sunday films and other events & screenings...
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Starting September 2024, a new series of Film Sundays at the Palace Theatre.
With a full day of film, including relaxed screenings for babies and toddlers and dementia friendly screenings, there is something to suit everyone. So why not join us in our relaxed, family friendly atmosphere at the Palace Theatre.
RELAXED SCREENINGS
Relaxed screenings and performances are intended to make coming to the theatre more accessible, meaning we do not worry about noise level during the screening, customers are free to move between the auditorium and our foyer spaces. Doors remain open and lighting in the auditorium is kept on. There will be a buggy park, a ‘chill out’ zone and refreshments available.
Relaxed screenings are ideal for those with learning and sensory disabilities, children, and young people together with their families, and adults with SEN or additional needs. Baby and Toddler Friendly screenings will include well-loved children's films whilst the Dementia Friendly screenings bring back happy memories with classic old favourites.
Tuesday 14th May
Paris Memories (2022) 15
7.00pm DIXON STUDIO 1hr 45m
PART OF SOUTHEND FILM FESTIVAL 2024
Southend Film Festival will be hosting a one-off ‘fringe’ screening at the Dixon Studio at the Palace Theatre with the Alice Winocour directed Paris Memories (originally Revoir Paris) from 2022, starring Virginie Efira and Benoît Magimel.
Mia (Efira) is traumatised after surviving a terrorist attack so retraces her steps in an effort to recall the events of that night.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 0343 310 0030
Sunday 8th September
Sing (2016) U
10.30am Palace Theatre 1hr 48m
BABY AND TODDLER FRIENDLY SCREENING
The family favourite film Sing is based around Koala Buster Moon who presides over a once-grand theatre that has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist, and a bit of a scoundrel, he loves his theatre above all and will do anything to preserve it. Facing the crumbling of his life's ambition, he takes one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition. Five contestants emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla, and a punk-rock porcupine and show of their gleaming musical talents, and what’s next for Buster Moon’s theatre…join us to find out!
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee Under 2's go free
Venue opens 90 minutes before the screening commences.
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 0343 310 0030
Sunday 8th September
The Wizard of Oz (1939) U
2.00pm Palace Theatre 1hr 42m
DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SCREENING
When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and en route they meet a Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) that needs a brain, a Tin Man (Jack Haley) missing a heart, and a Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) who wants courage. The wizard asks the group to bring him the broom of the Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton) to earn his help.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 0343 3100030
Sunday 8th September
The Great Escaper (2023) 12A
7.00pm Palace Theatre 1hr 36m
REGULAR SCREENING
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 29th September
Trolls (2016) U
10.30am Palace Theatre 1hr 32m
BABY AND TODDLER FRIENDLY SCREENING
After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy (Anna Kendrick), the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly cautious, curmudgeonly Branch (Justin Timberlake) set off on a journey to rescue her friends. Their mission is full of adventure and mishaps, as this mismatched duo try to tolerate each other long enough to get the job done.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee Under 2's go free
Venue opens 90 minutes before the screening commences.
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 29th September
Singin' in the Rain (1952) U
2.00pm Palace Theatre 1hr 43m
DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SCREENING
When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies', everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practice with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 29th September
A Haunting in Venice (2023) 12A
7.00pm Palace Theatre 1hr 43m
REGULAR SCREENING
Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. He soon gets thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets when one of the guests is murdered.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 20th October
The Lorax (2012) PG
10.30am Palace Theatre 1hr 26m
BABY AND TODDLER FRIENDLY SCREENING
A 12-year-old boy searches for the one thing that will enable him to win the affection of the girl of his dreams. To find it he must discover the story of the Lorax, the grumpy yet charming creature who fights to protect his world.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee Under 2's go free
Venue opens 90 minutes before the screening commences.
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 20th October
Anything Goes (1956) PG
2.00pm Palace Theatre 1hr 46m
DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SCREENING
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along. It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his find that she might not get the role after all.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 20th October
XX (2023) 12A
7.00pm Palace Theatre 1hr 43m
REGULAR SCREENING
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Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 10th November
Finding Nemo (2003) U
10.30am Palace Theatre 1hr 40m
BABY AND TODDLER FRIENDLY SCREENING
A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef and loses his son, Nemo, after he ventures into the open sea, despite his father's constant warnings about many of the ocean's dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist's office in Sydney. While Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang suffering from short-term memory loss. The companions travel a great distance, encountering various dangerous sea creatures such as sharks, anglerfish and jellyfish, in order to rescue Nemo from the dentist's office, which is situated by Sydney Harbour. While the two are searching the ocean far and wide, Nemo and the other sea animals in the dentist's fish tank plot a way to return to the sea to live their lives free again.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee Under 2's go free
Venue opens 90 minutes before the screening commences.
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 10th November
Calamity Jane (1953) PG
2.00pm Palace Theatre 1hr 41m
DEMENTIA FRIENDLY SCREENING
Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each discovers the perfect leading lady for the plum female role. Each promises the prize role to the girl they selected without informing the other until they head back across the Atlantic by liner - with each man having brought his choice along. It becomes a stormy crossing as each man has to tell his find that she might not get the role after all.
Tickets: £7.00 + £2.00 booking fee
To book please go to Palace Theatre, Southend website.
Palace Theatre, 430 London Road, Westcliff-On-Sea SS0 9LA · 03433100030
Sunday 20th October