Tag: Corn Hall Wednesday Film
Wonka is a chocolate box of delights
28th Mar 2024
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
Posted in Film
A Final Curtain Call for Caine and Jackson
21st Mar 2024
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
Posted in Film
Come and see the violence inherent in the system
14th Mar 2024
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
An Unlikely tale of Contrition and Kindness
8th Mar 2024
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
Posted in Film
A Haunting tale of Murder
29th Feb 2024
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
Posted in Film
And Then Come The Nightjars
15th Feb 2024
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
Posted in Film
Past Lives wonders what might have been
7th Feb 2024
Celine Song's astonishingly assured directorial debut seems all the more poignant when you learn it is loosely autobiographical. Much like Greta Lee’s Nora, she lives in New York, having migrated from Korea twenty years previously.… read more
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A whip smart script makes for a cracking film
24th Jan 2024
Can it really be over forty years since the first Indiana Jones film? If so, can it really be Harrison Ford running atop a moving train in the latest one? With the assistance of some… read more
Posted in Film
A Special Trip to Cromer
18th Jan 2024
Who would have thought that a German documentary about Cromer would even be a thing, let alone a success, both in producer Jens Meurer's home country and here in the UK. Seaside Special is all… read more
Nolan's Explosive Biopic lights up the screen
11th Jan 2024
Christopher Nolan’s formidable, if occasionally unwieldy, biopic of Robert Oppenheimer is huge in both its scale and ambition. Over the course of its considerable playing time, it interweaves Oppenheimer's time in academia, his romantic entanglements,… read more
Posted in Film
In the Barbie world life in plastic is fantastic
23rd Nov 2023
Greta Gerwig's surprisingly subversive movie about the eponymous Barbie, in all her weird and wonderful incarnations, stars Margot Robbie in a role that she was surely born into, as Stereotypical Barbie. Her stereotypical pal Ken,… read more
Posted in Film
A Romantic Thriller that confounds expectation
26th Oct 2023
Park Chan-wook has a seemingly effortless ability to confound expectation. Very few would have thought the director of Oldboy would have turned his hand to the overt eroticism of The Handmaiden, and with Decision to… read more
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Eric Ravilious is drawn to War
2nd Oct 2023
Given the interest shown in the work of Eric Ravilious following the ground-breaking exhibition of this art back in 2015, it's hard to imagine that his work was almost forgotten until his children found a… read more
She Said is a gripping account of dogged journalism
13th May 2023
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s solid adaptation of Jodi Kantor’s book of the same name follows in the footsteps of Spotlight and Post, as a team of journalists doggedly investigate wrongdoing that has been covered up by powerful… read more
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A delightful confection starring Leslie Manville and fifties fashion
20th Jan 2023
Anyone familiar with the films of Mike Leigh will know how good an actor Leslie Manville is, but it’s only as recently as 2017, for the performance in Phantom Threads, that this was widely acknowledged.… read more
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Tom Cruise goes Maverick in this astonishing spectacle
13th Jan 2023
Viewed through the prism of all that followed, the first Top Gun film looks oddly dated now, but at the time it was a game changer, instrumental in bringing the vitality and economy of advertising… read more
Posted in Film
Full Steam ahead for the Railway Children's Return
12th Nov 2022
It’s been over fifty years since Jenny Agutter stood on a railway platform calling for her Daddy in the definitive family film. In this belated sequel, it’s Beau Gadsdon that does much the same, in… read more
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Mark Rylance fits the Outfit like a glove
28th Oct 2022
Single set dramas – anything from 12 Angry Men to Reservoir Dogs – are compelled to do something interesting with words, and The Outfit is no exception. Mark Rylance is reliably excellent as the cutter… read more
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Operation Mincemeat is a resounding success
15th Sep 2022
Ten years ago I read a fascinating book by Ben Macintyre, outlining an extraordinary scheme to trick Nazi Germany into thinking the allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, rather than their actual target, Sicily.… read more
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Benedict Cumberbatch gives an electrifying performance
3rd Aug 2022
It turns out that I have Louis Wain to thank for a life in service to my cats – before his whimsical illustrations became popular at the turn on the last century cats were apparently… read more
Posted in Film, Uncategorised
Almodóvar is on top form with his latest film
16th Jul 2022
Two mothers, not really parallel at all, come together in this moving melodrama that celebrates the courage of single mothers, while nodding to the unhealed wounds of Spain’s troubled political history. Pedro Almodóvar’s new movie… read more
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Death on the Nile is a sumptuously filmed romp
8th Jul 2022
In the case of Death On The Nile, director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green’s sequel to their polished adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express, we get nothing less than the origin story of… read more
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Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a spellbinding masterpiece
5th Jun 2022
Kenneth Branagh’s elegiac, autobiographical movie has a tremendous warmth to it, notwithstanding its grim subject matter, and although it focuses on a specific time in Branagh’s life, it touches on surprisingly universal themes. When, it… read more
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A return to form for the King's Man
15th May 2022
Director Matthew Vaughan appears to have, unusually, listened to critics of the earlier Kingsmen films, retaining the stiff upper lip of the protagonist, while dispensing with much of the leering, laddish attitude that marred what… read more
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Dune is an extraordinary, spectacular visual treat
18th Feb 2022
Director Denis Villeneuve’s decision to take on Frank Herbert’s mammoth Dune novel might be thought brave to the point of foolhardiness, given the almighty mess David Lynch made of it back in the eighties. For… read more
After Love is a stunning debut
21st Jan 2022
Dominating this debut movie from director Aleem Khan is a superb performance from Joanna Scanlan, probably best known for her work in comic gems like Getting On and The Thick of It. Her understated acting… read more
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No Time to Die proves well worth the wait
8th Jan 2022
Daniel Craig’s final Bond film is a fitted conclusion to his record breaking fifteen year tenure. Packed with set-piece action and outrageous stunts, there’s more than enough to keep fans of old-school 007 movies happy.… read more
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The Courier is a Ripping Yarn - but is so much more as well
4th Nov 2021
We are so used to seeing Benedict Cumberbatch play dysfunctional geniuses that it’s a little disorientating to discover he’s more than capable of playing a man distinguished by his ordinariness. Greville Wynne, a salesman with… read more
Promising Young Woman is an engaging, thought provoking and gripping examination of date rape.
27th Oct 2021
Given the films industry’s focus on the #MeToo movement, it’s surprising that a move exploring the issues raised hasn’t come along earlier. It’s also surprising that it should be marketed as a revenge thriller. Director… read more
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First Cow is a triumph of gentle story telling
21st Oct 2021
Based on screenwriter Jonathan Raymond’s novel, director Kelly Reichardt film is not a story that gets told in a hurry. As much a collage of scenes as a narrative, it is shot with simplicity and… read more
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Sound of Metal - a moving and heartfelt film
19th Jul 2021
In Darius Marder’s moving and heartfelt film, Riz Ahmed plays an American drummer whose life, and career, is sent into a tailspin by the sudden offset of deafness. Ironically, there is very little Metal beyond… read more
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The Gentlemen is a Exuberant, Labyrinthine Romp
14th Oct 2020
After dipping his toe into family friendly films, Guy Ritchie returns to what he does best with The Gentlemen. The film is a scabrous, exuberant romp, with a labyrinthine plot that will have your head… read more
David Copperfield is very funny, breathlessly energetic and endlessly imaginative
8th Oct 2020
Armando Iannucci’s exuberant adaptation of David Copperfield opens with our eponymous hero telling his life story to a rapt audience in Bury St Edmund’s Theatre Royal. What follows is a joyous romp around East Anglia,… read more
Parasite is meticulously plotted, perfectly cast, and hugely entertaining
4th Oct 2020
Parasite is deservedly the first foreign language film to win an Oscar for best film. It is meticulously plotted, perfectly cast, and hugely entertaining, Bong Joon-ho won two more, for direction and script, along with… read more
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1917 is a thrilling, spell-binding triumph
23rd Sep 2020
Much has been made of the technical brilliance of Sam Mendes’s 1917. This is a film that takes place in real time, with the camera seemingly following soldiers Schofield and Blake in a single unbroken… read more
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Little Women breathes new life into into the Classic Novel
16th Sep 2020
Louisa May Alcott’s book has been adapted many times, and as recently as the mid-nineties, so Greta Gerwig had to bring something very special to the screen in order to justify yet one more retelling… read more
The Peanut Butter Falcon is a delightful buddy movie that plucks on your heartstrings
5th Mar 2020
Anyone who remembers Huckleberry Finn fondly will find much to love in The Peanut Butter Falcon. Set in the North Carolina Outer Banks, this delightful buddy movie is a film that plucks on your heartstrings… read more
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Downton Abbey film - a lavishly produced treat for the series many fans
3rd Feb 2020
Fans of Downton Abbey won’t be disappointed by this big screen opportunity to catch up with old friends. Gifted a bigger budget, Julian Fellowes’s drama about upstairs/downstairs has been turned from a show where thoughtful… read more
Boothby Graffoe headlines the strongest comedy line up for months
1st Feb 2020
It was a welcome return to form for the Corn Hall’s Comedy Club, with a varied lineup hosted by MC James Dowdeswell. Hugely personable, Dowdeswell had a pleasingly large crowd on side from the outset,… read more
Posted in Comedy
A Triumphant Return for Common Ground's Sherlock Holmes
5th Jan 2020
Common Ground returned to the Corn Hall with another of their post-Christmas shows. It's something that looks like becoming something of a traditional, with packed houses for both performances of their further adventures of Holmes… read more
Yesterday is a funny, feelgood film that will delight fans of Richard Curtis's very particular brand of film making
13th Nov 2019
When Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle teamed up it seemed such a provocative combination that it was hard to imagine what would emerge. The end result is a lot closer to Love Actually than Trainspotting,… read more
Rocketman - screening tomorrow - is bold, imaginative and original
8th Oct 2019
Considering that both David Furnish and Elton John were producers of this film, it’s a remarkably frank and unflinching examination of Reg Dwight’s rocky path to fame and its almost disastrous consequences. Even more remarkable… read more
The Keeper - a watchable, engaging story of hope & humanity triumphing over bitter resentment
20th Sep 2019
Marcus H Rosenmüller’s robust, no nonsense account of Bert Trautmann’s improbable, but true, journey towards a role as Manchester City’s post war goalie is a loving tribute to reconciliation and forgiveness that is a paean… read more
Cast your prejudices aside, you’ll be cheering over this heart-warming tale with family, East Anglia & wrestling at its heart
12th Sep 2019
If you’re wondering whether a film about wrestling is for you, then wonder no more, and not just because it largely takes place in East Anglia. This heart-warming tale of a close knit, loving family… read more
Can You Ever Forgive Me? - you will, after seeing next week's hugely enjoyable film
29th Aug 2019
Continuing the current fashion for true tales that are stranger than fiction, Marielle Heller turns Lee Israel’s improbable career as a forger into a jolly, breathless romp that skips from scene to scene. Israel’s wobbly… read more
Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie give powerful performances as the rivals in next week's Wednesday film
1st Aug 2019
Mary Queen of Scots The rivalry between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I has been repeatedly dramatized and documented, but most often from the perspective of the English monarch and the furore surrounding the… read more
All is True - Branagh & Dench are magnificent in this film which seeks to explain the great mystery of why Shakespeare retired so suddenly
19th Jul 2019
All is True (12A) Kenneth Branagh’s career is so closely associated with Shakespeare, it was perhaps inevitable that he would one day play the man himself. To that extent this is very much Branagh’s film,… read more
Stan & Ollie - next Wednesday's film - is a warm, affectionate delight
21st Jun 2019
Stan & Ollie Jon S Baird’s gentle, unassuming biopic of the most famous double act the world has ever seen, is a warm, affectionate delight that touches on far broader issues than the pair’s final… read more
The Favourite - screening next Wednesday - is an eccentric, intriguing delight from beginning to end
14th Jun 2019
The Favourite (15) - a review Set in the court of Queen Anne, the last of the Stuart monarchs, Yorgos Lanthimos’s quirky, profane and shamelessly anachronistic period drama is an eccentric, intriguing delight from beginning… read more
Ryan Gosling is excellent as Neil Armstrong in next Wednesday's film, First Man
6th Jun 2019
First Man Adapted from James R Hansen’s book by Spotlight screenwriter, First Man is similar in tone to Philip Kaufman’s The Right Stuff. Sombre and respectful, this is a film that is immersed in its… read more
Wednesday 15 May - your chance to see one of the best films ever made
7th May 2019
Ingmar Bergman's dark masterpiece, The Seventh Seal reaches back to scripture to create a nightmarish, episodic journey for Max von Sydow’s world-weary crusader, questioning everything while the long shadow of death chases him all the… read more
Next Wednesday: Bohemian Rhapsody - with a roster of superb concert recreations - is hugely enjoyable
18th Apr 2019
After the much-publicised troubles that have beset this movie, it comes as a pleasant surprise that Bohemian Rhapsody is such a fun ride, with a roster of superb concert recreations, including Life Aid – where… read more
Mary Poppins flies into the Corn Hall this Wednesday
8th Apr 2019
Mary Poppins Returns Fans of the original Mary Poppins who approach this belated sequel with some trepidation need not worry. The film has been created with them in mind as much as a family audience… read more
Lady Gaga CAN act - See her in 'A Star is Born'
21st Mar 2019
A Star is Born Bradley Cooper’s version of this much told story is more a reimagining than a remake, with his fading rock star crossing paths with Lady Gaga’s ascendance as an all singing, all… read more
Next Wednesday's film - a master class in screen acting that is as enjoyable as it is compelling
15th Mar 2019
When Joe Castleman wins the Nobel Prize for Literature his wife is delighted for him – who wouldn’t be – and yet there is something niggling away at her that isn’t fully explained by his… read more
Stranger than fiction, Wednesday's film BlacKkKlansman, is probably the best Spike Lee film in 20 years
9th Mar 2019
Probably the best Spike Lee film in 20 years, this stranger than fiction story of a black man infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan mixes absurd comedy with jaw-dropping racism to brilliant effect. Both a social… read more
Hotel Salvation - anyone who has spent time with an ageing parent will find much that is achingly resonant.
2nd Mar 2019
In this story of an ex-schoolteacher who decides to spend his final days in Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges, Shubhashish Bhutiani’s directorial debut presents a world that will be alien to European viewers,… read more
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A stellar cast makes The King of Thieves by far the best and most poignant cinema version of the Hatton Garden heist
7th Feb 2019
The Hatton Garden heist in 2015 has already been repeatedly dramatized, but this is by far the best, and most poignant, with a stellar cast of British heavyweight actors who, much like the characters they… read more
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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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
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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- The Keeper – a watchable, engaging story of hope & humanity triumphing over bitter resentment
- Cast your prejudices aside, you’ll be cheering over this heart-warming tale with family, East Anglia & wrestling at its heart
- Can You Ever Forgive Me? – you will, after seeing next week’s hugely enjoyable film
- Green Book – in spite of its hard hitting subject matter – is an absolute delight from beginning to end
- A Splash of Colour with IMPS: Abstract Expressionism
- Follow the Lost Boys, Hoist the Jolly Roger and Look Out for Captain Hook.
- Arts Award News
- In Loyal Company – a masterpiece of war storytelling
- Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie give powerful performances as the rivals in next week’s Wednesday film
- Roughcast’s rumbustious romp of A Midsummer Night’s Dream features a scene-stealing, marvellously exuberant Bottom
- All is True – Branagh & Dench are magnificent in this film which seeks to explain the great mystery of why Shakespeare retired so suddenly
- Ruby Watkinson: Work Experience Review
- Tom and Bunny Save The World – A review by Lissy Mapes Graham
- Ruby Whitehouse: My Work Experience at the Corn Hall 2019
- Stan & Ollie – next Wednesday’s film – is a warm, affectionate delight
- The Favourite – screening next Wednesday – is an eccentric, intriguing delight from beginning to end
- Julius Caesar by Silas Tooth
- Old Herbaceous – a night at the theatre that was a delight from beginning to end
- Ryan Gosling is excellent as Neil Armstrong in next Wednesday’s film, First Man
- Spring Flowers and Little Dewdrops
- Thomas Paine play was sometimes melancholy, frequently moving, and ultimately life affirming.
- Wednesday 15 May – your chance to see one of the best films ever made
- Luke Wright’s Stand-Up Poetry – a night of great pleasure
- David Vass talks to Ian Ruskin about his play Thomas Paine’s To Begin the World Over – performed at the Corn Hall on Thursday 9 May
- Next Wednesday: Bohemian Rhapsody – with a roster of superb concert recreations – is hugely enjoyable
- Gillian Anderson and Lily James – superb in the National Theatre live screening of All About Eve
- Mary Poppins flies into the Corn Hall this Wednesday
- The Pantaloons inventive reworking of The Odyssey is a triumph!
- Lady Gaga CAN act – See her in ‘A Star is Born’
- Next Wednesday’s film – a master class in screen acting that is as enjoyable as it is compelling
- Super Happy Story – genuinely good theatre with real emotional impact
- ‘Tom and Bunny Save the World’ Review by Roisin
- ‘Tom and Bunny Save the World’ Review – By Malachy
- TOM and BUNNY SAVE the WORLD. A review by Elvis
- TOM & BUNNY SAVE THE WORLD Review
- TOM AND BUNNY SAVE THE WORLD THE MUSICAL…
- TOM AND BUNNY SAVE THE WORLD THE MUSICAL!
- Stranger than fiction, Wednesday’s film BlacKkKlansman, is probably the best Spike Lee film in 20 years
- Luke Wright’s latest show – Poet Laureate – is unusually thoughtful and moving
- Hotel Salvation – anyone who has spent time with an ageing parent will find much that is achingly resonant.
- A Right Royal Draw-Along with Nick Sharratt, The Cat and The King, Timothy Pope and Tracy Beaker
- East Anglian film premiere brought to life George Butterworth – a man who might have become one of Britain’s foremost composers
- Singer ,Georgia Mancio delighted Diss Jazz Club with her interpretation of songs by Tom Jobim
- In an age of zero hour contracts and offshore sweatshops, Townsend productions provide a timely reminder of how effectively historical drama can resonate with the issues of today.
- A stellar cast makes The King of Thieves by far the best and most poignant cinema version of the Hatton Garden heist
- Cold War – A sweeping, yet oddly intimate love story
- January Comedy Club had a packed house cheering with laughter
- NT’s Antony & Cleopatra next Thursday is packed with enough intrigue to fill a mini-series
- We are Persimmon Community Champions!
- Fire your imagination at ARCADIA!
- ‘Royalty’ at the Corn Hall in the shape of Paul Jones & Dave Kelly!
- Allelujah! – something to celebrate!
- LECTURE ON WORLD WAR ONE ART WAS ENTERTAINING, EDUCATING, AND ENRICHING
- David Vass is swept away with the surprisingly moving new production of The King and I
- Enter the Dragon – weird and wonderful but David Vass wants more like this
- Luke Wright’s Stand Up Poetry Club presented a compelling contrast of talent
- Open Space’s Browning Version – their finest ever
- A riotous performance of Peter Pan is captured by a drawing soldier
- Next Wednesday’s film, The Happy Prince, has a message which is ultimately positive
- Journey’s End – the Wednesday film – is a quietly magnificent – and hugely respectful – testament to those we must not forget.
- Common Ground’s, The Mariner demonstrates just how good a touring company can be
- 4 star review of ‘The Mariner’ Common Ground’s latest production – coming 26 Oct
- The Hilarious World of James Campbell… yes everyone thought it was really hilarious.
- ARTS AWARD STUDENTS AT THE CORN HALL VOLUNTEER WITH PETE’S FAMILY JAM AT OUR SATURDAY CLUB
- David Vass enjoys reliving the many hits of The Kinks
- Wednesday film – part comedy, part travelogue, part mystery, part romance – will delight fans of Downton Abbey
- The Corn Hall Presents Diss in WWI
- Lady Bird – next Wednesday’s film – features superb performances
- I, Tonya – An absorbing tale that is both tragic and hilarious
- Toyah – Up Close & Personal at the Corn Hall
- Next Wednesday’s film – literate, profane and very clever.
- Next Wednesday’s film – The Shape of Water – is a modern fairy tale that is both startling and uplifting
- Have you tried wolf tail soup? Our three little pigs thought it was delicious…!
- Authentic and truthful, A Fantastic Woman holds a mirror up to society
- Christopher Plummer – a brilliant performance as cantankerous Getty in next Wednesday’s film
- Bethany Crow’s review of Life on the Deben
- Rowan Whittington Reviews Life on the Deben
- Elliot Grayston Work Experience At The Corn Hall
- Joseph Grayston Has Enjoyable Time During Work Experience Week At The Corn Hall
- Luke Wright & Mike Garry mesmerised at June Poetry Club
- Gary Oldman’s Oscar winning performance invests the character of Churchill with doubt, humanity and righteous anger – Darkest Hour Preview
- This Wednesday’s film – heart-warming and beautifully judged
- In Between – David Vass previews this Wednesday’s film
- Luke Wright’s Stand-Up Poetry Club
- Young Reviewer thinks Water Babies is fantastic
- Wednesday’s film is a gloriously cinematic rollercoaster ride
- String Theatre’s inventive mix of puppetry and magic lantern entranced audience
- Arts Award students make a ‘spectacle’ of themselves!
- This Wednesday’s film will keep you gripped until it’s surprising conclusion
- Community Choir continuing due to popular demand
- Sour Puss – A magical performance according to our young reviewer
- Get Out! – an intelligent thriller says reviewer David Vass
- Eastern Angles latest play is powerful and moving
- Oscar & BAFTA winning film is a beautifully photographed love letter to Northern Italy
- Review of Open Space production of Dancing at Lughnasa
- This Wednesday – Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool is refreshing and authentic, says David Vass
- Julius Caesar from National Theatre a hit
- ARTS AWARD STUDENTS TAKE A STAND
- Paddington 2 wins over our reviewer, David Vass
- Local children explore the world of Winnie the Witch at the Corn Hall
- RoughCast Theatre – a bold and comedic Measure for Measure
- A preview of The Party, screening this Wednesday
- This Wednesday’s film – Goodbye Christopher Robin – previewed
- Townsend Productions latest is another hit with our reviewer, David Vass
- Dan Cruickshank – from heartbreaking destruction of Palmyra to the delights of Diss
- David Vass reviews Corn Hall Comedy
- Wednesday film preview – La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast)
- Churchill – A preview of the Wednesday film
- A preview of Wednesday film – A Man Called Ove
- My Cousin Rachel – a preview
- Dunkirk – A Preview
- Young Marx – A Preview
- The Sense of an Ending – A Preview
- Great Family Fun – Aladdin at the Corn Hall
- Audiences are loving Aladdin!
- A woman of no importance review
- Mark Thomas: A Show That Gambles on the Future – a review
- Baby Driver – A preview
- Suddenly Last Summer at Wingfield Barns – A Preview
- Griff Rhys Jones – Where was I?
- Team Viking review
- Michael Portillo at the Corn Hall
- The Old Curiosity Shop review
- Lady Macbeth Review
- I am Not Your Negro (12) – A Preview
- Finding Joy – A Review
- Denial (12A) – A Preview
- Moonlight (15)- A Preview
- Their Finest (12A) – A Preview
- Work Experience at The Corn Hall
- The Viceroy’s House (12A) – A Preview
- THE JUNGLE BOOK (PG) – A Preview
- BARRY LYNDON (PG) – A Preview
- The Wandering Spectre – An Update
- THE SALESMAN (12) – A Preview
- Arts Awards Students Near Completion
- Hidden Figures (PG) – A Preview
- Manchester By The Sea (15) – A Preview
- NOTES ON BLINDNESS (U) – A Preview
- Alice Lee Bird Colouring- In Days
- Toni Erdman (15) – A Preview
- ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (12A) – A PREVIEW
- Dr Phil’s Health Revolution – A Review
- T2 Trainspotting – A Preview
- Professor Robert Winston – A Review
- Flying Scotsman (15) – A Preview
- Under the Shadow (15) – A Preview
- LA LA LAND (12A) – A PREVIEW
- Have a go at weaving memories over half term- Bring your own materials!
- Diss Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers demonstrate and exhibit at the Corn Hall
- The Corn Hall galleries relaunch with Past Present Future and Nicola Hockley
- Our Kind of Traitor (15) – A Preview
- Families – stuck for something to do over Half Term? Come to the Corn Hall!
- A Review: Saturday Club – Nick Cope
- A United Kingdom (12A) – A Preview
- A Review: Lady Maisery
- A Review: Luke Wright – The Toll
- A Street Cat Named Bob – A Preview
- A Review: Burton by Gwynne Edwards
- Mermaid and Sea Monster craft workshop at DC3 this morning
- Edna tells Grace her stories about Diss
- ALLIED (15) – A Preview
- See How They Run – A Preview
- Julieta (15) – A Preview
- SULLY: MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON (12A) – A PREVIEW
- Welcome to our Arts and Heritage Outreach Officer
- Getting your Board on board!
- Job Opportunities with Fredricks at the Corn Hall
- FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM (12A) – A Preview
- Creative Collaboration on Wind Back Time Project
- Bolognaise, beautiful buildings and brilliantly crafted children’s theatre
- I, Daniel Blake (15) – A Preview
- Free Figure Drawing at Keeper’s Daughter Rehearsal
- Corn Hall Comedy Club – A Review
- The Girl with All the Gifts (15) – A Preview
- Our Technical Bronze Arts Award begins
- The Queen of Katwe (PG) – A Preview
- Dare Devil Rides to Jarama – A Review
- Share your memories of Diss
- Introducing The Keeper’s Daughter
- Refurbishment Update by Lucy Kayne
- Bridget Jones’s Baby (15) – A Preview
- Lucy Kayne documents the refurbishment
- Wind Back Time Event
- Kubo and the Two Strings (PG) – a preview
- The Corn Hall welcomes new Technical Manager
- Departure (15) – A Preview
- Wind Back Time – A Community Project
- Arts Awards Students and Big Draw 2016
- Felix Tooth Exhibition
- Luke Wright’s Stay-at-Home Dandy – a review
- Kast off Kinks – a review
- A Strange Wild Song by Rhum and Clay – a review
- Henning Wehn – Eins Zwei DIY – a review
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