Pop up cinema heading to Stourbridge this bank holiday weekend

Friendly Neighbourhood Cinema is taking over a shop at the Ryemarket Shopping Centre in Stourbridge for the Bank Holiday Weekend, the 26^th and 27^th August. This bank holiday weekend the Friendly Neighbourhood Cinema in Ryemarket, Stourbridge will be screening a varied programme of family favourites to cult classics with free entry short films and surprises between theatrical shows The Consumerists Collection includes films like Toy Story 2, Little Shop of Horrors, Mallrats and John Carpenter’s They Live, a selection of features representing a different facet of consumerism in culture. There will also be a special screening of The Black Country Cowboy from filmmaker Ryan Davis, a documentary focusing on local Stourbridge musical legend Pete Boddis, followed by a performance and Q&A with the cowboy himself. Stourbridge on Screen will be a collection of heritage and archive material from around the region. Independent short films including Birmingham animation studio, Yamination’s newly released 2023 collaboration with the River Action Trust THIS IS S**T. Popcorn, snacks and refreshments will be available and all goes towards supporting the Friendly Neighbourhood Cinema. Alcohol is being supplied by friends of FNC and independent Stourbridge brewery Green Duck Beer Co. Friendly Neighbourhood Cinema is a pop-up passion project from Stourbridge local Daniel Kearns. Collaborating with a variety of local/independent venues, spaces and places, the cinema made its debut in 2019 with a screening of Dawn of the Dead. They followed this in 2020 by resurrecting King Heath’s historic Kingsway cinema for the first time since it’s closure in 1979 – delivering a pandemic-proof outdoor cinema during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis. FNC’s most recent screenings were 2022’s Life of Brian in the altar of St Thomas’ Church and a VHS screening of 80s cult classic The Lost Boys at Craddock’s The Duke William. You can find out more information and book tickets on their official website. — Thank you for visiting! If you’d like to support our attempts to make a non-clickbaity movie website: Follow Film Stories on Twitter here, and on Facebook here. Buy our Film Stories and Film Junior print magazines here. Become a Patron here.