Tag: flight

The Balloonists

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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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Top Gun:
Maverick

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 24 2022
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Maverick
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Director – Joseph Kosinski – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 131m **** The eponymous Maverick (Tom Cruise) returns to the Navy pilot Top Gun school to train a dozen new recruits to fly an impossible bombing mission and come back alive – back out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, May 15th […]

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The Blue Trail
(O Último Azul)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 13 2026
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(O Último Azul)
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Director – Gabriel Macaro – 2025 – Brazil, Netherlands, Mexico, Chile – Cert. 12a – 86m ***1/2 A 77-year-old woman, learning she is to be rehoused at a state home for the elderly, refuses to comply, instead setting out to fulfil a long-held dream – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 17th Tereza (Denise Weinberg), […]

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Away

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Post date August 27 2020
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Director – Gints Zilbalodis – 2019 – Latvia – Cert. U – 75m****1/2From the director of Oscar winner Flow (2024), his debut animated feature Away is exclusively back in cinemas from Friday, March 14th It originally played in the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival. A boy hangs from a tree by a parachute in a […]

Tags 3D animation, alone, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2019, bird, boy, bridge, CG, CG animation, computer animation, crashed aircraft, fantasy, flight, giant, island, isolation, lake, landscape, Latvia, meditative, motorbike, mythology, pursuit, survivor

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Dragonkeeper
(Gardiana de Dragones)

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Post date September 25 2024
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(Gardiana de Dragones)
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Director – Li Jianping, Salvador Simó – 2023 – Spain, China – Cert. PG – 98m **** Faced by powerful forces of empire and a ruthless traitor, a girl must accompany an old dragon to ensure the survival of its egg – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 27th Ancient China. As revealed in […]

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Big Banana Feet

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 10 2024
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Director – Murray Grigor – 1976 – UK – Cert. 12 – 77m ****1/2 The camera follows comedian Billy Connolly to Dublin and Belfast for the final dates of his 1975 tour – 2K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 10th, and on BFI Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) and digital from Monday, […]

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Plane

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Post date January 27 2023
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Director – Jean-François Richet – 2022 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 107m **** A commercial passenger aircraft flying through bad weather conditions gets into trouble and is forced to land on an island run by military insurgents – out on digital from Monday, March 13th While this is unlikely to win any Oscars, […]

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Escape
From Mogadishu
(Mogadisyu,
모가디슈)

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Post date March 25 2022
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From Mogadishu
(Mogadisyu,
모가디슈)

Director – Ryu Seung-wan – 2021 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 121m **** In the early 1990s, besieged North and South Korean officials join forces to escape from the Somali capital as it descends into lawlessness – out in cinemas and VoD platforms on Friday, March 25th In 1990, both North and South […]

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An Autumn’s Tale
(Chau Tin Dik
Tung Wa,
秋天的童話)

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Post date January 24 2022
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(Chau Tin Dik
Tung Wa,
秋天的童話)

Director – Mabel Cheung – 1987 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 98m **** A girl leaves her home in Hong Kong and flies to New York where her boyfriend has dumped her, so her cousin looks after her there instead – screening as part of Focus Hong Kong 2022 Chinese New Year on […]

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Jurassic Park ///

Director – Joe Johnston – 2001 – US – PG – 92m ****1/2 Joe Johnston directs Jurassic Park ///, the third instalment of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park franchise – out in UK cinemas from Friday, July 20th 2001 This redresses two minor omissions in Steven Spielberg’s first Jurassic Park (1993): JP///’s dinosaurs include some that […]