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Undertone

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Post date April 10 2026
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Director – Ian Tuason – 2025 – Canada – Cert. 15 – 94m ** The co-host of a paranormal podcast is disturbed by ten mysterious sound files even as her elderly mother is nearing death in her bedroom upstairs – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 10th A two person paranormal podcast comprises Evy […]

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The Last Blossom
(Housenka,
ホウセンカ)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 26 2026
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(Housenka,
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Director – Baku Kinoshita – 2025 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** A man lives with his wife and child… only they are not really his wife and child – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th Here’s a movie that breaks all the moulds. I could (and will) tell you several things […]

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The Life of Chuck

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 18 2025
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Director – Mike Flanagan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** From the End of the World to the life and essence of what defines one man – remarkable Stephen King adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, August 20th This is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella, originally one […]

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The Conversation

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 14 2024
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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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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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Agent
of Happiness

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 12 2024
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Directors – Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó – 2023 – Bhutan, Hungary – 94m **** A civil servant travels around Bhutan assessing individual people’s happiness even as his personal life begs the questions whether he, himself, is truly happy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th Judging by the opening montage of cloudy and […]

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Eternal You

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 28 2024
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Directors – Hans Block, Moritz Reisewieke – 2024 – US – Cert. – 87m ***** People deal with bereavement with the help of interactive versions of their deceased, loved ones recreated by AI – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 28th In a rare visual shot in this mostly verbally based documentary, an aerial […]

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Driving Mum
(Á Ferð Með Mömmu)

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Post date March 2 2024
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(Á Ferð Með Mömmu)
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Director – Hilda Oddsson – 2023 – Iceland, Estonia – Cert. 12a – 112m ****1/2 After his mum dies, a man must honour her last wish by driving her to her final resting place… On the way, she talks to him… – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 1st The 1980s. Jón (Þröstur Leó […]

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Medusa
(Medusa)

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Post date July 12 2023
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(Medusa)
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Director – Anita Rocha de Silveira – 2021 – Brazil – Cert. 15 – 127m *** Pro-purity, fundamentalist, Christian church girl band singer indoors by day; slut-shaming, Evangelical, vigilante group member outdoors by night… a woman is haunted by a facially disfigured figure from the past – out in UK cinemas also available on PVOD […]

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The Worst Person
In The World
(Verdens Verste
Menneske)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 25 2022
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In The World
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Director – Joachim Trier – 2021 – Norway – Cert. 15 – 128m ***** A young woman learns about both herself and life through two personal relationships – twice Oscar-nominated film is on MUBI from Friday, May 13th Trying to reinvent herself, Julie (Renate Reinsve) spends her student days moving from medicine into psychology (believing […]

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