Film Societies:

• British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) 
• Yorkshire Branch of the BFFS
• The British Film Institute

If you are interested in learning more about films on the web:

• BFI film links gateway is an excellent resource with links to many film related websites.
• for information on a particular film there is the internet movie database
• for information on the Oscars try the Academy of Motion Pictures site.

Reading about cinema:

The long standing allure of celebrity and the explosion in film studies as an academic subject have combined to produce a massive literature on cinema.
Any good book shop will carry a wide selection of biographies, studies of genres and expositions of the work of particular directors, along with information about national cinematic movements.
The brief list below is in no way representative of this huge body of work, but is provided as a starting point for those interested to learn more about movies.  The selection has some general interest and some more academic works. 

• Cousins, Mark  -  The Story of Film. (London: Pavilion, 2004)

• Shapiro, Harry  -  Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood and the Movies. (London: Serpent’s Tail, 2005)

• Norman, Barry  -  And Why Not? Memoirs of a Film Lover (London: Pocket Books, 2003)

• Maltby, Richard  -  Hollywood Cinema. Second Edition. (Malden, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003)

• McDougal, Dennis - The  Last Mogul. Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. (New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1998)

• Gabler, Neal - An Empire of Their Own. How The Jews Invented Hollywood.  (New York: Anchor Books, 1989)

The associated bibliographies will offer many more possibilities.
  
There are a number of book stores in the centre of Harrogate, including at least one secondhand bookstore on Commercial Street*, offering a range of cinema related titles.
*first floor, for books on film.