SLSF Present: The Iron Giant, Wed 21st Nov, New Cross

Directed by Brad Bird, written by Tim McCanlies
"The Iron Giant" is a smooth, skilled example of animated filmmaking. Based loosely on a children's fable written in 1968 by Ted Hughes, "The Iron Giant" looks at the fearful years of the Cold War through the political lens of the late 1990s, while turning upside down all those sci-fi movie parables of the '50s.
It is the story of a nine-year-old boy, and a fifty foot robot, from who knows where that plunges into the sea one stormy night in 1957, who becomes his secret playmate and with the help of a sympathetic beatnik they confound the full might of America's military-industrial complex to save New England from nuclear obliteration.

Wed 21st November
£4 Including delicious veggie meal; 7.30pm for Food, 8pm for Film
At The Café Crema, 306 New Cross Rd SE14
Bus: 21, 53, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 436, 453
BR/Tube: New Cross, New Cross Gate DLR: Deptford Bridge