DIXIE, THE GOAL KING – The life and achievements of football’s goalscorer William Ralph Dean.
Debut screening at: Floral Pavilion. New Brighton. UK. 22nd January 2027.
The captivating story of how William Ralph Dean, the boy from Birkenhead who became Dixie, the iconic centre forward genius of Everton and England, the No 9 who took goalscoring to a height that a century later remains unequalled.
His stunning total of 60 League goals in 1927-28 stands as the Everest of goalscoring, an enduring and remarkable record.
This revealing FreeStand film, made with the support of the Dean family, is an emotional personal journey intergrated with the legacy of his achievements. Written by Dixie’s biographer John Keith, who knew the great man personally. It includes Dixie’s own words as it traces his rise from back street football to League title and FA Cup glory with Everton and his feats for England.
Through archive material, interviews with other football greats and from those who knew and admired the legendary centre forward, this film brings to life his amazing career for a new generation.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURING:Graeme Sharp, Gary Lineker, Bill Kenwright, Ian Callaghan, Mark Lawrenson, Duncan Ferguson.
Snow is falling, the Northern lights are dancing in the sky – and we’re off on the most enchanting adventure.
There’s already plenty of heartwarming magic in The Snowman, but the Orchestra will be bringing you even more as they accompany a screening of this cherished family favourite live on stage. Then, once we’re back from the North Pole, we’ve got the perfect thing to warm everyone up – a holly jolly Christmas party! The Orchestra will deliver everyone’s favourite Christmas hits, presenter Maddie Moate will bring heaps of festive fun, and we’ll sing, dance and giggle our way into Christmas!
There’s musical magic in the air – come along to our Family Concert, if you dare…
We’ll have plenty of treats (plus a couple of tricks) as the Orchestra celebrate spooky season by accompanying screenings of two beloved Julia Donaldson classics. First up, we’ll be taking to the skies for a spell-binding adventure in Room on the Broom – and after we see that group of pals encounter one dragon, we’re off to meet another! Yes, we’re bringing the delightfully disastrous Zog to life in all his roaring, soaring glory. Mixing enchanting music with charming tales, we’re conjuring up a Halloween celebration like no other – and remember little monsters, we want to see your devilish disguises!
Snow is falling, the Northern lights are dancing in the sky – and we’re off on the most enchanting adventure.
There’s already plenty of heartwarming magic in The Snowman, but the Orchestra will be bringing you even more as they accompany a screening of this cherished family favourite live on stage. Then, once we’re back from the North Pole, we’ve got the perfect thing to warm everyone up – a holly jolly Christmas party! The Orchestra will deliver everyone’s favourite Christmas hits, presenter Maddie Moate will bring heaps of festive fun, and we’ll sing, dance and giggle our way into Christmas!
Festive film fun returns to Calderstones this Christmas. As the park turns into a winter wonderland, snuggle up in a deckchair under twinkly lights inside our magical heated tent and enjoy some timeless Christmas classics with your loved ones. We’ll have live music, delicious freshly made street food and festive specials, a full bar and the joyful atmosphere of the season.
Ghostface is heading to Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle this Halloween as Tiny Dock Studio launches an immersive, Scream-inspired photo experience.
Running from 21–29 October 2026, Tiny Dock will welcome visitors into a world of movie memorabilia, retro games consoles and CRT televisions, with Scream films playing across the screens to set the scene.
The experience begins with a quick tour of the studio before visitors take their place for a photo op with Ghostface lurking in the background. Whether they strike a terrified pose or play it cool alongside the iconic horror character, guests will leave with their own Halloween keepsakes.
Photos will be taken on each visitor’s phone, ready to share, and the experience also includes one Polaroid photograph to take home.
Combining the nostalgia of VHS-era horror with an immersive studio setting, the experience offers Scream fans and retro enthusiasts a chance to create their own scary movie moment.
Tiny Dock is a creative studio in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, bringing film, TV and gaming nostalgia to life through immersive experiences. Home to VideOdyssey (dubbed the UK’s last video shop), it is also a photography studio specialising in retro-themed photoshoots.
Told in three chapters, this is a journey through time, sound, architecture and filmmaking. Set in the streets of Recife — a city examined through the grand movie theatres, that once served as its spaces of community and imagination. Blending archive footage, clips from decades of Brazilian cinema, and personal memory, it maps a century of dreams, closures and transformation, and finds in the mostly-vanished movie palaces a way of reading the whole city’s history. Brazil’s official submission for the 2024 Academy Awards. From the director of the Oscar nominated “The Secret Agent”.
Wolf and Dog (2022, fiction feature, 111 min)
Ana was born on São Miguel, an island in the middle of the Atlantic ruled by religion and tradition. Growing up the middle child of a small family, she learns early on that girls and boys are given different lives. Through her friendship with Luís, her queer best friend who loves dresses as much as pants, Ana starts to question the future that’s been promised to her. When her friend Cloé arrives from Canada, bringing the glow of another kind of youth with her, Ana sets out on a journey that will carry her beyond the horizon, into the island’s vibrant queer community and her own desire. Winner of Best Film, Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days), 2022.
Kora (2024, short documentary, 28 min)
Kora traces the outlines of refugee women now living in Portugal. Filmed in delicate black and white, it gathers their voices, gestures and the portraits of those they carry with them — memories through which we glimpse the intimate, political work of rebuilding a present. Best Portuguese Documentary and Best Short/Medium Length Film, MDOC Melgaço; world premiere, Venice Film Festival 2024.
Friday 30 October · 81 Renshaw, LiverpoolDoors 6:30pm · film approx. 7pm · 18+
Obscure Film and Fringe Flicks join forces for a Halloween-weekend screening of Andrzej Żuławski’s cult classic Possession (1981), closing Scalarama Liverpool 2026.
Set against Cold War Berlin and starring Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, Possession begins with the collapse of a marriage before spiralling into paranoia, obsession, body horror and something much harder to explain.
Feverish, unsettling and extraordinary, it’s a film made to be experienced on the big screen.
We’re making a suitably strange night of it too. After the film, anyone feeling brave can enter our Possession scene-recreation challenge, inspired by one of the film’s most infamous sequences, with fabulous prizes to be won.
Taking part is completely optional. Sitting back and watching other people make questionable performance decisions is also entirely acceptable.
There’ll also be a specially commissioned alternative Possession poster, screen printed at Liverpool Community Print Station and available on the night.
The screening is presented by Obscure Film + Fringe Flicks / People Versus TV as the closing event of Scalarama Liverpool 2026, a month-long celebration of independent and DIY cinema across the city.
Festive film fun returns to Calderstones this Christmas.
As the park turns into a winter wonderland, snuggle up in a deckchair under twinkly lights inside our magical heated tent and enjoy some timeless Christmas classics with your loved ones. We’ll have live music, delicious freshly made street food and festive specials, a full bar and the joyful atmosphere of the season.“There’s room for everyone on the nice list!”
Buddy the Elf’s journey from the North Pole to New York City is pure Christmas joy — syrupy sweetness and silliness guaranteed.
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