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Dragonkeeper
(Gardiana de Dragones)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 25 2024
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(Gardiana de Dragones)
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Director – Li Jianping, Salvador Simó – 2023 – Spain, China – Cert. PG – 98m **** Faced by powerful forces of empire and a ruthless traitor, a girl must accompany an old dragon to ensure the survival of its egg – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 27th Ancient China. As revealed in […]

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The Young Taoism Fighter
(Ying Yang Qi Bin,
阴阳奇兵)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 23 2024
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(Ying Yang Qi Bin,
阴阳奇兵)
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Director – Chen Chi-Hwa – 1986 – Taiwan – Cert. 15 – 84m ***1/2 A lazy martial arts student experimenting with magic finds himself helping a girl warrior against a sorcerer and his master – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 23rd At the Taoist martial arts training school Ying Yang Hall, two students are wont […]

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The Count of Monte Cristo
(Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
(2024)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 28 2024
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(Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
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Directors – Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 173m ***** An innocent Frenchman framed and imprisoned as a Napoleonic partisan escapes to impose justice on his false accusers – new Dumas adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 30th There have been numerous adaptions of […]

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The Reckoning

Director – Neil Marshall – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 111m *** A woman accused of witchcraft finds herself pitted in a battle of wills against her witchfinder torturer at the time of the Great Plague – on digital from Friday, April 16th and Shudder UK from Thursday, 13th May On the one […]

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