I've been writing up reviews of films seen at the Cottage Road cinema's classic film nights here for a while, but last night the Hyde Park Picture House offered an equivalent of its own: an evening of 1940s cinema. I went along with planet_andy, big_daz and ms_siobhan - who had really thrown herself into the spirit of the evening by taking the cinema management's ( Read more... )

I watched this on Saturday evening while staying with my sister, largely on the basis that we all fancied a quiet night in with the kittens, and she happened to have it recorded on their hard drive. And it's a good thing that we had the kittens to distract us, because the film itself was dire.

It's not that I am simplistically anti-Disney. I love ( Read more... )

IMDb page here. Watched at home on computer, thanks to innerbratA cracking evening's viewing. OK, so the animation was fairly basic - but in some ways, lowish production values rather suit Terry Pratchett. His books are about finding the profound in the mundane, and his characters for the most part humble, ordinary folk. So something big and flashy and ( Read more... )

I've just been out to see the above with nigelmouse, at a fabulous cinema called the Hyde Park. Leeds City Council inform me that it was originally built as a hotel in 1908, but became a cinema in 1914, and has been one ever since. It's a real treasure, and I could quite understand why nigelmouse said he often goes there as much for the cinema as for the films ( Read more... )

Last night we celebrated Halloween Proper by going to see The Corpse Bride, me with A Bat On My Head again (although I did very thoughtfully take it off while in the cinema). It was delightful, in every way an animated Tim Burton film featuring legions of the dead, tragic lovers and cold-hearted parents should be delightful. And Christopher Lee! ( Read more... )

Went to see Howl's Moving Castle (the subtitled version) last night at the Phoenix, despite the hideous cold and the loooooong day. It was certainly worth going to see, if only because, having read the book, I was curious to see how it would translate into anime. But definitely odd ( Read more... )