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A Pale View of Hills
(Toi Yamanamino Hikari,
遠い山なみの光)

Director – Kei Ishikawa – 2025 – UK, Japan, Poland – Cert. 12a – 123m From the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro ***1/2 An aspiring journalist in 1982 England delves into her mother’s past life in 1952 Nagasaki and unearths dark family secrets – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th As will be seen from the above logline description, this essentially […]

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H is for Hawk

Director – Philippa Lowthorpe – 2025 – US, UK – Cert.12a – 115m ***** An academic grieving her recently deceased photojournalist father buys and trains a goshawk then turns in on herself – adaptation of bestselling memoir is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd Helen (Claire Foy) phones her dad to tell him she’s […]

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The Substance

Director – Coralie Fargeat – 2024 – US – Cert. 18 – 140m ****1/2 An aging movie star takes a wonder treatment which splits her into her current self and a much younger version – in cinemas in the UK on Friday, September 20th. Hollywood star Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) hosts a network TV keep […]