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Sirāt
(Sirāt)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 24 2026
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Director – Óliver Laxe – 2025 – Spain, France – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** Young son in tow, a man goes in search of his daughter who has gone missing at raves in the North African desert – 2025 Cannes Jury Prize Winner is out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 27th Luis (Sergi […]

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The Testament
of Ann Lee

Director – Mona Fastvold – 2025 – US, UK – Cert. 15 – 130m **** In the mid-eighteenth century, wishing to preach her unique take on the Christian Gospel, Ann Lee crosses the Atlantic with a small party from from Manchester, England, to establish a Shaker community in America – unlikely religious musical is on Disney+ from […]

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The Testament
of Ann Lee

Directed by Mona FastvoldCertificate 15130 minutesReleased 27 February and on Disney+ from 13 May Few films accurately chronicle a specific, historical Christian sect, fewer still do so as a musical. I knew virtually nothing about the Shakers, before seeing The Testament of Ann Lee, which is based on a true story. | found much to admire […]

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The Extraordinary
Miss Flower

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 8 2025
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Miss Flower
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Directors – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 2024 – UK – Cert. 12a – 73m **** A suitcase containing love letters, telexes and photographs found after her death, which inspired songs from singer Emilíana Torrini, becomes the key to a woman’s interior life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Every so often, […]

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Coppelia

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 22 2021
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Directors – Jeff Tudor, Steven de Beul, Ben Tesseur – 2021 – Netherlands, Germany, Belgium – Cert. U – 82m **** People in an idyllic town must thwart the nefarious plans of a mad scientist in this extraordinary amalgam of dance, live action performers and animation – out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, […]

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In The Heights

Director – Jon M. Chu – 2021 – US – Cert. – 143m *** Boy meets girl even as they yearn to fulfil their dreams outside the confines of New York’s immigrant-populated, urban Washington Heights district – in cinemas from Friday, June 18th Musicals in the movies present a potentially strange world where people sing […]

Tags Anthony Ramos, blackout, boy meets girl, Corey Hawkins, digital effects, immigrant, Jimmy Smits, Jon M. Chu, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, musical, New York, Olga Merediz, Puerto Rico, sing, US, Washington

Animation Dance Movies Shorts

Boxballet
(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 17 2021
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(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)
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Director – Anton Dyakov – 2020 – Russia – 15m 15s ***** A pencil-thin ballerina becomes involved with a rough, stocky boxer. Some things seem destined not to be… And yet… – nominated for Best Animated Short in the 2021/22 (94th) Oscars Olya and Evgeny live near each other’s flats. When running to catch the […]

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Climax

Director – Gaspar Noé – 2018 – France – Cert. 18 – 97m ***** Uppers and downers – either way blood flows. Arthouse enfant terrible Noé combines technical skill and singular focus with some of the most spectacular dancing ever put on film to produce a dark and challenging vision of hell on earth – […]