December 31, 2012
Here’s a list of all of Birmingham’s cinema screens (as of December 2012 January 2013). Update Jan 2013: The Showcase Cinema in Erdington shut in January 2013. That now means Birmingham has 78 screens and 17298 seats. That’s one cinema seat for every 59 people. Here’s why this list exists: I love watching films on [...]
November 23, 2010
Here’s Mark Kermode catching up on the issue I highlighted a while back. I surprise myself sometimes about how cross I still get about this; looks like Kermode is about to get vexed about it: The debate is in the comments over at Kermode’s post and he has a habit of following up so watch [...]
June 15, 2009
I thought I’d leave a week until I blogged about last Monday’s ‘Cinematic Backwater‘ debate which kicked off the excellent Fazeley Digital Festival. I thought maybe I’d calm down in the interim, that the underlying issue of ‘does it matter that Norwich get cool films before Birmingham?’ would vex me less. Suffice to say I’m [...]
May 16, 2009
(Trailer for Synecdoche, New York. I want to see this NOW) First some nostalgia: I’ve been a Birmingham cinema-goer for a long time. Get me drunk enough and I’ll bore you to within an inch of your life by listing the films I’ve seen in cinemas now long gone. From The Towering Inferno in the [...]