is in session. One pupil is missing.

Book via the link in our bio or directly here:

https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=1861269

BAD APPLES
Special screening: Sat 5 Sep at 8.05pm
Full run: Fri 18 Sep – Thu 24 Sep
Cert 15 | 100 mins
Dir. Jonatan Etzler

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