Save the Prince Charles cinema!

“THIS PLACE IS AN INSTITUTION!” In a basement cinema, on a Thursday evening in central London, a largely female audience of 300 fans of 1980s murder mystery television was being addressed by a middle-aged Australian man in a tracksuit and a wig. For the previous two hours, we had been laughing our way through a single episode of Murder She Wrote, as our host Tim Benzie discussed the joys and clichés of the long-running show and invited us to work out which of the guest stars would turn out to be the murderer. But now, for a moment, Benzie was serious. “You might have seen in the news that the Prince Charles cinema” — where we’re sitting — “is under threat,” he said. That week, the Prince Charles had announced…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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