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4 star review of 'The Mariner' Common Ground's latest production - coming 26 Oct
16th Oct 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Samuel Taylor Coleridge is probably as much remembered by the general public today for his troubled life and opium addiction as for his verse and association with Wordsworth’s circle. Of his poetry, the most likely… read more
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Toyah - Up Close & Personal at the Corn Hall
2nd Sep 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Perhaps the first British singer to be known only by her first name, Toyah entertained the Corn Hall with a string of post punk hits from the early 80s, and while for those of us… read more
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Next Wednesday’s film - The Shape of Water – is a modern fairy tale that is both startling and uplifting
29th Aug 2018
by Corn Hall admin
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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Authentic and truthful, A Fantastic Woman holds a mirror up to society
16th Aug 2018
by Corn Hall admin
If there was any doubt where director Sebastián Lelio’s was going with the Oscar Award-winning A Fantastic Woman, there’s a big clue in the film’s ironic title.  While some might find transgender Marina Vidal, played… read more
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Christopher Plummer - a brilliant performance as cantankerous Getty in next Wednesday's film
9th Aug 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Although loosely based on John Pearson’s book, Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J Paul Getty, the antecedence of Ridley Scott’s film has been largely overshadowed by the reshooting of… read more
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Rowan Whittington Reviews Life on the Deben
18th Jul 2018
by Corn Hall admin
I am Rowan Whittington, a student from Diss Sixth Form, taking part in the student Takeover Day at The Corn Hall. Whilst doing so, I watched the Wednesday morning showing of Life on the Deben.… read more
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Luke Wright & Mike Garry mesmerised at June Poetry Club
3rd Jul 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Another six months have rolled by since the last time we had a night of performance poetry at the Corn Hall, but it proved to be worth the wait, with a selection of new poems… read more
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Gary Oldman’s Oscar winning performance invests the character of Churchill with doubt, humanity and righteous anger - Darkest Hour Preview
25th Jun 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Churchill has been so lionised in reason times, that it’s both a surprise and a shock to be reminded how tenuous his authority was at the outset of the Second World War, and how capricious… read more
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This Wednesday's film - heart-warming and beautifully judged
17th Jun 2018
by Corn Hall admin
Breaking Away When movies seem split between brainless big budget blockbusters and narrow gauge art house fodder, it’s tempting to harken back to a golden age of intelligent, offbeat, cinema intended for a mainstream audience.… read more
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In Between - David Vass previews this Wednesday's film
12th Jun 2018
by Corn Hall admin
The idea of a dope-smoking, leather-jacketed lawyer and an aspiring DJ, opening up their home to a strait-laced, studious, ultra-conservative Muslim sounds like the setup for a credulity stretching social drama, but in the hands… read more
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