Past society events

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

It's the 47th anniversary of Doctor Who on the 23rd of November, so to commemorate this we will be watching one of the all-time classic Tom Baker stories, "The Seeds of Doom", from 1976.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

A young boy steals a dangerous, ancient storybook, set in the magical world of Fantasia. As he reads it, the boy discovers that he is the only hope Fantasia has against an evil force known as "The Nothing".

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

"GET YOUR ASS TO MARS!"

We're going to watch some Stanley Kubrick films.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Based on Neil Gaiman's creepy kid's novella, this stop motion animation features Dakota Fanning as the voice of 11-year old Coraline, who finds herself in a weird mirror world.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Sam Rockwell plays an isolated worker (Sam) on a moonbase, who tries to deal with the monotony of his three year shift on the moon. Mining for Helium-3, Sam's only company is the base's computer, GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). A mining accident threatens to turn Sam's world upside down, and as his paranoia grows, he starts to suspect that there may be more to the base than meets the eye...

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

We are watching the first two episodes of Joss Whedon's acclaimed, and sadly short lived, science fiction western Firefly: the feature length season opener "Serenity", and "The Train Job".

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Forget The Vampire Diaries, forget Twilight (Seriously, please forget it. Scrub your brains out with a scourer.) The Lost Boys did the teenage vampire thing before, and did it *better*.

It's the 25th Anniversary of BTTF being released in the cinema so there are special showings of it.

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is widely regarded as being vastly superior to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Captain Kirk's first adventure on the silver screen. The Wrath of Khan features the crew of the Enterprise coming together once more to face an enemy from their past, the genetically altered Khan, whose plans threaten the fate of the entire galaxy...

Every week, come rain or shine, we meet for a purely social gathering in The Al Ma Ma Ta (which is the pub near the railway station just off the center of Egham)

Avatar is a 3D movie with blue aliens. Unfortunately, Royal Holloway's lecture theatres are not equipped with REAL 3D technology yet, so we will have to watch it in (still frankly eye-popping) 2D.