Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Award Winning Independent Cinema
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
Film review – Oh My Goodness!
Wednesday 26th March 2025
Synchronised-gymnastic-cycling nuns, drunk table-dancing nuns and habit-wind-surfing nuns are just some of the nun-based hijinks on offer in this charming underdog comedy. Set in the sun-kissed Jura mountains, Oh My Goodness! follows a small band of eccentric – you guessed it – nuns, as they enter into a professional cycling race … Continue Reading
David Lynch Tribute – “thank you for a great deal of dreaming”
Tuesday 25th February 2025
Late one Sunday night, I must have been about eleven or twelve, and I’m watching TV in our front room. It was approaching bedtime, so I am anxious because it’s school the next day, when something came on so incredible and awful that my mind managed to make … Continue Reading
Oscar Profile: Ralph Fiennes’ sheer diversity of characters
Tuesday 25th February 2025
With a career spanning three decades, actor Ralph Fiennes has just received his third Oscar nomination. His role in Edward Berger’s ecclesiastical hit Conclave has impressed critics and audiences, and the nominations have been quick to follow. We may still think of Fiennes’ career … Continue Reading
Film Review: Memoir of a Snail – “surprisingly heartfelt and poignant”
Tuesday 25th February 2025
In Adam Elliot’s second feature film, Memoir of a Snail, a young woman, saddened by the death of her only friend, tells her tragic life story to her pet snail. It is a sorrowful tale, full of loss, alienation and abuse, though once put through the filter of wry, Australian … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Brutalist – “even at such an epic length, one is left wanting more.”
Wednesday 19th February 2025
Adrian Brody seems to be carving out a peculiar character niche for himself – a renowned Jewish artist and genius in his discipline who is left ravaged by the horrors of the holocaust. But rather than being a rehash of 2002’s The Pianist, The Brutalist is more its spiritual sequel, … Continue Reading
Film Review: Vermiglio – “a real treat”
Tuesday 11th February 2025
Set in a remote village of the Italian Alps during the last uncertain days of World War II, Vermiglio peeks into the secrets and conflicts of a family modestly getting by in an unforgiving environment. Italy’s contender for Best International Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, the film is a beautifully shot, … Continue Reading
Film Review: A Real Pain
Wednesday 29th January 2025
Jesse Eisenberg’s second feature as writer-director tells the story of two cousins journeying to Poland in tribute of their recently deceased grandmother, by way of a holocaust tour group.
The once-close-now-distant cousins hope to reconnect not only with the tragedy of their ancestry, but with each other. A gentle drama-comedy in the … Continue Reading