Award Winning Independent Cinema
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Film Review: Sense and Sensibility – “Janeites, assemble.”
Monday 28th September 2026
For Jane Austen fans, waiting for a new Austen film can be a frustrating experience. Nothing for years, and then two come along at once. While the Netflix / Dolly Alderton version of Pride and Prejudice isn’t out until December, we do have a new Sense and Sensibility that is … Continue Reading
Film Review: Marty Supreme – “breathless, unrelenting and wickedly humorous”
Tuesday 20th January 2026
In Josh Safdie’s breathless, unrelenting and wickedly humorous debut as sole-director, Timothée Chalamet plays the eponymous quick-witted Marty, who desperately strives to avoid a banal existence as a New York shoe salesman and answer his higher-calling to become a global table tennis superstar.
Perhaps better known as one half … Continue Reading
“Romantic, Pragmatic, Feminist”: Emma Thompson’s Sense and Sensibility
Tuesday 9th September 2025
Although it doesn’t get the same attention as Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion or even Emma, Sense and Sensibility can lay claim to being Jane Austen’s literary debut. Published in 1811, it did well. Its original critics described the novel’s plot … Continue Reading
Film Review: “Everybody in the Place” – Jeremy Deller
Thursday 10th October 2024
If you are my age, dangerously close to 50, or a fan of the Prodigy – you’ll understand the correct response to the title of Jeremy Deller’s illustrated, hour long lecture, is:
“Let’s go”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY87o9IZXWg&ab_channel=TheProdigy
As I previously said I am reasonably old, but not quite old enough to … Continue Reading
Film Review: The Critic – “McKellen revels in the role of Queen Bee among London’s coterie of critics”
Tuesday 8th October 2024
An actor famous for clapping back at critics, Ian McKellen’s latest role as [checks notes] a critic sounds like cinematic kismet. Directed by Anand Tucker, The Critic delivers on this tantalising premise.
Immersed in the London theatre scene since his twenties, critic Jimmy Erskine (played by Ian McKellen) is now looking … Continue Reading
Moving Waters – Artist Moving Image Programme
Thursday 19th September 2024
Moving Waters – curated by A Sometimes Project
These short films will be played before selected films in our October programme. An emerging, experimental arts initiative that aims to create opportunities for artists and audiences, at different locations, some of the time. Instagram: asometimesproject.
My November Guest (Georgie Gentile, 3 mins 28)
Thursday … Continue Reading
Film Review: Freud’s Last Session – “Anthony Hopkins plays a grumpy yet still sharp-minded Freud”
Tuesday 25th June 2024
Most of this film takes place at 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead, London, where Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna took residence in June 1938 after escaping from Nazi-occupied Vienna. In his ‘den’ filled with his library of books and religious objects, Freud lives in what he regards as an echo … Continue Reading
Best Arts, Culture and Theatre Venue – Muddy Stilettos Awards
Tuesday 11th June 2024
We celebrated our Muddy Stilettos Devon Award on a lovely sunny evening at Shilstone Manor. Thank you for voting us best Arts, Culture and Theatre venue in Devon! Here are Charlotte and Manon collecting the certificate. It was great to meet and chat with the other winners. We’re now up … Continue Reading