A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

February 2026.

Back from Hull, Mrs RM taunts me with photos from her Rome weekend.

Prize if you can name this one, quite famous I reckon.

I’d been abandoned while she went off on her girls weekend, but I get to sit in my new favourite place, the big sofa at Sang Lung,

waiting for a crispy beef and Singapore rice that lasts me 3 meals while I listen to the 130 artists on the End of the Road line-up.

But by 6pm on Friday night I realise that sitting indoors all day is a mortal sin, and walk down to Sheffield station (3,877 steps).

ChatGPT tries to sell me some “events” on in town on Monday,

but I settle on the Playhouse at Hallam Uni,

where you can have craft cans with your popcorn.

I must have panicked at the choice.

There must have been stronger stuff than this, but  it’s ok.

My film choice worried ChatGPT too.

But “If I had legs I’d kick you” delights an audience of 5, none of them students. It’s the movie equivalent of a Bill Callahan album.

It’s gone half-ten when I leave,

almost tempted by the late opening of the Rutland.

But a man must have self-discipline, especially when his wife’s left him on his own.

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Retired NHS, doing long walks around UK and the world to record the great bits. Focused on Good Beer Guide pubs and live music.

11 thoughts on “A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES”

  1. I think that the bar is Ma Che Siete Venuti a Fa which I found by doing an internet search, which is probably cheating, but I’ve never been to Rome.

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  2. I went to the cinema this week as well, for the first time in probably a year. I went to see Secret Agent which had no secret agents in it as far as i could tell.

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      1. Good point! It was at Chapter, my local art house cinema, who have a decent bar* and cask range, but with the film being 2 hours 40 mins long, I wasn’t risking it. For some reason it has two entries on Untappd, one as a ‘performing arts venue’, and one as a ‘theatre’. I always check-in under the first one.

        *I bet you’ve been to it, but as you use the word ‘chapter’ so often on the blog, the search bar was worthless.

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      2. Canton’s Chapter been in the GBG regularly, nice place.

        That Playhouse in Sheffield is in twice, the place you buy popcorn and craft cans and an adjacent larger bar with hand pump. Untappd could do with a tidy up but it’s never going to happen.

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      3. Worse than doubling up on a venue, Untappd spells the address of lots of places in Dolgellau as ‘Dolgelly’, which is the sort of thing I get quite het up about but, like reporting other venue detail errors, I’d have to first of all set up a Foursquare account, as that’s where all the info’s drawn from, so I’ve decided, actually, life’s too short after all!
        (credit where it’s due though, Untappd does recognise Wales a separate country brewery wise https://untappd.com/brewery/top_rated?country=wales)

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    2. Rhys, I went to a cinema in Llanelli last Saturday morning. Old Peculiar for a very reasonable £1.70. Only 41 minutes between trains so just as well there wasn’t a film to watch.

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