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Eagles of the Republic
(نسور الجمهورية)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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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Features Live Action Movies Music

The History of Sound

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 23 2026
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Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 128m **** A Kentucky man falls for a music professor in Boston and accompanies him on a field trip recording folk songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd In 1917, having grown up on a farmstead in rural Kentucky and […]

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Animation Features Movies

The Glassworker
(Sheesha Gar,
شیشہ گ)

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Post date June 25 2024
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(Sheesha Gar,
شیشہ گ)
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Director – Usman Riaz – 2024 – Pakistan, Spain – Cert. 12a – 98m ***** The son of a pacifist glassblower learning his father’s trade falls for the violin-playing daughter of an army colonel in wartime – complex, anti-war drama from the 2024 Annecy International Animation Festival in the Contrechamps section, released in Pakistan on […]

Tags 2D animation, air raids, aircraft, amphibious, animation, anime, Annecy, Annecy 2024, anti-war, army, artist, bully, classmate, coastal tow, coffins, Colonel, components, composition, conscription, copola, craftsman fathers and sons, cross-country, deal, design, disputed territory, drama, exhibition, experiment, fathers and daughters, firebombing, forbid, friendship, front line, glass, glassblower, glassware, Hayao Miyazaki, home-schooling, invitation, Isao Takahata, Japan, learning a trade, letter, looking up at the sky, Mamoru Hosoda, manufacturing, materials, military wife, mothers and daughters, nationalism, negotiation, pacifism, pacifist, Pakistan, romance. called up, Satoshi Kon, school, sciences, shop, signing up, Spain, specialism, Studio Ghibli, supplies, techniques, top secret, tutored, Usman Riaz, violin, war, war contract, war effort, wartime, weapons of war, workshop. Furnace. Talent

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

2000 Meters to Andriivka

Director – Mstyslav Chernov – 2025 – Ukraine – Cert. 15 – 107m **** A small Ukrainian Army unit advances through a narrow strip of war-scarred forest to recapture a village from the occupying Russians – documentary from the makers of 20 Days in Mariupol is out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, August […]

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Escape
(Talju,
탈주)

Director – Lee Jong-Pil – 2024 – South Korea – LEAFF Cert. 18 – 94m ***** An army sergeant is caught attempting to escape from North to South Korea, but then a second chance presents itself – played as the Opening Gala at the 2024 London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) which runs from Wednesday, […]

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Pharaoh
(Faraon)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 15 2024
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(Faraon)
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Director – Jerzy Kawalerowicz – 1966 – Poland – Cert. 12 – 152m ***** The reformist zeal of a youthful heir to the Ancient Egyptian throne confronts the immovable conservative tradition of the priesthood of the god Osiris – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 16th There is nothing else in cinema quite like Pharaoh. That […]

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Crazy Thunder Road
(Kuruizaki
Sanda Rodo,
狂い咲きサンダーロード)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 10 2022
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(Kuruizaki
Sanda Rodo,
狂い咲きサンダーロード)
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Director – Sogo Ishii – 1980 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 97m ***** Following on from Arrow’s superb BD of Sogo Ishii’s Burst City (1982) comes Third Window’s equally impressive BD release of its predecessor in the Ishii canon Crazy Thunder Road (1980) – on Blu-ray from Monday, February 21st 2022 and, as of […]

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Documentary Features Live Action Movies

20 Days
In Mariupol
(20 днів
Y Маріуполі)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 2 2023
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In Mariupol
(20 днів
Y Маріуполі)
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Director – Mstyslav Chernov – 2023 – Ukraine – Cert. 18 – 94m ***** A Ukranian-born, Associated Press video journalist and his stills photographer go to Mariupol where they report on Russia’s assault and invasion of that city – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 6th There are some films that are incredibly tough […]

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Cross of Iron

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Post date August 18 2023
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Director – Sam Peckinpah – 1977 – UK, Germany – Cert. 15 – 132m Movie ***1/24K Blu-ray ***** A German corporal on the WW2 Russian front takes exception to an aristocratic officer’s attempts to take credit (and a medal) for a dead officer’s bravery – out in a 4K restoration on UHD Steelbook, Blu-ray & […]

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The Queen Of Spades

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 23 2022
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Director – Thorold Dickinson – 1949 – UK – Cert. PG – 95m ****1/2 A Russian army officer seeks the occult secret of playing cards that will earn him a vast fortune, but has not bargained for the dark, supernatural forces involved – 4K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 23rd and […]