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Lollipop

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 12 2025
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Director – Daisy-May Hudson – 2024 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** After four months in prison, a young woman must deal with the UK’s social services to regain custody of her kids – on BBC iPlayer from Friday, January 16th East Londoner Molly (Posy Sterling) leaves prison following a four-month sentence to […]

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The Shrouds

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 3 2025
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Director – David Cronenberg – 2024 – Canada, France – Cert. 15 – 120m ***** An entrepreneur who has created graveyard corpse-viewing technology to cope with his late wife’s death by cancer finds his inner world disrupted when his creation is vandalised and hacked – The Shrouds is out on UK digital from Monday, August […]

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Tornado

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Post date June 12 2025
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Director – John Maclean – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 91m ***** A bereaved Japanese in Britain in 1790 must prove herself as a samurai to survive – unique coming of age historical drama is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 13th A 16-year-old Japanese girl (Koki) flees over the moors, through […]

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The Old Man
and the Land

Director – Nicholas Parish – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** As he works on the land, an aging farmer hears his two adult children argue about the future of the family farm – plays UK cinemas from Friday, September 20th 2024, with previews from Monday, September 16th following its premiere in […]

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Dead Calm

Director – Phillip Noyce – 1989 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** A bereaved couple taking time off on their yacht answer a distress call from another boat and become embroiled in a game of cat and mouse – out in UK cinemas 1989 Royal Australian Naval Officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) arrives […]