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Steve

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 19 2025
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Director – Tim Mielants – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 93m ****1/2 In 1996, the head, his staff and their students struggle to get through a particularly difficult day at a school for troubled teenage boys – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 19th, and worldwide on Netflix on Friday, October 3rd Steve (a burned out, visually […]

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On Swift Horses

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 5 2025
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Director – Daniel Minahan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** A husband’s dreams are undermined in 1950s America by the separate lives and desires of his secretly racetrack-gambling wife and his reappearing, disappearing drifter-gambler brother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 5th Lee Walker (Will Poulter from Warfare, Alex […]

Tags 1950s, A-bomb test, America, American dream, attic, behind his back, betting on horses, book club, brother-in-law, brothers, Bryce Cass, buy property, California, card sharp, carnal, casino, character flaws, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Daniel Minahan, day job, desire, Diego Calva, dream, drifter, estate, exploit the system, fringe, gambling, gambling floor, gambling tips, gay hubs, gay relationship, home, housing estate, husbands and wives, illicit, inheritance, Jacob Elordi, Korean War, Las Vegas, LGBTQ, listens, making a killing, message board, motel room, mugged. Patrol, On Swift Horses, one-way mirrors, part-time, phone calls, poor judge of character, prairie, professional gamblers, prostitution, punters, racetrack, rent boy, San Diego, Sasha Calle, secret, security, selling the house, sex, Shannon Pufahl, single homeowner, underground gay scene, US, vanished, waitressing, Will Poulter

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Chang’an
(Chang’an San Wan Li,
长安三万里,
lit. 3 000 Miles from Chang’an)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 26 2025
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(Chang’an San Wan Li,
长安三万里,
lit. 3 000 Miles from Chang’an)
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Directors – Xie Junwei, Zou Jing – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 168m **** General Gao Shi of the Tang dynasty recounts his life, his struggle to become a poet and his friendship with Li Bai, a more renowned poet – animated epic is out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 28th Set […]

Tags 2D animation, 3D computer animation, acolyte, action, animation, ashes of the dead, battle, blowing, burial, calligraphy, cavalry, CG, CG animation, Chang’an, China, class system, conflict, Cui Hau, culture, dancing girls, desk job, drink, drunkard, Du Fu, duel, eagles, emissary, Emperor, enemy, epic, estate, exam, fall on his spear, female beauties, fight, Gao Shi, general, governor, grass, grasslands, historical epic, history, horse, hostelry, inheritance, interrogation, Li Bai, Liang Gardens, Light Chaser Animation Studios, Ling Zhenhe, make an impression, male-dominated society, merchant class, military, military strategy, musician, nobility, oppressed women, painting, palace, patriarchy, poet, poetry, poetry boards, power to commission, princess, prisoner, profligacy, Pujinyi Inn, Qiuzai Jiang, renown, reputation, restaurant, Shang Qui, Shanghai Animation Studio, Shimeng Li, skirmish, soldier, spear, spearman, state official, Sun Lulu, Tang dynasty, Tang poets, Taoist, Tibetan, town and country, trot, Tubo, Wang Wei, war, war movie, wartime and peacetime, wind, wine, wrestling, Wu Junquan, Wuhan, Xiaoyu Liu, Xie Junwei, Yang Tianxian, Yangtse River, Yangzhou, Yellow Crane Tower, Zou Jing

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Rumours
(2024)

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Post date October 12 2024
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(2024)
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Director – Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson – 2024 – Germany, Canada – Cert. 15 – 109m ****1/2 The G7 leaders meet at a summit only to find themselves trapped in the woods following an apocalyptic event – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 6th Every so often, the leaders of the world’s […]

Tags alcohol, alcoholic, Alicia Vikander, apocalypse, apocalyptic event, bog land, Bog People, bones, bot to entrap paedophiles, Britain, burial, Canada, catastrophe, Cate Blanchett, catering staff, Charles Dance, clearing, corpses, crisis, cross the lake, dark skies, Denis Ménochet, distant, divorce, draft statement, drink, elected leaders, estate, EU President, Evan Johnson, falling asleep, fancy, fantasy, ferry, foggy, follow the rope, food, France, French Premier, G7, Galen Johnson, gazebo, German Chancellor, Germany, giant brain, gibberish, global crisis, gust of wind, Guy Maddin, horror, host, into the water, Italy, Japan, jetty, leaders, LFF, LFF 2024, liberal democracy, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2024, mansion, metaphor, mud, Nicky Amuka-Bird, old age, penis, photo opportunity, pieces of paper, pit, PM, political system, politics, preservation, President, prime minister, protestors, relationship reconciliation, remains, representative, rescue, Rolando Ravello, Roy Dupuis, satire, science fiction, scribble, seven-year-old girl, severed penis, sex, split into groups, statesmen, summit, Swedish, table, Takehiro Hira, terrorists, text, tour, trance, trapped, trapped in the woods, US, US President, waffle, weather, Western democracy, wheelbarrow, wine, woods

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The Crime is Mine
(Mon Crime)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 15 2024
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(Mon Crime)
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Director – François Ozon – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 102m ***** Two young women, an actress and a lawyer, take advantage of casting couch sex abuse of the former to boost both of their fledgeling careers – sharp period comedy with more to it underneath the surface is out in UK and […]

Tags #MeToo, 1930s, actress, André Dussolier, arranged marriage, art deco, audience, back rent, blonde, boyfriend, brunette, business, career, clerk, comedy, concierge, cop, courtroom, crime, crime drama, Dany Boon, defence lawyer, disinherit, drama, dump, Édouard Sulpice), estate, evidence, Fabrice Luchini, father, fathers and sons, flatmate, France, François Ozon, gallery, gender, Georges Berr, heir, heiress, historical, industrialist, investment, Isabelle Huppert, lawyer, Louis Verneuil, mansion, marriage, media attention, mistress, murder, Myriam Boyer, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Olivier Broche, performance, period, play, produce, rape, Rebecca Marder, Régis Laspalès, rich, screwball comedy, sex abuse, silent movie, starlet, swimming pool, tcasting couch, tenant, testimony actor, tyre, verdict, wealth, young women

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Widow Clicquot

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 23 2024
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Director – Thomas Napper – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m **** A nineteenth century French widow innovates in the male-dominated world of champagne production – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 23rd In the early nineteenth century, Veuve Clicquot established itself as something of an innovation in the world of champagne. […]

Tags accountant, Anson Boom, bankrupt, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot, battle, bedroom, Ben Miles, bereavement, blockade, business, businesswoman, but the film, buyer, Caroline Champetier, champagne, clerk, conflict, contravention, costume drama, death, estate, estate manager, experiment, father-in-law, France, Hayley Bennett, historical, husbands and wives, innovation champagne, Leo Suter, like the Clicquot widow, love triangle, marital relationship, mental illness, Napoleonic Wars, negotiation, nineteenth century, period, profit, prototype, relationship, Rembrandt, rival, romance, Russia, Russian Front, sale, shipment, sing, smoke, St. Petersburg, Thomas Napper, Tom Sturridge, trade prohibition, UK, Veuve Clicquot, vineyard, wagon, wartime, widow, wine business, wine dealer, wine dealer Sam Riley

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Wilding

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 14 2024
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Isabella Tree, as played by Rhiannon Neads

Director – David Allen – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 75m ***** How Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell closed down their failing farm and instead let nature run wild to regenerate the land’s depleted biodiversity – inspiring documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady […]

Tags 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020, adaptation, agro-chemical, animal actors, animation, beaver, biodiversity, book, Charlie and Isabella Tree, Charlie Burrell, computer animation, couple, cow pats, David Allen, debt, documentary, driveway, drone photography, ecology, ecosystem, environment, estate, estate office, Exmoor ponies, extinct’, farming, farming community, farming equipment, food tent, fundraising, grass, herds, inaugural flight, industrial farming practices, industrial ploughing, insect wildlife, intensive ploughing, interconnectedness, interview, Isabella Tree, Knepp farm, Lady Burrell. Inherit, land, mycorrhizal fungi, natural history, nature, nightingales, nutrients, opposition, ornamental lawn, pandemic, pesticides, pigs, polo drive, re-enactment, regenerate, replenish, rewilding, roam free, rooting, songbirds, staging historical events, stewardship, stop farming, Sussex, topsoil, trauma, trees, tuck in, turtle dove, UK, West Sussex, white stork, wild cows, Wilding, wildlife

Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Wilding

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 2 2024
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Good Stewardship Wilding Directed by David Allen Certificate PG, 75 minutes Released 14 June After they inherited the Knepp farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years until the late 1990s, when they were one and a half […]

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The Wicker Man:
The Final Cut

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 27 2013
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The Final Cut
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Director – Robin Hardy – 1973 – UK – Cert. 15 – 94m ***** A Christian police sergeant investigating a missing child on a remote Scottish island meets a terrible fate – out as a Collector’s Edition UHD / Blu-ray /DVD from Monday, September 25th following its release in UK cinemas in a 4K restoration […]

Tags angel, Britt Ekland, cavort, celebration, charismatic leader, child, child sex abuse, Christ, Christian, Christian faith, Christianity, Christopher Lee, community, country matters, daughter, deceit, dogma, drinking song, Edward Woodward, engaged, estate, evening meal, faith, filth, folk song, grounds, indigenous, island, islanders, isolated, landlord, law, lies, life, Lord, mainland, May Day, maypole, missing, missing child, missionaries, naked, outsider, Pagan, phallic symbol, police, police sergeant, profession, pub, religious cult, remote, resurrection, ritual, Robin Hardy, scandal, scapegoat, schoolchildren, Scottish, seasons, sergeant, sex before marriage, sexual mores, socio-cultural model, Sodom, song, Teeside, traditional, UK, Victorian, visitor

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Melancholia
(2011)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 15 2011
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(2011)
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Director – Lars von Trier – 2011 – Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden – Cert. 15 – 135m ***** End of the world drama concerns two sisters who must confront unspeakable disaster – original UK release date Friday, September 9th 2011 and back out again on Friday, September 1st 2023 as part of the season: Enduring […]