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Past Lives

Director – Celine Song – 2023 – US, South Korea – Cert. 12a – 105m ***** After emigrating with her family from South Korea to North America, a Korean-American is sought out in New York by her now-adult childhood sweetheart from back in Korea – streaming exclusively on StudioCanal Presents Have you heard the one […]

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Novocaine
(2025)

Directors – Dan Berk, Robert Olsen – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** An assistant bank manager who is medically unable to feel pain pursues the bank robbers who have kidnapped his brand new and first ever girlfriend – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 28th (There have been several other […]

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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 […]

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House of Hummingbird
(Beol-Sae,
벌새)

Director – Kim Bora – 2018 – South Korea – 138m ***1/2 A teenage girl in Seoul, Korea, 1994, comes to terms with life on a number of levels – personal, family, social, political – plays in Korean Film Nights (KFN) Summer Nights at the Korean Cultural Centre (KCCUK) on Saturday, June 11th Seoul, South Korea, […]

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Ava

Director – Sadaf Foroughi – 2017 – Iran – 102m ** 1/2 Available on VoD from Friday, August 21st Ava (Mahour Jabbari) is a schoolgirl studying music – against the wishes of her parents, particularly her straight-laced and conservative mother Bahar (Bahar Noohian) who thinks music isn’t a real job and her daughter should consider […]