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Hani
(Hani)

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Post date November 23 2024
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Director – Hou Dasheng – 2024 – Canada – 73m * In a remote, Southern Chinese mountain village, a 14-year-old needs the money for the dowry to buy his 12-year-old sweetheart as a wife – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Credited on the Festival’s website as […]

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Only the River Flows
(He Bian de Cuo Wu,
河边的错误,
lit. Mistake (or Mistakes)
By the River)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 14 2024
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Director – Wei Shujun – 2023 – China – Cert. 15 – 101m ** A cop must solve a complex murder mystery his chief believes to be an open and shut case – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 16th A small boy with a toy gun plays cops and robbers in a deserted […]

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SCALA!!!
Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits

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Post date January 2 2024
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Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits
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Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m ***** From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th Whatever the strengths of this […]

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Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles
(UK: Teenage Mutant
Hero Turtles)

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Post date July 30 2023
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Ninja Turtles
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Hero Turtles)

Director – Steve Barron – 1990 – US, UK – Cert. PG – 91m 38s (cut) – 93m 25s (cuts waived for 2003 reclassification) BBFC info here ** 1/2 What can you say about four turtles who accidentally wandered into radioactive material, which caused them to grow unnaturally large and speak strange words? Like “pizza!” […]

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Eric Ravilious:
Drawn To War

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Post date June 26 2022
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Drawn To War
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Director – Margy Kinmonth – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 87m ***1/2 The career of the British watercolour artist tragically killed while serving as an official war artist in World War Two – now available to watch online following UK cinema release on Friday, July 1st 2022 The first official war artist to […]

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Director – Prano Bailey-Bond – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 84m **** In the 1980s so-called ‘video nasties’ era, a BBFC examiner increasingly confuses horror films with reality – on MUBI from Sunday, October 31st A peculiarly British film in that it pertains to the way so-called ‘video nasties’ were dealt with by […]