Rain or Shine, Cromarty’s July Line-up Delivers Blockbusters, Banter and Bone-Chillers

Come rain or shine, you can always plan a wee escape to Cromarty Cinema in July, with summer blockbusters, sharp thrillers, dark comedy, literary drama, family favourites, road movies, documentaries and some wonderfully strange stories from around the world.

For big-screen spectacle, we have Supergirl, with Milly Alcock taking on the role of Kara Zor-El in a new DC adventure that sends Supergirl across the galaxy on a journey of vengeance and justice. Disclosure Day brings Steven Spielberg back to science fiction, with a summer blockbuster about government secrecy, alien contact and the question of what would happen if the truth really did come out. For families, and for anyone who grew up with Woody, Buzz and Jessie, Toy Story 5 reunites Pixar’s much-loved toys as they face a very modern threat to playtime.

There is plenty of dark humour and offbeat satire this month too. The Last Viking stars Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas in a Danish black comedy about memory, stolen loot and a man who now believes he is John Lennon. Savage House takes us to 18th-century England for a gleefully nasty satire of class, power and social climbing, with Richard E. Grant and Claire Foy at the centre of the chaos. The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford brings things closer to home, with Peter Mullan as an ageing Scottish tour guide whose obsession with local history is thrown into crisis when a fantasy TV series starts filming nearby. Rosebush Pruning is another sharp-edged family satire, following a wealthy and deeply dysfunctional household in a story of privilege, secrecy and decay. If you enjoyed Saltburn you need to see it!

For thrillers, mysteries and stories with a darker pulse, A Private Life stars Jodie Foster as a psychiatrist who begins investigating the suspicious death of one of her patients. Tuner follows a gifted piano tuner whose sensitivity to sound leads him into the world of safe-cracking, turning a careful, precise life into something much more dangerous.

For horror fans, Obsession adds a supernatural twist to romance and horror, as a wish for love curdles into something far more disturbing. Backrooms takes us into the unsettling world of endless, eerie liminal spaces, turning the internet myth into a striking new horror film.

July also brings literary and character-led drama. Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day is a fresh screen adaptation of Woolf’s novel, with romance, astronomy, suffragette politics and Edwardian expectations all woven together. The Last One for the Road is a warm Italian road movie about two older friends, one shy student and a freewheeling journey through the Veneto countryside. 500 Miles follows two brothers who run away from home in England to find their estranged grandfather on Ireland’s west coast, in a story of family, distance and repair.

There is also a special title with a strong human focus. Life Support is a powerful documentary about international doctors entering Gaza and the realities they encounter there.

From superheroes and space mysteries to Scottish satire, family adventure, documentary urgency and unsettling horror, July has something for just about everyone.

Get your tickets at https://cromartycinema.com/films/, the human box office on Thursdays 12-2, or at the door.

See you at the cinema!