FROM THIS weekend, Hackney’s two cinemas, the Picturehouse and Rio, will be joined by a third. On Friday 3 February 2017 the likely Oscar-winner La La Land will launch the single-screen Castle on to a wave of daily screenings.
The Homerton venue has been reopened, with crowdfunding support, by Asher Charman and Danielle Swift, Pillow Cinema and Hot Tub Cinema fame.
It occupies an upstairs corner section of the Spa store, Eat17 restaurant and bar in Chatsworth Road E5. It was a movie-house but closed almost 60 years ago.
Charman says: “We’re showing films every day, and we’ll be ramping up with more, including daytime and parent-and-baby sessions in the weeks to come.”
Tickets are competitively priced, as is membership, which ranges from £25 a year and includes two tickets. The bar will sell snacks and drinks.
Nightspot Cinema X The Funk and Soul Weekender is another entrant to the movie-going boom. A one-off screening of Jackie Brown followed by some disc-spinning happens on Friday 24 February 2017 at Mick’s Garage, Queen’s Yard, Hackney E9 5EN, 7pm-2am, £10-£22 plus so-called booking fee.
David Altheer 310117
* The Castle Cinema is at 64 Brooksby’s Walk, Hackney (Homerton or Clapton: you decide) E9 6DF.
* Backstory: Cinema gets the crowdfunding; Eat17’s Walthamstow start; Rio might become a miniplex; Multimillion-pound Hackney giveaway; Lost Clapton cinema
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