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Oh, What Happy Days! (Ah Che Roozhayeh Khoshi Bood,
آه، چه روزهای خوشی بود. )

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Post date December 15 2025
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آه، چه روزهای خوشی بود. )
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Director – Homayoun Ghanizadeh – 2025 – Iran, USA, France, Canada – 107m ***** On a video phone network, a woman is caught between her well-off family and their former servant’s wronged son – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Facing us, photographed in black and white, […]

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Mickey 17

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Post date March 6 2025
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Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 134m ***** Contracted to have his fleshly body reprinted, and his memory restored every time he dies, the expendable Mickey is assigned to a ship run by a right-wing power couple who plan to colonise a distant planet – science fiction adaptation […]

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Boy Kills World

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Post date April 23 2024
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Director – Moritz Mohr – 2023 – Germany, US, South Africa – Cert. 18 – 111m ***1/2 Relentless, non-stop action via a deaf-mute, orphaned kid, schooled in martial arts, returning to the city as a grown man to wreak vengeance on those who killed his family – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 26th […]

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The Housemaid
(Hanyo,
하녀)
(2010)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 4 2021
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(Hanyo,
하녀)
(2010)
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Director – Im Sang-soo – 2010 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 110m **** The husband of a well-heeled family has an affair with the new maid, arousing the ire of his loyal housekeeper and ruthless mother – screening on Saturday, October 22nd, 17.15 at Odeon Luxe West End 2 as part of a […]

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The Batman

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 28 2022
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Director – Matt Reeves – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 175m **** A reinvention of the popular superhero alongside his iconic villain adversaries in a Gotham City run by corrupt elites and gangsters – out in cinemas on Friday, March 4th; home premiere available to rent from Tuesday, April 19th The posters for […]

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Opera

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 23 2021
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Director – Erick Oh – 2020 – South Korea – 9m ***** Compelling, Oscar-nominated schematic of a self-contained society’s infrastructure behaviour and movement of groups of people within it over a day and a night – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Short Films In Competition section – Official 4 This feels like […]

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