Ultimate Picture Palace February 1911 as the Oxford Picture Palace. In 1917 the manager was conscripted to serve in the First World War. The cinema was closed and stood unused for many years before being turned into as a furniture warehouse. In 1976 Bill Heine and Pablo Butcher reopened the cinema as the Penultimate Picture Palace. They added a sculpture of Al Jolson's hands by John Buckley to the façade. The first film to be shown was "Winstanley". Under the new management the cinema gained a reputation for showing an eclectic and provocative range of films that set it apart from the mainstream
Old Fashioned (film) target audience with a tale of moral redemption through chaste romance. Trouble is, throughout a good portion of his movie, the writer-director gives off a disconcerting Norman Bates vibe". Michael Rechtshaffen of the "Los Angeles Times" found the film disturbing and stated that it "isn't so much cute and old-fashioned as it is acutely offensive". The film did find some support from mainstream critics. Glenn Kenny writing for RogerEbert.com stated that while "Swartzwelder does tend to lay things on a little thick," that "It’s incredibly rare to see an American movie with a Christian perspective that’s more invested in philosophizing