The Cineworlds Cineworld, Cheltenham, has one potentially interesting film: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. The Picturehouse chain showed it weeks ago. What a pity we don’t have one of those. It’s a period biopic about the Victorian photographer Louis Wain, who took somewhat psychedelic pictures of cats. As a result he was considered mentally… [continues]

[Big picture: the Spider-Man we liked, from Sam Raimi’s 2002 original. Boy, could Toby Maguire wear a sweater.] I really have a lot on this week, so you’ll have to see what sense you can make of the various websites yourself. The only really interesting film event is my Cool Yule show and party, at… [continues]

The Cineworlds Nothing much new at Cineworld Cheltenham in the early part of the week. Two children’s animations on Sunday: Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds and Tom & Jerry: The Movie. I’ve only seen the trailers, but I wasn’t impressed. Thefirst one clearly thinks a farting horse is a guaranteed laugh-riot. The second demonstrates the… [continues]

The Cineworlds New this week at the Cineworlds is Cry Macho, which sees Clint Eastwood getting back in front of the camera at the age of 91, playing a clapped-out rodeo rider who his hired to go to Mexico and bring back an old boss’s teenage son. Along the way, ‘the world-weary horseman finds unexpected… [continues]

The Cineworlds New at the Cineworlds this week are Antlers (2021), Last Night in Soho (2021) and, from Friday, Spencer (2021). Antlers is directed by Scott Cooper, of whom I know nothing, and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who is, as we know, very good with special effects and prosthetics. It’s a horror about a… [continues]

The Guildhall Well, I went over to The Guildhall this week (Thursday morning) to see Souad, which I have written about as a Film of The Week. There were four people in the audience. Two of them left during the film, leaving just Stephen Ilott and me. This is shame, because the seats are now… [continues]

The Roses The Roses has Herself and, groan, No Time to Die. Both of those I’ve written about before. The Guildhall Some signs of life at The Guildhall. On Saturday, Herself and Respect, both of which have been widely seen. Then The Nest, the yuppie nightmare film with Jude Law and Carrie Coon. An entrepreneur… [continues]

The Roses The Roses in Tewkesbury has Our Ladies, Respect and The Nest, none of which is new. The Guildhall The Guildhall has The Courier, Herself and Respect, none of which is new. On Friday (8/10) it has two screenings of a British documentary called After Shaun: A Suicide Awareness Film, directed by a man… [continues]

Well, things seem to have looked up a bit this week. One new film at The Roses in Tewkesbury and a handful at Cineworld in Cheltenham. The Roses The Roses has, at various points in the week, The Last Bus, Stillwater, and Our Ladies, all of which we already know about. The new film is… [continues]

Another dreary week for film in and around Cheltenham. Has everybody given up the ghost, I ask? Or have the muses of cinema deserted us? Last time I looked, they were on the outside wall of The Brewery, covered in vandal-proof perspex, having escaped the destruction of their home, The Odeon. I hope they are… [continues]

Another week in what could be the death-throes of the most significant and life-affirming cultural invention since the novel, namely the shared experience of watching the world’s stories in the presence of other human beings. Sadly, the people whose job it is to foster the future of the art, while preserving its vital heritage, seem… [continues]

FILM OF THE WEEK I’ve chosen a Film of the Week, in the hope that it might encourage you to make a little outing to one of our local cinemas. At The Roses, Tewkesbury, they have Love Beats Rhymes (2017), on Sunday at 18:00. It’s a music drama about the rap scene in New York… [continues]

YourScreen YourScreen, the Cheltenham-based streaming service, has managed to extend the run of the excellent Summer Survivors until 19 September. Time for Love, Those Who Remained and But Beautiful also run until then. Window To the Sea ends on 5 September and Calamity on 12 September. More on all of those films here.   The Guildhall… [continues]