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14 Oct

How To Let Go – blanket

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsFilm, Music & Gigsblanket, Film, Music

You might have noticed a short film on social media and further afield with The Fylde Coast as its backdrop. Blackpool Social Club found out how a Blackpool based band created their latest music video talking to and featuring a number of creatives from the town. With the touring industry on hold and opportunities to perform to a live audience at a minimum, blanket put their newfound time to good use. Using the basis of their hauntingly beautiful debut record, ‘How To Let Go’, the Blackpool band has remixed, reworked, and ultimately reexamined the intent behind an original project. Divesting…

13 Jul

My Favourite Things – preserve your lockdown learning in film

David Simper0 CommentsFilm, OpportunitiesArt, callout, covid, Film, memory, posterity, project, Video

‘My Favourite Things’ is an international film collaboration project aiming to capture what people might want to remember about recent events. Amidst the COVID-19 tragedy, it’s sometimes been difficult to see the positive as the country has gone through this unprecedented lock down period. The positive might include cleaner air, recognition for the medical and caring professions and the return of nature, in places. It’s been a time to reassess priorities, spend time with the family and rediscover old pastimes. Although predicted for decades, the virus managed to take the world by surprise, mighty governments behaving like rabbits caught in…

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…

09 Sep

New Season At Fylde Film Society

Stephen Dunstan0 CommentsFilm, Local NewsFilm, film festival, filmmaking

Want to see some arthouse films among like-minded people. If you do then Fylde Film Society could be for you and their new season starts tonight (Monday) at The Island Cinema, St Annes. Season 71 kicks off at 8.15pm this evening with the Chilean Drama ‘A Fantastic Woman'. Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend. A Fantastic Woman was selected to compete for the Golden Bear in the main competition section of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival. It was the Chilean entry…

29 Aug

Lancashire Encounter Photography & Film Call Out

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsFilm, Local NewsArt, Film, photography, preston

I caught up with Amy Dean the person behind The Lancashire Encounter Film project to find out more about her and the ideas behind the forthcoming film. Q: Tell me a little bit more about what Lancashire Encounter is. A: “Lancashire Encounter Festival is an authentic voice for Lancashire, celebrating the breadth of the County's diverse cultural offer with high quality and high profile arts. Taking place every other year at the end of September, Lancashire Encounter sees the city of Preston buzzing with life and alight with creativity.” It’s a great opportunity for the community of Lancashire as well…

18 Jul

Family film programme at The Regent cinema is all cued up for August

David Simper0 CommentsFilmaugust, Blackpool, bowie, et, family, Film, ghostbusters, labyrinth, lion king, poppins, regent

With the big school holiday hoving into view, Blackpool's hidden gem The Regent cinema has a family film programme cued up and ready to go. With tickets reduced to £5 per person, now's the time to introduce your family to the wonderful world of real cinema, supported by traditional treats from the fully licensed snack bar. Spooling out over August, these are true family movies that will entertain all ages and if some are nostalgic, well what's wrong with a bit of that? First up (3 August) is that timeless classic Mary Poppins, featuring then state of the art mixed live…

09 Jul

Fun in the Park with Wordpool Family Day 2018

Jill Reidy0 CommentsLiterature & Spoken WordArt, artist, Blackpool, books, dance, entertainment, families, Film, heritage, Music, musical, performance, Theatre, wordpool, workshops

Walking, talking trees; huge flying birds; giant spiders; theatre in suitcases; elephants and mice; stories and action; crafts; films; kayaking; dancing; singing; face and arm painting .......what more could you wish for on a sunny Saturday in Stanley Park in July? Yes, it was 2018's fabulous Wordpool Family Day - and what a great day it was! Big Top Marvels and Mayhem Schools Project, the Flying Sun Birds, the puppetry of Adambara and Zhim, the walking trees, Aunty’s Pop Up Picture Show, SOS RescueShip’s Nixies, singalong with the Grand Theatre Community Chorus, clown faces in the Grundy’s Big Top, circus skills…

13 Jun

Blackpool’s Regent Cinema Classic Film Programme Continues

David Simper0 CommentsFilm, Theatre, Dance & PerformanceBlackpool, entertainment, Film, performance, The Regent

Blackpool's Regent Cinema classic film programme continues with movies shown regularly on Friday evenings starting 19:30. With three flicks from the '70s season remaining, the 'all time greats' are hoving into view and they're belters. So we have classic gangster with Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather II (15th June), then Stanley Kubrick's dystopian vision of a future Britain, A Clockwork Orange (22nd June) followed by perhaps the definitive John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever with that nigh on perfect Bee Gees soundtrack (29th June). Arriving just in time for July, wallow in the ultimate Christmas movie's nostalga…

01 Jun

New Blackpool Documentary comes to Central Library

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsFilmBlackpool, Film, library, Music

Blackpool cinematic-rock band blanket are pleased to reveal the full version of their documentary ‘Fragments of a Dream’, a short film about their northern hometown shot and sound-tracked entirely by the band themselves. The news comes alongside a newly announced album release show on 20th June in London at Thousand Island to cap off their upcoming EU tour dates with Noir Reva. Special Blackpool Screening The band are also pleased to announce they will be hosting a special Q&A and screening of the film at Blackpool Central Library on 9th June 2018. Following the film, members of blanket will be…

01 May

New speakers boost independent cinema’s classic film programme

David Simper0 CommentsFilm, Local NewsFilm, film festival, filmmaking

As a regular attendee at Blackpool's incredible independent cinema, The Regent, my one criticism has been the sound quality. In the cinema's defence, my recent adoption of reading glasses probably needs to be followed by a hearing test, but nevertheless the new projector's picture quality enhancement has not been matched by better sound. So, it was with delight that I learnt that new speakers had been installed for the showing of Jaws back in March. This is a classic film and memory from my growing up in the '70s past. It was showing when I was about 12, was an…