Crouch End

Where once was Blockbuster video is now a hip new coffee shop.  The shelves where we would hover and scrutinise film titles, seeking an evening’s entertainment, have been replaced with chandaliers and easy chairs.  But a rather good flat white, albeit in a glass rather than a cup.

And so on to Arthouse – a new cinema!  In Crouch End!  In the old Salvation Army Hall!

It’s been adapted in an inviting fashion, concrete floors, wooden mismatched tables and chairs with a bar selling coffee and alcohol, and another small sitting area up some wooden stairs.  And two cinema screens.  All looking very good and eminently supportable.

And so we booked to see The Double. Jesse Eisenberg, James Fox, Mia Wasikowska, Chris O’Dowd, based on a Dostoesvsky story – it was so promising.  Unfortunately,  it was not as good as it should have been.  It was not a story I was ever going to enjoy, a pathetic man being trodden down by his confident doppelganger, but it was irritating, the silences, the dark depressing set and the predictability of it all.  However, the cinema was full, and there were trailers for some very good looking films.  A positive development.

Next time – artistic creation.  An attempt at cake making.  Should this be the cover of A Sense of Occasion?