Reel Talk Presents: 10 Things I Hate About You

Storyhouse Cinema is screening 10 Things I Hate About You on Wednesday 18 November, as part of its Reel Talk Presents programme. It's the 1999 teen comedy directed by Gil Junger, and it's a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew set in a high school. The cast is a real time capsule of the late nineties: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik and David Krumholtz. It's one of those films that's managed to stay a teen movie classic long after its release, and it was one of the most popular picks in Storyhouse's recent University of Chester Freshers Film Poll.

The story follows Kat Stratford, who's pretty, smart and notoriously abrasive, and whose younger sister Bianca isn't allowed to date until Kat does. Newcomer Cameron decides to set her up with the handsome but rebellious Patrick Verona, and from there it's the usual high school chaos. It's a coming-of-age comedy that works as well as a first watch as it does a revisit.

The screening sits within Reel Talk Presents, the pay-what-you-can arm of Reel Talk, which is a free community film club run by Storyhouse, Chester's only independent cinema. The club itself meets on the first Thursday of every month in the Storyhouse Meeting Room, led by a member of the cinema team. Each session opens with a relaxed roundtable where attendees introduce themselves and share what they've been watching, before moving into conversations inspired by new releases and trending film topics. The Presents screenings are chosen by the club and by audience suggestions, so this one comes from the community rather than a programmer's list.

It's a pay-what-you-can screening, with tickets ranging from £4 to £9.90, so you can decide what you want to pay. It starts at 6pm on Wednesday 18 November at Storyhouse Cinema, Hunter Street, Chester CH1 2AR.