Archives for Cinema
From the Ecclesiastical to the Educational
VICTORIA KINGHAM Joseph Stannard loves music and he loves film. When he isn’t carrying out his duties as deputy editor of long-running music magazine The Wire, he is investigating the…
From the Ecclesiastical to the Educational
VICTORIA KINGHAM Joseph Stannard is an enthusiast. He loves music and he loves film. When he isn’t editing record reviews in a music journal, he is exploring the paranormal. “I’ve…
Andrew Kötting at the Electric Palace
This weekend, Electric Palace present an Andrew Kötting weekend, a celebration of films by the Hastings-based, internationally recognised filmmaker and artist. Andrew shares a studio with his daughter Eden on…
The Special Effects of Ben Wheatley
Toby Bula-Edge A full house came out in force to see Ben Wheatley’s new film Bulk at the Electric Palace on Thursday 14. The screening was accompanied by a Q&A…
Caribbean Cinema Comes to Hastings
Electric Palace Cinema in Hastings is to host Crossroads, a ground- breaking new screening series bringing contemporary Caribbean cinema to South East England for the first time. Running this May…
Being Ola at The Electric Palace
The documentary Being Ola, the second feature film from Award winning Norwegian filmmaker Ragnhild Nøst Bergem, is set to release in UK and Irish cinemas on 3 April; it previews…
Electric Christmas
The Electric Palace, Hastings Old Town’s volunteer-run community cinema, has released details of its 2025 festive programme. Dubbed ‘Electric Christmas’, the run of shows aims to balance traditional Hollywood crowd-pleasers…
Wicked: For Good?
SAMUEL ANGUS-SCHOFIELD While not quite as enchanting as the first movie, Wicked, this film still has a lot of charm, and once again, is carried by its two main leads.…
‘Tis the Season to be Scary
SAM SCHOFIELD Halloween is fast approaching, and consequently scary movie season is upon us. One of the best of these, still, is John Carpenter’s 1978 classic: Halloween. Set in the…
January Films
EBM Humphries If you thought you were full to the brim with Christmas films and box-set binges and couldn’t possibly consume another minute of moving pictures, wait till you see…
Little Richard is Everything at the Kino
VICTORIA KINGHAM In the words of musicologist Fredara Hadley: “Black music is the wellspring of American popular music, but at the same time there are industries and societies that often…