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Another Saturday night, another evening spent at the Wivenhoe Moving Image film club at the Phillip Road Centre. For £3 a screening, I really can’t think of a better value way of spending the weekend at Wivenhoe.

On show this week was Kick Ass – a strange choice perhaps for a peaceful North Essex estuary town, but at least it disproved the right wing reactionary film theory of visual violence breeds virtual violence.

I exited right along the High Road shortly after 9:30pm and passed an elderly couple walking their pooch past the toyshop. Rather than beat them to a pulp and pull out their eyeballs with my bare hands, I greeted them a good evening, and went home for a cup of cocoa.

Moving Image is already established now as a focal point within the community. The novelty of finding that a film is being shown on the big screen on a Saturday night is now a routine. You simply turn up at Phillip Road, pay your £3 and enjoy the film.

I passed on the Suffolk Meadow ice cream this week, having had a week of over-indulgence on the pudding front via the Alresford Creek blackberries. The blood and guts special effects in Kick Ass looked remarkably similar to the inside of my microwave over the past seven days.

Attention shifts next week at Phillip Road to a family friendly Sunday afternoon matinee screening. Playing at 3pm on Sunday 24th is How to Train Your Dragon, featuring:

“Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, Astrid, Fishlegs, Stoick, Snotlout and Gobber, a gang of engaging young Vikings from the Hooligan tribe.”

I hope the good folk of Moving Image don’t get the film reel mixed up with Kick Ass…

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