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Eagles of the Republic
(نسور الجمهورية)

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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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I’ve Seen All I Need To See

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Post date May 1 2026
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Director – Zeshaan Younus – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 84m * A woman mourns her sister, dead in circumstances which remain far from clear – impenetrable drama is out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 1st NSFW Parker (Renee Gagner from Gazer, Ryan J. Sloan, 2024) sits on a chair and delivers a monologue. […]

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Break Up The Chain
(Soesaseul-euld
Kkeunh-eola,
쇠사슬을 끊어라)

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Post date November 7 2025
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(Soesaseul-euld
Kkeunh-eola,
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Director – Lee Man Hee – 1971 – South Korea – Cert. tbc – 98m ***1/2 Three Koreans each with dubious motiveshunt for a small statue of Buddha containing the names of anti-Japanese resistance fighters – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2025 which runs in cinemas from Wednesday, November 5th to Tuesday, November 18th Much like the statue containing the microfilm […]

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The Regulars

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Post date August 22 2025
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Director – Fil Freitas – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12 tbc – 105m ***1/2 A single day shift in the working life of the staff at London’s legendary Prince Charles Cinema – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 22nd 2019, that halcyon time before the global pandemic. Independent repertory cinemas struggle on, their […]

Tags 2019, bar, barman, Ben Rolph, boss, Bronte Appleby, cinema, cinema hospitality, co-workers, comic timing, corridor, counter, customers, day in the working life, day shift, deadpan humour, directorial debut, drunken fracas, dumped oven, Dusty Keeney, environment, executive director, Fil Freitas, first day on the job, front door, front of house, frustrated creativity, gormless charm, hospitality, incendiary, independent cinema, indoor, Kevin Johnson, kill your babies, late book, late for work, Lauren Shotton, lavatory cubicles, Lisa Marie Flowers, London, low paid, non-actor, office, PCC, Prince Charles Cinema, projectionist, repertory cinema, Ricardo Freitas, Robert Smith, screen and lavatory, Sergio Barba, sing-a-long screening, staff, The Regulars, UK, worker, working life, worldly-wise

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Weapons

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Post date August 8 2025
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Director – Zach Cregger – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 128m **** One night, all but one of the children in one class in the town school disappear into the dark, leaving the townsfolk baffled as to what happened to them… – Fortean-sounding mystery is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 8th […]

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Jurassic World Rebirth

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Post date July 1 2025
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Director – Gareth Edwards – 2025 – US – Cert. – 134m *** A group of mercenary hunters and a traumatised family find themselves on an equatorial island populated by mutant dinosaurs – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, July 2nd The difficult seventh movie, made on a shorter production schedule than its predecessors – […]

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Novocaine
(2025)

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Post date March 27 2025
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(2025)
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Directors – Dan Berk, Robert Olsen – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** An assistant bank manager who is medically unable to feel pain pursues the bank robbers who have kidnapped his brand new and first ever girlfriend – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 28th (There have been several other […]

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Aimless Bullet
(Obaltan,
오발탄)

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Post date October 20 2024
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(Obaltan,
오발탄)
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Director – Yu Hyun-mok – 1961 – South Korea – 110m **** Former soldiers and others struggle with the effects of post-war economic depression in the newly constituted South Korea – plays in Echoes In Time | Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema which runs from Monday, October 28th until the end […]

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Noah’s Ark
(Arca de Noé)

Directors – Alois di Leo, Sergio Machado – 2024 – Brazil, India – Cert. U – 96m ** Two musical performing mice attempt to board Noah’s Ark, where a despotic lion and his thuggish entourage attempt to lord it over the other animals in a singing contest –animated feature is out in UK cinemas on […]

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New Life

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Post date June 17 2024
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Director – John Rosman – 2023 – US – 85m ***1/2 Neither the widow nor the assassin pursuing her towards the Canadian border are quite what they seem – genre-bending thriller is out on digital in the UK The sound of a distressed woman. Now we see her (Hayley Erin) – her head is bleeding […]

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