Films at HEART: Hundreds of Beavers
2025-12-10 19:00 - 21:30 (Europe/London) | Shire Oak Hall, Bennett Road, Leeds, LS6 3HN, United Kingdom
Films at HEART: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS
Doors 7pm Film 7.15pm
Dir Mike Cheslik//1hr48mins//Black + White//Certificate12A//2022
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman Jean Kayak played by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Watch Hundreds of Beavers trailer
Reviews:
Roger Ebert 4 stars out of 4 stars – A boldly bizarre, nearly wordless slapstick comedy about a 19th-century trapper doing battle with nature, exceeds expectations in every way.
The Guardian: Combining Chaplin, Keaton and Looney Tunes, the utter silliness of this movie pastiche, with an army of full-sized beavers, will win you over.
Tickets £6.50/£5.50

Films at HEART FilmFeast: The Holdovers
2025-12-19 19:00 - 21:30
Films at HEART FilmFeast: THE HOLDOVERS celebrate the festivities with this great film and Vegan Cottage Pie with root veg mash topping, green beans and gravy from our fabulous ABK cafe
Doors 6pm Food 6.30pm
Film 7.15pm
Dir Alexander Payne//2hrs 13mins//Certificate R//2023
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This comedy set in 1970 stars Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa – a curmudgeonly history teacher, Professor Paul Hunham, played by Giamatti, at a New England boarding school remains on campus during Christmas break to supervise held over students, and ends up forming an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker.
Reviews:
The Guardian: Alexander Payne’s story of a cantankerous teacher holed up for Christmas with a wayward teen and the school cook is expertly told with gentle, grownup comedy.
Empire Online: 4 out of 4 stars – Consistently hilarious, undercut with melancholy and flecked with profundity, it’s a major return to form for Payne after 2017’s shrinking-people drama Downsizing, and nothing less than a brand-new Christmas classic.
Tickets £12 (includes food and film) available from HEART reception and online
