The Regent Archives - Blackpool Social Club

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…

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…

Do You Own The Dance Floor Celebrates the History of The Hacienda

Claire Griffiths0 CommentsMusic & GigsCounter Culture, Hacienda, Music, Rave, Subculture, The Regent

Do You Own The Dancefloor? – a documentary about the Hacienda auction is due to be screened at The Regent Cinema in Blackpool on October 7th. ‘Do you own the Dancefloor?’ tells what happened when the legendary Manchester nightclub the Haçienda was knocked down and sold off. In November 2000, many of the key elements from the iconic venue ended up as 69 lots at a charity auction before it was demolished to make way for a block of apartments. It resulted in parts of the nightclub - the epicenter of Manchester’s pop culture in the 1980s and 1990s –…