My Neighbor Totoro is a heart warming, sentimental masterpiece that captures the simple grace of childhood. We have two versions showing: dubbed for our half-term matinees on May 24, 29 and 31: and sub-titled on Sun 26 May when it is showing with Grave of the Fireflies as a special 25th anniversary double feature. This [...]
“Even though it’s not exactly easy to watch the protracted deaths of two children, this is not only one of the greatest anime ever, but also an important (anti-) war film. A moving masterpiece.” Film 4 An achingly sad anti-war film, Grave of the Fireflies is one of Studio Ghibli’s most profoundly beautiful, haunting works. [...]
Happy half-term! A treat for children and carers alike, all at £5. My Neighbor Totoro is a heart warming, sentimental masterpiece that captures the simple grace of childhood. We have two versions showing: dubbed for our half-term matinees on May 24, 29 and 31: and sub-titled on Sun 26 May when it is showing with [...]
Rivalling the spectacle of Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby, this screening of the film will be introduced by the lively, the lovely, the Dixie Dinahs in performance. Look out, the joint is gonna jump! From fiery flappers and foxy follies to cute chorus lines and sultry swing dancers, the Dixie Dinah’s are an all-female dance troupe [...]
A Roger Ebert trash tribute screening! £7/5 Venerable and adored film critic Ebert crossed the line to become scriptwriter in this collaboration with 1970s skin-flixster Russ Meyer. An enduring camp cult classic, it follows three pneumatic wannabees who come to Hollywood to make it big but find only sex, drugs and sleaze. Sophisticate Ebert brings [...]
“There’s much to enjoy in The Reluctant Fundamentalist: fine photography, juicy supporting turns from Kiefer Sutherland and Om Puri, and a powerfully sustained sense of a man adrift in a world going mad.” Tom Huddleston, Time Out From award-winning director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), and based on the acclaimed novel by Moshin Hamid, The Reluctant [...]
“There’s much to enjoy in The Reluctant Fundamentalist: fine photography, juicy supporting turns from Kiefer Sutherland and Om Puri, and a powerfully sustained sense of a man adrift in a world going mad.” Tom Huddleston, Time Out From award-winning director Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding), and based on the acclaimed novel by Moshin Hamid, The Reluctant [...]
Live drum performance before Sunday 2nd June screening, see below. Restless and irascible; driven and obscenely talented, we give you Mr Ginger Baker! Following an interview he did for ‘Rolling Stone’ in 2009, journalist Jay Bulger revisited the now ailing and financially strapped musician on his South African farm. On marriage no. 4, and struggling to [...]
Pirating from our favourite film guy, Nigel Andrews in the FT, once again. He gives it 4*s! “Ignore everyone who says, “Don’t see Spring Breakers.” They will probably add: “It is bad, mad and dangerous to go near. It is full of sex, violence and hysterical comedy-drama, much of it politically incorrect.” Film-maker Harmony Korine has [...]
Expect the same radical re-think of “classic” that Baz Luhrmann brought to Romeo + Juliet! This pearl of a book – but a novella, really – may never be the same… With signature bravura soundtrack and staging to put Busby Berkley to shame, Luhrmann’s style is well met in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s brittle depiction of [...]
