Opening Times
Tuesday, Thursday and Friday: 5-8.30pm
Wednesday: 1-8.30pm
Saturday: 1-8pm
Closed Monday and Sunday
Plymouth Arts Cinema
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
PL4 8AT
Independent Cinema for Everyone
In Pictures: Open Air Cinema 2017
Wednesday 4th October 2017
Our Open Air Cinema programme for 2017 is over, but we’ve got these fantastic snaps from photographer Dom Moore of our screenings at Tinside Lido and Mount Edgcumbe.
Meanwhile, we’ll be plotting away to create this years event bigger and better than ever!
View 2017’s Open … Continue Reading
Film Review: God’s Own Country ‘We are shown a trapped Magpie flitting about in a cage; like Johnny, it is unable to escape its predicament’
Wednesday 4th October 2017
Monika Mourer reviews God’s Own Country, a film lauded as the Yorkshire Moors’ answer to Brokeback Mountain. Showing in the cinema from Friday 6 – Thursday 12 October, tickets are available to book online or via our Box Office.
No-one does bleak quite like British independent cinema, and … Continue Reading
Film Review: A Ghost Story ‘makes you think, and stays with you for days’
Tuesday 3rd October 2017
With Halloween at the end of the month, October is the perfect time of the year to watch horror films and ghost stories. Ben Cherry reviews A Ghost Story, showing in our cinema until October 4th.
A Ghost Story, however is not a horror film in the conventional sense. There … Continue Reading
Film Review: Maudie ‘Maudie reminds us that to create art, barriers must first be breached’
Monday 2nd October 2017
With colourful and sophisticated story-telling, Maudie is the story of folk artist Maud Lewis. It is showing in our cinema until Wednesday 4th Oct. Helen Tope reviews.
An impressive biopic, this film excels by challenging what we think we know, and encouraging us to look again.
Based … Continue Reading
NT Live Review: Yerma ‘a searing tale of a marriage blown apart by the need, and failure, to have a child.’
Wednesday 27th September 2017
Helen Tope reviews the NT Live screening of Yerma, as part of our live theatre programme.
Our next live theatre screening is Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch, which has now sold out, however we’ll soon be screening the dazzling new production of Follies, tickets are available now.
Yerma … Continue Reading
Scribe: A Modern Thriller With A Retro Sensibility
Tuesday 19th September 2017
The film tells the story of Duval, a former insurance clerk, whose life has been brought to near-ruin by his addiction to alcohol. We meet him, one year sober, and looking for work.
Scribe is showing in the cinema from 15 – 21 September. Helen Tope reviews.
As a middle-aged … Continue Reading
Film Review: My Cousin Rachel ‘When in doubt, head for Du Maurier’
Tuesday 18th July 2017
When in doubt, head for Du Maurier. That must surely be on the mind of anyone looking to cut their teeth with some serious filmmaking chops, as Daphne’s books have all the necessary thrills and spills to satisfy many a cinematic palate. From these works we have had … Continue Reading
Barry Norman: The Face of Film On TV
Tuesday 11th July 2017
Barry Norman was the most popular and best recognised film reviewer on British TV for more than two decades. Here’s regular reviewer Nigel Watson’s tribute to him.
It all began when the BBC created a film review show called Film 71, which offered the chance for new faces on TV to pontificate … Continue Reading