The Big Picture Magazine
If you go down to the woods today…you’ll find the sweetest little two-screen independent cinema tucked away among the trees. The Kinema in the Woods at Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire is a regional institution and provides a unique picturehouse experience for its patrons. Manager Philip Jones swept a path through the autumn leaves to let […]
It’s rare for a large cinema dating from the pre-war era to receive the sort of restoration designed to bring it back to look as it did on its opening night, but this is just what has happened recently to the Plaza in Stockport. Manager Ted Doan explains more about the cinema’s history and the […]
Always on the lookout for cinemas that are keeping the spirit of independence alive, Sean Wilson recently caught up with Debbie and Gary – proud owners of The Blue Walnut Café – to discuss intimate settings, grassroots community and some fairly dodgy film tastes. Tucked away in the sleepy area of Chelston is one of […]
Emma Simmonds reports back following her ten colourful days spent in the presence of the world’s weirdest, wildest, most wonderful animation. What kind of cinema-going experience begins with an impossibly rotund gentleman emerging from a gigantic snail shell to find that he is on the menu, and ends with a body-popping, limb-lengthening, yet philosophical examination […]
Zombiefest is living proof (no pun intended) that a little inspiration, lots of ingenuity and a die hard love for the movies can bring about some very offbeat results.
Ardent film fans rarely limit their love for movies to just watching their particular favourites on the big screen. Action figures, tie in novelisations, games, extras loaded special edition DVD’s, posters and tee shirts are just a sample of off screen merchandising that exists to further cement a films place in the hearts of it’s […]
It’s worth remembering that while we in the profligate ‘west’ ponder cinema’s fate – with seemingly endless developments offering us even more choice as to how and where we interact with film – there are some places that don’t afford their inhabitants the same kind of freedoms. The image above then, by celebrated photographer Simon […]