Award Winning Independent Cinema

by Ieuan Jones

Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction novel of all time. You’d think this will have made his book series, full of gods and monsters, empires and wars, particularly hot property in Hollywood. So it’s perhaps surprising that it’s had a checkered history of adaptations … Continue Reading

by Helen Tope

A new film from Wes Anderson is always an event. With an impressive roll call, including Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums and The Grand Budapest Hotel, the expectations for The French Dispatch have been understandably high.

Anderson takes us to France in the Sixties and Seventies, to a fictional … Continue Reading

by Nigel Watson

The Green Knight, a powerful creature of the forest, is summoned by a magical spell cast by Morgan le Fay to the castled kingdom of Camelot at Christmas. The knight appears and challenges anyone in the kingdom brave enough to tackle him and accept his conditions for the … Continue Reading

London Film Festival 21: the year I almost met Jane Campion.

I haven’t felt this excited about going to London since I was 10 and my Mam took me to BHS on Oxford Street to buy bridesmaid shoes (they were pale blue and I have never loved a pair of shoes … Continue Reading

We enjoyed a wonderful summer of balmy evenings and glorious sunsets for Open Air Cinema 2021 at The Box and Tinside Lido. It felt so good to be back. Here are some pictures taken by photographers Amber Thorpe (@amberfilms_) and Brett Lockwood (@brettlphotography)…. Continue Reading

Visitors to Plymouth Arts Cinema’s Open Air Cinema events at Tinside Lido will be treated to a programme of short films to accompany the main features.

The independent cinema occupies a key position in the South West’s film culture and is keen to both showcase the local filmmaking talent of today, … Continue Reading

See Gunda, The Father, or Frankie for free on 19th June as part of the National Lottery Cinema Weekend!

Every time you play The National Lottery you’re helping to raise £30 million a week for good causes. From communities, sports, arts, heritage projects all the way through to the … Continue Reading

Continuing our occasional series of short films by local filmmakers and those who have a connection to Plymouth is Shahar Tuchner’s Floating Worms, which Plymouth Arts Centre screened in 2020 as part of a Cine-Sisters SW Short Film event.

The sea worms silently float on water in a deep contrast to … Continue Reading