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Cloud
(Kuraudo,
クラウド)

Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2024 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 124m ***** The art of the deal. The past of an internet goods reseller driven by making money who has made enemies among his one-off suppliers and customers comes back to bite him – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 25th Ryosuke […]

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Afternoon Clouds

Director – Payal Kapadia – 2017 – India – 13m ***** An old woman, her home and her cat interact in the former’s coastal flat – Kapadia’s first short evidences a sensibility which will inform her debut feature All We Imagine as Light – on the UK Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) of All We Imagine […]

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Longlegs

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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The Cow
Who Sang
A Song
Into The Future
(La Vaca
Que Cantó
Una Canción
Hacia El Futuro)

Director – Francisca Alegria – 2022 – Chile, France, US, Germany – Cert. 15 – 98m ***1/2 A dead woman emerges resurrected from a polluted river to reconnect with her husband, children and grandchildren – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 24th The banks of a river cutting through a forest, strewn with dead […]

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Detention
(Fanxiao,
返校)

Director – John Hsu – 2019 – Taiwan – 12A – 103m **** Two Taiwanese students find themselves trapped in their school overnight under that country’s White Terror regime in 1962 – on Shudder (US, Canada) from Monday, February 21st This is a real oddity: an adaptation of a video game set in a specific […]