(Sat 3rd / 8pm)

To mark the release of Tarantino and Rodriguez's long-delayed GRINDHOUSE double- feature the Cube - in association with Jack Stevenson - is proud to present a mini-season of Grindhouse classics throughout May. Each screening is a celebration of B-movie style, accompanied by rarely-seen trailers, classic soundtrack sounds and a late bar!

Years before Tarantino popularized the term, Grindhouse was used to describe the 24-hour fleapits that served film-fans and lowlifes alike with a steady diet of exploitation films, a world in which genre was king and, generally speaking, stars, budgets and quality were scant if not absent. However, as the major studios became increasingly impenetrable, a new generation of film makers turned to the freedom of exploitation film making and transformed the various b- movie sub-genres into a exciting breeding-ground for cinematic invention. Film makers such as Larry Coen, Jack Hill and Monte Hellman used genre formats to explore complex social, political and existential agendas. Others such as David Cronenberg, Jonathan Demme and Joe Dante became Hollywood's next generation of A-listers. As such, the legacy of Grindhouse isn't simply in the B-movie pastiches of 'Death Proof' and 'Planet Terror', but in the wide and varied film making culture that exists today - something to bear in mind before dismissing b-movies as simple-minded trash!