Award Winning Independent Cinema
Category: Film
Live Theatre Review: Julius Caesar
Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Regular contributor Helen Tope has reviewed the RSC Live Theatre screening of Julius Caesar. Our next live theatre event is National Theatre Live: Obsession starring Jude Law. Tickets are available to book now.
With a story so well-known, in Julius Caesar, it’s not what you say, but how … Continue Reading
Film Review: A Quiet Passion ‘precocious, sharp, pensive and witty’
Wednesday 26th April 2017
Review of A Quiet Passion, by Ieuan Jones. Showing in our cinema 28 April – 4 May, tickets available now.
Allow me a moment or two to make the case for Terence Davies to stand among the greatest living British filmmakers. Mike Leigh, Ken Loach, Danny Boyle and co … Continue Reading
Film Review: Personal Shopper ‘Maureen is a very complex character, and throughout the film she is dealing with the grief of losing someone close’
Wednesday 26th April 2017
Review of Personal Shopper, by Ben Cherry. It’s showing in our cinema until Thursday 27 April.
Personal Shopper is a film that I had little knowledge of however I was intrigued by the premise and the film had generated a lot of buzz at last year’s Cannes film festival. Needless … Continue Reading
Film Review: Christine ‘There is a parallel between Christine’s behaviour and contemporary society’s obsession with its digital self image’
Tuesday 18th April 2017
Review of Christine, by Jim Baldwin. It’s showing in our cinema until Wednesday 19 April.
Christine is the dramatised story of Christine Chubbuck, an American news presenter who took her own life live on air in 1974. Our first image of the title character is in a tightly framed head … Continue Reading
Film Review: Neruda “a man of many contradictions”
Tuesday 11th April 2017
Ieuan Jones reviews Neruda, in the cinema from 14-19 April
Pablo Larraín really has been a busy bee lately. Hot on the heels of his examination of abuse in Chile’s Catholic Church, The Club (2015), was his first English-language feature, the stately biopic of Jackie Kennedy, Jackie (2016). Now, barely … Continue Reading
Film Review: Hidden Figures “You’ll be researching the ins and outs of this incredible true story long after you have left the cinema.”
Tuesday 11th April 2017
Ben Cherry reviews Hidden Figures, showing in our cinema until Thursday 13 April.
The Best Picture Oscar nominations this year were a decidedly more diverse selection of films than last year’s Oscar race. As a result of the ‘Oscars So White’ controversy the Academy included films that told stories from … Continue Reading
Elle/Prevenge Review: ‘Where Elle particularly excels is the exploration of abnormality; what we are willing to tolerate and what we find unacceptable.’
Thursday 30th March 2017
Helen Tope has written reviews of Elle and Prevenge, taking a look at both films individually and also in comparison, which were shown in the PAC cinema from 24 – 30 March.
Elle tells the story of Michele Leblanc, a career woman living in France who is subjected to … Continue Reading
Moonlight Review: ‘a heartbreaking and eloquent expression of a young life failed by everyone around it.’
Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Nathaniel Bannister has written a review of Moonlight, which was shown in the PAC cinema from 10 – 16 March.
The film that stole La La Land’s limelight. And to my mind, a most unlikely Oscar winner: no big star to pull audiences in, a strong black cast, and a … Continue Reading