The Hastings UK Guide

Monthly Archives: August 2025


The Conjuring: Last Rites

Paranormal investigators, Ed & Lorraine Warren take on their must disturbing case to date. Jack & Janet Smurl and their family move into a brand new home they’ve dreamed of, which turns into a nightmare as it begins to show signs of demonic infestation.

5 Sep–7 Sep: Fri 5.30pm & 8.30pm; Sat & Sun 2.30pm, 5.30pm & 8.30pm

National Theatre Live: Inter Alia

Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Saltburn) is Jessica in the much-anticipated next play from the team behind Prima Facie. Jessica Parks is a smart Crown Court Judge at the top of her career. Behind the robe, she is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent. When an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance, can she hold her family upright? Writer Suzie Miller, director Justin Martin, and composer Self Esteem, reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie, with this searing examination of modern motherhood and masculinity.

4 Sep: Thu 7pm

Jaws

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach town, it’s up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast.

29 Aug–1 Sep: Mon & Fri 7.15pm

Hot Milk

With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.

2 Sep: (Senior) Tue 1pm

Heidi: Rescue of the Lynx

Free spirited Heidi faces forces beyond her years to protect her Grandfather and the alpine wilderness she loves from a ruthless businessman and the hungry jaws of his new saw mill.

29 Aug–31 Aug: (Kids) Fri–Sun 10am

The Roses

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.

29 Aug–2 Sep: Tue & Fri–Sun noon, 2.45pm, 5.30pm & 8.15pm

Caught Stealing

Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.

29 Aug–31 Aug: Fri–Sun 5.45pm & 8.30pm

Interstellar

Cooper (McConaughey) is a pilot-turned-farmer who’s recruited for an intergalactic mission to find humanity a new home. Despite awe and nail-biting tension, there’s too much clunky exposition and cinematic clichés, and although Nolan’s intentions to make a singular and cerebral film are admirable, it all gets a bit silly.

27 Aug: Wed 7.15pm

This is Spinal Tap

Certainly the most ingenious, accurate and funny of all spoof rockumentaries, with wonderfully spontaneous dialogue, convincing fly-on-the-wall camera work, self-penned heavy metal parodies, and of course the amp that goes to 11.

25 Aug: Mon 5.45pm

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry and his mates get busy at the inter-school of magic TriWizard Tournament, only to be faced with the return of evil mastermind Lord Voldemort (Fiennes). Overlong but entertaining enough adaptation of fourth Potter book directed with by Brit Newell.

25 Aug: Mon 1.30pm