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Ada
My Mother the Architect

Director – Yael Melamede – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 81m ***1/2 A portrait by her New York-based daughter of top Israeli architect Ada Karmi Melamede – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 1st This opens with the filmmaker daughter asking her architect mother if she wants to speak English or Hebrew. The mother […]

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Art Exhibitions Music

Miseris Succurrere Disco
(I Learn to Help
Those in Need)

Curators – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 2026 – UK **** A chapel interior is repurposed as a reflection on how personal tragedy can awaken empathy, mercy and collective care – exhibition / installation at Fitzrovia Chapel from Friday, March 6th to Wednesday, March 25th It’s a strange phenomenon when you attend an exhibition / installation and the unfamiliar venue […]

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The Conversation

R.I.P. Gene Hackman (1930-2025) Director – Francis Ford Coppola – 1974 – US – Cert. 12a – 113m ***** A surveillance expert records a conversation between two people, then worries about turning the recording over to his corporate client as contracted – 50th anniversary 4K Restoration is out on UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on Monday, […]

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Pharaoh
(Faraon)

Director – Jerzy Kawalerowicz – 1966 – Poland – Cert. 12 – 152m ***** The reformist zeal of a youthful heir to the Ancient Egyptian throne confronts the immovable conservative tradition of the priesthood of the god Osiris – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 16th There is nothing else in cinema quite like Pharaoh. That […]

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Perfect Sense

Director – David Mackenzie – 2011 – UK – Cert. 15 – 92m ***** Love story set in a pandemic captures something of the emotions felt during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, when this review was written (one of the first to appear on this then fledgeling site) – streaming on the Arrow Channel from Friday, […]

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Animation Features Movies

Over The Moon

Directors – Glen Keane, John Kahrs – 2020 – US, China – Cert. U – 95m ***** A girl bereaved of her mother builds a rocket to the moon to prove the goddess Chang’e is real and convince her father not to re-marry – animated feature in cinemas from Friday, October 16th and on Netflix […]