Pop Ritzy Cinema: Birdman

Pop Ritzy shows a mixture of specially curated favourites, classics and crowd-pleasers, in the unique atmosphere of Pop Brixton. The next film Pop Ritzy are screening is Birdman.

Pop Ritzy is the renowned Ritzy cinema's pop-up sixth screen, based within Pop Brixton. Next up in the series of film screenings is Birdman:

This wild, savagely funny black comedy is not at all your usual kind of superhero movie. Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton, BATMAN) is a washed-up actor who made his name starring in an iconic Hollywood franchise about the Birdman.

Now he longs to be taken seriously as a Broadway playwright and director, but his theatre production is dogged by disaster, and his Birdman alter ego just won’t leave him alone.

When famous stage actor Mike Shiner (Edward Norton) is persuaded to join the show at the last minute, Riggan’s prayers seem to have been answered – but instead Mike’s raging ego threatens to destroy Riggan’s dreams for good.

BIRDMAN marries scurrilous showbiz satire with the poignant tale of a man facing up to his own obsolescence, and Keaton’s performance is absolutely fearless. A truly dazzling film.