Award Winning Independent Cinema
Category: Film
Film Review: A Season in France – “Held in gentle elegance throughout, A Season in France rages beneath its polished exterior.”
Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Beau Waycott reviews A Season in France, showing in our cinema until Wednesday 24 July.
Held in gentle elegance throughout, A Season in France rages beneath its polished exterior. Mahamat Saleh Haroun, former jury member of the Cannes Film Festival, has … Continue Reading
Open Air Cinema Preview: ‘The Birds’ – “The Birds not only remains a high point in Hitchcock’s career, but it has managed to evolve with its audience. Haunting and uncompromising, this film is Hitchcock’s vision at its clearest.”
Monday 22nd July 2019
Regular blog contributor Helen Tope introduces us to The Birds, one of her favourite Hitchcock films, which will be screened at Tinside Lido on Sunday 25 August as part of our Open Air Cinema season.
It’s 1960, and director Alfred Hitchcock is riding high after his … Continue Reading
Film Review: Sometimes Always Never – “A layered, complex study of family ties, and what happens when those bonds are broken, Bill Nighy leads a cast of extraordinary performances.”
Monday 22nd July 2019
Helen Tope reviews Sometimes Always Never, showing in our cinema until Wednesday 24 July.
Full of quirky detail, Sometimes Always Never begins with images scattered across the screen. Seventies décor, ornaments and games hint at an interior life, stuck firmly in the past.
We meet Alan (Bill Nighy) … Continue Reading
Film Review: In Safe Hands – “an emotional masterpiece”
Monday 15th July 2019
Jack Hobson reviews In Safe Hands, showing in our cinema until Thursday 18 July.
This French adoption drama, directed by Jeanne Henry, is an emotional masterpiece. The almost two hour film documents the important first months of a baby’s life. Given up for … Continue Reading
Open Air Cinema Preview: ‘Alien’ – a stylish science-fiction horror film that cleverly leaves much to our imagination and exploits our fears of what lurks in the bleak infinity of outer space
Monday 15th July 2019
Regular blog contributor Nigel Watson introduces us to Alien, which will be screened at Tinside Lido on Friday 23 August as part of our Open Air Cinema season.
‘Alien’ is a stylish science-fiction horror film that cleverly leaves much to our imagination and … Continue Reading
Film Review: Rafiki – “The film is not only stirring the heart but fascinating the audience’s eyes in moving scenes.”
Monday 8th July 2019
Jack Hobson reviews Rafiki, showing in our cinema until Wednesday 10 July.
It is undeniably difficult to not be drawn into the concept of Wanuri Kahiu’s most recent directoral work – a defiant lesbian romance film, initially banned within its home country of Kenya, only lifted when … Continue Reading
Film Review: Kind Hearts and Coronets – “70 years after its first release this classic Ealing Studio film is still entertaining, imaginative and funny.”
Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Nigel Watson reviews restored classic Kind Hearts and Coronets, showing in our cinema from Friday 5 to Thursday 11 July.
70 years after its first release this classic Ealing Studio film is still entertaining, imaginative and funny. Most of the comedy is derived from the … Continue Reading
Film Review: Late Night – “With a script that’s racy, daring and peppered with laugh-out-loud jokes, Late Night announces the death knell for the notion that women aren’t funny.”
Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Helen Tope reviews Late Night, showing in our cinema until Thursday 4 July.
Television has always made a good subject for film: Network, Good Night and Good Luck – there is a thrill at being allowed behind the scenes – the mechanics, the politics – that satisfies … Continue Reading