Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 24 March 2023
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 24 March 2023
John Wick: Chapter 4 (15)
Yeah...we're thinking he's back. John Wick Chapter 4. Keanu Reeves' unkillable, dog-avenging, former hitman returns, in the fight for his life in the explosive fourth outing in what many are now calling the greatest action film franchise ever. As the price on his head ever expands, a way…
Film: The Whale
Hot off his richly deserved Oscar win last weekend at this year’s Academy Awards, it’s official, we are living in the Brendanaissance. Few people deserve this moment like Brendan Fraser, who has been through hell, to get back to main stage of cinema, and particularly audiences of my generation could not be happier to see it.
However, what about the film that got him there? Based on Samuel D. Hunter’s 2012 play of the same name (who also writes this feature…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 3 March 2023
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 3 March 2023
Creed III (12a)
This spin-off of the legendary Rocky series continues to expand, as the franchise steps out of Rocky Balboa’s shadow. Once again starring Michael B. Jordan (who also directs this time) as Adonis Creed, Creed III sees Adonis Creed still at the peak of his game, but is challenged more than…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 10 February 2023
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 10th February
Magic Mike’s Last Dance (15)
Channing Tatum is back one last time in Magic Mike's Last Dance, as director Steven Soderbergh brings the Magic Mike trilogy to an all out climax in this romantic comedy drama that sees Mike forced back to the stage, as a wealthy socialite comes calling with an offer he…
Artists In The Frame
Each summer, the artists’ collective North Yorkshire Open Studios (NYOS), hosts the region’s biggest open studio event.
This year, over 140 artists will open their doors to the public in June. And, for the first time, NYOS has teamed up with the North York Moors National Park to host a three-month long preview exhibition of the summer’s open studio event at the Inspired by… gallery at Danby Lodge National Park Centre, near Whitby.
The exhibition will showcase some of the artists who…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 3 February 2023
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 3 February
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (PG)
Puss in Boots is back in swashbuckling action in Dreamworks Animation’s acclaimed sequel. The Last Wish catches up with our cream-lapping hero Puss (Antonio Banderas), as he reaches the scary realisation that he has used up eight of his nine lives, and in this last life faces…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 27 January 2023
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 27th January
The Fabelmans (12a)
Steven Spielberg’s semi-autobiographical acclaimed new film is both a tribute to the cinema experience, and a testament to the ups and downs of family life. Telling the story of young Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle), The Fabelmans focuses on his dysfunctional family and social life and how the power of movies, not…
Films: A Man Called Otto
In so many instances when European stories make the leap to America, there seems to be a need to scrub away the darker edges. Yet, it is in these edges that we sometimes find the most impactful points and meanings. So, in spite of the marketing making Finding Neverland director Marc Foster’s comedy drama appear like a full on sweet and feel good romp, it is so refreshing to see the faithfulness with which it has been refashioned.
An adaptation…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 13 January 2023
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 13th January
M3GAN (15)
Wait a minute Chucky, hold your strings Puppet Master crew, keep quiet Annabelle, because there's a new killer doll in town and her name is M3GAN! Director Gerard Johnstone’s M3GAN is a campy, exhilarating and creepy horror thriller from producer James Wan and writer Akela Cooper, that sees young Cady (Violet McGraw)…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema From Friday 6 January 2023
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From Friday 6th January
A Man Called Otto (15)
Cantankerous comedy drama from Finding Neverland director Marc Foster, which stars Tom Hanks as, you guessed it, Otto. A grumpy middle-aged man, who isolates himself from the community, until the benefit of human connection finds him again. A remake of the 2015 Swedish film of the same name and…
Bringing The Beat Back To Bradford - A New Exhibition
The Bradford Odeon has stood in the centre of Bradford for nearly 95 years. Over the course of its rich history the Art Deco building has hosted cinema screenings, dances, bingo sessions, charity events and concerts - The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Tom Jones all appeared there in the sixties.
When the Odeon closed in 2000 it’s future was uncertain. It took a decade of sustained activism from the community to save the building from demolition.
The majestic building is now…
Films: See How They Run
You really cannot beat a good whodunnit. All these years later, we know the formula, but filmmakers keep refreshing the ‘gather in the drawing room’ approach of the genre in a variety of interesting ways.
Be it Kenneth Branagh embracing the format in his old fashioned but fun Poirot films, the Scream series integrating changing horror genre tropes into the mix, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (and his sequel Glass Onion this year) using the genre’s joys to mislead/re-invent the whodunnit…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema - From Friday 9 December
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
The Silent Twins (18)
Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrence star in director Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s powerful biographical Polish/UK drama about the lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, two Welsh twin sisters that were institutionalised in Broadmoor Hospital, after a few youthful acts of rebellion, and whom refused to communicate with anyone but each other. Adapted from the book…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema - From Friday 2 December
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From Friday 2nd December
Violent Night (15)
David Harbour (Stranger Things, Hellboy, Black Widow) is Santa Claus, only this St. Nick isn’t so jolly, especially when a group of mercenaries (led by John Leguizamo) have taken a family hostage, with a little girl who is on his nice list, urging Santa into action. These baddies will be getting…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema - From Friday 25 November
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 25th November
Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (PG)
Based on the revered children’s book by Roald Dahl, and adapted from Matthew Warchus, Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s acclaimed stage musical, Matthew Warchus’ cinema version of Matilda The Musical stars Alisha Weir as the resilient little girl with extraordinary abilities, who faces turmoil at home from…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema - From Friday 18 November
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
Armageddon Time (15)
From director James Gray (The Lost City of Z and Ad Astra), this ‘80s set coming of age drama is part inspired by Gray’s own childhood. The film looks at a young Jewish-American boy who befriends a rebellious African-American classmate, as he struggles to measure up to family expectations and the privileged unjust world…
Three Works – Victor Payares
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Chris Shaw, owner of the Three Works Gallery, has done me a favour by going back to his original Three Works concept: only three pieces in any one exhibition. The ‘favour’ is to save me going through my usual routine of quickly walking round an entire exhibition, selecting just a few works for detailed viewing and then going back later..
Three Works encourages meticulous scrutiny rather than the superficial attention afforded to paintings in most larger galleries. It is the Three…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema - From Friday 4 November
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
Watcher (15)
V/H/S/94 segment director Chloe Okuno makes her full feature length directorial debut with this unease inducing Hitchcockian horror/thriller. The story sees American couple Julia (It Follows’ Maika Monroe) and Francis (The Neon Demon’s Karl Glusman) relocate to Bucharest, moving into a new apartment, as Francis pursues his career. However, one rainy night, Julia notices that…
Film Review : Emily
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Forms of Art that play fast and loose with supposed biographical truth will always attract opprobrium amongst purists. And in amongst the generally approving reviews of actor and director, Frances O’Connor’s, latest film-making venture, we find a ubiquity of knee-jerk reactions. Predicated on distaste – it is noticeable that some observers have refused even to see Emily on grounds that the film is an affront to the sanctity of Emily Brontë’s memory – the commonest cavil relates to what is…
Orpheus. An Extraordinary Reimagining Of Monteverdi's Classic Opera
At least four years in the making and drawing on the talents of many dozens of people, the long-term South Asian Arts and Opera North collaboration has finally emerged. Like a butterfly blossoming from a chrysalis and, after a long gestation where the component parts dissolve into each other to make something entirely new, this collaboration has produced a thing of great beauty.
Based on Monteverdi’s late Renaissance/early Baroque opera Orpheus, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio, the opera draws on…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema - From 7 October
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From Friday 7th October
Amsterdam (15)
From the Oscar nominated director of Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, Amsterdam is a 1930s set star-laden mystery comedy drama, which centres on three friends - a doctor, a lawyer and a nurse (Christian Bale, John David Washington and Margot Robbie) - who become entangled in the murder plot of a…
Dancing And Ice At The Piece Hall This Christmas
The Piece Hall has announced its spectacular festive programme for 2022, which is set to see the iconic heritage site transformed into a wintry wonderland.
This year, the Halifax venue will play host to a stunning ice-skating rink and a series of stellar performances and heart-warming activities, including Winter Makers Markets, live gigs, classical music, comedy shows, brass bands, mini raves, craft workshops and festive family films.
Once again, the venue’s 66,000 sq ft courtyard will capture the spirit of Christmas and…
Silver Screen Weekly - What's Coming Up At The Cinema - From 30 September
Our film critic and media correspondent has been looking and trawling the new releases. Here's what you can see on the big screen this week!
From 30 September
Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (PG)
Based on Paul Gallico’s 1958 novel, this acclaimed comedy drama stars Lesley Manville as the titular Mrs. Harris, a widowed cleaner who, in 50s London, spots a couture Dior dress and absolutely loves it. So much so that she is determined to get one herself. A simple old fashioned…
Romance, Horror And Live Piano Accompaniment At City Screen York To launch Local Author’s New Historical Page-Turner
York-based independent publisher Stairwell Books and City Screen York are showing a special gala performance of Lon Chaney’s horror-romance,The Phantom of the Opera (1925). This silent classic will be accompanied by live music from the sensational Neil Brand. The performance is to celebrate the launch of Tim Murgatroyd’s new novel, THE ELECTRIC, described by one reviewer as ‘poignant, charming, and wryly funny, with a cast of beautifully drawn and unforgettable characters. Not to be missed.'
Special Gala Silent Cinema Performance
The Phantom…
Idris Elba Voted UK's Choice To Play Bond
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Sean Connery crowned the best James Bond of all time with Roger Moore coming in second; Goldfinger came out on top as the nation’s favourite ever Bond film; More than one in ten Brits want the next Bond to be a woman.
The name’s Elba…Idris Elba!
The UK wants Idris Elba to take up the iconic role of James Bond, new national research has revealed – despite the star distancing himself from the part in recent…
Films: Nope
When it comes to writer/director Jordan Peele (Get Out, Us) you know you are not getting something conventional, so when the equally simply - but ambiguously - titled Nope seemed to bare the trademarks of an alien invasion offering, I expected something a bit different. I expected Nope to be weird and a different spin on things, and yet even I was still taken aback by just how wonderfully odd a cinema experience it was.
Telling the story of the…
Films: Elvis
Director Baz Luhrmann is a director of a certain flair, so seeing that grand and exuberant style stung with “The King’s” showmanship was always going to be a cinema event worth purchasing a ticket for. But how well would Baz capture the much larger story behind the on-stage spectacle? Well, as it happens, brilliantly. No wonder audiences can’t help falling in love with this one…which has now become the second highest grossing music biopic behind Bohemian Rhapsody.
Charting (so to speak)…
Trapezium Gallery Online Gallery And Xmas Exhibition
Bradford's Trapezium Arts' Online Gallery is open to artists from across the Bradford district and is inviting submissions, which will all be considered for a Xmas Open exhibition at Trapezium Gallery on Kirkgate.
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Ken Woods of Trapezium Arts said:
"Our gallery on Kirkgate in the centre of Bradford is open again for full exhibitions, but we're still very keen to continue showing art made by local people online. The Online Gallery was so successful over lockdown, many people have asked if…
Review: Prey
Since its inception in 1987, Predator has gone on to enjoy quite a unique legacy in cinema history. Starting off as a testosterone-fuelled entry into the ‘80s action landscape, with a sci-fi/horror twist, the film has since been embraced in different ways by new generations and nowadays enjoys its standing as a classic, with an awful lot to say beneath its rippling muscles and camouflaged alien menace thrills.
The franchise it has inspired, despite being one of mostly good quality (barring…
Thousands Expected As Stars Line Up For First Ever Chase Pride Festival
Thousands of people are expected to flock to the first ever Chase Pride festival next month for a star-studded day of celebration and entertainment.
Around 4,000 people are expected at Hednesford Park on Saturday, September 3, for the event which will celebrate diversity, support the local LGBTQ+ community and break down barriers.
Festival director Kathryn Downs said more than a thousand tickets had already been sold for the event, which promises a packed day of entertainment and activities for all, including a…