cinema Archives - Blackpool Social Club

06 Dec

It’s time to get CAMP AT THE CINEMA with Blackpool Film Festival

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsFilm, Guidecinema, Film, performance

Blackpool Film Festival heads to the ARC Cinema (formerly Backlot) on Thursday 11 December for an evening of high drama and huge emotions at a special screening of Paul Verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS (1995). Harry Clayton-Wright. Photo by Lee Baxter Using the much loved sensibility of camp, Harry Clayton-Wright and Catherine Mugonyi created Camp at the Cinema , a live cinema event that highlights iconic over the top moments on the silver screen. Audiences will be treated to a funny, engaging and insightful cinema talk that explores the idea of camp and shares examples of its presence in the world of film…

03 Oct

Nightmare on Elm Street is The Regent’s Halloween Spooktacular – 31st October 2018

David Simper0 CommentsFilmBlackpool, cinema, Film, freddy, halloween, horror, krueger, retro, theregent

On the night of Halloween itself, enjoy Wes Craven's classic slasher movie 'Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984) at Blackpool's independent retro-cinema, The Regent. This movie has generated the legendary screen villain, Freddy Krueger, a disfigured avenger that kills children in their dreams. With Robert Englund in the lead role, the film also stars Heather Langenkamp and Johnny Depp as the couple trying to solve the Freddy mystery, before he kills all his targets in a vicious trail of revenge. Never likely to feature in the Oscars, this film won the USA Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' award…

12 Sep

Spooky Halloween Films At The Regent

David Simper0 CommentsFilmBlackpool, cinema, films, halloween, movies, regent, scary, spooky

Blackpool's hidden gem retro-cinema The Regent, has a spooky halloween film programme running up to the end of October. What better way to spend a lengthening post-equinox Friday evening than watching a classic movie with like-minded people? The films shown are selected on the basis of a 'people's vote, so don't go blaming the management. And there are snacks. This follows a fine sci-fi programme that had its fair share of thrills and scares. First up on 5th October is Hocus Pocus (1993), the plot revolving around the resurrection of three 17th century witches, almost inevitably in Salem,…

22 Aug

The Regent Cinema Blackpool Sci Fi Season Presents Thrills for September.

David Simper0 CommentsFilmBlackpool, cinema, sci fi season, september, The Regent

Encroaching autumn is time for The Regent Cinema Blackpool sci fi season, a wealth of classic films for those shortening days. A set of absolutely belting movies has been selected and I'm personally hoping to catch them all. Aliens follows on from Alien, one of the first flicks I saw at our resort's hidden gem picture palace, so that one's definitely a must. The special effects in some of these films was state of the art at the time and it's always interesting to see how these stand up in the age of CGI. So settle back with pop (or…

11 Mar

Winter Gardens Film Festival 2018

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm, Theatre, Dance & PerformanceBlackpool, cinema, Film, film festival, Winter Gardens

Whether it’s Daniel Day-Lewis waltzing away in the Ballroom or Samuel L. Jackson playing an evil super villain in the Tower Circus, Blackpool has long been familiar to cinema fans across the globe. Next weekend, this proud legacy is being celebrated with the annual Winter Gardens film festival. The curtain will lift on this three-day event with a showing of Some Like It Hot, the iconic Marilyn Monroe blockbuster. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as jazz musicians who are forced to dress in drag to escape Mafia gangsters – what a great choice for a town famous for its…