Month: May 2026

Cronos
(Cronos)

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Post date May 15 2026
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(Cronos)
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Director – Guillermo del Toro – 1992 – Mexico – Cert. 18 – 92m ****1/2 An antique shop owner is transformed by a strange, hand-sized device he finds in a small statuette – back out in a 4K restoration in UK cinemas on Friday, May 15th alongside a Guillermo del Toro season at BFI Southbank […]

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Kokuho
(Kokuho,
国宝,
lit. National Treasure)

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Post date May 8 2026
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(Kokuho,
国宝,
lit. National Treasure)
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Director – Lee Sang-il – 2025 – Japan – Cert. – 175m ***** The son of a murdered yakuza is taken under the wing of a respected kabuki actor, who trains him alongside his own son – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th In kabuki theatre, an onnagata is a man who performs […]

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Billie Eilish
Hit Me
Hard and Soft
The Tour
Live in 3D

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Post date May 8 2026
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Hit Me
Hard and Soft
The Tour
Live in 3D
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Billie Eilish in Paramount Pictures Presents A Lightstorm Earth Production / The Darkroom / Interscope Films Production of “BILLIE EILISH HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D)”

Directors – James Cameron, Billie Eilish – 2026 – US, UK – Cert. 12a – 114m ***** One night of the singer’s latest world tour is captured up close and personal using specially developed, 3D camera technology – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th Disclaimer. Yes, I listen to a great deal of music. No, I […]

Tags 3D, 3D cameras, 3D cinematography, audience rapport, auditorium, backstage, backup singers, band, Billie Eilish, Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft - The Tour Live in 3D, cage, cinematography, Co-op Live arena, concert movies, cube structure, custom built stage, documentary, Finneas O’Connell, Hit Me Hard and Soft, hotel window, in the round, James Cameron, lighting, lighting technicians, Manchester, mobile phone, music concert, offstage, on tour, outstretched fans’ hands, performer, R&D, rap artists, rap music, rapper, relationship with fans, religious experience, safety harness, smartphone, sound, sound technicians, stadium, stage, stage technicians, stagehands, storyteller, technicians, technology, torch light, UK, US, venue, visionary

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Mortal Kombat II

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Post date May 7 2026
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Director – Simon McQuoid – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 116m *** Dragged into an otherworldly tournament a washed up 1990s action star must fight other contestants to the death to save the Earthrealm – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th King Jerrod (Desmond Chiam from Joy Ride, Adele Lim, 2023) of Edenia loses the […]

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Our Land

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Post date May 4 2026
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Director – Orban Wallace – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 90m *** An exploration as to why the English people only have the ‘right to roam’ over some eight per cent of their countryside – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th, with previews Tuesday, May 5th, Wednesday May 6th This sets out its […]

Tags ’John Grant, 1066, access, acres of land, activist, aristocracy, baron, behave responsibly, behaviour, birthright, Cairngorns, campers, car park attendant, Charborough Estate, commodification, conservationist, constitution, countryside, Countryside Code, Crown property, Devon, Dorset, earl, England, England and Scotland, England and Wales, English culture, English land ownership, English landowner, exclude people of colour, field, Flete Estate, folie, garden, good and bad monarchs, government, Great Fulford Estate, Guy Shrubsole, historical precedent, history, Hugh Inge-Innes-Liliingston, Imposter Syndrome, inheritance, Isle of Bute, joggers, John Mildmay-White, King of England, Lady Isabel Tree, Land Reform (Scotland) Act of 2003, landowner, landowning class, London Transport, managed access, mass trespass event, mass trespass of 1932, Maxwell Ayamba, May Kindred Boothby, mental health, Merrie England, mixed race heritage, Mothecombe, Nadia Shaikh, nature, Nick Hayes, Norman invasion, obligation, open-source access, Orban Wallace, Our Land, peasants, people of colour, pheasant shoot, pheasants, police, private property, protocol, public access, re-enactment, rewilding, Richard Drax, right to roam, rights, Robert MacFarlane, Rothiemurchus Estate, Scotland, Scottish landowner, Scottish Outdoor Access Code, security cameras, shutting gates, slave trade. Francis Fulford, South Downs, Staffordshire, stewardship, The Book of Trespass, The Lie of the Land, Thorpe Estate, trespass, trespasser, UK, under a spell, Wainwright Prize, walkers, Who Owns England?, William the Conqueror, woodcut prints

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Ada
My Mother the Architect

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Post date May 1 2026
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My Mother the Architect
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Director – Yael Melamede – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 81m ***1/2 A portrait by her New York-based daughter of top Israeli architect Ada Karmi Melamede – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 1st This opens with the filmmaker daughter asking her architect mother if she wants to speak English or Hebrew. The mother […]

Tags “a country being formed”, 1960s New York City, academic, Ada – My Mother the Architect, Ada Karmi Melamede, air conditioning, airport, apartment blocks, archaeology, architect, architectural drawings, architecture, back to Israel, bereavement, buildings, Chang’e, cultural aspirations, curved lines, democracy, designing, designing buildings, dictatorship, Doug Suisman, drawing, elevation, English, Frank Gehry, freehand, fulfilment, glass and transparency, guiding principles, Hebrew, idealism, intensity of light in Israel, Israel, Israel Supreme Court, Jerusalem, Kenneth Frampton, legashim, light, London, memory, mothers and daughters, move a window around, Neot Hovav Museum and City Council, New York, NYU Columbia, office, parents and children, Paul Goldberger, pencil, pencil and computer, pencil and paper, pencil line, portrait, Roman wall, Rome, roots, routes, Supreme Court Building, teaching, Tel Aviv, tenure, the Pantheon, time, under construction, university, Western Wall Heritage Foundation, words, Yael Melamede, Zoom call

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Wild Foxes
(La Danse des Renards)

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Post date May 1 2026
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(La Danse des Renards)
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Director – Valéry Carnoy – 2026 – Belgium, France – Cert. 15 – 91m ***1/2 A promising young school boxer’s mindset changes following an accident which damages his arm – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 1st This starts off with the camera darting nimbly around a boxing ring in a gym in which two […]

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I’ve Seen All I Need To See

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Post date May 1 2026
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Director – Zeshaan Younus – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 84m * A woman mourns her sister, dead in circumstances which remain far from clear – impenetrable drama is out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 1st NSFW Parker (Renee Gagner from Gazer, Ryan J. Sloan, 2024) sits on a chair and delivers a monologue. […]

Tags acting, actor, actress, audition, bar, drink, ghost story, gun, headlights, I’ve Seen All I Need To See, military, noir, pouring rain, Renee Gagner, Rosie McDonald, sister, US, warehouse, Zeshaan Younus