The Bikeriders (15)

The screening on Thu 1 Aug at 2pm will have descriptive subtitles and will be relaxed for people living with dementia.

The Bikeriders follows the rise of a midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals. Seen through the lives of its members, the club evolves over the course of a decade from a gathering place for local outsiders into a more sinister gang, threatening the original group’s unique way of life.

‘Jodie Comer, Austin Butler and Tom Hardy are magnetic in this power struggle-cum-love triangle inspired by Danny Lyon’s 1968 photographic study of Chicago bikers’ – ★★★★★ The Guardian

‘Most contemporary westerns end up mourning a vanished era of compromised freedom. The Bikeriders doesn’t quite believe in that myth, but it still finds time to dampen a handkerchief as its shadow recedes. A flawed, fascinating film.’ – ★★★★ Rotten Tomatoes 🍅

Director – Jeff Nichols

Cast –  Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer, Mike Faist

• Information about screenings with descriptive subtitles.

  Descriptive subtitles, sometimes referred to as subtitles for D/deaf and hard-of-hearing people or captions, transcribe dialogue and relevant aspects of the soundtrack, including music and sound effects, attempting to give D/deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers an equal experience to those who are able to watch films without descriptive subtitles. Descriptive subtitles would include speech identifiers and descriptive elements such as [door slamming] and [kettle whistling].

• Seating accessibility information

  Cinema

  Seat size

  Seats in the Cinema are 45cm (172/3“) wide and 46cm (18“) deep, are 40cm (152/3“) from the floor, and have 12cm (42/3“) between seats.

  Armrests

  Seats in the Cinema have armrests that do not fold away, and cannot be completely removed.

  Legroom

  Seats in the cinema have 30cm (112/3”) of legroom in front of seats, with additional legroom on row A and seats B1-B4 and B11-B14.

  Further information

  If you have any questions about accessibility our Box Office team are always happy to help and can be contacted on 01642 525199 or by emailing [email protected] - you can also tell us about your access requirements when prompted to do so during the online booking process.

• BBFC rating information (may contain spoilers)

  Violence

  There are fight scenes and violent confrontations in which people are slashed, shot and repeatedly beaten. There is some use of improvised weapons (for example, a bar stool). A shovel blade is slammed into a man’s foot. In another scene, a person is bitten during a fight before his finger is broken. There is some blood on bodies in the aftermath of violence. In a scene of domestic abuse, a character hurls abuse at his female partner before briefly beating her with a belt. However, the woman’s adult son intervenes, beats the man to the floor and briefly throttles him.

  Threat and horror

  There are scenes in which people are menaced and threatened. In some cases, people are challenged to and accept fights, and are offered a choice of arms.

  Language

  Strong language (‘f**k’, ‘motherf**ker’, ‘c**ksucker’) occurs, as well as rude gestures, and milder terms (‘bitch’, ‘prick’, ‘shit’, ‘bullshit’, ‘piss’, ‘ass’, ‘bastard’, ‘hell’, ‘God’, ‘damn’, ‘Jeez’).

  Sex

  There is a brief scene of riding sex; however, there is no strong detail as both characters remain clothed. There are also moderate verbal sex references, including to ‘riding’.

  Discrimination

  A person remarks that a man is propped up in bed ‘like a queen’, and the man replies “Who are you calling a queen?”

  Drugs

  People smoke and pass marijuana joints. A character injects heroin into his arm in masked fashion. Disapproval of drug misuse is occasionally voiced by an off-screen character during a reporter’s interviews. Accordingly, drug misuse is not condoned by the work as a whole.

  Sexual violence and sexual threat

  During a party, a group of men aggressively surround and intimidate a woman, intending to rape her; however, further sexual violence is prevented by the intervention of another character. A woman is surrounded by men in a bar and subsequently reports that they left handprints on her trousers. Men in a bar harass women, and in another scene an uninvited character remains outside a woman’s house overnight.

  Suicide and self-harm

  A woman briefly states that if she had been raped by a group of men she may have taken her own life.

  Injury detail

  A person slams his fist through a vehicle window, after which there is close-up sight of glass embedded in the back of his hand before he removes the shards; the man later bandages his bloody wound. A man is involved in a vehicle crash in which his head slams against a car windscreen, leaving a splash of blood on the glass.

  Dangerous behaviour

  A car is driven recklessly through traffic; however, the driver is subsequently arrested for committing multiple traffic violations.

  Theme

  Scene of emotional upset include those in which people grieve, as well as scenes in which characters argue.

  Alcohol and smoking

  Adults frequently smoke cigarettes in scenes which reflect the time period in which the film is set. There are also scenes of alcohol consumption.