Tom Grieve

On the week that Twin Peaks returns to our screens after 26 years, join RAD & Pilot Light at Gorilla for a damn fine Twin Peaks quiz around all things peakie!

A short season which aims to provide a telling glimpse into the work of the uncompromising, iconoclastic German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder: one of the leading figures in the New German Cinema movement that emerged in the 1970s.

Hop your hair and drop the needle on the record…Make A Scene are back bringing the Way Too Interactive treatment the 1988 John Waters classic Hairspray (with added splashes of the 2009 John Travolta musical thrown in for good measure!)

Look back to the early days of cinema with a silent film festival that takes in everything from famous comedies and epics, to little-seen genre pieces and world cinema obscurities.

A teenager immerses himself in the ways of the vampire

The Final Girls proudly present a one-night-only nationwide screening of XX, the first and only all-female horror anthology.

Empty Spaces Cinema presents a short pop-up film festival in The Handyman Supermarket. Inspired by their venues unique history as a cinema and DIY store, this not-for-profit event features three film screenings across the weekend.

Sci-fi festival Supernova returns for 2017 with a packed day of thoughtfully curated genre cinema. Expect space vampires, Arnold Schwarzenegger and dragons in the London Underground.

Events company We Are Parable present a season of some of director Spike Lee’s very best work, starting with entertainment industry satire Bamboozled.

The career renaissance of Terence Davies reaches an apex with this stunning, beautifully observed, erudite and witty literary biopic. After the film Davies will be on hand for a Q&A.

After surviving a bout of cancer and the loss of her husband, retired music critic Clara is hardly about to let herself be bullied by the ‘generous’ offers or insidious charms of a local real-estate firm.

Altrincham Film Club presents a rare screening of this seminal British drama. A tale of love and loss in Salford during the Great Depression, it remains a powerful and evocative work.