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Films are shown in English without subtitles, unless otherwise indicated.
Key:
TTT = Ticket Tout Tuesday
(Weds 7th / 11 am / £3, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
A regular free rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome. If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
Listen to Cube Orchestra Internet Radio at
http://orchestra.cubecinema.com:8000/orchestraCubeRadio.mp3
http://orchestra.cubecinema.com
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20:00 07/03/2012
(Tue 6th – Thu 8th @ 8pm / Wed 7th @ 11am (Babycinema) / £5/4/3 TTT, Babycinema) (David Cronenberg / 2011 / UK / 99 minutes / Certificate 15)
‘Surely there must be more than one hinge into the universe,’ muses the ever- present screen presence of Michael Fassbender, here portraying a young Jung in Cronenberg’s wood-panelled affairs and analysis drama, at the moment he finds himself distancing his ideas from the great Master Freud (Viggo Mortensen, imagine!)
Also includes concepts of order and desire, mysticism and rationalism, a prolonged spanking scene, and Kiera Knightly pronouncing herself ‘dirty’. Cracking stuff.
(Fri 9th March / 8 pm / £5/3)
Lucy Face & Samfrancisco present…
Spiders from Mars
Oh you Pretty Things… come and celebrate the great David Bowie - his music, his fashion, his face.
A night dedicated to Mr Bowie’s many cha cha cha cha Changes through all of his Golden Years.
Whether it’s Ziggy Star Dust or the Goblin King that rock your Bowie world, the chameleon of cool is what it’s all about tonight.
Ziggys got Talent – hosted by Bowie’s biggest fan
Fame! Do you want to be a Rebel Rebel? Then this is your opportunity to be The Prettiest Star and perform your favourite Bowie classic at this one off talent show where anything goes. Remember to Hang on to Yourself as you go head to head against real professional amateurs. Feel Under Pressure as the best and worst battle it out on stage in a bid to win the final audience vote to win the coveted Ziggy’s Got Talent Trophy 2012. You could be Heroes – just for one night!! (Or will it just be Rock n Roll Suicide?) To Secure your place join the Facebook event group through The Cube. Spaces are limited.
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps, this is not America it is the land of where all your Bowie fantasies come true:
- Get your Face Painted at the Lady Stardust Saloon
- Let’s dance to Dedicated Bowies tunes in the Suffragette City Bar
- Fill your glass with a Queen Bitch Cocktail or three
- Sing along to your favourite Bowie songs in the Bowie-oke Lounge bought to you by those Absolute Beginners Squeaky Hill
- Bowie Music Video Montage – a selection of his best music videos from across the eras (8-9pm)
- Midnight Bowie Movies in the Auditorium
- Bowie inspired outfits worn by you
Will you make Modern Love like its 1984 or go home with a little China Girl in a Moonage Daydream?
£3 for participants/sign ups
£5 punters on the door
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20:00 10/03/2012
(Sat 10 March / 8pm / £6 advance)
A thrilling return to the Cube for Kansas's fearless, heartbroken prom queen Piney Gir. Former singer in art-rockers the Schla La Las, she's released five albums of sad sunshine and exuberant twang. Her latest, 2011's Geronimo!, reboots the 1960s of mascara-run Spector girl groups, Pacific-coast surf harmonies and effortlessly tuneful longing.
Poppy Perezz's electro-Latin pop is the sound of a casiotone highlife blasting off into the Milky Way. Afrobeat rebuilt and remodelled with toy instruments and joyous dancing.
Bristol riot grrrl-inspired three-piece Drunken Butterfly take their name from the Sonic Youth song. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Kim Gordon, Babes in Toyland, PJ Harvey and Patti Smith, they combine guitar, bass and drums with ukulele and melodica to create a fusion of snarly fuzzy punk rock and acoustic folk pop.
Plus Bristol's finest club night featuring all female artists, Lipstick On Your Collar, takes over the Cube for late dancing.
http://www.pineygir.com/
http://www.myspace.com/poppyperezz
http://www.myspace.com/drunkenbutterflyx
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2397096039&v=info
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14:00 11/03/2012
(Sunday 11th March / 2pm / £3, adult free with child)
(Jean-Jacques Vierne /1961 / France / 98 minutes / Cert. PG / English dub only)
If you are a fan of adventure stories, this is a real treat. Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece is a wonderful live-action take on the iconic comic creation, featuring all the best-loved characters.
When Captain Haddock inherits a ship named The Golden Fleece from an old acquaintance, he and his trusty friend Tintin set off to Turkey to collect what they believe to be a priceless treasure. To their disappointment, the ship turns out to be nothing more than a clapped-out merchant ship. Then a mysterious stranger offers to buy the boat for a small fortune. Tintin wonders whether his friend’s inheritance is quite as worthless as it appears....
Tintin is portrayed by Jean-Pierre Talbot who's expert martial arts skills makes it a joy to watch. Combined with George Wilson's larger-than-life Captain Haddock the film lifts the comic books from page to screen in a film which no Tintin fan, young and old, will want to be without.
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16:00 11/03/2012
(Sunday 11th March / 4pm / £3, free with ticket for Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece / suitable for 5+)
Learn how to draw Tintin and his friends in this hands-on workshop creating low-cost comics. You can also bring your sketches and ideas and get help from comic artists on how to make your own story into a short comic book.
All materials provided.
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20:00 12/03/2012
(Mon 12th - Weds 14th March / 8pm / £5/4)
(Sean Durkin / USA / 2011 / 102 minutes / Certificate 15)
A psychological thriller from gifted first-time writer-director Sean Durkin - awarded Best Director at last year’s Sundance Film Festival for this original piece. Featuring an impressively mature performance from Elizabeth Olsen, in only her third feature film and the quite sublime John Hawkes (Me and You and Everyone We Know, Winter’s Bone). Hawkins, in a role not unfamiliar to previous roles, plays an evocatively hypnotic and haunting Patrick, a cult leader, conveying a level of brutality and subservient power over his cult members, especially Martha (played by Olsen). After two years of sexual ‘cleansing’ by Patrick, Olsen, at this point known as Marcy May, contacts her sister to rescue her. However due to these two years of psychological and physical torment, her adaptation back into society proves problematic.
(Weds 14th / 11 am / £3, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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17:30 14/03/2012
A regular free rehearsal, we are an improvisational group based at The Cube. Musicians and non-musicians of all standards and backgrounds are welcome. If that sounds scary then come anyway. If you haven't played your instrument for years or you don't think you're very good, rummage it out and come anyway. If you think this isn't for you, you're wrong, come anyway. Bring your instrument, your voice, your noise machines, pots and pans and any ideas you have for Orchestra Cube. It's GREAT skate!
Orchestra cube is a melting pot of musical styles, abilities and ideas. Come along and add your own to the ever-changing mix. The only requirement is a willingness to experiment.
To take part please email orchestra@orchestra.cubecinema.com
Listen to Cube Orchestra Internet Radio at
http://orchestra.cubecinema.com:8000/orchestraCubeRadio.mp3
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20:00 15/03/2012
(Thurs 15 March / 8pm / £6)
Recently voted top burlesque performer by her peers for the second year running, Dirty Martini is the queen of neo-burlesque, proudly showcased in this feature-length documentary alongside some of New York's finest cabaret performers. To complement this vaudevillian delight, Tuesday Laveau will be presenting the most dynamic performers from the South West's thriving
neo-burlesque scene.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dirty-Martini-New-Burlesque/dp/B004PPZT84
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20:00 16/03/2012
(Friday 16th March / 8pm / £4 advance)
Bristol's We Be Records presents Caretaker playing aggressive, discordant rock music sounding somewhere between Neurosis and The Jesus Lizard. Their new album 'Providence' is out March 5th and has been well received by X-FM and the Radio One rock show. Support comes from Oxford-based troublemakers The Cellar Family, with their unique brand of angular noise rock, plus local reprobates Sonance (featuring members of local favourites Mea Culpa) playing noise-influenced, atmospheric doom. A night of intelligent heavy music, not to be missed.
http://www.caretakerband.com
http://www.cellarfamily.co.uk
http://sonancenoise.wordpress.com
http://www.weberecords.com
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20:00 17/03/2012
8pm / £8
The Cabaret of Curiosities is five years old!
After no less than twenty cabarets we'll be celebrating in high style with a delightful collection of delicious acts. Ziegfeld and Paradise are once more taking a sabbatical from their glamorous lives to round up the very best circus, dance, comedy, magic and burlesque! Come in black tie, or if you're feeling grand white tie and dress up in all your finery for a night of sophisticated debauchery.
Keep an eye out for the latest on the glittering line up at:
http://cabaretofcuriosities.weebly.com/current-event.html
Hip hip hooray!
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19:00 18/03/2012
Sunday 18 March, 7pm doors
£8/(£7 adv) includes admission to "The Artist"
The "Big R Big Band" will be playing a set of classic swing jazz at 7.30pm to set the scene and put you in the mood for a showing of "The Artist" at 9pm. Sophisticated sartorial style would be a swell addition to the evening! Street parking for charabancs available in the near vicinity (Hansom cabs may prefer to alight on the adjacent cobbled street of Princess Row).
http://www.BigR.org.uk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-R-Big-Band/173085436049140
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21:00 18/03/2012
Sun 18th/9pm, Mon 19th-Wed 21st/8pm
£3(TTT)/£4(Concession)/£5
The Artist
Michel Hazanaviciu/France/ 2011/ 100 mins/ Cert PG
It's 1927, and suave, moustachioed matinee idol George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. He's dashing, a little arrogant, and his
romantic swashbucklers have women swooning. But silent movies are about to be washed away by new-fangled talkies. When studio boss Zimmer (John Goodman) offers
him a chance to steal a march on his rivals in this exciting new format, Valentin
rejects it out of hand in favour of his own epic silent project. Alas, this proves
to be a flop. But as Valentin's life falls apart and his star wanes, the young actress whose career he nurtured, Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), finds hers in the ascendant.
The Artist is a gloriously executed love letter to the silent era of Hollywood and an undeniable homage to the glitz and glamour of 1920s and 30s cinema.
Babycinema presents The Artist
(Weds 21st / 11 am / £3, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 22/03/2012
A contemporary of pioneering radiophonic composers and inventors such as Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram and Ron Geesin, in the 1950s and 60s, FC (Fred) Judd was one the unsung heroes of British electronic music. The author of 11 books and a regular contributor to a host of technical hobbyist magazines, in the early 60s Fred created the soundtrack for the sci-fi puppet series Space Patrol, the first programme on British TV to feature a full electronic score.
Practical Electronica, is a new hour long documentary by the Brighton based film maker, composer and instrument inventor Ian Helliwell which examines early British electronic music through the work of Judd. The film tells Judd’s story using 8mm cine, archive footage, animation, experimental video, sound
visualisation and electronics. An intuitive montage rather than a traditional narrative based documentary, the film remains rooted in the amateur tape recording world that Judd inhabited during the 50s and 60s.
Ian has also worked closely with record label Public Information to compile a recently released album of Fred's electronic music.
Ian will be present to introduce his film, discuss his own work, and in addition screen some of his shorts, taking a cue from the DIY experimental tradition that Judd personified.
http://www.fcjudd.co.uk/
http://www.ianhelliwell.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/user/ianhelliwell/videos
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20:00 23/03/2012
Fri 23rd/ 8pm/ £5/ Over 18's only
It’s all guns-a-blazing for this installment of the Hellfire Video Club, as we present a night of poliziotteschi (Italian crime films). Back in the 1970s, the Italians made some of the most violent and stylish cop thrillers to ever hit the screen. Expect a night of non-stop punch-ups, big cars (and big weapons), and moustachioed, turtle-neck clad vigilante cops with so much raw testosterone that they make Dirty Harry look like a bed-wetting mummies boy. Can you smell that heady aroma of burnt rubber and Brut yet?
Tonight’s main offering is the classic ‘Almost Human’, directed by Umberto Lenzi in 1974. Tomas Milian stars as a remorseless sociopath who kidnaps a
millionaire’s daughter. Cue Henry Silva - the police inspector who will stop at nothing to bring Milian to justice.
This will be followed by another classic poliziottesco, featuring a pair of deadly crime lords whose gang war tears Rome apart.
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20:00 24/03/2012
Saturday 24 March / 8.00pm / £4 advance/£5 on the door
The Cube is proud to launch the Alternative Miss Bristol as part of March's Fabulous Fortnight (featuring the Cabaret, harbinger of charm).
Shamelessly aping Andrew Logan’s Alternative Miss World, this event is about transformation, not beauty. Contestants are invited from all and sundry to bedeck themselves in fantastical finery to best represent the area of Bristol they feel most connection with; be this a fashmina and oversized Gaga glasses for Miss Clifton or tiffin-shaped earrings and graffitied mega-costume for Miss Montpelier...
The stage is yours for an evening of glitter, glue guns and glamour, queer beer and straight shooters, featuring our usual blend of film, music and general bloody brilliant party fun.
Participate! Get involved! Email the House of Cube Mama: eva@cubecinema.com.
See Paris is Burning, The British Guide to Showing Off and Bristol centre on a Friday or Saturday night on acid for funspiration!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgS2tpyxvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iSEnW88cPI
25th march / midday / free
LIBERATE THE HORIZONTAL INTEGRATE THE VERTICAL SUPER SURFACE
JOIN THE BRANCH PARTY.
THIS IS THE 10TH YEAR OF INTERNATIONAL TREE CLIMBING DAY.
Tell us your area of activity or join one of the declared zones.
Become routed in ascents, transitions, swings and jumps.
Bring refreshments.
Lets hope it doesn't rain.
BRISTOL UK : Meet Ashton Court, starting at main house cafe or see you up in the trees.
Look at website for other locations and info.
http://duo.irational.org/international_tree_climbing_day/
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20:00 26/03/2012
Monday 26th Tuesday 27th March 2012 8pm
Dir: Grant Gee/ 90 mins/ UK/ 2012/ 12A
Patience (After Sebald) by documentary filmmaker Grant Gee (Joydivision) offers an exploration of the work of acclaimed writer W.G. Max Sebald (1944 – 2001) via a walk through East Anglia tracking his most influential book, The Rings of Saturn.
Patience is a multi layered film essay on landscape, art history, life and loss. It explores and illuminates the work of Sebald through an intense, rhythmic montage of image.
Add to the mix a soundtrack by the great Leyland Kirby (The Caretaker), and contributions from artists including Iain Sinclair, Tacita Dean and Chris Petit....
We are delighted to host the film's co-producer, Gareth Evans to introduce the film+ Q&A after.
Babycinema presents Lucky Dip
(Weds 28th / 11 am / £2, babies free)
Babycinema Lucky Dip allows you to choose from a selection of films from the Cube archive. The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 28/03/2012
Wed 28th / 8pm / Filmmakers in for Free! Others £3/2
BLUESCREEN is Bristols longest running Independent OPEN Screen Short Film Night! Come along and find out why...
Just bring your films (up to 20mins in length) along on DVD (+ a backup disk if poss). Simple as that! Any film genre welcomed, the more eclectic mix the better!
Get to see YOUR Films on the Cubes Big Blue Screen, Films on the Cinema Screen, the only real way to see films!
Not got a film? Come and be inspired to make one!
PLUS Cube Orchestra rescores, Bluescreen Hi-Fi DJs & if time, some classic shorts from the Archive.
Films on 8.30 +
FFI: bluescreen@sparror.cubecinema.com
http://bluescreenfilms.weebly.com/
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20:00 29/03/2012
Thurs 29th/ 8pm/ £5/£4
Fritz Lang/ 1945/ 103 mins
20th Century Cube has selected Fritz Lang's ruthless film noir Scarlet Street as their next presentation. Henpecked Chris Cross (Edward G. Robinson) is pulled into a sinkhole of crime, deception and abstract painting by the seductive Kitty (Joan Bennett) and her no-good boyfriend Johnny (Dan Duryea). A remake of Jean Renoir's 'La Chienne', this is film noir at its cruelest... and funniest.
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20:00 30/03/2012
Friday 30 March // 8.00pm // £5 advance
The new Bristol based label run by H >>> http://zamzamrec.org
presents the first split and past//previous release P A R T Y
w/
Deej Dhariwal (Thought Forms, UK)
Multi-fusion of drones, guitars from the desert and hypnotic shoegaze. Saturn. http://soundcloud.com/deej-dhariwal
Uiutna (Olmo)
Indie arrow lightning, psychedelic guitar and overlap melodies upward. Doom and Tarantella.
http://uiutna.bandcamp.com/
Tucano (from Fano, Italy)
Low synthesisers and weird voices, eccentric tunings and drums. Street on. http://soundcloud.com/tucano-1
Uiutna and Tucano are travelling together in Europe during March/April 2012. From Rome to Berlin under creepy clouds and ancient suns, they'll be at the Cube on March 30th to celebrate ''triangles''.
Deej Dhariwal will join them for this SUPER FUTURE eve.
cAAAmaaaN
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20:00 31/03/2012
Saturday 31 March / 8pm / £6
When Talking Heads emerged from the New York punk scene in the late 1970s, it was soon clear that, although they shared that scene's back-to-basics ethos, they were actually a very different affair to their punk peers. Their career was characterised by restless experimentation, but their core sound was defined by their spare-yet-funky guitar work and David Byrne's distinctive yelping vocalisations – all propelled by one of the era's finest rhythm sections.
For this celebration of the band, we'll be screening rare footage of the Heads at their best. Then the Tongues take to the stage, recreating the spectacle of Talking Heads playing at their expansive peak, playing hits from Stop Making Sense, the seminal concert film, as well as groundbreaking albums like Fear of Music and Remain in Light.
Followed in the bar by a set of blistering new wave floorburners from DJ East Clintwood.
Sun 1st/ 2pm/ £3 (adult free with child)/ £4
Nanoplex presents: Hugo
Dir. Martin Scorsese/ 2011/USA/126 mins/ Cert:PG
Orphan, clock keeper and thief, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy 1930s Paris train station. He fixes clocks and other gadgets as he learned to from his father and uncle. When his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life and secrets are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man and a hidden message all come together...in the magical world of The Invention of Hugo Cabret also known as HUGO.
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20:00 02/04/2012
Sun 1st-Tue 3rd/ 8pm (Sun 2pm- Nanoplex screening)/ £3(TTT)/£4/£5
Hugo
Dir. Martin Scorsese/ 2011/USA/126 mins/ Cert:PG
Orphan, clock keeper and thief, twelve-year-old Hugo lives in the walls of a busy 1930s Paris train station. He fixes clocks and other gadgets as he learned to from his father and uncle. When his world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric girl and the owner of a small toy booth in the train station, Hugo’s undercover life and secrets are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man and a hidden message all come together...in the magical world of The Invention of Hugo Cabret also known as HUGO.
Babycinema presents Young Adult
(Weds 4th / 11 am / £3, babies free)
The watching-with-baby screenings are for parents/carers with young babies (up to 1 year) to enjoy a movie in the company of other parents and their offspring.
The Cube provides an area for prams, baby changing facilities, lowered movie volume and extra lighting in the auditorium. Our licensed bar sells hot drinks and lovely home made cakes.
There will always be a friendly Front of House on hand to help.
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20:00 04/04/2012
Wed 4th and Thu 5th/ 8pm/ £5/£4
Young Adult
Jason Reitman/ 2011/ USA/ 94mins/ Cert 15
Juno writer Diablo Cody has been brave enough to create a unsympathetic lead character in this darkly comic tale. Charlize Theron is Mavis Gary, a writer experiencing a mid-life crisis who returns to the small hometown she hates to try and win back an old flame. The fact that he is married with a young child doesn't seem to register but her delusions are brought home by another high-school friend who becomes a drinking buddy. He remembers her as the prom queen. She barely remembers him at all, but a poignant friendship develops between them. A sharp and well played character study that is refreshingly unsentimental.
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20:00 06/04/2012
Friday 6th April / 8pm / £5
What's your favourite film of all time? Tough question eh? What about your least favourite film of all time? That's easier isn't it. Join the members of Burn, Hollywood, Burn! for a night of humour, hatred, scorn and derision of many of the so-called classics, all for the love of the silver screen.
A night of film-based indignant stand-up comedy featuring:
Nikesh Shukla
James Khlebnikov
Mr Foley
Jon K
