The first film of the year is The Courier.

The bar opens at 6.30 and the film starts at 7.30

The true story of British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) unwittingly recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history.  Forming an unlikely partnership in the hope of preventing a nuclear confrontation, Wynne and Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) work together to provide the crucial intelligence used to defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

“This is a damn good, explosively tense story that focuses on the friendship that develops between two men on opposite sides.  And it is plainly wonderful.”  Deborah Ross, The Spectator