Category: Film
Cold War - A sweeping, yet oddly intimate love story
29th Jan 2019
Winner of the Best Director award at last year’s Cannes Festival, Paweł Pawlikowski has created a sweeping, yet oddly intimate love story about two people brought together, and then torn apart, by circumstances way beyond… read more
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Fire your imagination at ARCADIA!
15th Jan 2019
This arresting collage of archive footage is notionally a movie that explores our changing relationship with the land, and opens with scenes of a bucolic and idealised countryside that will have the viewer settling in… read more
Next Wednesday's film, The Happy Prince, has a message which is ultimately positive
8th Nov 2018
The Happy Prince Rupert Everett has written, directed and starred in this film, a project he has toiled for years to get off the ground, and his commitment and belief in the endeavour is evident… read more
Journey's End - the Wednesday film - is a quietly magnificent - and hugely respectful - testament to those we must not forget.
3rd Nov 2018
Journey’s End (12A) While watching Saul Dibb’s superb adaption of R C Sherriff's masterpiece, I found myself being continually astonished that the play on which it was based was written only 10 years after the… read more
Wednesday film - part comedy, part travelogue, part mystery, part romance - will delight fans of Downton Abbey
19th Sep 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Wednesday 26 Sept, 10.30am & 7.30pm Part comedy, part travelogue, part mystery, part romance, Mike Newell’s adaptation of Annie Barrows’s post-war epistolary novel is a film… read more
The Corn Hall Presents Diss in WWI
19th Sep 2018
The Corn Hall presents Diss in WWI. Commemorating the centenary of the end of WWI in 2018 we are pleased to be able to bring to the Corn Hall a series of events and activities… read more
Lady Bird - next Wednesday's film - features superb performances
13th Sep 2018
Depending through which end of the telescope you view Lady Bird (nominated for three Academy Awards), teenager Christine McPherson is either a bright young thing struggling against the suffocation of suburbia, or a brattish malcontent,… read more
I, Tonya - An absorbing tale that is both tragic and hilarious
6th Sep 2018
While not exactly America’s answer to the tribulations of Eddie the Eagle (Tonya Harding was a world class athlete) this shaggy dog story is similarly fantastical and contradictory. Director Craig Gillespie busts the fourth wall… read more
Next Wednesday's film - literate, profane and very clever.
31st Aug 2018
What do you do, screenwriter and director Martin McDonagh seems to be asking, when there is nothing to be done? When a mother’s grief, following her daughter’s murder, turns to impotent rage she hits out… read more
Next Wednesday’s film - The Shape of Water – is a modern fairy tale that is both startling and uplifting
29th Aug 2018
The cinema of Guillermo del Toro is notoriously dark and troubling and, although his latest film is notionally set in the US of the 1960s, it is a typically fantastical alternative version of those troubled… read more
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