Award Winning Independent Cinema

Café Society screened in the Plymouth Arts Centre from 7th-13th October.

A new film by Woody Allen comes loaded with expectation; and Cafe Society is no exception. A period piece set in the 1930’s, it tells a simple story. Bobby Dorfman (played by Jesse Eisenberg) moves from his family home in … Continue Reading

Born To Be Blue screened in the Plymouth Arts Centre from 30th Sept– 08 Oct 2016.

Music biopics can often be a mixed bag. Whilst they are almost always entertaining only a few are truly great. For every 24 Hour Party People you get The Doors. The former is a true one … Continue Reading

Film Review: Weiner-Dog

Weiner-Dog screened in the Plymouth Arts Centre from 20th – 22nd September.

Since streaming services became available and more widely used, there has always been a relatively healthy rivalry between Netflix and Amazon Studios. When it comes to their original film … Continue Reading

The Wave – a review from Helen Tope

The Wave is screening in the Plymouth Arts Centre cinema until the 29th September.

The Wave can claim the unique honour of being “Norway’s first disaster movie”. A box-office smash on home turf, The Wave was also submitted as Norway’s entry for Best Foreign … Continue Reading

The Big Lewbowski – Open Air Cinema

A review from Ieuan Jones

Well it’s a sunny, balmy Thursday night, not unlike the sun as it sets over the old West in LA where Jeffrey Lebowski resides (and abides). All the dudes, dudettes, duders, and el duderinos (if you’re not into the whole brevity … Continue Reading

The Childhood of a Leader is showing in the Plymouth Arts Centre cinema from 23-29 September. Review by Ieuan Jones.

If you’ve seen Michael Haneke’s remake of his own Funny Games (2007), then you’ll remember Brady Corbet as one of the malicious pair … Continue Reading

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