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Kim Novak’s Vertigo

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 4 2026
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Director – Alexandre O. Philippe – 2025 – UK – Cert. uncertificated – 76m ***** An essential addition to the canon of work surrounding and helping audiences to understand the power of one of the cinema’s greatest works– out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 3rd The opening black and white scene features actress Kim Novak, […]

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On Swift Horses

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 5 2025
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Director – Daniel Minahan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** A husband’s dreams are undermined in 1950s America by the separate lives and desires of his secretly racetrack-gambling wife and his reappearing, disappearing drifter-gambler brother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 5th Lee Walker (Will Poulter from Warfare, Alex […]

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Where Is Anne Frank

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Post date August 7 2022
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Director – Ari Folman – 2021 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Israel – Cert. PG – 99m ***** In Amsterdam, a year from now, her imaginary friend Kitty sets out to discover what happened to Anne Frank – out in cinemas on Friday, August 12th Amsterdam, Holland, about a year from now. Early in the […]

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Where Is Anne Frank

Hiding from deportation Where Is Anne FrankDirected by Ari FolmanCertificate PG, 99 minutesReleased 12 August Amsterdam, about a year from now. Inside the Anne Frank House, Anne’s imaginary pen-friend Kitty (voiced by Ruby Stokes) materialises out of the ink from the pages of Anne’s diary. The perplexed Kitty wants to know what happened to Anne, […]

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Director – Romola Garai – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 99m ***** A border checkpoint soldier moves into a suburban, London house with a dark secret in the attic – out on VoD on Monday, February 28th Somewhere in Russia or Eastern Europe – it’s not clear exactly where – a soldier (Alec […]