Category Archives: Movies

The Eagle Huntress is a visually stunning documentary that follows Aisholpan Nurgaiv, a 13-year-old girl who becomes the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a longstanding patrilineal tradition. Perched precariously … Continue reading →

Who and what forms us in our lives? Spinning Reels examined an aspect of that question when we screen Little Men, a story of two boys who meet during their formative years. The two boys are quite different when they are … Continue reading →

Life is a Song! It’s always hard to start over, and for youngsters it’s even harder when they are ‘coming of age’. What would you do if  you were forced to change schools and leave all your friends behind- why, … Continue reading →

The More Things Change…. Love & Friendship revolves around the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon(Kate Beckinsale), a recent widow who engineers all manner of wonderfully devious plots to bend the world to her will and land herself a wealthy … Continue reading →

How DO you understand genius? Genius takes a journey back in time to the vital New York literary scene of the Roaring Twenties and stars Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, The Railway Man) as Max Perkins, the legendary literary editor … Continue reading →

“There are lovely things in the world; Lovely that do not endure … and all the lovelier for it.” Chronicling the joys and sorrows of Chris Guthrie (Agyness Deyn), the daughter of a farming family in northeast Scotland, Sunset Song is … Continue reading →

 Our New Season Kicks off and We’re Dressed to the Nines!  Spinning Reels presents The Dressmaker on September 26, 7:00 PM at the Norwood Theatre. This wickedly comic drama stars Kate Winslet (Steve Jobs, Labor Day, Titanic) as Tilly, a worldly dressmaker … Continue reading →

It’s a corker! In the directorial debut from renowned Scottish- born actor Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty) is a darkly comic thriller about a downtrodden, mild-mannered Glaswegian barber whose mundane life is turned upside down when he inadvertently finds himself … Continue reading →

Not your typical love story! Ebert says Rams is an “involving, at times curiously exciting film”. Despite the fact that they live on neighbouring farms, Gummi  and his boastful, hard-living neighbour Kiddi have not spoken to one another in forty … Continue reading →

With ‘Carol’, we take a look at the cost of love. When you put a two time Oscar Winner like Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine, The Aviator) together with other excellent actors like Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, and a sensitive script … Continue reading →