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Eagles of the Republic
(نسور الجمهورية)

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Post date May 21 2026
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(نسور الجمهورية)
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Director – Tarik Saleh – 2025 – Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland – Cert. 15 – 129m **** A top Egyptian movie star finds himself working on a big budget, high concept, state-sponsored propaganda movie – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, May 22nd The opening three scenes… The credits run over a montage of Egyptian […]

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Point Break
(1991)

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Post date November 7 2024
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(1991)
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Director – Kathryn Bigelow – 1991 – US – Cert. 15 – 122m ***** A rookie FBI man goes undercover with a group of surfers, believing them to be a gang of bank robbers who disguise themselves as former US Presidents – milestone action movie is out in a 4K Restoration in UK cinemas on […]

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Longlegs

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Post date July 12 2024
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Director – Oz Perkins – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 101m ***** An FBI hunt for a serial killer becomes embroiled in occult and Satanic practices, and the past history of the FBI agent involved – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th There’s a peculiar flashback, denoted by a 4:3 rounded-edge […]

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Agent
of Happiness

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Post date July 12 2024
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of Happiness
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Directors – Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó – 2023 – Bhutan, Hungary – 94m **** A civil servant travels around Bhutan assessing individual people’s happiness even as his personal life begs the questions whether he, himself, is truly happy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th Judging by the opening montage of cloudy and […]

Tags 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, agent, Amber Gurung. Architect, Arun Bhattarai, assess, Australia, bathing, Bhutan, chart, citizenship, community, conducting surveys, conversation, couple, divorced, Dorottya Zurbó, drink, ethnic minorities, family, gender identity, GNH, Gross National Happiness, happiness, Happiness Index, Happiness Level, how many cows, Hungary, indigenous, interview, king, married, measure, motorcycle, nature, Nepali, nightclub, passport, personal life, PÖFF, PÖFF 2024, PÖFF 28, policy, politics, professional class, public baths, questions, racism, seeing each other, singer, soothsayer, study, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, three wives, travesty of justice

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Restore Point
(Bod Obnovy)

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Post date April 1 2024
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(Bod Obnovy)
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Director – Robert Hloz – 2023 – Czech Republic – Cert. 15 – 113m ***** A detective investigates the murder of a couple, one of who helped create the technology for restoring people to life after they die – thought-provoking SF thriller is out UK on digital on Monday, April 1st In essence this is […]

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American Fiction

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Post date January 31 2024
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Director – Cord Jefferson – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 117m ***** A black, American college Literature professor, unexpectedly finds celebrity via an anonymous alter-ego when he writes a cliché-ridden book about ‘the black experience’ – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 2nd College professor Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison (Jeffrey Wright) is a […]

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Blank

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Post date January 8 2024
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Director – Natalie Kennedy – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 94m **** Struggling with writer’s block, a successful author checks in to an AI-controlled retreat facility only for a virus to wreak havoc on the software which runs it, turning her into a prisoner – out on UK digital download from Monday, January […]

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Rock Hudson:
All That
Heaven Allowed

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Post date October 23 2023
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All That
Heaven Allowed
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Rock on vacation in Puerto Vallarta (Photo courtesy of Lee Garlington).

Director – Stephen Kijak – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 104m ***1/2 Matinée idol Rock Hudson epitomised the Hollywood dream until he died of AIDS in 1985 – documentary portrait available on digital platforms from Monday, 23 October It was only when Rock Hudson tragically died of AIDS in 1985 that the fact […]

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My Extinction

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 28 2023
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Director – Josh Appignanesi – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 80m *** In which director Appignanesi chronicles both his unease at the climate crisis and what happens when he joins Extinction Rebellion to do something about it – world premiere on Thursday, June 29th at the Curzon Mayfair, out in UK cinemas on […]

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Air

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Post date April 4 2023
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Director – Ben Affleck – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 112m ***1/2 In 1984, a Nike executive lifts the company out of its financial rut by building a line of running shoes around an unknown basketball player named Michael Jordan – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, April 5th A curious combination of […]