CINEVANGELIST

Hidden gems, experienced fresh.

Alternate Sundays at the Park Tavern, Macclesfield

Ever take a chance on a film you’re not familiar with, only to discover you love it? One you told friends, family and colleagues seek out? That, my friends, is cinevangelism.

It’s natural to love the familiar. So we’re not going to tell you what you’re coming to watch. We’ll give you a synopsis and a genre, maybe more, but we’re basically asking you to go in blind and trust us.

What films are in the lineup?

Independent flicks which couldn’t afford wide release. Mainstream movies buried by bigger releases. Stories the studios didn’t know how to market. Films condemned to vanish within vast streaming libraries.
Some are exceptional. Some are imperfect yet ambitious. Others are simply great examples of their respective genres. The thing they all have in common? They deserve a wider audience.

Every other Sunday, come along, take a chance and be pleasantly surprised. And if you like our choices, spread the word – Cinevangelise to others!

Tickets are available free from the bar from 7pm – First come, first serve. Films begin at 8pm.

Please note: In order to preserve surprises, some synopses or given genres may deliberately mask the full scope of the film. If in doubt, don't take the risk...!

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January to April
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🎬 5 January 2025

Genre: Comedy Drama

A stagnating twenty-something who loves drug-fuelled parties is informed that she desperately needs to lose weight and reluctantly begins to consider giving running a serious try.

You may like it if you liked: Trainwreck

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🎬 19 January 2025

Genre: Drama

A washed-up, motor-mouthed porn star returns to his small town with his tail between his legs, but is immediately looking for a new hustle to find a way to somehow reclaim his old life.

You may like it if you liked: Uncut Gems

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🎬 2 February 2025

Genre: Romantic Period Dram

In 1850s, the wife of a farmer living in relative isolation in upstate New York finds herself drawn to a neighbouring farmer's wife, who likewise has found her own marriage strained and passionless.

You may like it if you liked: Brokeback Mountain

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🎬 6 February 2025

Genre: Romantic Comedy

A close-knit group of male friends head off to New York's 'gay Disneyland' for a wild summer of hedonism and hookups in the most unlikely (yet perfect) Jane Austen adaptation you've ever seen.

You may like it if you liked: Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

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🎬 2 March 2025

Genre: Animated Sci-Fi Thriller

In a future riven with social divisions and reliant on technology,a private investigator and her robot partner are hired to find a student missing after an incident at her university.

You may like it if you liked: Ghost in the Shell

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🎬 16 March 2025

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Two astronauts have spent years adrift in space but kept one anothers spirits up... Until a question that has long bubbled beneath the surface finally gets asked, opening a Pandora's box.

You may like it if you liked: Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

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🎬 30 March 2025

Genre: Comedy Drama

After losing her mother, a resourceful twelve-year old lives with an uncle in her council estate home. Unbeknownst to social services, she invented the uncle to hide the truth that she survives on her own.

You may like it if you liked: Hunt for the Wilderpeople

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🎬 13 April 2025

Genre: Drama

When a spiritual Mexican health therapist finds herself stuck at the home of a rich client, she comes face to face with the true values of the privileged 1% in an incisive tale sprinkled with dark comedy.

You may like it if you liked: Parasite

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🎬 27 April 2025

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Two overworked and undervalued personal assistants to high-powered leaders devise a so-crazy-it-might-just-work plan to get their demanding bosses off their backs.

You may like it if you liked: 10 Things I Hate About You

May to August
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🎬 11 May 2025

Genre: Sci-Fi Drama

The unassuming host of a ramshackle children's science show finds his life starting to fall apart following an inexplicable encounter with a man who seems to be a brasher version of him.

You may like it if you liked: Dream Scenario

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🎬 25 May 2025

Genre: Thriller

An injured young woman runs for her life, implacably pursued by a shotgun-wielding man. Their history, and what led them to this point, get unravelled gradually in this gritty, old-school thriller.

You may like it if you liked: No Country for Old Men

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🎬 8 Jun 2025

Genre: Comedy Drama

While her strict mother is away, a young Indian-American is convinced by her best friend to let her hair down. But when things to go south very quickly, it results in a road trip in this bawdy comedy.

You may like it if you liked: Booksmart

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🎬 22 June 2025

Genre: Drama

A volunteer spends a lonely night manning a helpline for various souls in distress in this quiet, restrained and thought-provoking slice of life drama about fighting despair and finding hope.

You may like it if you liked: My Dinner with Andre

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🎬 6 July 2025

Genre: Sports Drama

An NBA scout exhausted from years on the road is offered the chance to return to a stable life with his family if he can find a new star player in this example of a textbook feelgood drama done right.

You may like it if you liked: Creed

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🎬 20 July 2025

Genre: Comedy Drama

A talented but overlooked woman fighting to make her name in an extremely niche, male-dominated industry finds herself facing off against her own father.

You may like it if you liked: Legally Blonde

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🎬 3 August 2025

Genre: Drama

A teenager spends her summer mooching with friends & avoiding her single mother, until a chance encounter with an older man offers a more exciting option in this powerful but uncomfortable drama.

You may like it if you liked: Never Rarely Sometimes Always

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🎬 17 August 2025

Genre: Thriller

A young woman exhausted by the depressing tedium of online dating is delighted to encounter a handsome, charming man in a supermarket who seems almost too good to be true...

You may like it if you liked: 10 Cloverfield Lane

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🎬 31 August 2025

Genre: Animated Sci-Fi Fantasy Adventure

In a retro-futurist kingdom, a knight is framed as a villain for a crime that he didn't commit but attempts to clear his name are complicated by an oddball teenager eager to be a villain's sidekick.

You may like it if you liked: How to Train Your Dragon

September to December
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🎬 14 September 2025

Genre: Romantic Drama

A recovering alcoholic and single mother is reluctantly dragged to a school reunion by her younger sister, but has a disturbing encounter with a man there which triggers something within them both.

You may like it if you liked: Manchester by the Sea

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🎬 28 September 2025

Genre: Comedy Drama

The (largely) true story of a scrappy tech startup that a ruthless investor dragged from obscurity to quickly become one of the dominant products in the world…and then fell almost as rapidly.

You may like it if you liked: The Big Short

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🎬 12 October 2025

Genre: Sci-Fi Drama

Following the diagnosis of a terminal illness, a man is given the chance to spare his family from the pain of his loss by a revolutionary procedure that will allow him to keep his passing secret.

You may like it if you liked: Her

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🎬 26 October 2025

Genre: Horror Comedy

The crew of a low-budget zombie film come under attack from the actual living dead in this hilarious, endlessly surprising gem (which definitely benefits from the Cinevangelist treatment).

You may like it if you liked: The Disaster Artist

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🎬 9 November 2025

Genre: Drama

Overjoyed when her son unexpectedly returns to their remote Irish fishing village following a secretive sojourn abroad, a woman finds her maternal love tested by the immediate consequences of his return.

You may like it if you liked: We Need to Talk About Kevin

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🎬 23 November 2025

Genre: Thriller

En route to a covert job interview around Thanksgiving, a college student finds herself rerouted through the woods of Kentucky by her failing satnav and straight into serious danger.

You may like it if you liked: Mute Witness

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🎬 7 December 2025

Genre: Comedy

An eccentric recluse in Wales spends his lonely days building bizarre and useless contraptions, until he decides to try creating a full-fledged robot in this charmingly offbeat, very British comedy.

You may like it if you like: Wallace & Gromit