Independent Cinema for Everyone
Category: Film
Film review: Theater Camp – “a riotous, joyous portrait of lives devoted to the arts”
Tuesday 19th September 2023
A pitch-perfect satire, celebrating the proudly insular world of musical theatre, mockumentary Theater Camp chronicles life at a kids’ performing arts retreat.
The film starts at the camp’s final performance of the season, and gives us the drama with an early narrative twist. As we follow camp founder Joan … Continue Reading
Film Review: And Then Come The Nightjars – “captures the essence of today’s important conversations about male mental health”
Tuesday 12th September 2023
Can you remember a virus that led to the deaths of over 6 million animals? Speak to a farmer, vet or anyone from an agricultural background and they’ll most definitely remember 2001’s Foot and Mouth outbreak. It was a national crisis resulting in the mass culling of cows, sheep and … Continue Reading
In Pictures: Open Air Cinema 2023
Wednesday 30th August 2023
2023 was a season of mixed fortune weather-wise for Open Air Cinema at Tinside Lido, but we did manage a couple of beautiful balmy evenings by the sea. Here are some pictures taken by photographer Amber Amare (@amberfilms_) at the screening of Roman Holiday.
We are … Continue Reading
Film Review: Barbie – “Part of the joy is just how many cinematic references Gerwig manages to cram in.”
Thursday 24th August 2023
As an icon among dolls, Barbie’s rise to the top has met with little resistance. As an icon of cinema, her box office numbers are good, but she has lacked artistic cache. With Ladybird and Little Women director Greta Gerwig … Continue Reading
Open Air Cinema – the highs and the lows
Tuesday 15th August 2023
Well, it has finally happened. After 12 summers of running Open Air Cinema events in the glorious and temperamental British summertime, we had an almost total washout on the first weekend of the year. I guess our luck had to run out some time and it may as well be … Continue Reading
Preview: Enys Men at Tinside Lido for Open Air Cinema
Monday 7th August 2023
Translated as ‘Stone Island’ in Cornish, it is hard to imagine a more pertinent film than Enys Men to screen with the everpresent Drake’s Island as a backdrop at Open Air Cinema at Tinside Lido.
A film which critic Adam Scovell described as an “anti-romantic expression of Cornish … Continue Reading
Film Review: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – “an exhilarating, whip cracking, roller-coaster”
Tuesday 25th July 2023
Raiders Of the Lost Ark introduced us to the fedora wearing, whip cracking archaeologist Inidana Jones in 1981. The film was the brainchild of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg who had respectively mined the science fiction serials of the 1930 and 1940s in Star Wars, and the Golden Era of … Continue Reading
Film review: Smoking Causes Coughing – “an absurd look into an alternative reality”
Tuesday 25th July 2023
Coming from the universally Marmite director Quentin Dupieux, this is an absurd look into an alternative reality where superheroes kill foam monsters and rats are suitable bachelors.
The film centres around five superheroes, named after the five main chemicals that are found in cigarettes: Ammonia, Methanol, Nicotine, Benzene and … Continue Reading