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26 Oct

Preview: Blackpool Film Festival – Scarred for Life

Louise Ashcroft0 CommentsFilm, Theatre, Dance & PerformanceBacklot, Blackpool, Film, film festival, filmmaking

An evening that celebrates the terrifying popular culture of the 1970s and 1980s comes to Blackpool Film Festival at The Backlot Cinema on Sunday 3rd November at 7pm. Scarred For Life sees writers Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence taking to the stage to discuss the TV, films, music, comics, books, adverts – and even sweets – that blighted their childhoods. So be prepared for a no-holds-barred examination of Worzel Gummidge, Doctor Who, Noseybonk, the Usborne Book of Ghosts, Horror Top Trumps, and the bovver boy skinheads from the 1980s Weetabix adverts! It's an evening inspired by their three hit books.…

21 Oct

Preview: Blackpool Film Festival

Louise Ashcroft0 CommentsFilm, GuideBacklot, Blackpool, festival, Film, film festival, filmmaking

Capturing young and local talent, premiering leading ladies, and showcasing Blackpool’s heritage, art and queer culture, Blackpool Film Festival announces its full programme for 2024. Leading ladies are called to the front this autumn with a series of femme-focussed films, events and workshops as a major strand of Blackpool Film Festival's 2024 programme. Warming up to the main weekend of events, the festival kicks off quite literally at 2.30pm at Blackpool Sixth Form College on Thursday 24th October. Sugar, Spice and Getting in Fights is a stunt workshop for women and non binary people. Led by an experienced stunt performer,…

25 Apr

Blackpool Film Festival evolves for 2024

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm, GuideFilm, film festival, filmmaking

An established film festival in Blackpool has had a name change. Blackpool Film Festival sets out its plans to bring diverse cinema to wider audiences and provide opportunities for locals with ambitions to work in film exhibition. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the former Winter Gardens Film Festival has been renamed Blackpool Film Festival (BFF) to reflect its ambitions to become a town-wide celebration of independent and diverse cinema. It is already offering a rare career opportunity while a preview weekend on 27th-28th April will feature inaugural events championing young and queer filmmakers. Founded in 2014, the Winter Gardens Film…

24 Mar

Reel Them In: Blackpool’s hopes for a second golden age of cinema

Antonia Charlesworth0 CommentsFilm

Cinema was once an important piece of Blackpool’s allure of affordable glamour, with 17 movie theatres operating in the town at its peak. Now, almost a year after the final Odeon has gone dark, the local council has opened a nine-screen multiplex of its own. Look up. That’s the thing that most Blackpool locals intuitively do. Not just because of the 518 feet of steel that towers above us, but because it is above street level and behind modern facades that much of what remains of the town’s former position as a world entertainment capital remains. At its peak in…

30 Sep

Film Review: Broker at Fylde Film Society

Mully0 CommentsFilmfamilies, Film, the island

How do you create sympathy for characters who sell babies on the black market? That’s the central question at the heart of Broker. Fylde Film Society continues on its mission to bring world cinema to our coast with South Korean drama Broker. Written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, who people are most likely to know from his award-winning film Shoplifters, this movie tells the story of two men who illegally sell babies on the adoption black market. Seems a grim premise when laid out like that without any context, but the film and its characters carry more benevolence then you…

07 Sep

Kathryn Georghiou: why my new film is made in Blackpool

Antonia Charlesworth0 CommentsFilm

Kathryn Georghiou is a locally-born classically-trained actor whose debut short film is premiering at the Regent Cinema later this month. She tells us about how drawing on her own experiences of alcoholism in her family inspired Changing Tides and gave her the courage to make it On 23rd September The Regent Cinema hosts a night of four independent film screenings, all of them made in Blackpool by Blackpool locals. A double-bill of thrillers Eigengrau and Eigengrau: Half Life, written and directed by Christopher C Arkley kicks things off, followed by Prefer to Sip Tea, by Arkley and Kathryn Georghiou, and…

04 Jun

State of Independents: Supercell

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilmindie film review, stormchasers

Indie film reviewer Christian Lisseman watches this offbeat family film about stormchasers and finds moments that shine through but a bigger ambition than it has budget. ⭐⭐⭐ Coming straight to video on demand a couple of years after it was made, Supercell is as interesting for its cast list as its plot, and possibly more so. Not only does it star the late Anne Heche in one of the last films she made before her untimely death in 2022, it also features Alec Baldwin before he became embroiled in a tragedy on the set of Rust, in which cinematographer Halyna…

12 May

State of Independents: Tell It Like A Woman

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm

In his first review for Blackpool Social Club, indie film reviewer Christian Lisseman views a collection of short films highlighting the lives of women across the globe. ⭐⭐⭐ This collection of seven short films draws on the talents of an array of female directors and acting talent, including Catherine Hardwicke (director of the first Twilight movie) and model and actor Cara Delevingne (recognisable from 2016’s Suicide Squad), in a range of stories which explore the lives of various women in locations around the world. The first two films in Tell It Like A Woman have a similar feel and theme.…

18 Apr

Northern Soul and Blackpool heart

Antonia Charlesworth0 CommentsFilm

Faye Butler is an actor, writer and producer from Blackpool now based in London and working in film and TV. After returning from a stint acting in Tokyo, she spent two years developing Keep The Faith, a film shot in Blackpool in February this year. This is a film about resilience and hope with the help of a little Northern Soul. Northern Soul was part of Butler’s upbringing. It's a subculture created by working-class youth in ‘70s Britain, based on a particular style of Black American soul music. The teens created their own style of dance, with spins and kicks and claps, which…

04 Feb

Boldly exploring futuristic and heritage film at the Winter Gardens Film Festival this February

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm, HeritageBlackpool, community, entertainment, Film, film festival, filmmaking, heritage, Lancashire, performance, Vintage Film, Winter Gardens Film Festival

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool's very own film festival is back, having announced a programme of screenings, talks and workshops full of futuristic film and vintage delights. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Following last year's comeback event, The Winter Gardens Film Festival returns to the iconic venue from the 11th to 12th February 2023 and will include its usual variety of classic and contemporary film. Main screenings will take place in the wonderful Opera House at the Winter Gardens. Built in 1939 as a cine-variety theatre, combining a super cinema with a world class stage for theatrical performance, the venue's capacity of just under 3000 makes it the…