Today’s show offers a full hour of film and slot reviews, with the Top 7 Movie Slots, the Chipping Norton set of spies of Kingsman: The Secret Service, the roaming Reece Witherspoon of Wild, the sweating Wahlberg of The Gambler, and the duplicitous Oscar Isaacs of A Most Violent Year and Ex Machina all under consideration. Mark Liversidge … [Read more...]

Today's show reviews four films that highlight the danger of wish fulfilment, as the hopeful protagonists of Into The Woods, Whiplash and Foxcatcher all find chasing your dreams means quickly being in over your head. We also review American Sniper, Clint Eastwood's examination of how war follows soldiers home. Plus we've an interview on the … [Read more...]

The live film review show looks at a raft of true to almost true to pretending to be true stories, from Angelina Jolie's war time Unbroken and the Professor Stephen Hawking biography The Theory Of Everything, to Tim Burton's art fraud caper, Big Eyes and Ridley Scott's highfalutin flight from Egypt, Exodus: Gods and Kings. Plus we've Birdman, … [Read more...]

Welcome in the New Year with a critical look back at the past, as we countdown the top 10 best films of 2014, as chosen by show reviewers, members of the Picturehouse chain, St Ives and Saffron Screen community cinemas and participants in the monthly Arts Picturehouse Movie Quiz. Toby Miller is show host, joined by a raft of reviewers: Emma … [Read more...]

The last show of the year overflows with the spirit of adventure, as we review Paddington, Night At The Museum 3, Kon-Tiki and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. We also talk to Jacque Woolley from Saffron Screen about their 2015 plan for pop-up cinema in the town and village halls of Essex and Suffolk. Toby Miller is host of the hour, … [Read more...]

In our last review show before Christmas we shine our projector over award season favourites Winter Sleep and The Imitation Game, as well indulge in a little Kevin Kline in warming French drama My Old Lady. Plus we talk to Ian Cartwright, director of the people power programming scheme of Our Screen, and we get the low down on the Cambridge's … [Read more...]