Month: August 2022

Crimes
Of The Future
(2022)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 29 2022
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Of The Future
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Director – David Cronenberg – 2022 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 107m ***** Even as two performance artists enact bizarre public rituals exploring the unlikely boundaries between sex, surgery and mutation, a young boy who eats plastic is murdered by his mother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 9th Back in 1970, […]

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Where Is Anne Frank

Hiding from deportation Where Is Anne FrankDirected by Ari FolmanCertificate PG, 99 minutesReleased 12 August Amsterdam, about a year from now. Inside the Anne Frank House, Anne’s imaginary pen-friend Kitty (voiced by Ruby Stokes) materialises out of the ink from the pages of Anne’s diary. The perplexed Kitty wants to know what happened to Anne, […]

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Return To Dust
(Yin Ru Chen Yan,
隐入尘烟)

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Post date August 24 2022
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(Yin Ru Chen Yan,
隐入尘烟)
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Director – Li Ruijin – 2022 – China – Cert. PG – 133m ***1/2 When two misfits are put into an arranged marriage by their respective, concerned families, a kindly, gentle relationship blossoms – out in UK cinemas Friday, November 4th following its screening in the 2022 Edinburgh Film Festival His family are worried about […]

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Free Chol Soo Lee

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Post date August 19 2022
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Directors – Julia Ha, Eugene Yi – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 83m **** Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, Korean American Chol Soo Lee became a figurehead for a protest movement, something he felt unable to live up to – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 19th In San […]

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Mama’s Affair
(A Ma You Zuo
Di Er Ge,
阿媽有咗第二個)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 19 2022
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Di Er Ge,
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Director – Kearen Pang – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. PG – 127m ** A former music business exec tries to get back into the game managing a boy singer while her jealous teenage son takes his exams – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 19th Essentially a three-hander, this centres around middle-aged […]

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The Feast
(Gwledd)

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Post date August 15 2022
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Director – Lee Haven Jones – 2021 – UK (Wales) – Cert. 18 – 93m ** The well-heeled wife of a local MP hires a maid to serve a meal for guests, but then things go horribly wrong – shot in the Welsh language and out in cinemas on Friday, August 19th It’s unusual to […]

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Fortune Favours
Lady Nikuko
(Gyoko No
Nikuko-chan,
漁港の肉子ちゃん)

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Post date August 10 2022
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(Gyoko No
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漁港の肉子ちゃん)
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Director – Ayumu Watanabe – 2021 – Japan – Cert. PG – 97m ***** A large, single parent mum continues to make bad relationship choices as her daughter tries to make her way in the Northern Japanese coastal village where they currently live– out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, August 10th Charging in its opening […]

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Nope

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Post date August 8 2022
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Director – Jordan Peele – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 130m Overall ** The alien in the sky finale when the film finally dumps the other stuff ***** A black Muybridge model’s ranch-owning descendants and the survivor of a TV sitcom which turned into a bloodbath encounter a dangerous alien presence that attacks […]

Tags Alfred Hitchcock, alien, animal shooting, attack, black people, bloodbath, Brandon Perea, child star, chimpanzee, cinematographer, cloud, creature feature, Dan Kaluuya, DIY hardware store, Eadweard Muybridge, ethnicity, flying saucer, hidden room, hiding under the table, history of cinematography, history of photography, Hitchcock, horse in motion black, horse rental business, immobility, Jacob Kim, Jordan Peele, Keith David, Keke Palmer, killer chimpanzee, memorabilia, Michael Wincott, motion and stillness, movie business, Muybridge, mystery, ranch, sitcom, sky, spend the night, Steven Yeun, surveillance, surveillance cameras, surveillance equipment, survival, The Birds, thrill seekers, TV sitcom, UFO, UFO sightings, US, wholesome

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Where Is Anne Frank

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Post date August 7 2022
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Director – Ari Folman – 2021 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Israel – Cert. PG – 99m ***** In Amsterdam, a year from now, her imaginary friend Kitty sets out to discover what happened to Anne Frank – out in cinemas on Friday, August 12th Amsterdam, Holland, about a year from now. Early in the […]

Tags 1945, 2D animation, 3D model sets, Aardman, Albert Dussel, Amsterdam, Andrew Woodall, animation, Anne Frank, Anne Frank House, Anne Frank’s diary, Ari Folman, attic, attic hideout, Auschwitz, authority figure, capture, Clark Gable, crowds, defeat, dentist, dissolve, Edith Frank, Emily Carey, execution, fathers and daughters, German Occupation, German soldier, glass case, Greek mythology, Greek underworld, handbags, hidden, hidden attic hideout, hide, hiding, Holland, Holocaust, illegal immigrants, imaginary friend, imaginary pen-friend, immigrants, ink writing, invisibility, it can’t happen here, Jew, Jewish, Jewish ethnicity, Jews, Margot Frank, Michael Moloney, migrants, mothers and daughters, museum, Nazi Occupation, Nazis, Nell Barlow, Otto Frank, parents and children, pavement, pen and ink, pen-friend, Peter Van Daan, pickpocket, Ralph Prosser, refugees, Ruby Stokes, Samantha Spiro, Sebastian Croft, Second World War, sheltering, siblings, sisters, Skye Bennett, squat, Stuart Miligan, tent, the Allies, The Third Reich, thief, tourists, Tracy-Ann Oberman, trial, Tristan Oliver, UK, Van Daan, Veronica Lake, visibility, visitors, war crimes, war zone, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

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Fadia’s Tree

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Post date August 5 2022
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Directors – Sarah Beddington, Susan Simnett – 2021 – UK – Cert. U – 84m ***1/2 A friendship between British artist Sarah and Palestinian refugee Fadia sparks the former into a search for a tree in the latter’s village to which she is currently unable to return – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August […]