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]

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]

World Cinema Saturday (17/9)    21:00   BBC4             The Girl With a Bracelet (2019)  Superb courtroom drama about a teenager accused of murder, spare in tone but rich in emotions and motives that are sometimes only half hinted at. Melissa Guers is excellent as Lise, the teen in the dock for killing her… [continues]

The Eclectic Cinema is back at Cheltenham Playhouse, after its summer break, with a varied programme of six films between now and Christmas. The first is Promising Young Woman (15), starring Carey Mulligan, on Monday 12 September. The show kicks off at 19:30 and tickets can be bought online, or on the door, for £7.50 each. This… [continues]

Cheltenham Film Society’s new season launches on Tuesday 13 September, opening with the rambunctious comedy, Our Ladies. “Our story is older than the glens and hills,” teenage girl Orla (Tallulah Greive) recites in the opening moments of Our Ladies. She’s dressed in fair-maiden white, her bare feet delicately balanced across the pebbles of a Highland loch… [continues]