Previous films
Phillip Road has provided a convenient and accommodating home since our first film last September. Caretaker Nigel Nash and centre manager Ken Smith could not have been more supportive. Even so, there have been obstacles along the way: I won’t …
127 Hours (Cert 15) USA 2010 94 mins Dir: Danny Boyle Saturday 7 May 7.30pm at Phillip Road APOLOGIES FOR LATE CANCELLATION: Owing to an incompatibility between the pre-production DVD we were sent by the distributors and our DVD player …
The Kids Are Alright (Cert 15) USA 2010 104 mins Dir: Lisa Cholodenko Saturday 30 April 7.30pm at Phillip Road Nic and Jules (Annette Benning Julianne Moore), live with their teenage children, Joni and Laser in LA. As Joni …
Ponyo (Cert PG) JAPAN 2008 100 mins Dir: Hayao Miyazaki Sunday 1st May 3.00pm at Phillip Road The delightful animated tale of friendship between a five-year-old boy and the goldfish princess Ponyo who yearns to be human… from Studio Ghibli …
Moving Image has put together a programme of new short films made by local film-makers, animators and documentarists. We featured a selection of these in the All Day Cinema Tent at the Wivenhoe May Fair on May 30th. We also …
Children of Men (UK 2006) Cert 15, 109 mins Directed by Alphonso Cuaron English Language Dystopia meets road trip in Alphonso Cuaron’s Oscar nominated film. Unsure whom he can trust as 2027 London tears itself apart around him, Theo …
13 June Monsters (US 2010) Cert 12A, 94 mins Directed by Gareth Edwards English Language Six years previously, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form crashed over Central America. Soon after, new life forms …
This week we received an email telling us that we couldn’t show ‘Blade Runner’ in Wivenhoe. We don’t know why, whether the current licence holders Chartwell (part of a massive media empire owned by Californian multi-millionaire Jerry Perenchio) are withdrawing …
16 May Metropolis (Germany 1927/2010) Cert 15, 145 mins Directed by Fritz Lang Silent classic with original music score An astonishing achievement, Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece took 16 months to film, with a cast of 37,383, and is the most …
“In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn. Unbeknownst to the neighbors, hidden beneath this home is a vast secret hideout. Surrounded by a small army …