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Top Gun:
Maverick

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Post date May 24 2022
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Director – Joseph Kosinski – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 131m **** The eponymous Maverick (Tom Cruise) returns to the Navy pilot Top Gun school to train a dozen new recruits to fly an impossible bombing mission and come back alive – back out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, May 15th […]

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Eric Ravilious:
Drawn To War

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 26 2022
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Drawn To War
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Director – Margy Kinmonth – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 87m ***1/2 The career of the British watercolour artist tragically killed while serving as an official war artist in World War Two – now available to watch online following UK cinema release on Friday, July 1st 2022 The first official war artist to […]

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Benediction

Director – Terence Davies – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 137m **** The life of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, his homosexual lifestyle and his heterosexual marriage – out in cinemas on Friday, May 20th It’s been five years since Davies’ previous film A Quiet Passion (2016) and the curious thing is, […]

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Benediction

Glum heroes BenedictionDirected by Terence DaviesCertificate 12a, 137 minutesReleased 20 May Films about poets are few; however, the director Terence Davies has now made two in a row as different as their historical subjects. The earlier A Quiet Passion (Reform, April 2017) concerns the introverted, isolated, American spinster Emily Dickinson while the current Benediction is […]

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