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Stirchley Open Cinema to host Monday Matinee screening of Darkest Hour

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Blaise Radley Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman, Stirchley Open Cinema

As part of their ongoing community film programme, Stirchley Open Cinema are showing the Academy Award-winning film Darkest Hour.

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Check out the scary and (presumably) shocking films at SHOCK-tober fest

October 7, 2019October 7, 2019 Blaise Radley A Nightmare on Elm Street, Don't Look Now, Hannibal, Nosferatu, Shaun of the Dead, The Blair Witch Project, The Electric Cinema

Witches of the wood and cursed videotapes are all part of this year’s toe-curling line-up for The Electric Cinema’s SHOCK-tober fest.

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BEDLAM Arts & Mental Health Festival set to return to Brum in October

September 27, 2019October 1, 2019 Sarah Staniforth BEDLAM Arts and Mental Health Festival, mac birmingham, The REP

October will see the return of BEDLAM, a 12-day mental health arts festival in Birmingham, including film, spoken word, and theatre.

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Watch Scorsese’s The Irishman nationwide on the night of its UK premiere

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 Harry Jones Everyman CInema, Joe Pesci, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, The Irishman

The BFI are putting on preview screenings across the country of the master’s latest crime epic, including the Everyman Cinema in Birmingham.

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Film review: Pennywise is back, but is it too soon for IT: Chapter 2?

September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 William Blanchard Andy Msuchietti, Bill Hader, Bill Skarsgård, Gary Dauberman, It: Chapter Two, James McAvoy, James Ransone, Jessica Chastain, Stephen King

Andy Muschietti’s much anticipated follow up to 2017’s smash-hit horror adaptation IT is finally here, but does it float, or does it sink?

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Film review: Bait is a tense and enchanting tale of social divide in Cornwall

September 4, 2019October 14, 2019 Harry Jones Bait, Georgia Ellery, Giles King, Isaac Woodvine, Mark Jenkin, Mary Woodvine, Sergei Eisenstein, Simon Shepard

First time director Mark Jenkin provides tension and enchantment in modern day Cornwall through the lens of more traditional techniques.

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Film review: The Souvenir is a gorgeous amble through 1980s London

September 2, 2019 Sophie Sutcliffe Honor Swinton Byrne, Joanna Hogg, Richard Ayoade, The Souvenir, Tilda Swinton, Tom Burke

Joanna Hogg’s semi-autobiographical new feature, The Souvenir, invites us into the pastel-washed world of her memories.

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Feature: A playlist inspired by Tarantino and the songs that could’ve been

August 19, 2019August 19, 2019 Jeremy Arblaster Andre Williams, Black Pumas, Gregory Porter, Henry Mancini, Quentin Tarantino, Trevor Sensor, Wanda Jackson, Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders

Wind down from the heady highs of Tarantino’s latest film Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood with a playlist of songs inspired by his films.

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Film review: Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is an oddly touching mess

August 16, 2019August 20, 2019 Blaise Radley Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature reveals the aging auteur taking his foot off the gas slightly, but what’s left doesn’t necessarily add up.

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Flatpack take over The Mailbox for a day of Wes Anderson-related film fun

August 15, 2019August 16, 2019 Blaise Radley Flatpack Projects

Flatpack Projects are teaming up with The Mailbox this Sunday for a bunch of film-related fun, including a screening of Isle of Dogs.

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