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Bullet in the Head
(Diexue Sietou,
喋血街头)

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Post date May 29 2026
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(Diexue Sietou,
喋血街头)
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Director – John Woo – 1990 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 126m ***** Three teenage friends forced to leave Hong Kong by a gang war find themselves in the middle of the horrors of war-torn Vietnam – plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from Friday, 3rd July to […]

Animation Features Movies

All You Need is Kill
(Oru Yu Nido izu Kiru)

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Post date February 25 2026
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(Oru Yu Nido izu Kiru)
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Directors – Kenichiro Akimoto, Yukinori Yakamura – 2025 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 86m ***1/2 A woman trapped in a repeating time loop dies fighting alien plant monsters, joins forces with a man in a similar time loop – animated science fiction tale is out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 27th This began as a […]

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Features Live Action Movies

One Battle After Another

Director – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2025 – US – Cert. 12A – 161m ***** Over a decade after they disappeared into a safe town with new identities, a father and now-teenage daughter are tracked down by their army officer nemesis… – one of the most extraordinary Warner Bros. action movies you’ve ever seen is out in […]

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Funny Games
(1997)

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Post date June 20 2025
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(1997)
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Director – Michael Haneke – 1997 – Austria – Cert.18 – 103m ***** Two young men turn up at a family’s holiday home to humiliate and torture them via a series of controlling exchanges (or games) – plays in Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, in UK cinemas from Saturday, June 21st and on BFI Player […]

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Ballerina
(2025)

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Post date June 6 2025
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(2025)
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Director – Len Wiseman – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 125m ***** A young, female assassin seeks out the man behind the organisation that killed her father – John Wick franchise spin-off is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 6th While the Bond movie No Time To Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021) […]

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