Maddy
Bio: Avid film watcher and Netflix aficionado. Part-time Hot Tub Cinema employee and full-time Broadcast Journalism student. Lived in London all my life apart from a small blip where I went off to live in Toronto for a year.
Favourite Film: American Beauty (I was told Dirty Dancing was too cliche!)
Favourite Independent Cinema: The Phoenix/ Hot Tub Cinema
Cinema Snack of Choice: Sweet/Salty Popcorn Mix or Junior Mints!
Best Film Quote: “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn!” Rhett Butler/Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind (1939)
Tom
Bio:
Favourite Film: City of God
Favourite Independent Cinema: Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford
Cinema Snack of Choice: Popcorn, sucked to a soft, crunchless state to limit chew-based distractions to others
Best Film Quote: “On my planet, we have a legend about people like you. It’s called Footloose. And in it, a great hero, named Kevin Bacon, teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butts that, dancing, well, is the greatest thing there is.” Peter Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Andre
Bio: Londoner by birth and film fan by calling. Broadcast Journalism student with a love for the unknown. Spent a year living in China where I became versed in the “delights” of 1980’s Hong Kong films. Nollywood and early 00’s chickflicks are my guilty pleasures
Favourite Film: The History Boys
Favourite Independent Cinema: Waterman’s in Brentford
Cinema Snack of Choice: Smuggled in pick-and-mix
Best Film Quote: “Surely you can’t be serious?” “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley”. Ted Striker and Dr Rumack/Robert Hays and Leslie Nielsen in Airplane (1980)
Popcorn and projector 