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The Shrouds

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 3 2025
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Director – David Cronenberg – 2024 – Canada, France – Cert. 15 – 120m ***** An entrepreneur who has created graveyard corpse-viewing technology to cope with his late wife’s death by cancer finds his inner world disrupted when his creation is vandalised and hacked – The Shrouds is out on UK digital from Monday, August […]

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Animation Features Movies

The Most Precious
of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
des Marchandises)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 3 2025
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of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
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Director – Michel Hazanavicius – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** In Winter in a forest, a poor woodcutter’s wife rescues an abandoned baby thrown from a passing train and, despite her husband’s misgivings, raises the girl as her own – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 4th Once […]

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Art Documentary Features Live Action Movies

War Paint
Women at War

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 28 2025
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Women at War
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The Crying Game. Between a Rock and a Hard Place 2017 by Marcelle Hanselaar

Director – Margy Kinmonth – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 89m ***** A look at the output of various women artists who have documented and dissected war, and what they can tell us – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 28th Although being promoted, reasonably enough, with an image from World War […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Kurt Vonnegut:
Unstuck In Time

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 22 2022
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Unstuck In Time
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Directors – Robert B. Weide, Dan Argott – 2021 – US – Cert. 15 – 127m ***** A warm and compelling look at the life of writer Kurt Vonnegut, the influence upon him of the bombing of Dresden, and his decades-long friendship with director Weide – out in cinemas and on digital platforms from Friday, […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Kurt Vonnegut:
Unstuck In Time

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 18 2022
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Unstuck In Time
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Transformed by an atrocity Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In TimeDirected by Robert B. Weide, Dan ArgottCertificate 15Released 22 July (cinemas and digital platforms) Full review published in Reform magazine. The late Kurt Vonnegut claims that after touching a tree trunk he saw the bombing of Dresden before it actually happened, and it’s easy to believe him. […]