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Another season of summer blockbusters has been scheduled to screen at the Philip Road Centre by the good folk of Moving Image: Avatar, Independence Day and The A-Team will all be screened on a MASSIVE 500 metre 3D screen, with the latest in surround sound technology that will be heard on the other side of Elmstead Market.

That will liven the stiffs up.

Only joking.

It’s not the Moving Image way of staging an independent community run cinema. Sure, there is room in the schedule for the odd blockbuster (still having sleepless nights over Kick Ass…) but a more thoughtful and inclusive range of films has just been announced for the summer season.

Starting off we have Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, being shown on Saturday 11th June:

“Set on the campus of a small New England college, the film focuses on the volatile relationship of associate history professor George and his hard-drinking wife Martha, the daughter of the college president.”

No parallels with that lot up the road at the University of Essex then…

A week later on the 18th June and Fishtank is the next film in the summer schedule:

“Fish Tank is a 2009 British drama film directed by Andrea Arnold. The film won the Jury Prize at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Mia is a volatile 15 year-old. She resides on an Essex council estate with her single mother, Joanne, and foul-mouthed younger sister, Tyler. Mia is a loner and does not seem to have any close friends. Her only source of escape is hip-hop dance, which she practices alone in a deserted flat.”

The Only Way is Essex, etc.

Of Gods and Men makes an appearance at the Philip Road Centre on 2nd July:

“Of Gods and Men is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. The film opens with a quotation from the Book of Psalms, Psalm 82:6-7: I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most high. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. It closes with a spiritual testament by the prior Christian de Chergé, written for the occurrence of him being killed.”

Not quite The A-Team then.

And then on 9th July we have something for the Wivenhoe modern interweb *cough* twitterati masses, with the ACE The Social Network being screened at Philip Road:

“The Social Network is a 2010 drama film about the founding of the social networking website Facebook and the resulting lawsuits.”

Sit next me to me on the back road and I’ll probably poke you, etc.

Meanwhile the artier aspect of Moving Image is explored up at the splendour of the Lakeside Theatre at the University. The Monday evening run of films continues with Monsters on 13th June and Children of Men on 20th June.

All films start at 7:30pm. Which *means* 7:30pm. Oh yes. No legging it down the High Street, still half eating yer evening meal and forgetting to brush your teeth. Oh not. No me…