Get ready with your folding chairs, rugs, air beds, and picnic for a superb outdoor cinema experience this summer with Portsmouth Film Society. This year’s season of summer films launches on Friday 7th June with a free family show voted for by the public for the D-Day 75 celebration. Screening starts at 7.00 pm. The following evening, Saturday 8th June, the D-Day film Darkest Hour (2017), with an Oscar-winning performance by Gary Oldman, will be shown at Canoe Lake. Directed by Joe Wright, who made Atonement, another film with a wartime setting, it also stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Churchill’s wife Clemmie. Local MP, Stephen Morgan, will give the opening talk. Chairman of the Society, Cecelia Young, says: “We are very proud to show outdoor cinema in Portsmouth. Last year our events were very popular because the weather was kind to us. We hope it will be the same again. We are also giving free tickets to seafront residents for Darkest Hour (8th June at Canoe Lake) and The Gre...