Directors – Lin Yongchang, Qu Caijia – 2025 – China – Cert. PG – 107m ** Park Ranger Vick unwittingly releases pink spores into the atmosphere, reducing the earth to a toxic wasteland, then he and the bears time travel forward 100 years to sort it out– in a dubbed format for family audiences – […]
Directors – Lin Yongchang, Shao Heqi – 2023 – China – Cert. PG – 99m ****1/2 Abandoned by their mother as children, bear siblings Bramble and Briar uncover a conspiracy involving roboticists and robots – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in cinemas on Friday, May 26th following its premiere at the […]
Director – Jafar Panahi – 2022 – Iran – Cert. 12a – 106m ***** An Iranian film director banned from leaving his country rents a house close to the border with Turkey, in which country he is remotely directing a film – available on the following rental streaming services from Monday, March 27th: Amazon Prime, […]
A repressive Islamist regime No BearsDirected by Jafar PanahiCertificate 12a, 106 minutesReleased 11 November The Iranian director Jafar Panahi (whose son Panar made the excellent road movie Hit the Road) has been in trouble with the country’s repressive Islamist regime for some time and earlier this year was given six years in prison. The campaign […]