Independent Cinema for Everyone
Tag: FIlm
Film Review: Mad to be Normal, “David Tennant perfectly captures the charisma and frustrations of Laing”
Wednesday 14th June 2017
Nigel Watson reviews Mad To Be Normal, starring David Tennant. Screening until Thursday 15 June, tickets are available on our website.
Robert Mullan’s film focuses on R. D. Laing’s controversial time at Kingsley Hall, a psychiatric community project in the East End of London, which ran from 1965 … Continue Reading
Plymouth Film Festival Reviewed
Wednesday 7th June 2017
The Fourth annual Plymouth Film Festival was hosted at Plymouth Arts Centre on May 27-28 2017, showcasing a collection of world-class short films and features. With a range of categories such as You Only Live Once, Family Affairs and Random Acts featuring a diverse set of genres, the PFF audience … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Handmaiden “obedience and rebellion; sound and silence; sensuality and perversion”
Monday 22nd May 2017
Regular contributor Helen Tope has reviewed Chan-Wook Park’s film The Handmaiden which is currently showing in the PAC cinema until Thursday 25 May. Limited tickets remain for this weeks screenings, book now to avoid missing out!
The Handmaiden is a South Korean film based on the novel … Continue Reading
“A taste of the sea on film” – Nigel Watson reviews Celluloid Sail screening of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Wednesday 17th May 2017
Regular Contributor Nigel Watson reviews the Celluloid Sail screening of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, an event presented by Plymouth Arts Centre and Compass Presents in partnership with the BFI and part of the ‘Britain on Film’ season of archive events, supported by Unlocking Film … Continue Reading
FILM REVIEW: Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
Friday 9th December 2016
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them will be screening in the Plymouth Arts Centre cinema from 16th – 29th December. Tickets available here.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is the long-awaited … Continue Reading
FILM REVIEW: Nocturnal Animals
Wednesday 7th December 2016
Nocturnal Animals is screening at the Plymouth Arts Centre cinema from 9th – 15th December. Tickets available here.
Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals opens with an actual parade of naked obesities. … Continue Reading
FILM REVIEW: The Blue Room
Wednesday 7th December 2016
On the surface Julien Gahyde (Mathieu Amalric), lives in a large modern home, has a perfect wife, wonderful family and a successful job. Yet, this all changes when he has an ‘accidental’ encounter with Esther Despierre (Stéphanie Cléau) who went to the … Continue Reading
FILM REVIEW: I, Daniel Blake
Wednesday 7th December 2016
Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake is an unmagical mystery tour through the wilfully-labyrinthine world of benefits.
It’s an unsettling game of snakes and ladders where, even if you actually did fall off a ladder or were bitten by a snake, the DWP “decision-maker” … Continue Reading