Category Archives: Movies

What would You do? On Monday, February 9th at 7PM, Spinning Reels screens Force Majeure, which will pose that question. A typical, ordinary family is enjoying a not uncommon European  family trip- skiing in the French Alps- until they are … Continue reading →

A witty and resonant blend of light comedy and adult drama, My Old Lady is, in every sense, the product of a master storyteller. Kevin Kline (The Big Chill, A Prairie Home Companion) plays New Yorker Mathias who journeys to … Continue reading →

  Last seen together touring the finest restaurants of Northern England’s Lake District in the Film Circuit favourite The Trip, the dynamic duo of Steve Coogan (Philomena, Alan Partridge) and Rob Brydon (Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) returns … Continue reading →

What says holiday season more than a film which is a thoughtful, heartbreaking, and beautifully realized ode to love, family, and both the struggles and rewards of age? Please join us on Monday, December 8th as Spinning Reels presents Love … Continue reading →

Hiding in plain sight? Vivian Maier, was a career nanny who has earned a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers with an uncanny ability to get close to people from all walks of life. … Continue reading →

Does the past truly inform our present? We’ll examine that question and many others with our next film Ida on Monday, November 10. A film Roger Ebert says is “Riveting, original and breathtakingly accomplished on every level…a masterpiece in any … Continue reading →

In an acting tour-de-force, Mia Wasikowska (Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, Albert Nobbs) portrays twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson who crossed the desert of Australia in a journey of self-discovery. This 2,700 kilometer ‘walk’ from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean requires to … Continue reading →

Calvary: a moving, darkly humorous examination of life Calvary is a well written, darkly funny and powerfully moving mystery set in an Irish coastal village. The local priest, played by Brendan Gleeson (The Grand Seduction, Brave Heart) is threatened during confession, … Continue reading →

Ahh, September with its warm days, cool nights, kids back at school- there’s a kind of magic in the air- especially as Spinning Reels presents Magic in the Moonlight on September 8, 7:00 PM at the Norwood Theatre. Colin Firth … Continue reading →

Can we learn from what happened so long ago? Belle is a movie based on actual events and far more than a period piece of manners and costumes. It examines the issue of a free black woman in the heavily striated … Continue reading →