By Dallas King More previews and our weekly competition after the video… This week’s main release is A PROPHET, the French crime masterpiece that’s being hailed as “an instant classic”; Little White Lies says “it takes its place amongst the greatest crime films ever made”, Sight & Sound made it their film of 2009, it...
Read more →Thanks to a hook-up with the excellent Belmont Picturehouse, we’ll now be bringing you movie previews each week courtesy of cinema manager and film geek extraordinaire Dallas King. They’re also giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets every week too, which is incredibly generous…so, over to you Mr King: ‘Gorgeous’ George...
Read more →Saturday 31 October | The Belmont Picturehouse | 7pm | £7.50 The Belmont celebrates Halloween with a party in the bar including a costume competition, spooky soundtracks, weird cocktails and well-loved games such as ‘pin the entrail on the zombie’ (that’s what it says here). Then it’s on to the auditorium at 9pm for...
Read more →Friday 9-Thursday 15 October | The Belmont Picturehouse | 4pm & 9pm Daily Review by Dallas King This musical mockumentary is obviously going to bring up comparisons with Spinal Tap but probably has a lot more in common with the work of Armando Iannucci and Ricky Gervais’s The Office. Paddy Considine is often referred...
Read more →In the first of a highly irregular (captain) series of posts pointing you towards Aberdeen-based blogs, we’d like to draw your attention to Championship Celluloid. Written by the The Belmont Picturehouse’s Dallas King, he’s watching all 500 of Empire Magazine’s Greatest Movies of All Time within the space of 365 days. After working in a cinema...
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