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The Stranger
(L’Étranger)
(2025)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 10 2026
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(L’Étranger)
(2025)
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Director – François Ozon – 2025 – France – Cert. 15 – 120m ***** A Frenchman living in French Algiers with an attitude of detachment is arrested following a violent incident with an Arab – adaptation of Albert Camus’ existentialist novella is in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 10th Albert Camus’ 1942 novella is a character study of […]

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The Piano Teacher
(La Pianiste)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 6 2025
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(La Pianiste)
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Director – Michael Haneke – 2001 – Austria, France – Cert. 18 – 131m ***** A masochistic piano teacher with an abusive mother embarks on an affair with a young male student – the opening film of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, in UK cinemas from Friday, June 6th and on BFI Player from Thursday, […]

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Weapons

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 8 2025
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Director – Zach Cregger – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 128m **** One night, all but one of the children in one class in the town school disappear into the dark, leaving the townsfolk baffled as to what happened to them… – Fortean-sounding mystery is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 8th […]

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Joker
Folie à Deux

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Post date October 3 2024
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Folie à Deux
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Director – Todd Phillips – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 138m ****1/2 Get Happy… Get Ready for the Judgement Day! Prison movie, courtroom drama, musical… the new Joker movie is something of a wild card – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 4th The big surprise about this sequel to Joker (Todd […]

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No Trees in the Street

Director – J. Lee Thompson – 1959 – UK – Cert. 12 – 96m **** An essentially honest young woman living in her parents’ East End slum fails to stop her impetuous younger brother from becoming involved in the criminal underworld – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and […]

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The Big Snit

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Post date May 19 2020
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Director – Richard Condie – 1985 – Canada – 10 mins ***** Both sweet and funny. The first five minutes look like exactly where we are now under the COVID-19 lockdown. It’s basically the story of an old married couple who not only love each other dearly but also get on one another’s nerves. He […]

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