Next Film Bingo on 19th March

On Thursday 19th March, put down your freeze packed meal that ‘tastes like chicken’, check on the hibernating crewmen and tell the psychotic super computer that you will play him at chess later – Film Bingo is back again at the Cask & Bottle.

Another evening of film-spotting and prize-winning will commence at 8pm, with bingo cards on sale from 7.30. We are expanding to four games this time to give you an extra chance to use your movie-observing skills to win cold hard cash.

Bingo cards are £2 a go as usual, but we will be offering a special discount on the fourth game, so you can play all four for £7.

All patrons are reminded to please read all instructions prior to engaging the zero-gravity toilet.

UNDERCLASS update: Final week and stretch goal

VISIT THE UNDERCLASS KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN to get your copy now!

Here in the hermetically sealed underground network of LUC’s headquarters we are hard at work getting everything ready for the first edition of our new quarterly periodical, UNDERCLASS. The marketing dept. have pointed out that it is high time that we revealed a bit of a tease as to what this launch issue will contain. We don’t want to give too many spoilers away, so here are just three agreed highlights for the purpose of raising anticipation…

1. The films featured in issue one will include Putney Swope, Intacto and Zero Effect plus five more.

2. It has been agreed, after violent negotiation, that the art department can have their own highly specific ‘Disaster Film Corner’.

3. There will be an interactive ‘Logbook of objective viewing’ for readers to use and enjoy.

If you’d like to make sure of receiving the first issue for just £1 for the digital version, or £3 for a physical copy posted to you – then head over to our kickstarter campaign. You can even subscribe for the first four issues and become an ‘Associate Publisher’ as well.

STRETCH GOAL APPROVED

As we are fortunate enough to have reached our funding target, the glorious central committee have permitted us to add a stretch goal for the final week of the Kickstarter campaign.

If we reach the lofty heights of £350, then each issue will include cut out and keep ‘top trumps’ cards for the films featured, gradually building each quarter into an exciting game – ideal for helping pass the time with dull family members or impressing potential romantic partners.

Once again, many thanks to all of you who have backed UNDERCLASS so far and helped spread the word. We will be in touch with more information once the kickstarter has concluded. Currently we are hoping to be sending out the first issue in the second week of March, dependent on printing etc.

More news soon.

FILM BINGO Postponed until 19th Feb

Hey everybody, unfortunately The Cask & Bottle have asked us to postpone Film Bingo until the 19th. Hope you can still make it.

‘UNDERCLASS’ – LUC’s new publication is on Kickstarter

After all manner of enigmatic whisperings and outrageous rumours the R&D section have confirmed the forthcoming appearance of a brand new quarterly publication from Leamington Underground Cinema…

UNDERCLASS will be a small but perfectly formed journal featuring articles on some of our favourite, little-known movies alongside exclusive artwork and a variety of exciting content and features.

The aesthetic side of things is being handled by the enormously talented Christine Cuddihy – you can check out her work at www.christinecuddihy.co.uk – and the cover of the first issue is reproduced below. The glorious central committee has instructed the editorial staff to make sure that all content is informative, entertaining & irreverent in tone. There are alarmingly harsh penalties in place to make sure that these instructions are followed.

Each issue of UNDERCLASS will be available as a digital pdf file, or as a tangible, tactile A5 booklet, ready to be scribbled on, or used as an emergency drink coaster. Our current plan is that each issue will feature a minimum of eight films. Additional content will include exclusive artwork, puzzles & games, film-related recipes, colouring-in segments and much more.

The first issue costs £1 for a digital copy, or £3 for a physical copy (including postage to the UK) and will be available on the 1st of March.

Our initial funding target to help pay for the production printing and posting of the first issue is £110 – but if we are able to exceed that then we will add some interesting and exciting stretch goals.

You can order the first issue, or a subscription to the four issues that will emerge in 2015 over at the UNDERCLASS Kickstarter page.

Film Bingo is back on the 5th February

Just when you thought it was safe to head back to the cask & bottle – film bingo comes back lurching from the depths.

Join us from 7.30 PM on Thursday 5th February for another evening of film-spotting and cash-winning.

Each bingo card costs just £2 and the prize in each of the three games is a marvellous fifty quid. You could probably hire a crusty old captain to take you shark hunting on the river Leam with that.

There will be an exciting selection of appropriately-themed food and cocktails on offer as well, we are reliably informed.

Bollocks To Valentines Day 2 – A Remote Control Film Night

Valentines Day. Sigh. What a nightmare. Probably the most soul-sapping day of the year. A contrived, lonely and ultimately depressing experience for a significant proportion of the population…

It’s also quite rubbish if you are single (make your own comedy drum roll noise here please).

The LUC glorious central committee may be a bunch of stoic, stony faced hopeless romantics – but we’re just as sick of it as everyone else.

So for the second year running we present a very special on-line remote control film night that sticks two fingers up to Thorntons, waves its bum at Interflora and yells “Bollocks” to Valentines Day. Again.

Join us on Saturday 14th February from the comfort of your house, hotel room or secure unit – the fun takes place on the LUC Facebook page or Twitter (@LeamUCinema #rcfnight) from 8pm. Expect a cavalcade of hand-picked cinematic treats and, almost certainly, the return of the patented and deeply worrying “LUC Love Limerick Competition”.

Join in with LUC’s first ever Film Assignment

This year the ‘education enforcement’ squad of LUC’s community outreach wing is running a series of exciting and interactive Film Assignments. The aim is to get everyone watching more movies from the less well-known, but far more interesting end of the cinematic spectrum – and then arguing wildly over what they thought about them.

Each month we will name a film and a deadline date – your mission is to procure and watch the film, then have a think about it and tell the world what you thought in 300 words or less on the new LUC Forum or, more briefly on twitter using the hashtag #LUCFA1.

Following the deadline, a shadowy group of hardened LUC types and first-time viewers will be gathered together to review the whole thing and decide who made the best, most interesting and most entertaining observations or arguments on the forums/twitter. The individual who submitted the best response will be named the assignment winner and get a cool prize. We’re currently planning that this announcement will take the form of an audio recording which will also include the particulars of the next assignment.

The info for Assignment #1 is:

Film: I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK (2006) dir. Park Chan-Wook

Deadline for forum or twitter posts: 23rd January

Winner announced and Film Assignment #2 set: 28th January

There is a thread set up on the forum for your witty, thoughtful, sweary and philosophical musings at:

http://leamucinema.proboards.com/thread/3/film-assignment-1