Award Winning Independent Cinema
Category: Film
Film Review – Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Thursday 5th June 2025
When it comes to making the transition from page to screen, there are few novels that can rival the track record of Jane Austen’s 1813 classic, Pride and Prejudice. The book’s blend of romance and comedy has proved an irresistible combination, with film and … Continue Reading
Film review: The Salt Path – “immersed in panoramic shots of the gorgeous coastline”
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Midlife. It’s usually the time of life when you’re allowed to slow down. The children have grown up, you’ve finally (hopefully) got a bit of disposable income and you’re nearing retirement. Happy days!
But sometimes life has other plans. Moth (Jason Isaacs) and Raynor (Gillian Anderson) live a relatively comfortable life … Continue Reading
Review: The Tale of Daye’s Family (SAFAR Film Festival) and Until The Sea (Short)
Tuesday 3rd June 2025
This film double bill, coming to Plymouth Arts Cinema on Thursday 19th June features people being dunked in the Nile, and the sea off Plymouth Sound.
Up first, Until the Sea is about a Plymouth-based charity working with asylum seekers. Reclaim the Sea helps individuals … Continue Reading
Film Review – “Wild at Heart”
Friday 9th May 2025
Wild at Heart is screening at Plymouth Arts Cinema on Saturday 10th May at 8pm and Thursday 15th May at 8.15pm.
Audiences were not quite on board when David Lynch’s Wild At Heart first premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Though it went on to win the … Continue Reading
Film Review – “One to One: John and Yoko”
Thursday 8th May 2025
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrived in New York City in late 1971, the USA was in a state of heightened political tensions. From the war in Vietnam, to the thousands of unjustly detained prisoners, to rising government figures with extreme racist views, to the dehumanisation of children … Continue Reading
Event Review – NT Live: Macbeth “bloody good”
Tuesday 15th April 2025
If you’ve seen David Tennant recently in “Rivals”, you’ll know that he’s brilliant at playing Machiavellian characters. There’s just something about those arched eyebrows that screams “power hungry.”
Originally staged for a small audience at The Donmar Warehouse, tonight’s version of “Macbeth” is a streamed … Continue Reading
Film Review: Four Mothers
Tuesday 15th April 2025
It’s a story about first love. Actually, it’s a story about the after of first love. It’s a story not so much about being in love, as being out of love. It’s a story about the loss of love. It’s a story that deals with what it means to … Continue Reading
Film review – Dawn of Impressionism Paris 1874
Monday 31st March 2025
It’s hard, from our perspective, to imagine a time when Impressionism wasn’t popular. It’s not only popular but ubiquitous. Images of sunlit meadows, leisurely riverbanks and ornate gardens have become artistic shorthand. Even if we think we know nothing about art, identifying a Monet would be easy enough. In their … Continue Reading