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BIG SCREEN PLYMOUTH
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26/07/2008
There is a big screen up in Plymouth at the moment, and we hear it’s going to be showing some top-notch films form South West filmmakers, such as Ashley Wing, with his latest Poppies, alongside such favourites as Small Change and Revenge of the Jazz Hoodies.
If you want to get in no the act,...
BIG SCREEN PLYMOUTH
It's scary, making hay
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25/07/2008
If you've never indulged some minor masochistic desire to try haymaking,...
It's scary, making hay
THE DARK KNIGHT - REVIEW
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25/07/2008
Phig Billy gives his low-down on the latest Batman flick, The Dark Knight.
Granted, as a comic book artist myself, I’m a fan of comic books in general and Batman in particular, and if you’re well and truly fed up with the recent spate of superheroic spandex silliness at your multiplex then...
THE DARK KNIGHT - REVIEW
SPACEX SUMMER SEASON
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25/07/2008
Imagine the embarrassment when confronted with Negar Azimi’s curated programme of artists films called ‘She doesn’t think so but she’s dressed for the h-bomb’, and you’re stood there in your A-(bomb) -line dress.
The Spacex, Exeter’s high art venue, is having a summer...
SPACEX SUMMER SEASON
Moving Parts: A Droid's Life
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24/07/2008
Due to personal reasons, I've decided on a haiku review format! WALL-E (voiced by Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt) is deserving of so much more!PIXAR's artisans have, most literally, rendered their finest achievement worthy of demolishing any residual prejudices levelled against CGI - as a storytelling...
Moving Parts: A Droid's Life
BOARD SHORTS DEADLINES
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24/07/2008
Quick, gerrofff the board walk and get your free entries into Board Shorts. Today is the last day of free entries to the Cornwall Film Festival’s international surf/skate/snowboard film event. And as an added incentive, Mark Kermode will be on the board himself, judging your offerings.
But if...
BOARD SHORTS DEADLINES
YOUNG PEOPLE WANTED
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23/07/2008
The end of the school/college term, and other than signing each others clothes and/or bodies, what are the articulate, outgoing 15 to 19 year olds to do? (Don’t all answer at once.)
Lambent Productions is looking for young people for their Lifeproof series - 10 half-hour films about how young...
YOUNG PEOPLE WANTED
Mopsa makes hay whilst the sun shines
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22/07/2008
Don't know what it is about hay but the dogs just adore it....
Mopsa makes hay whilst the sun shines
MEET A MEDIABOX FUNDER
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22/07/2008
Get the inside track on funding at the Mediabox Roadshow, which is in Exeter tomorrow.
Learn more about the fund, what makes a great application, what the priorities are for the South West, you can also meet the regional mediabox co-ordinator (there is a hush of awe at the prospect). It’s all...
MEET A MEDIABOX FUNDER
THE WAY THEY LIVED
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21/07/2008
“This film is made for the people of the Blitz, in the hope that their newly built cities will be worthy of their fortitude,” said Jill Craigie about the documentary The Way We Live, which will be shown tomorrow as part of Plymouth Arts Centre’s 60th anniversary celebrations (July 22) at 8.30pm
“Made...
THE WAY THEY LIVED