THE ARTIST

Rated: PG

2012 BAFTA Awards – Best Film; Director; Original Screenplay; Leading Actor; Original Music; Cinematography; Costume Design
2012 Golden Globes – Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy); Best Actor (musical or comedy); Best Score
2012 Oscars – Best Motion Picture; Best Director; Best Actor in the Lead Role; Best Original Score; Best Costume Design

In 1927 Hollywood, silent movie star has George Valentin has it all. However, the arrival of talking films is about to threaten his career. Meanwhile, Peppy Miller, a young dancer is about to be propelled into stardom, and the two will meet. However, their love story will be threatened by fame, money and pride.
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius with Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Average Screenrush rating: 4.44 / 5 out of 16 press titles:
The Daily Mail ….. Film of the year and a joy forever …..
The Daily Telegraph …… a silent celebration of early Hollywood is visually ravishing, heart-warming and utterly beguiling ….
The Sun …. a truly incredible film that will have you leaving the cinema with a smile on your face ….
Time Out …. It’s lovingly corny, great fun, good-looking and respectful.

MAO’S LAST DANCER

Rated: 12A

We are showing this film again by popular demand – it is unusual for a film to get a round of aplause at the end as it did when we showed it in September to a smallish audience.  It is a terrific dance film – beautiful dancing, music and scenery and great feel-good true story about a brilliant Chinese dancer who defects to the USA at the height of the Cold War.   It is an Australian film but in the UK it is exclusive to Moviola so you won’t see it at any of the mainstream cinemas.  Moviola audiences throughout the South of England have literally cheered this fantastic film.

Don’t miss this chance to see this wonderful, beautiful film.

Directed by Bruce Beresford With Bruce Greenwood, Kyle McLachlan, Joan Chen

The Help           

Rated – 12A

2012 Oscar – Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Octavia Spencer

2012 BAFTA – Best Supporting Actress – Octavia Spencer

2012 Golden Globe – Best Performance by Actress in Supporting Role – Octavia Spencer

Based on the hit ‘reading group’ novel by Kathryn Stockett. This is a wonderful film, the sort that gets lost in the multiplex mayhem, and one that may have considerable recognition value among your audience.  Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Emma Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives — and a Mississippi town — upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Viola Davis), Skeeter’s best friend’s housekeeper, is the first to open up — to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter’s life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories — and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly — and unwillingly — caught up in the changing times.

Directed by Tate Taylor  With Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis

The Daily Telegraph  **** ……..  hugely enjoyable  ……..

Time Out     **** ……… heartfelt, hilarious and the cast is a dream-team topped by Viola Davis

My Week with Marilyn

Rated: 15

2011 BAFTA’s

Nominated Best Actress – Michelle Williams

Nominated Best Supporting Actress  – Judi Dench

Nominated Best Supporting Actor – Kenneth Branagh

This has the potential to be a very big Moviola hit.  The story of the extraordinary encounter between Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe in London in 1956 for the making of The Prince and the Showgirl.  The cast is astonishing:  Kenneth Branagh as Olivier, Michelle Williams as Monroe, Judi Dench as Dame Sybil Thorndike, Dougray Scott as Arthur Miller, and Zoe Wanamkaer as Paula Strasberg.  AND Derek Jacobi, Dominic Cooper and newcomer Eddie Redmayne excelling as the narrator, Olivier’s diarist and assistant Colin Clark.

Average Screenrush rating: **** (3.5) out of 12 press titles

The Observer  *****….. A gift to the cinema ….

The Daily Mail  ****  …. A magical 100 minutes  …

The Guardian  ****  It offers a great deal of pleasure and fun, and an unpretentious homage to a terrible British movie that somehow, behind the scenes, generated a very tender almost-love story.