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Sirāt
(Sirāt)

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Post date February 24 2026
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Director – Óliver Laxe – 2025 – Spain, France – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** Young son in tow, a man goes in search of his daughter who has gone missing at raves in the North African desert – 2025 Cannes Jury Prize Winner is out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 27th Luis (Sergi […]

Tags Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2025-26, Academy Awards 2026, alternative route, archetype, authorities, beat, bereavement, bridge, Bruno Núñez Arjona), chocolate, cliff, convoy, cross-country, dance, desert, desert rave, drama, drug use, drugs, emotional, escape, false leg, fathers and children, fathers and daughters, fathers and sons, flier, France, freedom, French, gridlock, headlight, hell, Jade Oukid, Joshua Liam Henderson, journey, landscape, loss, loudspeakers, LSD, missing, Morocco, mountain road, muppet, music, myth, mythic, mythology, North Africa, Óliver Laxe, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscar nominations 2025-26, Oscar nominations 2026, Oscars, Oscars 2025-26, Oscars 2026, paradise, quest, queue, rainstorm, rave, reveller, rhythm, Richard ‘Bigui ‘ Bellamy, road movie, route, search for family, Sergi López, sick, Sirāt, soldiers, Spain, Spanish, speakers, spiritual, Stefania Gadda, techno, Tonin Janvier, vehicle, windscreen

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The Life of Chuck

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 18 2025
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Director – Mike Flanagan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** From the End of the World to the life and essence of what defines one man – remarkable Stephen King adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, August 20th This is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella, originally one […]

Tags accountancy, Annalise Basso, apocalypse, Benjamin Pajak, billboards, California, career, Carl Lumbly, Charles Krantz 39 Great Years. Thanks Chuck!, childhood, Chiwetel Ejiofor, church, Cody Flanagan, conversation, cupola, dance class, dance in the kitchen, dark, drum kit, dying, end of the world, ex-wife, financially dependable, gain entrance, ghosts, grandparents and children, gridlock, grief, high school, hobby, hospital, identity, internet down, Jacob Tremblay, Karen Gillan, locked, Man made in the Image of God, Mark Hamill, maths, Matthew Lillard, Mia Sara, Mike Flanagan, night, Nobody, nurse, obsession, one day in his adult life, ordinary person, out of bounds, pace of life, padlock, parents and schoolchildren, Pornhub, power blackout, PTA meetings, residential area, reversed three act structure, rhythm, school teacher, slowing down, stained-glass windows, stars go out, Stephen King, strangers, street, sunny day, swirling red dress, talent, The Pocket Queen, three act structure, Tom Hiddleston, TV network transmission cuts out, walking to work, what defines one man, windows lights go out

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Novocaine
(2025)

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Post date March 27 2025
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Directors – Dan Berk, Robert Olsen – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** An assistant bank manager who is medically unable to feel pain pursues the bank robbers who have kidnapped his brand new and first ever girlfriend – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 28th (There have been several other […]

Tags Amber Midthunder, armed robbery, assistant bank manager, bank, bank manager, bank robbers, bar, Betty Gabriel, bolt, booby-trap, brand-new girlfriend, by-the-book, California, cherry pie, Conrad Kemp, cooking fat, Craig Jackson, crossbow, crossbow bolt, Dan Berk, date, dating, drinking shots, driving, escape, Evan Hengst, ex-military, first ever girlfriend, foreclosure, gang leader, Garth Collins, getaway, girlfriend, gridlock, gunpoint, hostage, hot cooking fat, hot fat, hot pepper sauce, injury, isolation, Jack Quaid, Jacob Batalon, kidnap, kitchen, kitchen fight, knife, Lars Jacobson, Lou Beatty Jr., lunch date, mace-ball, Matthew Walsh, money, Novocaine, online buddy, passion, police, pursuit, rare genetic disorder, Ray Nicholson, rescue the girl, Robert Olsen, San Diego, school bully, self-isolation, sex, shoot out, spike, stay at home, steal a police car, stunt, stunt choreography, tattoo parlour, teller, three Santa Clauses, tongue-tied, trip-wire, Tristan de Beer, unable to feel pain, vault combination inflict pain, videogames, workshop

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Do Not Expect Too Much
from
the End of the World
(Nu Astepta Prea Mult
de la Sfârsitul Lumii)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 29 2024
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Director – Radu Jude – 2023 – Romania, Croatia, France, Luxembourg – Cert. 18 – 163m ***** The daily, working life of an overworked production assistant on a corporate film about victims of industrial accident – out on digital from Monday, June 3rd Angela (Ilinka Manolache) wakes in her mess of an apartment. Another busy […]

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The End We Start From

Director – Mahalia Belo – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 102m ***1/2 As parts of the UK are flooded and submerged by an ecological disaster, a woman births a baby she must then bring up – on Digital from Monday, March 4th following its release in UK cinemas on Friday, January 19th On […]

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My Extinction

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 28 2023
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Director – Josh Appignanesi – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 80m *** In which director Appignanesi chronicles both his unease at the climate crisis and what happens when he joins Extinction Rebellion to do something about it – world premiere on Thursday, June 29th at the Curzon Mayfair, out in UK cinemas on […]

Tags 55 Tufton Street, A.L. Kennedy, ablaze, agent, arrest, belief, car, car commercial, career, Caroline Lucas, celeb, celebrity, climate activism, climate emergency, collective denial, commercial, commercials, David Graeber, Devorah Baum, driving, Esso, Extinction Rebellion, flood, fossil fuel, George Monbiot, greenwashing, Greta Thunberg, gridlock, Hollywood, honest, ice floe, ice shelf, industrial, integrity, Jewish, Josh Appignanesi, kangaroo, Liz Truss, London, Mark Rylance, models, MP, outback, paradigm shift, philosophy, pixelation, polar bear, pollution, protest, protest march, protestors, religion, Simon McBurney, standstill, stranded, Susie Orbach, tar sands, traffic, transparency, TV news, UK, UK Government, Westminster Bridge, working class, XR, Zadie Smith and Juliet Stevenson

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Over My Dead Body
(Seisi Seisi Seisapsei,
死屍死時四十四)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 20 2023
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(Seisi Seisi Seisapsei,
死屍死時四十四)
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Director – Ho Cheuk Tin – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 119m ** Confronted with a naked corpse, the residents of three separate flats in a tower block try to get shot of it before its discovery can reduce their apartments’ selling prices – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 21st […]

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The Gangster,
The Cop,
The Devil
(Akinjeon,
악인전)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 7 2021
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The Cop,
The Devil
(Akinjeon,
악인전)

Director – Lee Won-Tae – 2019 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 109m **** Better the devil you know. A no-nonsense cop and a ruthless gangland boss join forces to catch a serial killer in this South Korean thriller – on BBC Four Sunday, March 7th 22.00 and for one year after Violent motorist […]