Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Closed Monday and Sunday
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Independent Cinema for Everyone
PAC Staff and Volunteers’ Films of The Year 2019
Thursday 19th December 2019
Plymouth Arts Cinema has screened 149 films in 2019, since moving to our new location at Plymouth College of Art in January. Unsurprisingly, cinema was one of the main topics of conversation at our Staff and Volunteers’ Christmas Party, and we took the chance to look back over the year … Continue Reading
Film Review – Honeyland – “Life, death; man, nature – Honeyland is unafraid to depict everything equally”
Tuesday 17th December 2019
Jack Hobson reviews award-winning documentary Honeyland, showing for one last screening in our cinema on Wednesday 18 December at 20:30.
Winning three awards at the Sundance Film Festival, Honeyland traverses the varying Macedonian landscape as beautifully it does the vicissitudes of the life of one of the … Continue Reading
Film Review: Official Secrets
Monday 9th December 2019
Jack Hobson reviews Official Secrets, showing in our cinema until Thursday 12 December.
Director Gavin Hood has taken a certainly complex subject and created an engaging narrative in a docudrama form, unveiling with clarity the real life story behind whistleblower Katharine Gun.
Official Secrets takes an alternative … Continue Reading
Film Preview: Singin’ in the Rain – “Both optimistic and cynical, Singin’ in the Rain has lost none of its power to charm and persuade.”
Monday 9th December 2019
Helen Tope reviews Singin’ in the Rain, showing on our screen from Saturday 14 to Friday 20 December as part of our Musical Classics Season.
For many the ultimate musical, Singin’ in the Rain looks at the glamour of old-school Hollywood and just what it takes … Continue Reading
January February 2020 Film Programme
Wednesday 4th December 2019
Here’s our first film programme of the new decade! January and February is always an exciting time for cinema as we see lots of hotly tipped new releases in the run-up to awards season.
Programme Highlights and Special Offers
Members Event… Continue Reading
Film Preview: Meet Me in St Louis – “Garland, under Minnelli’s direction, gives a performance that bursts with energy.”
Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Regular blog contributor Helen Tope previews Meet Me in St Louis showing in our cinema from Friday 20 to Saturday 28 December.
It’s 1903, and St Louis, Missouri, is just one year away from hosting the World’s Fair, and most definitely a town on the rise.
Against … Continue Reading
Film Preview: It’s a Wonderful Life – “George Bailey’s life is not only wonderful, it is irreplaceable.”
Monday 2nd December 2019
Regular blog contributor Helen Tope previews It’s a Wonderful Life, her favourite film! This beloved Christmas classic is showing in our cinema from Thursday 12 to Thursday 19 December.
A perennial classic, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life is a film that has become a victim of … Continue Reading
Film review: The Peanut Butter Falcon – “one of the year’s most uplifting and surprising feats”
Monday 18th November 2019
Alice O’Hare reviews The Peanut Butter Falcon, showing in our cinema until Thursday 21 November.
At the centre of modern-day buddy film and road movie mash-up The Peanut Butter Falcon is the most unlikely of pairings. We meet the charming Zak (Zack Gottsagen) first, a young … Continue Reading