Film Review: Exhibition on Screen – Caravaggio “the artist that deployed chiaroscuro to bring a cinematic flair to religious iconography”
Tuesday 11th November 2025
Reviled (or revered) as the Bad Boy of Italian Art, Caravaggio’s reputation seems to be unassailable. The bravura artist that deployed chiaroscuro to bring … Continue Reading
London Film Festival 2025
Friday 24th October 2025
Back from a week at London Film Festival and looking forward to a packed November programme.
LFF always sounds like fun to people who don’t go but … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Exorcist – “not a film about evil”
Tuesday 7th October 2025
I am pretty sure it was around the release of the 25th Anniversary edition that I saw William Friedkin’s 1974 adaption of William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist. … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Roses – “you’ll instantly recognise the familiar beaches and coves of South Devon”
Tuesday 16th September 2025
Taking inspiration from both the original 1981 novel, The War of the Roses and its 1989 film adaptation, The Roses reimagines the chaotic story of the destruction of a marriage … Continue Reading
“Romantic, Pragmatic, Feminist”: Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility
Tuesday 9th September 2025
Although it doesn’t get the same attention as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion or even Emma, Sense and Sensibility can lay … Continue Reading
Film Review: “Thank You for Banking with Us!”
Monday 9th June 2025
When their father unexpectedly dies, two sparring sisters must come together in a race against time to covertly claim their rightful inheritance from the bank, before, by order of … Continue Reading
Film Review – Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Thursday 5th June 2025
When it comes to making the transition from page to screen, there are few novels that can rival the track record of Jane Austen’s 1813 classic, … Continue Reading
Film review: The Salt Path – “immersed in panoramic shots of the gorgeous coastline”
Wednesday 4th June 2025
Midlife. It’s usually the time of life when you’re allowed to slow down. The children have grown up, you’ve finally (hopefully) got a bit of disposable income and you’re nearing … Continue Reading
Review: The Tale of Daye’s Family (SAFAR Film Festival) and Until The Sea (Short)
Tuesday 3rd June 2025
This film double bill, coming to Plymouth Arts Cinema on Thursday 19th June features people being dunked in the Nile, and the sea off Plymouth Sound.
Up first, … Continue Reading
Film Review – “Wild at Heart”
Friday 9th May 2025
Wild at Heart is screening at Plymouth Arts Cinema on Saturday 10th May at 8pm and Thursday 15th May at 8.15pm.
Audiences were not quite on … Continue Reading
Film Review – “One to One: John and Yoko”
Thursday 8th May 2025
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrived in New York City in late 1971, the USA was in a state of heightened political tensions. From the war in Vietnam, … Continue Reading
The old projector is dead, long live the new projector!
Thursday 1st May 2025
As you may know, Plymouth Arts Cinema’s projector failed over the weekend. Unfortunately the problem was terminal. We are now installing a brand new laser projector. It’s a critical piece … Continue Reading