1 THE International Reel Rock Film Tour is returning to the UK, bringing a fresh collection of climbing and adventure films to venues around the country. The tour - which calls in at Rheged Centre, Penrith, tomorrow (Thursday), will premier four new films starring climbing icons as they attempt to achieve their lifelong ambitions in far-flung locations, from icy Antarctica to the Bedouin canyonlands of the Middle East. And with climbing announced as a new sport for the 2020 Olympics, the film Up to Speed delves into the exhilarating discipline of speed climbing.

2 MULTI award-winning drama The Madness of George III will be broadcast live to Barrow's Vue cinema on Tuesday, November 20, in National Theatre Live’s first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse. Written by one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights Alan Bennett (The History Boys, Lady in the Van), the epic was also adapted into a BAFTA winning film following its stage premiere in 1991. The tale is set in 1786 and King George III is the most powerful man in the world. But his behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic as he succumbs to fits of lunacy.

3 THE Roxy at Ulverston is screening a midnight show of Fantastic Beasts: the Crimes of Grindelwald tomorrow night (Thursday) from 11.30pm. At the end of the first film, the powerful dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure blood wizards up to rule over all non magical beings.

4 THE Alhambra Cinema at Keswick is screening the Royal Shakespeare Company's Troilus and Cressida next Wednesday, November 21. Troilus and Cressida swear they will always be true to one another. But in the seventh year of the siege of Troy their innocence is tested, and exposed to the savage corrupting influence of war, with tragic consequences. Virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie collaborates with RSC artistic director Gregory Doran to create a satirical futuristic vision of a world resounding in battle.

5 FOLLOWING its record-breaking, sell-out run in London’s West End and national tour, the acclaimed musical Funny Girl is screened at Zeffirellis at Ambleside on Saturday, November 24 (3pm). Starring Sheridan Smith, Funny Girl is semi-biographical, based on the life and career of Broadway star, film actress and comedienne Fanny Brice (a role made famous by Barbara Streisand on Broadway and in the 1968 film adaptation), and her stormy relationship with entrepreneur and gambler Nick Arnstein.