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Power Ballad

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 29 2026
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Director – John Carney – 2025 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 98m ***** A rock musician reduced to playing weddings but happy with his lot meets a former boy band star who steals one of his songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 29th High heeled feet head for the dance floor. “Cel – […]

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Kokuho
(Kokuho,
国宝,
lit. National Treasure)

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Post date May 8 2026
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(Kokuho,
国宝,
lit. National Treasure)
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Director – Lee Sang-il – 2025 – Japan – Cert. – 175m ***** The son of a murdered yakuza is taken under the wing of a respected kabuki actor, who trains him alongside his own son – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th In kabuki theatre, an onnagata is a man who performs […]

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Billie Eilish
Hit Me
Hard and Soft
The Tour
Live in 3D

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 8 2026
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Hit Me
Hard and Soft
The Tour
Live in 3D
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Billie Eilish in Paramount Pictures Presents A Lightstorm Earth Production / The Darkroom / Interscope Films Production of “BILLIE EILISH HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D)”

Directors – James Cameron, Billie Eilish – 2026 – US, UK – Cert. 12a – 114m ***** One night of the singer’s latest world tour is captured up close and personal using specially developed, 3D camera technology – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th Disclaimer. Yes, I listen to a great deal of music. No, I […]

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Meet the Feebles

Director – Peter Jackson – 1989 – New Zealand – Cert. 18 – 97m ** Offbeat special effects puppet movie proves a let-down despite inventive filmmaking – review originally published in What’s On in London, March 1992. Walrus producer Bletch (voice: Peter Vere Jones) wants to take his crummy stage show Meet the Feebles onto […]

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Big Banana Feet

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 10 2024
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Director – Murray Grigor – 1976 – UK – Cert. 12 – 77m ****1/2 The camera follows comedian Billy Connolly to Dublin and Belfast for the final dates of his 1975 tour – 2K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 10th, and on BFI Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) and digital from Monday, […]

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Bolan’s Shoes

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Post date September 15 2023
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Director – Ian Puleston-Davies – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m **** Two traumatised siblings reconnect as adults years after a childhood coach crash coming back from a Liverpudlian orphanage trip to a T.Rex gig in the 1970s – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 15th *** SPOILER ALERT *** Picture black. […]

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Asteroid City

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Post date June 22 2023
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Director – Wes Anderson – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 104m *** A stage play frames a tale of various characters in a 1950s US desert town, built on the site of an asteroid impact, which becomes the centre of a cover-up after an alien appears – out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]

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See How They Run

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Post date September 9 2022
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Director – Tom George – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 98m ** A barely competent Inspector and a trainee WPC investigate a backstage murder at The Mousetrap in 1950s London’s theatreland – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 9th London West End, 1953. Following his involvement in a fight at a party […]