Award Winning Independent Cinema
Category: Film
Film Review: Passages
Tuesday 17th October 2023
I was never that great at maths so I’m not entirely certain what kind of love triangle the three central characters in Ira Sachs’ absorbing film Passages form but it definitely isn’t one of those where all the sides are equal.
The key player in this Parisian ménage à trois is … Continue Reading
Hidden Figures Opening Ceremony and Film Screenings (14/10/23)
Tuesday 17th October 2023
Ever heard of Cecil Rogers? What about Bill Miller? Perhaps, if you are a rugby fan, the name Jimmy Peters is familiar? If you have no idea who I am talking about, don’t fret. A two-year project from the arts collective Wonderzoo called Hidden Figures of … Continue Reading
Film review: Theater Camp – “a riotous, joyous portrait of lives devoted to the arts”
Tuesday 19th September 2023
A pitch-perfect satire, celebrating the proudly insular world of musical theatre, mockumentary Theater Camp chronicles life at a kids’ performing arts retreat.
The film starts at the camp’s final performance of the season, and gives us the drama with an early narrative twist. As we follow camp founder Joan … Continue Reading
Film Review: And Then Come The Nightjars – “captures the essence of today’s important conversations about male mental health”
Tuesday 12th September 2023
Can you remember a virus that led to the deaths of over 6 million animals? Speak to a farmer, vet or anyone from an agricultural background and they’ll most definitely remember 2001’s Foot and Mouth outbreak. It was a national crisis resulting in the mass culling of cows, sheep and … Continue Reading
In Pictures: Open Air Cinema 2023
Wednesday 30th August 2023
2023 was a season of mixed fortune weather-wise for Open Air Cinema at Tinside Lido, but we did manage a couple of beautiful balmy evenings by the sea. Here are some pictures taken by photographer Amber Amare (@amberfilms_) at the screening of Roman Holiday.
We are … Continue Reading
Film Review: Barbie – “Part of the joy is just how many cinematic references Gerwig manages to cram in.”
Thursday 24th August 2023
As an icon among dolls, Barbie’s rise to the top has met with little resistance. As an icon of cinema, her box office numbers are good, but she has lacked artistic cache. With Ladybird and Little Women director Greta Gerwig … Continue Reading
Open Air Cinema – the highs and the lows
Tuesday 15th August 2023
Well, it has finally happened. After 12 summers of running Open Air Cinema events in the glorious and temperamental British summertime, we had an almost total washout on the first weekend of the year. I guess our luck had to run out some time and it may as well be … Continue Reading
Preview: Enys Men at Tinside Lido for Open Air Cinema
Monday 7th August 2023
Translated as ‘Stone Island’ in Cornish, it is hard to imagine a more pertinent film than Enys Men to screen with the everpresent Drake’s Island as a backdrop at Open Air Cinema at Tinside Lido.
A film which critic Adam Scovell described as an “anti-romantic expression of Cornish … Continue Reading