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Arco
(Arco)

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Post date March 17 2026
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Director – Ugo Bienvenu – 2025 – France – Cert. PG – 82m French with subtitles (not in UK cinemas) ***** English dubbed version (in UK cinemas) ****1/2 A boy from the far future attempts time travel too young and gets stranded in an earlier time – animated SF feature is out in UK cinemas on […]

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Primate

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 29 2026
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Director – Johannes Roberts – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 89m ****1/2 A girl and her friends discover her family’s pet chimp has turned violent and trapped them in the house – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 30th Coming in commendably under 90 minutes, this is a hugely effective thriller about people […]

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Little Shrew
(Snowflake)

Director – Kate Bush – 2024 – UK – Cert. PG – 4m ***** As modern warfare decimates a landscape, a shrew crosses countryside and town as a small, spirit-like light falls towards it – short accompanies the UK cinema release of From Hilde, With Love on Friday, June 27th Musician / songwriter Kate Bush […]

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Men

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Post date May 31 2022
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Director – Alex Garland – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m *** An urban woman dealing with separation and bereavement encounters several men with the same face in an English village – out in cinemas on Wednesday, June 1st A face passes before the eyes of Harper (Jessie Buckley) as her husband James […]

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Greenaway
By Numbers

How Peter Greenaway’s obsession with various numeric and other cataloguing systems has led to the creation of highly complex, multi-layered film pieces that joyfully play with audiences If ever anyone were to make a film about the Dewey Decimal System, it would be Peter Greenaway. He is obsessed with ways and means to classify the […]

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La Haine

Director – Mathieu Kassovitz – 1995 – France – Cert. 15 – 98m ***1/2 Three disenchanted, immigrant youths from a banlieu estate take themselves to Central Paris for 24 hours – in cinemas from Friday, September 11th, on Blu-ray from Monday, November 16th and on BFI Player from Friday, December 18th There’s a verbal story […]

Tags #blacklivesmatter, estate, falling, France, gangs, housing estate, immigrant, Molotov Cocktail, Paris, Planet Earth, police, poverty, riot, social deprivation, underclass, violence, youth

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Les Misérables

Director – Ladj Ly – 2019 – France – Cert. 15 – 104m **** Exclusively in cinemas from Friday, September 4th Although this takes its title from Victor Hugo’s eponymous novel, it’s not really an adaptation except in the loosest possible sense. It ends on a quote from the book: “There are no bad plants, […]

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