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The Road to Patagonia

Director – Matty Hannon – 2022 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 90m **** A keen surfer and former ecology student from Australia sets out on a motorbike journey from Alaska down the West coast of the Americas to Patagonia – out on digital on Monday, July 28th The family of Australian moving picture diarist […]

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The Road to Patagonia

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Post date June 23 2025
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Directed by Matty HannonCertificate 1590 minutesReleased 27 June In his mid-20s, former ecology student and keen surfer Matty Hannon returns to Melbourne, Australia. For five years, from age 21 to 26, he has lived alongside one of Indonesia’s Sumatran Island tribes, a utopia where people live in harmony with nature, assigning spirit gods to rivers […]

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Next Sohee
(Da-eum So-hee,
다음 소희)

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Post date June 14 2024
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(Da-eum So-hee,
다음 소희)
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Director – July Jung – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 134m ***** A schoolgirl on an internship is appallingly exploited by her employers, and a police detective is called in to investigate – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Here’s a film which presents a real problem for reviewers. Something […]

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Disconnect Me

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Post date April 1 2024
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Director – Alex Lykos – 2023 – Australia – Cert. 12 – 87m ***1/2 A man attempts to live for 30 days without the use of his smartphone, tablet or computer – out on digital from Monday, April 1st This documentary opens with an advisory to keep your phone handy during the screening, as you […]

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Nomadland

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Post date May 17 2021
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Director – Chloé Zhao – 2020 – US – Cert. 12a – 107m ****1/2 A poor widow drives around the US in her van picking up casual work where she can get it, meeting and making friends with other vandwellers – on VoD, in cinemas from Monday, May 17th There’s a restlessness about Nomadland. In […]

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One Night
(Hitoyo,
ひとよ)

Director – Kazuya Shiraishi – 2019 – Japan – Cert. N/C 15+ – 123m ****1/2 A woman murders her violent husband after years of his beating up the kids, goes to prison then returns 15 years later to find the siblings in turmoil – played online in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2021 in […]