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Small things like these - a preview
8th Feb 2025
by David Vass
Anyone used to seeing Cillian Murphy head up the Birmingham underworld, or run for his life chased by zombies, or invent the atomic bomb, is in for a shock as he brings to the screen… read more
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Have your say on future film programming at The Corn Hall
17th Dec 2024
by Sophie Scott
We are pleased to announce that a programme of film screenings will return to The Corn Hall from January 2025. In order to make these screenings as successful as possible we’d like to invite you… read more
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Charlie Haycock Digs out his anecdotes
22nd Jun 2024
by David Vass
After Charlie Haycock's hugely entertaining talk on dialects back in April, it came as no surprise that he, once again, enjoyed a full house for his return visit to the Corn Hall, regaling his audience… read more
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Wonka is a chocolate box of delights
28th Mar 2024
by David Vass
Director Paul King is the man behind the Paddington movies, so we have every right to expect great things from Wonka, and his trademark whimsy has certain certainly been put to good use again. The… read more
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A Final Curtain Call for Caine and Jackson
21st Mar 2024
by David Vass
  Michael Caine and the late Glenda Jackson bring their considerable acting skills to bear on The Great Escaper, a simple, heart-warming story of a D-day veteran who "escapes" to France to attend the 70th… read more
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Come and see the violence inherent in the system
14th Mar 2024
by David Vass
They say the necessity is the mother of invention, and I doubt there's a better exemplar of the maxim than Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a film that, as the posters said at the… read more
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An Unlikely tale of Contrition and Kindness
8th Mar 2024
by David Vass
Adapted from Rachel Joyce’s bestselling novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is a deceptively simple tale of a man that walks the length of England, imagining that the act itself will prevent an old friend… read more
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A Haunting tale of Murder
29th Feb 2024
by David Vass
Kenneth Branagh’s latest Poirot adventure, very loosely based on Agatha Christie's Halloween Party, is a significant departure from the star filled travelogues that preceded it, and is all the better for it. While the essential… read more
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Painting the Modern Garden
24th Feb 2024
by David Vass
The Royal Academy’s exhibition ‘Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse‘ traced the emergence of the modern garden using a vast collection of works by some of the most important Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Avant-Garde artists… read more
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And Then Come The Nightjars
15th Feb 2024
by David Vass
The fictional world of the Detectorists, the fishing exploits of Whitehouse and Mortimer and Benjamin Myer's Perfect Golden Circle all deal with the stoic, idiosyncratic, emotionally repressed bond between two heterosexual men, but its a… read more
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