Award Winning Independent Cinema

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Well, one thing you can do for an encore is publicly release a film of the concert you just played. And who doesn’t love a great concert movie? You get the best view in the house of your favourite band from a comfy seat, and … Continue Reading

RIP IT UP – CUT AND PASTE! Come and join Plymouth Arts Cinema working in partnership with The Box, Plymouth and Fotonow at the end of September and beginning of October for the 2026 BFI Fan UK-wide season ‘RIP IT UP’. Celebrating the societal importance of the … Continue Reading

After spending almost thirty years writing about the Moomins, Finnish author Tove Jansson turned her attention to adults with her 1972 novel The Summer Book, a collection of loosely connected vignettes following a young girl and her elderly grandmother on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland Charlie … Continue Reading

J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) and John Constable (1776–1837), though contemporaries and arguably the two greatest British landscape painters of their time, seemed to develop vastly different artistic styles. Like the social media of today, the newspapers of the period did not hold back on criticising the overuse of the colour yellow … Continue Reading

The film opens with a mesmerising depiction of the Shakers’ ecstatic woodland dances. This sets the stage to go back a few years earlier to Manchester, England, in the 18th century, where the roots of this fervent religious movement are revealed.

Initially, the movement was a small, private sect known as … Continue Reading

Here are some resources about online safeguarding for young people – and for anyone wanting to spend less time on smartphones and more time in real life!

Our panellists for presented a wonderfully wise and informative discussion around social media and safeguarding for young people after we screened Molly Vs … Continue Reading

There are few books that shorthand themselves so readily as Emily Bronte’s 1847 novel, Wuthering Heights. Windswept moors, doomed lovers, youthful angst. A passionate, yearning love for the ages. It’s an easy sell. But Bronte’s multi-generational saga presents several challenges to the film-maker who … Continue Reading