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Hamnet

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 5 2026
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Director – Chloé Zhao – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 12a – 125m ***** An imagining of the story of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet, whose name gave rise to the play Hamlet – Maggie O’Farrell’s adaptation of her own novel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 9th According to the opening title card, […]

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Letter to a Pig

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 27 2024
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Director – Tal Kantor – 2022 – France, Israel – 17m ***** Under the watchful eye of an authoritarian teacher, as a class of bored teenagers listens to a visiting Holocaust survivor recount his experiences, one of their number daydreams about the pig with which the survivor shared a barn – nominated for Best Animated […]

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There’s Something
in the Barn

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 30 2023
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Director – Magnus Martens – 2023 – Norway – Cert. 15 – 100m * An American family immigrates to Norway where a relative has died and left them a farmhouse with a barn… and there’s something in the barn – badly misjudged horror comedy is out in UK cinemas and on digital download from Friday, […]

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And Then Come
the Nightjars

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 30 2023
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the Nightjars
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Director – Paul Robinson – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 81m ***1/2 The deep friendship of a Devon farmer and a local vet is tested by the UK government’s culling of herds in the 2001 Foot And Mouth outbreak – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 1st Michael (David Fielder) is a […]

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Women Talking

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 10 2023
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Director – Sarah Polley – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 104m ***** Should we stay or should we go? Following an incident of mass sexual abuse in an isolated religious community, its women debate the question, stay and fight – or leave? – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 10th Here’s a […]

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Witness

UK PAL laserdisc review. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Distributor Pioneer LDCE £19.99 BBFC Certificate 15 Director Peter Weir (1985) Starring Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Lukas Haas, Danny Glover Running Time 108 min Dolby Surround Widescreen: 1.85:1 Chaptered? Yes CLV 2 Sides First American movie by Australian director Weir was also Ford’s first attempt […]

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