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That Burning House
(Shi Le Yuan,
火宅之犬)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 4 2025
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(Shi Le Yuan,
火宅之犬)
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Director – Tsai Yin-chuan – 2025 – Taiwan – 133m ****1/2 Teachers in a juvenile care home attempt to break the cycle of violence among their charges – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival This is one of those films that takes place in several different times in the characters lives, including […]

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The Weak and the Wicked

Director – J. Lee Thompson – 1954 – UK – Cert. 12 – 88m ***1/2 A woman spends 12 months in prison after being convicted of fraud – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and Digital in August, 2024 Jean (Glynis Johns) is marched from her cell and up […]

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Love Hotel
(Rabu Hoteru,
ラブホテル)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 20 2024
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(Rabu Hoteru,
ラブホテル)
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Director – Shinji Somai – 1985 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 88m ***1/2 After violently taking out the stress of yakuza business debts on a call-girl, a man finds her two years later and attempts to rekindle a relationship – roman porno is out on UK Blu-ray on, Monday, July 22nd NSFW. Tokyo. Muraki […]

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Lessons of Tolerance
(Uroky Tolerantnosti)

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Post date November 10 2023
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(Uroky Tolerantnosti)
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Director – Arkadii Nepytaliuk – 2023 – Ukraine – Cert. none – 95m ***** To help pay off her family’s debt with the accompanying grant, an exasperated teacher enlists her sceptical family in a state LGBT+ awareness training course – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition in the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival NSFW. […]

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Flag Day

Director – Sean Penn – 2021 – US – Cert. 15 – 109m **** A woman struggles to come to terms with her father who is a criminal and a pathological liar – out in cinemas on Friday, January 28th This at once follows a linear narrative trajectory and doesn’t. On the one level, Jennifer […]