Award Winning Independent Cinema

The Commune is showing in Plymouth Arts Centre cinema from 9-14 September. 

We’ve all got one – the friend who refuses to watch anything with subtitles for no reason they can properly articulate.

They are missing out on so much from one of my all-time favourite … Continue Reading

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Reviewed by Nigel Watson, Photos by Dom Moore

Terrestrial, date, time, location: 20 August 2016, 8pm, Plympton. I’ve got tickets for the outdoor screening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at Mount Edgcumbe, but it’s continuing to rain outside. Every time I open the door even our … Continue Reading

A potted introduction to Star Wars, ahead of our Open Air Cinema screening at Mount Edgcumbe on August 20th, by Nigel Watson. 

Star Wars blasted onto our cinema screens in 1977 and took us to a galaxy created by the imagination of George Lucas. To everyone’s surprise it was worldwide … Continue Reading

The Daughter is a remake of the Henrik Ibsen play Wild Duck. First performed in 1884, Ibsen’s play tells the story of a secret that threatens to blow apart the lives of two families.

Director and screenwriter Simon Stone (here making his directorial debut, but a fixture of the Sydney theatre … Continue Reading

Last weekend saw the first of three Open Air Cinema events in Plymouth this summer in the Tinside Lido. The choice of films, Life of Pi and Jaws are two nautical films that suited the sea side setting.

For me and many … Continue Reading

A Review of restored classic Johnny Guitar, from Ieuan Jones. 

Johnny Guitar is screening at Plymouth Arts Centre 27th – 30th July.

The recent, rancid abuse heaped on this year’s Ghostbusters reboot, due to the unpardonable crime of having four women instead of four … Continue Reading

This July, the National Marine Aquarium is hosting an exciting new educational exhibit about the world of Sharks and Rays! This new exhibit is a redevelopment on an area in the Aquarium and will wrap around their massive Atlantic Ocean Tank (the deepest in … Continue Reading

This year’s Open Air Cinema begins with two films showing at Tinside Lido on the weekend of the 22 July, Jaws and Life of Pi. These two stories that are ultimately about survival on the water.

What is different about them from a film making point of view is that Jaws’ … Continue Reading