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Funny Games
(1997)

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Post date June 20 2025
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(1997)
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Director – Michael Haneke – 1997 – Austria – Cert.18 – 103m ***** Two young men turn up at a family’s holiday home to humiliate and torture them via a series of controlling exchanges (or games) – plays in Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, in UK cinemas from Saturday, June 21st and on BFI Player […]

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From Hilde, With Love
(In Liebe, Eure Hilde)

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Post date June 27 2025
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(In Liebe, Eure Hilde)
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Director – Andreas Dresen – 2024 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 125m *** A young, pregnant German woman involved with a group of radicals trying to undermine the Nazi regime is arrested and put on trial with a possible death sentence – out in UK cinemas accompanied by the Kate Bush short Little Shrew […]

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Babe

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Post date April 11 2025
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Director – Chris Noonan – 1995 – Australia – Cert. PG (2025), U (1995) – 92m The story of a sheep that thinks it’s a dog – back in cinemas 30 years later on Friday, April 11th 2025, with a higher BBFC classification rating. The below is my review from What’s On in London in […]

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Cyborg
A Documentary

Director – Carey Born – 2023 – Germany, Spain, UK – Cert. 12a – 87m ***1/2 Cyborg artist Neil Harbisson, unable to see in colour, has had an antenna implanted in his head to hear colours instead – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 20th This opens with a title sequence of weird, psychedelic […]

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IF

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Post date May 16 2024
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Director – John Krasinski – 2024 – US – Cert. U – 104m **** A 12-year-old staying with her grandma in New York meets many imaginary friends forgotten by the adults who befriended them as children – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 17th This follows the time-worn children’s story template of a child […]

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Krzysztof Kieślowski
talks about
Three Colours: Blue

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Post date March 30 2023
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talks about
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Transcript of interview from 1993 when Kieślowski was promoting Three Colours: Blue. At the time, the other two films in the trilogy had yet to be screened to press. How far do you consider Three Colours: Blue a separate entity in its own right, and how far the first part of a planned trilogy? “I […]

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Scream VI

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Post date March 9 2023
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Directors – Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett – 2022 – US – Cert. 18 – 123m **1/2 The sixth entry in the Scream franchise relocates from Woodsboro to New York City as the masked killer continues to stalk and kill his victims – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 10th The phone rings. Someone picks […]

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The House
Of The Lost
On The Cape
(Misaki
No Mayoiga,
岬のマヨイガ)

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Post date March 7 2022
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Director – Shinya Kawatsura – 2021 – Japan – 100m ***** Two children separated from their respective parents are taken in by an old woman in a benevolent, magical house with a malevolent monster nearby – plays in the Annecy Animation Festival 2022 which is taking place in a 100% on-site edition this year right […]

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Nahuel And
The Magic Book
(Nahuel Y
El Libro Mágico)

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Post date June 28 2020
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The Magic Book
(Nahuel Y
El Libro Mágico)

Director – Germán Acuña – 2019 – Chile, Brazil – 99m ****1/2 Opening Spotlight in the New York Intl Children’s FF 2021 on Saturday, March 6th at 7pm ET followed by a Q&A with the director. Previously in the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival Nahuel is afraid of the water. This is a problem since […]

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