Scott Pilgrim vs The World 12A

Edgar Wright embraces video game aesthetics for an action-packed comic book adaptation. Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) must defeat the seven evil exes of the girl of his dreams (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) to win her over. The ultimate evil ex is Gideon Graves, played by the brilliant Jason Schwartzman, making for a frantic final face-off.

This film is screening as part of the BFI Young Programmers Festival. For more information about the rest of the programme please click here. The Young Programmers Festival was planned and put together by 36 talented 16-19 year olds from this year’s BFI Specialist Programming Course, which runs here at Showroom Cinema each year.

We are also screening our very own BFI Film Academy made film titled Rose Tinted Glasses ahead of the film. This was made as part of the BFI Film Academy 2020-2021 course at the Showroom Cinema.

Statement from the Young Programmers:

We chose these two films in order to showcase different aspects of video games and the culture surrounding them; firstly we chose Scott Pilgrim due to its heavy influence from different video games which affect all areas of the film including its story, characters, structure and visuals which all come together to make a fun, unique and captivating portrayal of video games in live action.

Come and join us for a free board game session in our cafe ahead of the screenings, the games have been picked especially for this film season by The Treehouse board game cafe! It will take place from 2PM - 4PM, please call or book at the bar in advance, or turn up on the day to take part - our programmers will be ready and waiting to book you in for a session ahead of their film season.