Film Screening 29th March, 2015

Poster for Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kingsman: The Secret Service 

7:00 PM, 29th March, 2015

  • MA
  • 129 mins
  • 2014
  • Matthew Vaughn
  • Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman
  • Colin Firth, Taron Egerton, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Caine

** Due to a full house at our original screening of KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, we will be re-screening the film on SUNDAY 29 MARCH at 7 PM. **

Eggsy (Egerton) is a young lout, apparently doomed to a life of petty crime and public endangerment. But Harry Hart (Firth) sees some potential, and inducts him into an uberstylish, super-British secret agency – to start an extremely dangerous training regime full of dangers and death defying. When lisping super-villain Valentine (Jackson) endangers the world with an incredibly violent plan, there’s only one team that can stop him…

The combination of comic book writer Mark Millar and director Matthew Vaughn previously gave the world the twisted, violent cynical world of Kick-Ass. Now they return to something just as twisted and just as violent, but with a stylish British twist. Firth’s perfect English gentlemanly facade has always begged to get roughed up just a little, and it’s a pleasure to see him get violent with a brolly and an immaculately tailored suit. Egerton is an engaging presence as the rough diamond about to get polished, and… well, when Samuel L. Jackson really turns up to play rather than just going through the motions, it’s always fun. So look forward to a spy-romp with an edge, and a whole lot of fun.

Simon Tolhurst