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Plymouth Arts Cinema Is Recruiting New Trustees

Tuesday 4th June 2024

Plymouth Arts Cinema is looking to appoint several new Trustees to expand the diversity and range of skills and experience on the Board, currently comprised of 4 Trustees.

We are hoping … Continue Reading

Event Photos: Plymouth Urban Tree Festival, 14/5/24

Thursday 23rd May 2024

#Noticethistree is a series of interventions about protest and loss across the UK www.noticethistree.org

On the 14th May as part of Plymouth’s Urban … Continue Reading

Film Review: “John Singer Sargent – Fashion and Swagger”

Thursday 18th April 2024

Following fast on the heels of Vermeer: The Greatest Exhibition, Exhibition on Screen again focuses on one of the year’s most talked-about art shows. … Continue Reading

Film Review: Your Fat Friend – “her truth bombs are dropped gently but decisively”

Wednesday 6th March 2024

YOUR FAT FRIEND

 

Just say “fat”. As an opening gambit, Jeanie Finlay’s documentary isn’t shy about throwing around the F word. Your Fat Friend doesn’t … Continue Reading

Film Review: The Zone of Interest – “doesn’t just teach us about the past: it warns us not to repeat it.”

Tuesday 27th February 2024

Anyone who visits the cinema regularly will know that finding a film that stays with you, long after the credits have rolled, is an increasingly rare experience. In … Continue Reading

Tish + Document Your Community Fotowalk with Fotonow (20/1/24)

Wednesday 31st January 2024

On Saturday 20th January, Fotonow ran a guided photography walk exploring Plymouth in the afternoon, with the theme Document Your Community.
Emma Booth from Fotonow gave an introduction to … Continue Reading

Film Review: Poor Things – “Stone’s performance is rightly worthy of an Oscar nomination”

Wednesday 31st January 2024

A fantasy that blends science fiction with High Victoriana, Poor Things – a 1992 novel from Glaswegian author Alasdair Gray – seems a project tailor-made for director Yorgos Lanthimos. … Continue Reading

Film Review: The Holdovers – “a sense of warm familiarity”

Tuesday 23rd January 2024

Those fed up with the bleak midwinter will find more than a cup of Christmas cheer still left in The Holdovers, the latest from Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways, Nebraska). In fact … Continue Reading

Film Review: Tish – “culture is not solely for middle-class consumption”

Tuesday 16th January 2024

A documentary that reframes the perception of the “working-class experience”, Tish is the story of Tyneside documentary photographer, Tish Murtha. Directed by Paul Sng, and featuring Tish’s daughter, Ella, this … Continue Reading

2023 – What a Year!

Thursday 21st December 2023

It’s that time of the year when we all look back at the highs and lows and it’s fair to say, 2023 has been quite the rollercoaster for us … Continue Reading

Event Review: The Red Shoes

Thursday 14th December 2023

The centrepiece of a UK-wide celebration, Cinema Unbound: The Creative Worlds of Powell + Pressburger, the 1948 film The Red Shoes, … Continue Reading

Film Review: Saltburn – “grabs your attention and refuses to let go”

Tuesday 28th November 2023

Balanced somewhere between a “gothic love story” and horror, according to its director, Saltburn is a film with serious pedigree.

Loosely based on the family featured in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, … Continue Reading

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