The second Radstock Film Festival takes place this weekend at Victoria Hall with a
programme of top recently released films,including a special screening of the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The Festival kicks off on Saturday, 11th March with a screening of the British family comedy drama, A Street Cat Named Bob (12A) at 4.30 p.m. Based on the best-selling book, this is a true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
The Saturday evening screening is the tense twisting thriller The Girl on the Train (15) based on Paula Hawkins’ bestselling novel and staring Emily Blunt. Rachel,
devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasising about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes
entangled in the mystery that unfolds.
On Sunday, 12th March at 4.30 p.m., there’s a special screening of the Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (12A). “We’re delighted to have permission from Warner Brothers Studio to show this film as a rare one off screening,” says Victoria Hall’s Programme Coordinator, Caroline Green. “The studio has to approve every single screening of this film and prefer multiple screenings, so we’re thrilled they agreed to let us include a single matinee screening in our festival programme.”
Fantastic Beasts returns us to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling. Academy Award winner, Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist, Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters. The film opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident… were it not for a No-Mag (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Mag worlds.
Tickets for the three remaining screenings can be booked online at: www.victoriahallradstock.co.uk or by phone on: 01761 438885.