(Thursday) Movie Choice — A House of Dynamite /or/ Urchin — Meet from 7:15

The Watershed programme means that we're meeting on Thursday this week.

There are two films. In different ways, they're both about realities we'd like to ignore. One concerns an individual. The other involves us all.

• Harris Dickinson’s Urchin
• Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite

Choose which movie you're going to see and buy your own ticket from the box office or online (links below).

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. After the films, we will stop for a while to talk about them.

URCHIN (starts 8:30, ticket)

Mike, a rough sleeper in London, is trapped in a cycle of self-destruction as he attempts to turn his life around.

"Harris Dickinson makes a terrifically impressive debut here as a writer-director with this smart and compassionate picture about homelessness."
★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

" ... one of our most exciting young actors proves himself to be a bold new voice in British filmmaking"
★★★★ Iana Murray, Empire

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (starts 8:40, ticket)

When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

"Bigelow’s ability to take a series of hypotheticals and render them into narrative actuality has never been more pinpoint accurate or merciless."
★★★★★ Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert .com

"Eight years since her last feature, Kathryn Bigelow returns with an unrelenting chokehold thriller so controlled, kinetic and unsettlingly immersive that you stagger out at the end of it wondering if the world will still be intact."
★★★★★ David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter