Cinema is Home

 My old friend deserved a visit today and yesterday

I’ve missed him of late.

I fell asleep in both visits but only for a moment as I enjoyed one version more than the other.

My old friend is the cinema .

He has been my friend for sixty years.

Yesterday a friend and I went to see the caper movie Crime 101

Slow to start it was a modern day mixture of  Steve Mc Queen’s Bullet with a moody Chris Hemsworth as a psychologically damaged but redeemable thief and The Thomas Crown Affair with Halle Berry in the Faye Dunaway/ Rene Russo role. 

Looking fabulous Berry at 59. ( playing 53) is back on form as an insurance broker for the rich and her storyline of being overlooked by her male boss because of her age and sex is a clear side swipe to the producers in Hollywood. 

I enjoyed this slick and polished drama more than Is This Switched On ? A muddled and uneven drama comedy that follows the unlikely story of unhappy forty something Will Arnett who suddenly finds stand up comedy as therapy to process his marriage break down with Laura Dern

This drama was ok…not great but ok, but I was glad to be back at theatre Clwyd’s newly refurbished cinema, an arthouse cinema who kept my head above water for many a year.

My sister Janet came with me tonight, and it was lovely to see the theatre so vibrant, what with the new restaurant run by Bryn Williams centre stage in the centre of it.

Wales has culture and I’m grateful it’s only 20 minutes from home 

Bryn Williams 

The cinema