Newmarket Community Cinema kicks off the New Year on Monday 20th January with an Ealing Studios classic, The Ladykillers (1955), a black comedy with a stellar cast including Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Frankie Howerd and Jack Warner.

An eccentric and unsuspecting old widow rents some rooms in her house to a group of men she believes to be musicians looking for somewhere to rehearse, while in reality they are a gang planning a heist at a railway station near her home.

While the men succeed in getting away with the robbery, using their landlady’s home as the ideal place to hide their ill-gotten gains, they prove themselves to be so inept that they all get their just deserts while the old lady ends up with the loot.

On Monday 17th February we are showing Scrapper, an intriguing father-daughter comedy which follows Georgie, a resourceful 12-year-old girl who lives alone in a flat in a working class suburb of London following the death of her mother.

She manages to keep the social workers off her back by pretending she lives with an uncle. Then, out of nowhere, her estranged father arrives and forces her to face reality.

Uninterested in this sudden parental figure Georgie is stubbornly resistant to his efforts. But as they adjust to their new circumstances Georgie and her father find they both have a lot of growing up to do.

Both films will be screened at The Stable in Newmarket High Street (opposite Boots) at 7.30 p.m, with free refreshments from 6.45 p.m. Tickets (£6) on the door. Sub-titles shown on request (as long as they are on the DVD). Newmarket Community Cinema is open to all; no membership required.