Totally!! I’m much the same, although it can be nice when the screenings quiet. My local cinema tends to mostly be quiet as the English screenings are sadly few and far between due to demand as people prefer dubbed around here.
I really miss my cinema back home in Scotland, it was super quiet AND they had reclining chairs!!! Plus it was way cheaper.
Oh, I can’t stand dubbed movies, unless they’re kid’s films. I’m so happy dubbing isn’t a thing over here, but I get why it is in France (and Germany). But at least you know you’ll have quiet English screenings to go to!
I love a small-town cinema because they usually have a nice staff, lower prices, and a cosier experience. I know the cinema in my old hometown has that. We used to go there all the time with my dad. The multiplex in my current city is much colder in comparison, and I rarely go to the cinema these days.
Which is a shame because going to the Theaters can be quite lovely, thankfully our crowd over here in Germany aren’t loud or anything that sort that you have seen over in the US for example. I think the loudest was only a Kid going crazy in a screening of a Spider-man Film but calmed down pretty quickly and wasn’t too loud.
As for the Minecraft Film, it’s a Movie that exist 
it has some entertaining Value (and even made me curious to check out the Rest of the Features Film from Director Jared Hess (I don’t recommend it, he isn’t a very good Director and makes his Actors use dumb weird very obvious accents)). But even then it just kinda is a bit of a baffling Thing, I am not a Minecraft Player, so all references went over my Head. Oh well it was certainly not boring so that’s a great Thing! 
I watched A Minecraft Movie yesterday. It was certainly one of the movies of all time.
Well, it was entertaining for the most part, but I can’t say I thought it was good. Jack Black was fun and was clearly having the time of his life, Jason Momoa’s character was basically a walking one-liner machine and I didn’t like that. And the other characters existed I suppose.
Didn’t care for the typical “real world and fictional world meet” story, there were some clichés I wasn’t fond of and the sub-plot that they randomly cut to here and there was just cringe and I dreaded every single one of those scenes. Villain was passable but wow they really didn’t care much about her backstory like at all, did they?
The animation was good though for the most part (the villagers were uncanny and ugly as hell though), there were some funny lines and a few really cool scenes like the Elytra chase scene and the final battle. But yeah, no, movie was bad but not awful. 4/10.
I had fun though, I went to the cinema for the first time in like 5-6 years and I went with both of my brothers so that was cool.
My daughter went to see it yesterday for a friend’s birthday and she loved it. My friend’s son loved it too. I think, with films like this, we need to remember whether it works for the target audience and I think this one has been a bit of a smash with kids. My daughter loved Jack Black in it as she loves him in School of Rock.
Yes! I am hyped for this!
Thankfully my Minecraft Movie experience was fairly calm.
I thought it was such a fun movie, it’s refreshing to see something like this
A fun mid-budget action movie, similar to Olympus Has Fallen & Air Force One.
Another stylish movie from ‘retired’ director Steven Soderbergh.
Saw Flow on Saturday. Beautiful movie that I’m glad exists; even if there were a few points where it was maybe a little too quiet and contemplative for my unfocused brain
I LOVED that movie. I’m a huge animation fan, and I was so excited when it won
a bunch of awards, especially since it went up against big name studios like Disney and DreamWorks! The fact that the whole thing was animated in Blender on a shoestring budget is amazing to me.
Watched Paddington in Peru tonight. Probably not as good as the first two (the script did some weird things with Olivia Coleman’s character) but still really funny and heartwarming. I think I described Paddington as the perfect British family film and the trilogy as a whole really is a beacon of how good our cinema can be.
Really need to watch this!! It came out months later in France compared to the UK and my local cinema didn’t do an English screening 
It’s just arrived on Netflix this week.
I loved the first 2, not seen this one yet.
A nice piece of Paddington street art @deltaandthebannermen
Oh, lovely!! Loved that film, always a Fan when a Film does no Dialogue and just let its Visuals and Sound speak for itself, Robot Dreams is another great Example of such a Film, that I highly recommend!
Can’t sadly comment on Paddington 3 (besides that it released very late over here as well ), still need to see it, really enjoyed the first two! Such cozy & charming Films!
I remember seeing that the BFI was doing a showing of this, it looks beautiful
Director Usman Riaz With voices of Art Malik, Sacha Dhawan, Anjli Mohindra, Tony Jayawardene Pakistan 2024. 98min DigitalVincent and his father Tomas run the finest glass workshop in the country, but find their lives upended by an impending war. The arrival in their town of an army colonel and Alliz, his young, talented, violinist daughter, shakes their reality and tests the relationship between father and son. As Vincent and Alliz’s love for each other grows, their fathers responses reflect an era when patriotism and social standing are considered more important than free thought and artistic pursuit.
Tickets £17, concs £14 (Members pay £2.50 less)
