Independent Cinema for Everyone
Category: Film
Film Review: The French Dispatch – coming to Open Air Cinema at Tinside Lido!
Tuesday 12th July 2022
In 2003 The New Yorker received a request from Wes Anderson’s team requesting to buy their entire archive. Of course it was not for sale, however this marked the start of Anderson’s long term interest with the publication and its writers. Eighteen years later, the famed director’s newest … Continue Reading
Film Review: Elvis – “has an incandescent quality that lifts it away from ordinary biopic”
Tuesday 12th July 2022
Elvis Presley – the man and the music – reached a level of fame almost unattainable prior to the digital age. A truly domestic artist (he never toured abroad), at the time of his death in 1977, Presley was the most famous man in the world.
Reviewed by Helen Tope… Continue Reading
Dress Code – an evening of vintage cinema fashion
Tuesday 12th July 2022
Anna Navas, director and film programmer at Plymouth Arts Cinema, introduced a themed evening to explore costume and fashion in the cinema, inspired by the Dress Code exhibition at The Box.
Reviewed by Nigel Watson
As in real life, costume in the cinema, indicates and reflects specific periods in history. … Continue Reading
Film Review: Everything Everywhere All At Once – “a psychedelic wild ride”
Tuesday 5th July 2022
Everything Everywhere All at Once is a genre-busting sci-fi adventure.
The story starts simply enough. Chinese-American laundromat owner Evelyn Wang (played by Michelle Yeoh) is exhausted. Between looking after her elderly father and keeping a failing business afloat, her personal relationships have also begun to suffer. Not only is … Continue Reading
Film Review: Happening – “Vartolomei conveys the devastation of a life coming apart with absolute precision”
Thursday 26th May 2022
An unflinching account of a young woman trying to secure an abortion in 1960’s France, Happening is based on the novel L’evenement by Annie Ernaux. The book retells her own experiences, when she found herself pregnant in a country where terminations were illegal.
Reviewed by Helen Tope
Director Audrey Diwan introduces us to 18-year-old student Anne … Continue Reading
Film Review: Downton Abbey: A New Era – “This is pure cinematic escapism”
Wednesday 18th May 2022
Giving fans more of the same is often a sign that a film franchise has run out of ideas. However, when it comes to Downton Abbey, these rules do not apply. More of the same is exactly what’s required. The reassuring familiarity, the usual routines – Carson would most definitely approve.
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Film Review: Playground – “even doing the right thing can be a wrong move”
Tuesday 10th May 2022
A complex study of childhood loyalties, Playground looks at the uncomfortable truths behind what are supposed to be the best days of our lives.
Reviewed by Helen Tope
Director and screenwriter Laura Wandel focuses on two siblings, Nora and Abel. Nora (played by Maya Vanderbeque) is about to attend the … Continue Reading
Film Review: Red Rocket – “hard to look at but hard to look away from”
Tuesday 10th May 2022
As the film begins we are introduced to Mikey Saber a charming, smooth talker, hustler and above all else a washed up porn star spat out by Hollywood and looking for a way back to fame. His story begins with him back at his ex wife & mother in … Continue Reading