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The Balloonists

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Post date May 20 2026
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Director – John Dower – 2025 – UK, Austria, US – Cert. PG – 86m **** The story of balloonist Bertrand Piccard’s three attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 22nd Bertrand Piccard’s house, as his astonished interviewer notes, is a museum, a personal collection of memorabilia […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 26 2026
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(Zwei Staatsanwälte)
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Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]

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Animation Features Movies

Boonie Bears Time Twist
(Xiong Chu Mo
Ni Zhuan Shi Kong,
熊出沒·逆轉時空)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 12 2024
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(Xiong Chu Mo
Ni Zhuan Shi Kong,
熊出沒·逆轉時空)
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Director – Lin Huida – 2024 – China – Cert. PG – 105m ***1/2 The Boonie Bears’ friend Vick is tricked into giving up his memories of the bears in exchange for working at an office job far away in the city – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in UK and […]

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Features Live Action Movies

The Zone of Interest

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 1 2024
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Director – Jonathan Glazer – 2023 – UK, Poland – Cert. 12a – 106m ***** A drama about the everyday, domestic lives of the Commandant of Auschwitz, his wife, and their family – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 2nd How do people sleep at night? If they do bad things? Well, some people […]

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Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Another Body

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 24 2023
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Directors – Sophie Compton, Reuben Hamlyn – 2023 – UK, US – Cert. 18 – 80m *** A young woman discovers her face has been added by deepfake technology into porn videos, and attempts to find out the perpetrator – documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 24th The opening five minutes show […]

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Thirteen Lives

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Post date August 1 2022
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Director – Ron Howard – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 147m **** A dramatisation of the 2018 Thailand boys’ football team cave rescue, with the rescuers played by name actors– out in cinemas on Friday, July 29th and globally on Amazon on Friday, August 5th In 2018, the world held its breath when […]

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