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Face/Off

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Post date November 24 2024
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Director – John Woo – 1997 – US – Cert. 18 – 138m ***** John Woo’s third and strongest US film to date has FBI agent John Travolta switching faces with villain Nic Cage – plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from Friday, 3rd July to Friday, 31st […]

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Terminator 2
Judgement Day

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Post date April 11 2026
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Judgement Day
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Director – James Cameron – 1991 – US – Cert. 15 – 127m ***** A second Terminator is sent from the future to kill the future leader of the war against the machines – opening film in Film Tottenham’s upcoming programme celebrating female action heroes, plays Sunday, April 12th 2026, 6.30 for 7pm start In […]

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Two Way Stretch

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Post date August 14 2025
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Director – Robert Day – 1960 – UK – Cert. U – 78m **** Three prisoners plot a heist with the perfect alibi… that they are incarcerated in prison at the time – classic British prison comedy is out on UK Blu-ray on Monday, August 4th Very much of its time, this British prison comedy […]

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The Seed
of the Sacred Fig
(Dane-ye
Anjir-e Ma’abed,
دانه‌ی انجیر معابد)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 7 2025
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of the Sacred Fig
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Director – Mohammad Rasoulof – 2024 – Iran, Germany, France – Cert. 15 – 167m ***** An Iranian state functionary, married with two teenage daughters, is promoted to the position of judge at the same time as the Women, Life, Freedom protests erupt… And then, his gun goes missing at home… – out on Blu-ray […]

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The Contestant

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Post date November 29 2024
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Director – Clair Titley – 2023 – UK – Cert.12a – 90m ***** How a man’s incarceration in a room, broadcast on TV, became a media sensation in Japan– out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 29th Before The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998), which would be released later the same year, a couple of […]

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Alienoid
(Oegye+in 1bu,
외계+인)

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Post date November 6 2022
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Director – Choi Dong-hoon – 2022 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 12 – 142m ***** In Part One of a proposed double feature, aliens incarcerate prisoners in human brains and time travel between present day and fourteenth century Korea and mayhem ensues – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2022; Part Two Alienoid: […]

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Terminator 2
Judgement Day
3D

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Post date October 26 2024
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Judgement Day
3D

Director – James Cameron – 1991 (3D version 2017) – US – Cert. 15 – 127m ***** A second Terminator is sent from the future to kill the future leader of the war against the machines – remastered 3D version of James Cameron’s classic is out in UK cinemas from Tuesday, August 29th 2017 Painstakingly […]

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Joker
Folie à Deux

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Post date October 3 2024
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Folie à Deux
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Director – Todd Phillips – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 138m ****1/2 Get Happy… Get Ready for the Judgement Day! Prison movie, courtroom drama, musical… the new Joker movie is something of a wild card – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 4th The big surprise about this sequel to Joker (Todd […]

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Hard Miles

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Post date May 31 2024
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Director – R.J. Daniel Hanna – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 108m ****1/2 A youth facility social worker takes a group of troubled young men on a transformative team bicycle ride – out on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Monday, September 2nd Day-to-day life is one thing after another for Colorado medium-security correction school […]

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The Weak and the Wicked

Director – J. Lee Thompson – 1954 – UK – Cert. 12 – 88m ***1/2 A woman spends 12 months in prison after being convicted of fraud – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and Digital in August, 2024 Jean (Glynis Johns) is marched from her cell and up […]

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