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The Ice Tower
(La Tour de Glace)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 21 2025
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(La Tour de Glace)
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Director – Lucile Hadzihalilovic – 2025 – France, Germany, Italy – Cert. 15 – 117m ***** Midwinter. A homeless girl stumbles onto a film set where a notoriously difficult actress is shooting an adaptation of The Snow Queen – screens exclusively on BFI Player from Monday, January 12th Opening with microscopic images of of snowflakes and more […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Mickey 17

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 6 2025
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Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 134m ***** Contracted to have his fleshly body reprinted, and his memory restored every time he dies, the expendable Mickey is assigned to a ship run by a right-wing power couple who plan to colonise a distant planet – science fiction adaptation […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

A Sudden Glimpse
to Deeper Things

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 18 2024
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to Deeper Things
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Director – Mark Cousins – 2024 – UK – Cert. PG – 88m ***** A look at Scots artist and painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, who had synaesthesia – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 18th I am someone who frequents art galleries, yet I have to confess that before seeing this film, I had never […]

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

South

Director – Frank Hurley – 1919, Restoration 2022 – UK – Cert. U – 81m ***** One of the earliest documentaries ever made charts British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s disastrous expedition to the South Pole – out in cinemas on Friday, January 28th Made over one hundred years ago, and one of the first feature […]

Animation Movies Shorts

Snow Kid
(Xue Hai Zi,
雪孩子)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 11 2021
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(Xue Hai Zi,
雪孩子)

a.k.a. The Snow Child Director – Lin Wenxiao – 1980 – China – Cert. N/C – 20m *** A mother and her daughter build a snow child which comes to life and later saves the girl’s life – available to rent online in the UK & Ireland as part of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio […]