experience it, process it

Tag: ex-con

Kaneko’s Commissary
(Kaneko Sashiireten,
金子差入店)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 7 2026
No Comments on Kaneko’s Commissary
(Kaneko Sashiireten,
金子差入店)
Sticky post

Director – Go Furukawa – 2025 – Japan – Cert. N/C 15+ – 125m **** An ex-con runs a service delivering clothing, other supplies and messages from loved ones to convicted prisoners – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026 which runs from Friday, 6th February to Tuesday, 31st March A young mum, babe in arms, takes bags for […]

Tags #JFTFP26, Akira Terao, anger, ants 80% / 20%, assault, best friend, borrow, bullied, childhood friend, closure, clothing, convict, delivery, divorce papers, dutiful daughter-in-law, duty, ex-con, ex-convict, ex-prisoner, family, family life, Go Furukawa, Goro Kishitani, husbands and wives, interview glass, interview room, Japan, Japan Foundation, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026, JPF, JPF 2026, Kira Miura, loved ones, Mana Kawaguchi, messages, mothers and sons, murder, parents and children, personal demons, potted plant, primal scream, primary school, prison, prison system, prison visit, prisoner, purpose in life, relatives and convicts, remorse, restrained, Risa Kaneko, rules and regulations, Ryuhei Maruyama, school, school staff room, small business, Takumi Kitamura, targeted vandalism, teacher, teenage, teenager, Toshie Negihshi, vandalism, welcome counter, yakuza, Yoko Maki, Yuko Natori

Features Live Action Movies

This is England

Director – Shane Meadows – 2006 – UK – Cert. 18 – 101m A young, pre-teenage lad falls in with a gang of skinheads in Post-Falklands War, Thatcherite Britain – originally published in Third Way in 2007, to coincide with the film’s UK release date The above one line synopsis, although accurate, doesn’t even begin […]

Features Live Action Movies

When Autumn Falls
(Quand Vient l’Automne;
US: When Fall is Coming)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 19 2025
No Comments on When Autumn Falls
(Quand Vient l’Automne;
US: When Fall is Coming)
Sticky post

Director – François Ozon – 2024 – France – Cert. 15 – 102m ***** A grandmother’s cooking accidentally poisons her daughter, who survives… in the ensuing emotional turmoil, past truths are revealed, which have devastating effects… – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 21st Michelle (Hélène Vincent) lives alone in rural Burgundy. She goes […]

Tags accident, anger, apartment, bad death, bankroll, bar-tabac, blame, Burgundy, C.S.Lewis, cash-in-hand gardening, Catholic, church, cooking, criminal, elderly, elderly women, emotional turmoil, ex-con, food poisoning, France, François Ozon, Galan Erlos, good death, grandmother, guests, Hélène Vincent, hospital stomach pump, Josiane Bolasko, Ludivine Sagnier, mothers and daughters, mum-to-be, mushrooms, old women, parents and children, Paris, past history, past truths, Philippe Piazzo, pick mushrooms, Pierre Lottin, poison, poisoning, police, police captain, police station, pregnant, premeditated act, reference book, released from prison, rural, single mum-to-be, Sophie Guillemin, summer, tax-exempt, unfit mother, ungrateful, When Autumn Falls, work

Features Live Action Movies

Black Dog
(Gou Zhen,
狗阵)

Director – Guan Hu – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 106m ***1/2 An ex-con returns to his home town, which is infested with wild dogs, and befriends a stray – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, August 30th Looking down from the edge of a slope towards Gobi Desert scrubland. In […]

Features Live Action Movies

Cape Fear
(1991)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 24 2024
No Comments on Cape Fear
(1991)
Sticky post

Director – Martin Scorsese – 1991 – US – Cert. 18 – 128m ***** A vicious ex-con seeks revenge on the family of the lawyer he sees responsible for his incarceration in prison – review from Strait – the Greenbelt Newspaper, March 1992. Directed by Martin Scorsese with characteristic and frenetic energy, Cape Fear is […]