The Cineworlds I got it wrong last week: Minions: the Rise of Gru doesn’t start until July 1st. My apologies for that.  If (and it’s quite a big if) I have navigated the Cineworld website successfully this week it seems like more of the same, with the only new film at Cheltenham being Jurassic World… [continues]

CIFF Cheltenham International Film Festival moves into its second week, again showing lots of films you won’t be able to see anywhere else. Today (Sunday) we have three films, including a free screening of The Crying Game, with producer Steve Woolley in attendance (it says here). 16:00 • Parabola Arts Centre • Notes on a… [continues]

Cheltenham International Film Festival Never mind “around “Cheltenham, the big news this week is the opening of the Cheltenham International Film Festival, which opens on Monday evening at the Playhouse with The Good Boss, a Spanish comedy directed by Fernando Alon de Aranoa and starring the magnificent Javier Bardem. There are probably more international films… [continues]

All written by Pamela Weaver this week, except where stated, and with an added soupçon of sarcasm by JM (of course). The Cineworlds Cheltenham and Gloucester both continue to screen Downton, Mincemeat, Dr Strange, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Fantastic Beasts and Everything Everywhere All at Once. Sarkaru Vaari Paata continues in Cheltenham. There are three… [continues]

Cheltenham Film Society You have to be a member. Now I’ve made that clear, I should tell you that tomorrow there is the event to celebrate the society’s 75th birthday. You have to be a member. You can’t even go as a guest. There are three excellent films at the Playhouse (Emil & the Detectives,… [continues]

The Roses Here all week – it’s Downton Abbey: A New Era. Posh people in posh frocks go to the French Riviera with a retinue of faithful lackeys who Know Their Place. (PW) Click here to see the full Roses film programme for May, apart from Downton. Newsflash: there isn’t much of it. The Guildhall… [continues]

The Roses On Monday there is the first screening of The Outfit, a crime thriller directed and co-written by Graham Moore. It is set in 1950s Chicago, starring Mark Rylance (again) as a tailor who makes stylish suits for the local mobsters, allowing them to use his premises for a spot of money laundering. The… [continues]

The Roses It’s still school holiday time, so Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Fantastic Beasts of Dumbledore (that’s not him in the picture) continue and there is another screening of Coppelia on Easter Monday afternoon. For grown-ups, particularly the ones who like to leave the cinema with a smile on their faces, there is Master… [continues]

The Roses The Phantom of the Open and The Bad Guys continue their respective rounds next week. The Batman starts on Monday and then on Monday, for the first of two screenings, there is Uncharted, directed by Ruben Fleischer, a film adaptation of a video game which stars Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas.… [continues]

The Eclectic Cinema Have you tried The Electic Cinema yet? It’s Cheltenham’s little cinema club, based in The Playhouse. (It’s a pun on The Electric Cinema, by the way, something founder Andrew Holt had to explain to me.) This week’s theme is Weird Films. On Monday, 4 April, Andrew is putting on The Love Witch,… [continues]

The Roses New to the Roses next week, but not to the local circuit, are Ali & Ava and Flee, both described in earlier newsletters. There is also the bold commitment to showing the Academy Award Best Picture winner on Wednesday and Thursday. Let’s hope it is available and not buried on Netflix. You can… [continues]

The Roses The Duke shows up at The Roses this week, but there are two new films to see. There is The Real Charlie Chaplin, directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney, which consists of a blend of original audio recordings, personal archive and dramatic reconstructions to tell the story of Chaplin’s career. Then there… [continues]

The Roses Cyrano continues at The Roses this week with a range of screenings to suit all circumstances. Just as a reminder, P means Prompt start (allegedly) i.e., no trailers or adverts, S is for subtitles for the hard of hearing and R is a ‘relaxed’ screening. There is also the rather redundant E for… [continues]

The Eclectic Cinema The Eclectic Cinema, the film club at The Playhouse, has Buster Keaton’s The General (1926) on Monday March 7 at 19:30. It’s one of the most important, ingenious and beautiful silent features ever made. Keaton plays a railway engineer during the American Civil War. A Southerner, he wants to join up to… [continues]

The Roses The Roses this week has Never Too Late, which the website describes as ‘The Great Escape meets The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’. After slitting my wrists, I noticed it stars James Cromwell, Jacki Weaver and … Dennis Waterman. An Australian effort, aimed at people so old they have lost their critical faculties. It also… [continues]

Sorry folks, another week in which we haven’t really had time to consider the offerings at Cineworld, The Tivoli and The Sherborne. The links are below. The Roses There is one more screening of Nine Days on Tuesday morning at the allegedly prompt start time of 11.15 and several more screenings of Belfast. The new… [continues]

The Roses A change of programme at The Roses this week, and a good mix of films. On Sunday 16 January, there is a screening of the original West Side Story. It was on TV over Christmas, but it is definitely worth seeing on a big screen. There is another opportunity to see Titane (dir Julia Ducournau),… [continues]

The Roses and The Guildhall by Pamela. I did the other bits (JM). The Roses The Roses in Tewkesbury continues to show West Side Story and Spider-Man: No Way Home next week and has The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, reviewed last week, from Friday 14th. Away from the mainstream, starting on Monday 10th there is The Tragedy of Macbeth, directed… [continues]