formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
An outdoor cinema showing classic Christmas films is coming to central Edinburgh this December. The Three Sisters on the Cowgate will be hosting the Festive Cinema Club with a series of free showings. Source: A free outdoor cinema showing classic … Continued
In its heyday Bolton was home to no less than 22 cinemas as ‘going to the pictures’ became one of the most popular ways to relax. Now the town has seen a resurgence in cinemagoing and it boasts some of … Continued
Not long ago ultraconservative Brazilian voters fed up with the rotten political class came out of the closet to help elect a leader they could call their own. The result was right-wing Jair Bolsonaro and a deepening culture war. Now … Continued
For as long as most of us can remember, the cinema has been facing mortal threats from some new form of competition. Even in the 1930s and 40s, when cinema admissions in the UK were at their height, some feared … Continued
In the first week of the conflict in September 1939, all places of entertainment were closed on the orders of the Home Office. But from 4 to 8 September, Aberystwyth was the only town in Great Britain to ignore this … Continued
It is JJ Abrams’s multiverse; we just live in it. That’s how it’s starting to feel, at least. The prolific producer-director-writer-geek overlord has had a hand in so many pop-culture properties over the past decade, it feels like he has … Continued