By Design15

Directed by Amanda Kramer | 2025 | 1h 31m | Starring Juliette Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Samantha Mathis, Udo Kier, Melanie Griffith

In a furniture showroom, Camille (Juliette Lewis) spots a chair and realises she envies its life. Everyone loves a perfect chair, and she wants to be someone’s favourite thing too. When she gets her wish and swaps bodies with it, she finds that people like her far better as a chair. Part absurdist satire, part performance art, Amanda Kramer’s follow-up to Please Baby Please plays with fetish and desire through camp dialogue and dark humour.

Reviews

‘Even a utilitarian object can never entirely be what it means to us. Kramer turns that abstraction into something potent, humorous and faintly uncanny.’
★★★★
Marina Ashioti, Little White Lies

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Today (Sunday 25th October)
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15:00

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast Of Mo U
1h 20m
Just before Halloween, the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun's science experiments to fix it go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods. Shaun the Sheep returns in a monstrously fun family adventure as Aardman turns 50.

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17:15

Digger 15
2h 9m
The most powerful man in the world is in a frantic race to prove he's humanity's saviour before the disaster he unleashed destroys everything. Tom Cruise heads up an all-star cast in Oscar-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu's sharp comic satire.

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20:15

The Lost Children of Tuam 12A
1h 24m
Amateur historian Catherine Corless investigates a former home for unmarried mothers and their children in rural Ireland, and won't stop, even when it pits her against Church, State and town. Monica Dolan stars in this gripping true story.

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Tomorrow (Monday 26th October)
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18:00

Extra Geography 15
1h 34m
In their final year at an early-2000s boarding school, two best friends set themselves a mission: to fall in love with their geography teacher. Molly Manners' freewheeling comedy drama is a funny, warm-hearted portrait of female friendship.

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20:15

Digger 15
2h 9m
The most powerful man in the world is in a frantic race to prove he's humanity's saviour before the disaster he unleashed destroys everything. Tom Cruise heads up an all-star cast in Oscar-winner Alejandro González Iñárritu's sharp comic satire.

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Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road.We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We only show a few adverts – less than most cinemas – and we only play a couple of trailers, so please don’t be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!

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