Reminders of Him
30 March 2026 – Cinema Club went to see ‘Reminders of Him’ today. The synopsis on the cinema website was as follows: “After a perfect outing with her boyfriend, Kenna makes an unbearable mistake that sends her to prison. Seven years later, Kenna returns home, hoping to rebuild her life and reunite with her daughter, […]
The Bride
16 March 2026 – Three out of four of us in Cinema Club went to see ‘The Bride’. It was a bit of a wild ride through the imagined, revived thoughts of Mary Shelley, and it was very interesting to see Jessie Buckley portray a hugely different role from her role in the recently-viewed ‘Hamnet’. […]
Project Hail Mary
15 March 2026 – I went to see ‘Project Hail Mary’ on my own at The Odeon’ on an isense screen, which was my first experience of that technology. At first, I found it irritating, but by the time I left, it had felt like a good experience, but not necessarily one that I will […]
H is for Hawk
10 March 2026 – Our Cinema Club members watched ‘H is for Hawk’ in one member’s house, after having been to an exhibition in the art gallery (see below). We had seen the trailers in the cinema, but had somehow missed the film, and we all felt we wanted to see it. The idea for […]
Mother’s Pride
9 March 2026 – Today, the cinema club went to see ‘Mother’s Pride’ at the Showcase cinema. The other three members enjoyed it thoroughly, particularly as it was a British film, and was largely filmed locally. Whilst I got into the drama of it eventually, I thought it quite laborious, and it took time to […]
The Testament of Ann Lee
2 March 2026 – Three of us went to see ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ at the ‘Showcase’ cinema. We were fairly universal in agreement that whilst we enjoyed the film, we all found it to be an intense telling of the story. And whilst none of us had really appreciated how much singing, chanting […]
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, […]