The Castle Cinema

The Castle Cinema Your community cinema on Chatsworth Road, Hackney since 2017. Crowdfunded to revive an original pict
(345)

👽 Alien from L.A. + Intro 👽 When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. W...
30/07/2026

👽 Alien from L.A. + Intro 👽

When her archaeologist father disappears on an expedition, Wanda sets out to look for him. What she finds is a secret underground world, where no one believes in life on the surface and where she and her father are taken for spies.

Alien from L.A. will be introduced by film programmer Tom Delancy Green.

Screening as part of The Final Film Festival.

☢️ Radioactive Dreams + Intro ☢️

After an atomic war, two men have spent 15 years on their own in a bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.

Screening as part of The Final Film Festival.

⚡️Surge of Power: The Stuff of Heroes + Q&A⚡️

Introducing the campiest superhero to hit the big screen since the 60s - a science-fiction parody that tributes films, comic books and television programs in the science-fiction and fantasy genres. It is an action-adventure story of an original superhero, and treats the audience to 20 familiar science-fiction and fantasy faces. How many celebs do you recognize? It’s an all-new high for low-budget camp!

This screening will be followed by a video Q&A with actor Vincent J. Roth.

Screening as part of The Final Film Festival.

⭐️ The Astrologer + Tarot Reading ⭐️

Craig Alexander, a con-man 'psychic' on the carnival circuit receives the opportunity to pilfer some legendary rubies in Kenya. His luck holds and he winds up the sole beneficiary of the ill-gotten wealth, which he parlays into an astrological broadcasting empire. But once he reaches the top, there’s only one direction he can go...

The Astrologer will be preceded by a live tarot reading session..

Screening as part of The Final Film Festival.

🧟‍♂️ The Hereafter + Q&A 🧟‍♂️

After a man murders his wealthy father, mysterious things begin to occur in the house where the man must live in order to claim the dead man’s inheritance.

This screening will be preceded by an intro.

Screening as part of The Final Film Festival.

🎥 Pomp and Circumstance + The Belt + Q&A 🎥

T

🥂 GIVEAWAY🥂To celebrate the release of The Last One For The Road, we've teamed up with Bulldog Film to give away a fanta...
17/07/2026

🥂 GIVEAWAY🥂

To celebrate the release of The Last One For The Road, we've teamed up with Bulldog Film to give away a fantastic prize bundle, including a bottle of Dappa, a tote bag, shot glasses, limoncello spritz and more.

To enter:
• Follow and
• Tell us your favourite tipple in the comments

Competition closes Thursday 23 July. One winner will be chosen at random, announced and contacted via DM. Good luck! 🍻

T&Cs: Entrants must be 18 or over. By entering, you confirm you are of legal age to purchase and consume alcohol. Please drink responsibly.

Work with us!We are recruiting for a Facilities & Technical Coordinator to coordinate building maintenance, preventative...
02/07/2026

Work with us!

We are recruiting for a Facilities & Technical Coordinator to coordinate building maintenance, preventative upkeep, contractor relationships, safety documentation, warranties, technical support arrangements and facilities projects across Castle Cinemas.

Link in the bio I Deadline Sunday 26th July

🌈 Pride closing party at the Castle Cinema 🌈💊Join us Friday 3rd of July for our Pride closing party with the screening o...
28/06/2026

🌈 Pride closing party at the Castle Cinema 🌈💊

Join us Friday 3rd of July for our Pride closing party with the screening of The Matrix: Reloaded, followed by a DJ set in the bar!

Neo, Trinity and Morpheus, now fully immersed into the world of The Matrix, continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army in the second part of the original trilogy.

Stick around after for the screening for the DJ set in the bar & the delicious beers provided by Q***r Brewing - come see Pride Month out in style!

🗓️ Friday 03/06, 18:15
🎟️ £6

Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

£6 ticket for our screening-drag tea party with the lovely .has.been 🫖🥂🍪The Birdcage follows cabaret owners and lovers A...
23/06/2026

£6 ticket for our screening-drag tea party with the lovely .has.been 🫖🥂🍪

The Birdcage follows cabaret owners and lovers Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane) receiving word that their son is intent to marry the daughter of a controversial conservative politician (Gene Hackman). To accommodate, the couple make sincere attempts to hide their true selves and pass as a traditional family for the fiancée’s conservative parents abruptly come to visit. But as their stay increase, the truth must eventually win out.

Stay around post-screening for .has.been and her Draf tea party. Tea, biscuit and prosecco provided.

🗓️Saturday 27/06, 13:30
🎟️ £6

Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

Next up in our Pride Programme is satirical black comedy Bottoms with an intro by ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻🌈PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Jo...
21/06/2026

Next up in our Pride Programme is satirical black comedy Bottoms with an intro by ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏻🌈

PJ (Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri) start a fight club as a way to lose their virginities to cheerleaders. The fight club gains traction and soon the most popular girls in school are beating each other up in the name of self-defence. But the pair find themselves in over their heads and in need of a way out before their plan is exposed.

🗓️ Wednesday 24/06, 18:30
🎟️ £6

Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

Join us this weekend for the winner of Best Film Not in the English Language at BAFTA in 2018, The Handmaiden and some b...
18/06/2026

Join us this weekend for the winner of Best Film Not in the English Language at BAFTA in 2018, The Handmaiden and some bespoke typewriter poems by poet-on-command .with.mik 🇰🇷🌈

Confined in a mansion in 1930s Korea, Lady Hideko is a bird in a gilded cage - and a seemingly easy target for a duplicitous Count, who hires Sook-hee, a talented young pickpocket, to act as her handmaiden (and help in his plan to seduce her). But Sook-hee may have a different plan in mind, and tangled web soon begins to weave around the handmaiden, her charge, the Count, and Hideko’s domineering uncle.

🗓️ Saturday 20th July, 15:30
🎟️ £6
with.mik is a typewriter poet based out of London, England. Bring them something on your heart, and they’ll write you a custom poem on the spot.

Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery. www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

Next up in our Pride Programme is trailblazing musical Hedwig & the Angry Inch with a singalong led by ! 🌈 🎸 Raised a bo...
16/06/2026

Next up in our Pride Programme is trailblazing musical Hedwig & the Angry Inch with a singalong led by ! 🌈 🎸

Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a traumatic personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S. where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva. 🤘 💅

Singalong led by Rebelle Voices, London's only choir for LGBTQ+ women, trans and non-binary people! 🌈🌈

Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be a partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.

To celebrate Pride Month, we are delighted to premiere Cactus Pears.Set in rural Maharashtra, Cactus Pears follows Anand...
11/06/2026

To celebrate Pride Month, we are delighted to premiere Cactus Pears.

Set in rural Maharashtra, Cactus Pears follows Anand, a Mumbai call-centre worker who returns to his ancestral village to observe the ten-day mourning ritual following his father’s death. While navigating the pressures of family expectations and marriage, he reconnects whit Balya, a childhood friend facing similar struggles. Over the course of the morning period, their bond deepens into a tender and intimate relationship, creating a quiet exploration of grief, identity and q***r love within a traditional rural community.

The internationally acclaimed, q***r South Asian feature, Cactus Pears (Sabar Bonda), written and directed by Rohan Parashuram Kanawade, made history at the Sundance Film Festival in 2025, becoming the first Indian fiction feature and the first Marathi-language film to win the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. Further awards include the Jury Prize at the inaugural SXSW London.

+ award winning short film Two Black Men In Paradise

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director Rohan Kanawade, hosted by Shiva Raichandani.

After Kiki and Dracula, it is Two Times João Liberada at The Castle Hackney on Tuesday 16th June! 🌈🎥João, an actress fro...
11/06/2026

After Kiki and Dracula, it is Two Times João Liberada at The Castle Hackney on Tuesday 16th June! 🌈🎥

João, an actress from Lisbon, stars in a biopic about Liberada, a gender-nonconforming figure persecuted by the Portuguese Inquisition in the 18th centurey.

The film’s production becomes a battleground as João clashes with the director over how Liberada’s legacy should be portrayed. These tensions deepen as João’s dreams are increasingly haunted by Liberada’s ghost, blurring the lines between past and present. When the director succumbs to a mysterious paralysis, leaving the film unfinished, João is left to navigate the unfolding chaos. She faces unanswerable questions, not only about the film’s future but also about her own connection to Liberada’s spirit and story.

With a post-screening Q&A from film scholar Lu Etienne

🌈⛪️🏳️‍⚧️

Event supported by Film Hub London, managed by Film London. Proud to be partner of the BFI Film Audience Network, funded by the National Lottery.
www.filmlondon.org.uk/film-hub-london

Address

64/66 Brooksby's Walk
London
E96DA

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 11pm
Tuesday 10am - 11pm
Wednesday 10am - 11pm
Thursday 10am - 11pm
Friday 10am - 11pm
Saturday 10am - 11pm
Sunday 11am - 10pm

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Castle Cinema posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to The Castle Cinema:

Shortcuts

Share

Category