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 … 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. … 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 … 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 … 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 … Continue Reading
Film review: Nosferatu – “mesmerizingly blood curdling”
Tuesday 14th January 2025
The film opens in beautifully lensed darkness then to our main character Ellen Hutter (dressed all in white, a clear metaphor for her actions as the heroine of … Continue Reading
Our Films of the Year 2024
Saturday 21st December 2024
Our wonderful staff and volunteers have taken our annual vote on our favourite films of 2024.
Each of us voted for our top 3 films. Plymouth Arts Cinema screened 162 films … Continue Reading
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