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Primavera
(Primavera)

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Post date April 22 2026
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Director – Damiano Michieletto – 2025 – Italy, France – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** A young Venetian orphan comes into her own learning to play the violin under her orphanage’s new Master of Music, Antonio Vivaldi – period drama is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 24th A group of girls, all […]

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Orwell: 2+2=5

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Post date March 27 2026
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Director – Raoul Peck – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 119m ****1/2 A primer on the life and work of George Orwell, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four, and its relevance to today’s post-truth world – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th This belongs to the school of documentary which creates a film out of assembling fragments […]

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Can I Get a Witness

Director – Ann Marie Fleming – 2024 – Canada – Cert. 12a – 100m The subject matter ***** The film itself * Can I fast-forward through the boring bits? Dystopian SF outing with good intentions may be the least watchable film of the year – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 19th Here’s a movie about one […]

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Riefenstahl

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Post date May 9 2025
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Director – Andres Veiel – 2024 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** An unsettling, deep dive into the indisputable artistic talent, evasive personality and self-reconstructed memory of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl through her personal archive of some 700 boxes – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Sepia / yellow images. A […]

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Riefenstahl

Directed by Andres VeielCertificate 15115 minutesReleased 9 May There is something deeply depressing about the fact that one of the most talented female film directors who ever lived is also without a doubt also one of the most troubling. Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) is best known today for the documentaries Triumph of the Will (1935) and […]

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Transformers One

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Post date October 11 2024
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Director – Josh Cooley – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 104m *** The origin story of the hero and villain of the Transformers in a long-distant past on their home planet – animated prequel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 11th In a city deep in the bowels of his planet, […]

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Catching Fire:
The Story of
Anita Pallenberg

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Post date May 17 2024
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Directors – Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 113m ***1/2 The chaotic life of the archetypal rock chick, told through her own words and those of her children – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 17th After her death in 2017, Anita Pallenberg’s two surviving children Marlon and […]

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Moonage Daydream

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Post date September 15 2022
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Director – Brett Morgen – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 135m ***** David Bowie explored through his own words, accompanied by images of his life and art, many of his songs and extracts from numerous live performances – out in IMAX in the UK on Friday, September 16th and wide in cinemas on […]

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The Princess

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Post date June 30 2022
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Director – Ed Perkins – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 109m ** The story of Princess Diana told entirely through archive footage – out in cinemas on Thursday, June 30th The strange thing about watching this documentary about the fairytale turned tragedy of Princess Diana, if you’re old enough to remember it unfolding […]