Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
23 February 2026 – ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’ gave us the weird inner brainscape of Gore Verbinski, something not to be encountered lightly. The film was enjoyed by all of us, but although there were some lighthearted moments, it was, nonetheless, a complex and intense experience. Verbinski was behind some pretty famous works, […]
Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert
20 February 2026 – Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Epic: Elvis Presley in Concert’ was surprisingly very good. I liked the very personal, informal comments recorded by Elvis Presley, and it was the most ‘human’ I have ever seen him, freely discussing his own emotional responses, his desire to have a family, the things he found stressful, and […]
Wuthering Heights
16 February 2026 – Cinema Club went to see “Wuthering Heights” at the cinema. It was a bit of a ridiculous film, bearing very little resemblance to the book, and introducing somewhat racy elements to the interaction between much of the coupling going on. The casting of the two main characters was a bit strange, […]
Crime 101
12 February 2026 – A new Odeon cinema opened in Bristol, and I went alone to see ‘Crime 101’ in the new cinema. The best I can say is that it was alright, or entertaining enough, but it also felt like fairly standard fare for a heist movie with the requisite characters all in place, […]
Send Help
9 February 2026 – With this film, I was right to suspect that it would be very gory, but it also managed to be quite funny, too. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but it did seem to please the others in the group. I would prefer that we watched less of that type of […]
Shelter
2 February 2026 – Cinema Club went to see ‘Shelter’ on. On the one hand, it was standard Jason Statham action movie fare, with large degree of ridiculous violence, but was somewhat enhanced with the storyline of young girl needing rescuing, and largely accompanying him along the way, and thereby having quite an impact on […]
Hamlet
26 January 2026 – We went to see this National Theatre production of ‘Hamlet’ shown at the cinema. It was a very modern adaptation of the play and, whilst it was interesting, it was not great, with the exception of Francesca Mills, who played Ophelia with great gusto. One of us fell asleep through a […]
Rental Family
19 January 2026 – Three out of four of us went to see ‘Rental Family’. The two others enjoyed it, appreciating the performance, plot and cultural differences from the Japanese lifestyles portrayed. I found it a bit boring and slow, and was not greatly enamoured by the performance put in by Brendan Fraser. I did, […]
Hamnet
12 January 2026 – Three of us thoroughly enjoyed Hamnet, two of us describing it as completely absorbing from the beginning, whilst one of our number described it as a bit slow to get going and, whilst not his style of movie, he could appreciate the quality of the production. For myself, I enjoyed it […]
Anaconda
5 January 2026 – We went to see ‘Anaconda’, and it was a good, lighthearted film to go see after our winter break. We were universal in our enjoyment of it. Fraser