Voices from the Movie Graveyard

By John MorrishJuly 17, 2025 Uncategorized 2 Comments

Those of you who follow film in Cheltenham closely will no doubt be aware of the cluster**** surrounding the International Film Festival. Having been part of it some years ago, I’ve let it slip away, but I like film and [grits teeth] I have a passing regard for Cheltenham so I am trying to pull… [continues]

Women. Life. Freedom

By John MorrishFebruary 10, 2023February 10, 2023 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Women. Life. Freedom I’m in favour of all those things, and so I have organised a coach party to the demonstration in Trafalgar Square, which takes place tomorrow at 14:00. It’s a demonstration against the brutal and stupid rulers of the Islamic Government of Iran, which is killing women and children in their own country… [continues]

Jean Luc-Godard: an investigation

By John MorrishFebruary 7, 2023 Uncategorized Leave a comment

Freeview films from 11 December 2022

By John MorrishDecember 9, 2022December 9, 2022 Freeview highlights Leave a comment

World Cinema Sunday (11/12) 01:25 Film4 Sputnik (2020) Russian science fiction horror about a Soviet-era astronaut who returns from a planet with an alien life form installed as a parasite. Generic on the face of it, but – do you need me to tell you this? – there’s a subtext.… [continues]

Freeview films from 3 November 2022

By John MorrishDecember 3, 2022December 3, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

World Cinema Monday (5/12) 01:25 Film4 Sauvage (2018) Stephen’s Picks Saturday (3/12) 22:00 5 Star Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) (also Friday 22:00) Sunday (4/12) 00:10 5 Star Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) (also Saturday 00:15) … [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 14 November 2022

By John MorrishNovember 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Films around Cheltenham 2 Comments

The Roses Until Thursday, The Roses has Amsterdam. It has a starry cast, including Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift Matthias Schoenaerts and the voice of Robert De Niro. It is directed by David O. Russell. Or, ‘acclaimed director David 0. Russell,’ according to The Roses’s… [continues]

Films on Freeview from 12 November 2022

By John MorrishNovember 14, 2022November 14, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

A lot of these films will have already been shown by the time this epic has crawled across the ether, but you will be able to find them with a bit of digging. The BBC, Channel 4 and Talking Pictures all have catch-up channels. ‘This is the Modern World’, as the Jam put it. World… [continues]

Dave Reynolds: an appreciation

By John MorrishOctober 15, 2022October 16, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

I was sad to hear of the death of Dave Reynolds. Dave was a good friend to film in Cheltenham, and took the brave and unusual step of producing his own movies: Louisa: an Amazing Adventure and Falkland Square, both of which were premiered at the Sherborne Cinema in Gloucester in May this year. Louisa… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 8 October 2022

By John MorrishOctober 8, 2022 Films around Cheltenham, Uncategorized 6 Comments

The Guildhall Well, the £230,000 refurbishment of the centre is finished. It hasn’t changed the cinema at all. This week there are a couple of chances to see a live relay of a play called Prima Facie, from the National Theatre. It’s a one-woman show, starring Jodie Comer, so you might as well watch it… [continues]

Films around Cheltenham from 24 September 2022

By John MorrishSeptember 24, 2022 Uncategorized Leave a comment

To be honest, I haven’t had time to do this page this week, so here are the links to the websites. Click on them and you’ll find the rich panoply of pleasures the cinema industry currently has to offer in our area. Hope to do better next time, if I get a bit of help… [continues]