Cinema and Film

New Films 24th March 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW John Wick : Chapter 4 (15) Spin-offs and prequel appearances notwithstanding, the emotional… Read more »

New Films 17th March 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Shazam! Fury Of The Gods (12A) Making the familiar mistake of assuming sequels… Read more »

Birmingham Film & TV Market 2023

Submissions are now open for the third edition of the Birmingham Film & TV Market! A one day pitch and market event, the BFTM links emerging producers… Read more »

New Films 10th March 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Scream VI (15) Having survived last year’s carnage, Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), the… Read more »

New Films 4th March 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Creed III (15) As well as reprising the title character, Michael B. Jordan… Read more »

New Films 24th Feb 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW What’s Love Got To Do With It? (12A) That it shares its title… Read more »

New Films 17th Feb 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (12A) Calling to mind thoughts of Fantastic Voyage… Read more »

New Films 10th Feb 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Magic Mike’s Last Dance (15) Having given up life as a stripper and… Read more »

New Films 4th Feb 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Whale (15) Misguidedly criticised for supposedly portraying obesity as disgusting and monstrous,… Read more »

New Films 27th Jan 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Fabelmans (12A) Paradoxically earning Oscar nominations for Best Film and Best Director… Read more »

Join Stirchley Open Cinema for the classic family crime drama – The Godfather

Stirchley Open Cinema (SOC) are going to make you an offer you can’t refuse! They are screening the classic family crime drama – The Godfather. Telling the… Read more »

Award-winning writers premiere new Midlands-based ITV drama, Nolly in Birmingham

Award winning writer Russell T Davies (It’s a Sin, Dr Who, Queer as Folk) and Director Peter Hoar (The Umbrella Academy, It’s a Sin) join the Royal… Read more »

New Films 20th Jan 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Babylon (18) Before the title appears on screen, two men will have been… Read more »

New Films 12th Jan 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW M3gan (15) The latest addition to the killer doll horror sub-genre also taps… Read more »

2023 Begins Seasonal Highlights Here at MAC

Goodbye 2022. Hello 2023!Here at MAC we can’t wait to welcome you all back for a fresh season of exciting and brand-new events. With our wide and… Read more »

Stirchley Open Cinema team up with Birmingham Brewing Company to bring you ultimate bar film, ROAD HOUSE!

The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has been hired to clean it up. He… Read more »

48 Hours in Birmingham – Two Kids on the Bloc

Living in Worcester, it’s a pretty easy commute to Brum. I’ve lived in The Jewellery Quarter, the worst parts of Wolverhampton & West Bromwich, and was born… Read more »

New Films 5th Jan 2023 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Empire Of Light (15) His first film as both writer and director, bolstered… Read more »

New Films 29th Dec 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody (12A) There’s already been two documentaries… Read more »

New Films 22nd Dec 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (12A) Having done blockbuster style business on… Read more »

New Films 16th Dec 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Avatar: The Way Of Water (12A) Thirteen years in the waiting, James Cameron… Read more »

Friendly Neighbourhood Cinema Life of Brian + more!

Friendly Neighbourhood Cinema Life of Brian + more!

Independent Stourbridge pop-up, Friendly Neighbourhood Cinema presents Monty Python’s anarchic, religious satire LIFE OF BRIAN screening inside of Stourbridge’s beautiful St Thomas’ Church on Sat 17th December,… Read more »

Live music and more at the We Are Birmingham ’22 Finale

This year is the 20th Anniversary of Celebrating Sanctuary Birmingham. To mark the occasion, we launched a year long program called We Are Birmingham 2022. The programme… Read more »

New Films 8th Dec 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Silent Twins (18) Their story previously told in a BBC drama, a… Read more »

Stirchley Open Cinema to screen Old Dark House & Muppets Christmas Carol

Stirchley Open Cinema to host alternative and traditional festive fun film nights with The Old Dark House and The Muppets Christmas Carol Stirchley Open Cinema (SOC), a… Read more »

New Films 2nd Dec 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Violent Night (15) It’s such an obvious title, it’s surprising nobody thought of… Read more »

New Films 25th Nov 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW She Said (15) Depressingly a box office bomb in America, where it seems… Read more »

Disney 100-The Concert – 6th June 2023 – Resorts World Arena

A brand new concert will tour UK arenas in 2023, in celebration of 100 years of Disney!  Presented in the UK by Senbla and produced by Semmel… Read more »

New Films 18th Nov 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Menu (15) Chef Slowick (Ralph Fiennes) runs an exclusive island restaurant called… Read more »

Beauty into Beast Monsters Season at The Electric Birmingham

Modern & Classic Horror at The Electric Birmingham,Screening as Part of the BFI’s In Dreams are Monsters SeasonThe Electric, Station Street, BirminghamSunday 13th November – Sunday 4th… Read more »

New Films 12th Nov 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (12A) When Chadwick Boseman tragically died two years, not… Read more »

New Years cinema event – Andre Rieu in Dublin – coming to Birmingham Cinemas 7th & 8th Jan 2023

Kick off 2023 in style with André Rieu in Dublin – André’s celebratory concert is exclusive to cinemas across the UK and is the only way to start the new year with… Read more »

New Films 4th Nov 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Living (12A) An English language remake of Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru about a… Read more »

Deep Roots film made in Shard End and Stechford premieres 4 November

Deep Roots film made in Shard End and Stechford premieres 4 November

EAST BIRMINGHAM FILM TO HIT THE SILVER SCREEN Locally made film to premiere at The Electric Cinema Friday 4 November 2022 A young woman poses as a… Read more »

New Films 28th Oct 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Barbarian (15) Despite the title having little relevance to the plot, this is… Read more »

New Films 21st Oct 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Black Adam (12A) One of the most powerful characters in the DC Universe,… Read more »

Lights, camera, action 131 films to be screened, free of charge, in 10-day Birmingham Film Festival

Lights, camera, action 131 films to be screened, free of charge, in 10-day Birmingham Film Festival

The eagerly anticipated 2022 Birmingham Film Festival gets underway in just a couple of weeks, bringing 131 free screenings to Millennium Point in a 10-day celebration of… Read more »

Square Eyes TV Festival 2022

Oscar nominee Sir David Hare, DI Ray showrunner Maya Sondhi and reclusive horror author Garth Marenghi are just three of the names taking in part in the… Read more »

New Films 14th Oct 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Emily (12A) Anyone who saw her as Maeve in Sex Education would have… Read more »

New Films 7th Oct 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW The Woman King (15) The slave trade and the complicity of African tribes… Read more »

The Snowman and the Snowdog – Film with Live Orchestra show in Birmingham this December

THE SNOWMAN™ AND THE SNOWDOG, the animated sequel to the much-loved Christmas classic THE SNOWMAN™, will be screened alongside a live concert orchestra, in what will be… Read more »

Love Actually Live in Concert – Film with Live Orchestra for Xmas!

Love Actually, the star-studded rom-com that has become a Christmas classic, will tour the UK in winter 2022 with a full orchestra performing its soundtrack live to… Read more »

New Films 29th Sept 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris (PG) Published in 1958 by Paul Gallico as… Read more »

New Films 22nd Sept 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Don’t Worry Darling (15) While somewhat overshadowed by claims of onset friction between… Read more »

New Films 14th Sept 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Hatching (15) The debut by Finnish director Hanna Bergholm sits comfortably in the… Read more »

New Films 8th Sept 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Bodies Bodies Bodies (15) Directed by Halina Reijin, this pitch black horror comedy… Read more »

Home Alone in Concert with Orchestra for Christmas.. Birmingham Show

The iconic Christmas family film Home Alone will be brought to life this festive period, when it is toured across the UK for the first time accompanied by a… Read more »

Cinematic icon Pam Grier comes to Birmingham and joins MAC in special screenings + live Q&A

Live onstage Q&A with Pam Grier as part of BFI Southbank season Pam Grier: Foxy, Fierce and Fearless MAC will screen cult classics Coffy with a live… Read more »

New Films 2nd Sept 2022 by Mike Davies

This column will review films both screening theatrically and/or on various streaming platforms. NEW Fall (15) Stranded atop a 2000 foot tower with your best friend and… Read more »

Wonderland Miniatures – Miniature Birmingham Cinemas

Wonderland Miniatures – Miniature Birmingham Cinemas

Grab yourself a slice of Birmingham’s cinema history with a brand-new miniature sculpture series from local makers Spaceplay, commissioned by Flatpack. Flatpack and Spaceplay’s Wonderland Miniatures collection is a series… Read more »