Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Award Winning Independent Cinema
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 board when David Lynch’s Wild At Heart first premiered at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Though it went on to win the … 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, to the thousands of unjustly detained prisoners, to rising government figures with extreme racist views, to the dehumanisation of children … Continue Reading
Event Review – NT Live: Macbeth “bloody good”
Tuesday 15th April 2025
If you’ve seen David Tennant recently in “Rivals”, you’ll know that he’s brilliant at playing Machiavellian characters. There’s just something about those arched eyebrows that screams “power hungry.”
Originally staged for a small audience at The Donmar Warehouse, tonight’s version of “Macbeth” is a streamed … Continue Reading
Film Review: Four Mothers
Tuesday 15th April 2025
It’s a story about first love. Actually, it’s a story about the after of first love. It’s a story not so much about being in love, as being out of love. It’s a story about the loss of love. It’s a story that deals with what it means to … Continue Reading
Film review – Dawn of Impressionism Paris 1874
Monday 31st March 2025
It’s hard, from our perspective, to imagine a time when Impressionism wasn’t popular. It’s not only popular but ubiquitous. Images of sunlit meadows, leisurely riverbanks and ornate gardens have become artistic shorthand. Even if we think we know nothing about art, identifying a Monet would be easy enough. In their … Continue Reading
Film review – Oh My Goodness!
Wednesday 26th March 2025
Synchronised-gymnastic-cycling nuns, drunk table-dancing nuns and habit-wind-surfing nuns are just some of the nun-based hijinks on offer in this charming underdog comedy. Set in the sun-kissed Jura mountains, Oh My Goodness! follows a small band of eccentric – you guessed it – nuns, as they enter into a professional cycling race … Continue Reading
David Lynch Tribute – “thank you for a great deal of dreaming”
Tuesday 25th February 2025
Late one Sunday night, I must have been about eleven or twelve, and I’m watching TV in our front room. It was approaching bedtime, so I am anxious because it’s school the next day, when something came on so incredible and awful that my mind managed to make … Continue Reading
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 has impressed critics and audiences, and the nominations have been quick to follow. We may still think of Fiennes’ career … Continue Reading