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Wuthering Heights
(2026)

Director – Emerald Fennell – 2026 – UK – Cert. 15 – 136m ***1/2 NSFW Emily Brontë’s beloved fantasy romance gets a modern makeover with lashings of sex including some S&M – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 13th The late eighteenth century. A man is publicly hanged in a town square, with crowds in […]

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Control

Director – Anton Corbijn – 2007 – UK – Cert. 15 – 122m ***** UK release date 05/10/2007 The story of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis: his disintegrating marriage, struggles with epilepsy and eventual suicide – review originally published in Third Way magazine, September 2007 For the uninitiated, post-punk Mancunian band Joy Division formed […]

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Mother’s Kingdom
(Uhm-mah-ui
Wahng-gook,
엄마의 왕국)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 11 2024
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(Uhm-mah-ui
Wahng-gook,
엄마의 왕국)
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Director – Lee Sang-hak – 2024 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 15 – 97m ***** A Christian mother, her ‘Christian book’ author son, and her local pastor brother-in-law are haunted by traumas from their collective past – suspense thriller from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runs in cinemas from Friday, November […]

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Pharaoh
(Faraon)

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Post date September 15 2024
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(Faraon)
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Director – Jerzy Kawalerowicz – 1966 – Poland – Cert. 12 – 152m ***** The reformist zeal of a youthful heir to the Ancient Egyptian throne confronts the immovable conservative tradition of the priesthood of the god Osiris – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 16th There is nothing else in cinema quite like Pharaoh. That […]

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The Dead Don’t Hurt

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Post date June 5 2024
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Director – Viggo Mortensen – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 129m ***1/2 An independently-minded woman whose partner is away fighting a war struggles to survive in the Old West – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 7th While there is much to admire in this Western, it suffers from unclear […]

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Civil War

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Post date April 10 2024
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Director – Alex Garland – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 109m ***** Four journalists travel across the war-torn US to interview the President before he resigns or flees the country – out in both UK and US cinemas on Friday, April 12th The US President (Nick Offerman) is rehearsing a speech, But he […]

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Detention
(Fanxiao,
返校)

Director – John Hsu – 2019 – Taiwan – 12A – 103m **** Two Taiwanese students find themselves trapped in their school overnight under that country’s White Terror regime in 1962 – on Shudder (US, Canada) from Monday, February 21st This is a real oddity: an adaptation of a video game set in a specific […]

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Pulse
(Kairo,
回路,
lit. Circuit)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 10 2017
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(Kairo,
回路,
lit. Circuit)

Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2001 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** Plays in the BFI Japan 2021 season October / November at BFI Southbank. Also, currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme Pulse aka Kairo (2001) has long been considered one of the key J-Horror films […]

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The Reckoning

Director – Neil Marshall – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 111m *** A woman accused of witchcraft finds herself pitted in a battle of wills against her witchfinder torturer at the time of the Great Plague – on digital from Friday, April 16th and Shudder UK from Thursday, 13th May On the one […]

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