January's here!

August is upon us

Right good to get down @thenickelcinema.bsky.social last night. Film was killer than a bag of snakes. Bloody brilliant.

Our July calendar! Tickets available at THENICKEL.co.uk

WHITE HEAT will be our first sound feature to screen on 16mm film. Next Wednesday at The Nickel Cinema. THENICKEL.co.uk

Our July calendar is live on THENICKEL.co.uk! Book now, you insatiable deviants!

Our first 16mm presentation of THE UNKNOWN with live neoindustrial jazz score by FISCAL HARM.

🎥As mainstream cinemas fight for survival, a micro grindhouse in London (@thenickelcinema.bsky.social) is offering hope through its fantastically freaky programming and analogue formats. ⤵️

Our June programme is live! Tickets at thenickel.co.uk

TOMORROW! 2 gems of 80s Japanese cinema Friday night in London @thenickelcinema.bsky.social thenickel.co.uk

Pop back to Tokyo in the 80s with these two amazing music based films playing back to back on April 25 in London @thenickelcinema.bsky.social! Hosted by Will Stewart of Madegood Films! Tickets at thenickel.co.uk

A year ago today we launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring a repertory grindhouse cinema to London. Today we got the keys to our own place in Farringdon. Thank you for your wonderful support. I can't wait to welcome you to our venue and watch lots of weird movies together.

An amazing Japanese 80s double bill coming to London on April 25 @thenickelcinema.bsky.social Fran Rubel Kuzui's 1988 film TOKYO POP screens back to back with a 40th anniversary screening of THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS! Hosted by Will Stewart of MadeGood films Tickets: thenickel.co.uk

The French Connection on a beautiful 16mm film print with introduction and programme notes! Head over to thenickel.co.uk for tickets

@jasondashbailey.bsky.social we are screening Natural Enemies at our community cinema on the 14th. I wondered if I could interview you via zoom for an intro? Get in touch if you’re interested! Thanks, Dom

Tomorrow in Soho, @thenickelcinema.bsky.social is presenting one of my favourite ever cult films, Dennis Hopper's mournful, punkish Out of the Blue, about a hippie-hating kid and the death of the counterculture. It's incredible, as is its utterly one-of-a-kind young star, Linda Manz. Go see it!

Our themed double bills return on Friday 14th March with an incelebration of masculinity in meltdown with two bonkers and rarely screened masterpieces that deserve to be seen with an audience! Embrace the darkness… thenickel.co.uk

#bestfilminlondontoday Feb 9 at capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com guide to London films. @thenickelcinema.bsky.social presents ... drum roll ... ERASERHEAD (16mm ... 'you think you've watched this on your laptop ... get real') at Cinema Museum capitalcelluloid.blogspot.com/2025/01/capi...

And a great David Lynch evening with @thenickelcinema.bsky.social at The Cinema Museum with a screening of Eraserhead tonight

The Nickel presents a Valentines double bill: KILLER SWEETHEARTS! GUN CRAZY (1950) + BLONDE DEATH (VHS, 1984) Thrill crazy! Kill crazy! These red hot lovers have blood on their hands, gas in their tanks and a fire in their loins. £15 14/2 - 75 Dean St thenickel.co.uk

By popular demand, we are continuing to celebrate David Lynch with a screening of LOST HIGHWAY, along with a selection of shorts, interview clips, music and weather reports + programme notes and a cigarette for every ticket holder 🚬 Friday 7th Feb thenickel.co.uk

DOOR (1988) 31.1 - 9.30pm Once thought lost proto J-horror with DePalma flourishes and sociopolitical commentary on 80s Japan. ‘Chantal Akerman meets ‘Repulsion’’ says Elric Kane! @purecinemapod.bsky.social With programme notes by James Balmont. Tickets at thenickel.co.uk

Rarely seen Japanese exploitation film MERMAID REVENGE (1984) w/ @jaspersharp.bsky.social intro. A Nickel Cinema production 31st January in Soho www.instagram.com/share/_p39oh...

MERMAID LEGEND (1984) 31.1 - 7pm 75 Dean St thenickel.co.uk Toshiharu Ikeda’s beautifully lensed eco-thriller excudes a lyrical melancholia for a dying way of life before unleashing a tsunami of blood splattered mayhem across the screen. Introduced by Japanese cinema scholar Jasper Sharp