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Babe

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Post date April 11 2025
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Director – Chris Noonan – 1995 – Australia – Cert. PG (2025), U (1995) – 92m The story of a sheep that thinks it’s a dog – back in cinemas 30 years later on Friday, April 11th 2025, with a higher BBFC classification rating. The below is my review from What’s On in London in […]

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Starve Acre

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 4 2024
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Director – Daniel Kokotajlo – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 98m *** As a couple become mired in grief following the death of their son, their behaviour turns increasingly obsessive, erratic and violent – terrifying and unsettling folk horror is out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 6th and on Blu-ray, DVD and […]

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Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles II
The Secret
Of The Ooze

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 30 2023
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Ninja Turtles II
The Secret
Of The Ooze

Director – Michael Pressman – 1991 – US – Cert. PG – 88m *** With the criminal youth cult The Foot in disarray, its leader The Shredder (Francois Chau) emerges from a pile of garbage in a rubbish dump to lead the organisation’s remnant against their hated enemies, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Elsewhere in […]

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Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles
(UK: Teenage Mutant
Hero Turtles)

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Post date July 30 2023
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Ninja Turtles
(UK: Teenage Mutant
Hero Turtles)

Director – Steve Barron – 1990 – US, UK – Cert. PG – 91m 38s (cut) – 93m 25s (cuts waived for 2003 reclassification) BBFC info here ** 1/2 What can you say about four turtles who accidentally wandered into radioactive material, which caused them to grow unnaturally large and speak strange words? Like “pizza!” […]

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Naked Lunch

Director – David Cronenberg – 1991 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 115m ***** UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally published in London Calling Internet. See also my reviews in Film And Video – The Magazine and What’s On In London. Distributor Pioneer LDCE Cat No: PFLEB 30781 £9.99 BBFC Certificate 18 Running Time 85 min […]

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Naked Lunch

Director – David Cronenberg – 1991 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 115m ***** Originally published in What’s On In London. See also my reviews in Film And Video – The Magazine and London Calling Internet. INSECT POLITICS Watching David Cronenberg’s film of William Burroughs’ novel The Naked Lunch, it becomes clear that the two […]

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Naked Lunch

Director – David Cronenberg – 1991 – Canada – Cert. 18 – 115m ***** Originally published in Film And Video – The Magazine. See also my reviews in What’s On In London and London Calling Internet. PLOT New York, 1953. Bug exterminator Bill Lee (Peter Weller) runs out of roach powder whilst treating an infested […]