Award Winning Independent Cinema

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

Raiders Of the Lost Ark introduced us to the fedora wearing, whip cracking archaeologist Inidana Jones in 1981. The film was the brainchild of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg who had respectively mined the science fiction serials of the 1930 and 1940s in Star Wars, and the Golden Era of … Continue Reading

Coming from the universally Marmite director Quentin Dupieux, this is an absurd look into an alternative reality where superheroes kill foam monsters and rats are suitable bachelors. 

The film centres around five superheroes, named after the five main chemicals that are found in cigarettes: Ammonia, Methanol, Nicotine, Benzene and … Continue Reading

Much like Rod Serling who introduced the original Twilight Zone science fiction TV series, Asteroid City is introduced by a neatly suited man in a 1950s vintage TV studio filmed in black and white.
We are shown on centre stage legendary playwright Conrad Earp (Edward Norton) typing away as … Continue Reading

Encompassing political and cultural tensions, misogyny and a string of bodies, this Tunisian offering won a Best Director award at The Critic’s Awards for Arab Films for Youssef Chebbi.

This is mainly a mystery film, based around the seeming suicide of a building watchman in the Gardens of Carthage … Continue Reading