A COUPLE of treats are lined up for film buffs at the Regal Theatre, in Minehead, over the next few days.

First up is The Great Escaper (Cert 12A), starring Michael Caine and the late Glenda Jackson in her last film.

It is being screened at the Regal this Sunday (January 7) at 2.30pm, in time for your roast lunch to have settled.

The film is based on a true story that made national news about pensioner Bernard Jordan, who in 2014 absconded from his care home in Hove, Sussex, to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy for an event to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings that turned the Second World War.

After the local police were notified he had gone AWOL, the care home received a call that evening to say that Bernard had been found safe and well on the other side of the Channel in France.

Tickets for The Great Escaper cost £5 (Friends of the Regal £4.50; Regal Film Society members, Students/ES40s £3) and may be booked in advance online and at the Regal box office (Tel 01643 706430) between 9.30am and 12.00pm Monday to Saturday. The Regal bar will be open for refreshments from 2pm.

Then on Tuesday (January 9), Ken Loach’s The Old Oak (Cert 15) will be screened at the Regal at 7.30pm.

The veteran British director’s compassionate, forthright and hopeful film is about a young Syrian woman who joins forces with a pub landlord to unite two traumatised communities in the North East of England.

The Old Oak is a struggling pub in what was previously a thriving mining community, and tensions begin to rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

Loach, who is 87-years-old, says this will be his last film, so don’t miss it.

Tickets for The Old Oak cost £5 (Friends of the Regal £4.50; Regal Film Society members, Students/ES40s £3) and may be booked in advance online and at the Regal box office (Tel 01643 706430) between 9.30am and 12.00pm Monday to Saturday. The Regal bar will be open for refreshments from 2pm.