Review: The Room Next Door – “zings with colour and vibrancy: as a counterpoint to the proximity of death”
Tuesday 12th November 2024
At the age of 75, director Pedro Almodovar is still breaking new ground. In The Room Next Door, we have his first full-length feature in English. Taking its lead from … Continue Reading
Q&A with Director Mark Cousins
Tuesday 29th October 2024
Thank you to Mark Cousins for a brilliant evening on 21/10/24 talking us through his film A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper … Continue Reading
Film review: Timestalker – “wild, weird and wonderful”
Tuesday 29th October 2024
The theme of time travel is perfect for filmmakers as the very process of editing allows you to manipulate the timeline of your story and characters, in the form of … Continue Reading
“A textural, emotive documentary of a forgotten visionary” – A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things Review
Tuesday 15th October 2024
In approaching the reputation and legacy of modernist painter, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, film-maker Mark Cousins makes it clear that conventional story-telling will not do. A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things is … Continue Reading
Film Review: “Everybody in the Place” – Jeremy Deller
Thursday 10th October 2024
If you are my age, dangerously close to 50, or a fan of the Prodigy – you’ll understand the correct response to the title of Jeremy Deller’s illustrated, … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Critic – “McKellen revels in the role of Queen Bee among London’s coterie of critics”
Tuesday 8th October 2024
An actor famous for clapping back at critics, Ian McKellen’s latest role as [checks notes] a critic sounds like cinematic kismet. Directed by Anand Tucker, The Critic delivers on this … Continue Reading
Remembrance – “A film that will mean a lot to anybody from Plymouth”
Tuesday 1st October 2024
Remembrance interweaves the lives of several different characters, all of whom are sailors, as they await their departure to sea in the coming days. At the heart of the film … Continue Reading
Film Review: Starve Acre – “instils an ancient fear”
Tuesday 24th September 2024
Five-year-old Owen lives on a remote farm on the Yorkshire moors, where he hears a strange whistling noise and begins to act in an odd fashion. His archaeologist father is impressed … Continue Reading
Moving Waters – Artist Moving Image Programme
Thursday 19th September 2024
Moving Waters – curated by A Sometimes Project
These short films will be played before selected films in our October programme. An emerging, experimental arts initiative that aims to create opportunities … Continue Reading
Meet Ariel, Marcel, Joy and Bastian – the summer’s films introduced.
Tuesday 30th July 2024
By Noah Bridle
The Little Mermaid (PG)
Wednesday 31st July, 11am
Wednesday 7th August, 2:30pm
Disney’s live-action remake of the animation classic … Continue Reading
Film Review: Freud’s Last Session – “Anthony Hopkins plays a grumpy yet still sharp-minded Freud”
Tuesday 25th June 2024
Most of this film takes place at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, where Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna took residence in June 1938 after escaping from Nazi-occupied Vienna. In … Continue Reading
Best Arts, Culture and Theatre Venue – Muddy Stilettos Awards
Tuesday 11th June 2024
We celebrated our Muddy Stilettos Devon Award on a lovely sunny evening at Shilstone Manor. Thank you for voting us best Arts, Culture and Theatre venue in Devon! Here are … Continue Reading