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Eagles of the Republic
(نسور الجمهورية)

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Post date May 21 2026
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(نسور الجمهورية)
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Director – Tarik Saleh – 2025 – Sweden, France, Denmark, Finland – Cert. 15 – 129m **** A top Egyptian movie star finds himself working on a big budget, high concept, state-sponsored propaganda movie – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, May 22nd The opening three scenes… The credits run over a montage of Egyptian […]

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Rose of Nevada

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Post date April 2 2026
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Director – Mark Jenkin – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 114m ****1/2 A fisherman joins the crew of a mysteriously reappeared fishing vessel and finds himself inexplicably trapped 30 years in the past when it originally disappeared – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 24th 30 years ago, the Rose of Nevada, a […]

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Weapons

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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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Picnic at Hanging Rock
(Director’s Cut,
4K Restoration)

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Post date February 14 2025
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(Director’s Cut,
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Director – Peter Weir – 1975 – Australia – Cert. 12a – 107m ***** A group of teenage schoolgirls supervised by two teachers go on a picnic beside an isolated volcanic outcrop: three of them never return – Valentine’s Day previews on Friday & Saturday, February 14th & 15th, then is out in UK cinemas […]

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Streets of Glória
(Ruas da Glória)

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Post date November 17 2024
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(Ruas da Glória)
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Director – Felipe Sholl – 2024 – Brazil – 103m **** A man mourning his late grandmother but estranged from the rest of his family embarks on a gay relationship with an escort – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Gabriel (Caio Macedo) arrives in Rio de […]

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A Greyhound
of a Girl

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Post date June 28 2024
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of a Girl
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Director – Enzo d’Alò – 2023 – Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, UK, Latvia, Estonia, Germany – Cert. U – 88m ****1/2 A young, cookery-obsessed girl with a fear of dogs must come to terms with the fact that her beloved granny is dying – animated feature is out on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Monday, August 26th […]

Tags 2D animation, a dog and a well, ambulance, Amelie Metacalf, animation, Ballymaloe Cooking School, bananas, bereavement, bestie, Brendan Gleeson, car, car accident, CG, CG animation, Charlene McKenna, childhood, childhood experience, coastal road, cookery, coughing, country road, dappled light, death, dent the car, disappear, doctor, dogs, dream sequences, driving, Estonia, family car, fever, Germany, ghost, grandmothers and granddaughters, granny, great-grandmother, hand-animated, hedgehog, hospital, imaginary friend, interview panel, Ireland, Italy, keep in for observation, Latvia, learn the craft, life and death, Luxembourg, Marco Zanoni, Mia O’Connor, minor road, mothers and daughters, parents and children, Paul Tylak, Peter de Sève, Peter Orlandi, psychiatrist, put the hours, reappear, Regina Pessoa, Roddy Doyle, Rosaleen Linehan, self-starter, Sharon Horgan, subconscious, swerves, tantrum, tatty tart, tests, the ‘flu, UK, walk, well, woods

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Sky Peals

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Post date August 8 2024
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Director – Moin Hussain – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 91m **** When his estranged father dies after leaving him an answering machine message, a motorway service station employee starts to question the identity of his father and, by extension, of himself – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 9th Adam (Faraz […]

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Animation Features Movies

The Boy And The Heron
(Kimitachi Wa
Do Ikiru Ka,
君たちはど
う生きるか,
lit.
How Do You Live?)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 24 2023
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(Kimitachi Wa
Do Ikiru Ka,
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う生きるか,
lit.
How Do You Live?)
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Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** During WorldWar Two, a boy bereaved of his mother moves to the countryside with his businessman father where a heron lures him into another dimension to rescue his vanished stepmother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 26th Directors, eh? […]

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