Tag: incarceration

The Count of Monte Cristo
(Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
(2024)

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Post date August 28 2024
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(Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
(2024)
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Directors – Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 173m ***** An innocent Frenchman framed and imprisoned as a Napoleonic partisan escapes to impose justice on his false accusers – new Dumas adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 30th There have been numerous adaptions of […]

Tags adaption, Adèle Simphal, Alexandre de La Patellière, Alexandre Dumas, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, arrest, bastard son, Bastien Bouillon, body in the water, Bonapartism, burial alive, burial at birth, cell, Chateau d’If, coward, crown prosecutor, disguise, drowning, dungeon, escape, France, grief, incarceration, intrigue, jealousy, Julie De Bona, justice, Laurent Lafitte, Marseilles, Matthieu Delaporte, mistress, novel, partisan, Patrick Mille, Pierfrancesco Favino, Pierre Niney, post-Napoleonic. Napoleon, prison cell, prisoner, prosecutor, prostitution, put things right, recognise, remorse, rescue, revenge, rival in love, ruin, ship in distress, ship on fire, ship’s crew member, skulduggery, Stéphane Varupenne, storm at sea, The Count of Monte Cristo, the fall of Napoleon, treasure, tunnel, unsuspecting, Vassili Schneider, vengeance, Vivant, ward, wedding day, younger generation

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Sorcery (Brujería)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 13 2024
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Director – Christopher Murray – 2023 – Chile, Mexico, Germany – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** When the father of an indigenous Christian convert is murdered by her German Christian employer’s dogs, her thirst for justice leads her to employ occult folk magic against his family – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th […]

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Nightwatch:
Demons Are Forever
(Nattevagten –
Dæmoner Går i Arv)

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Post date May 21 2024
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Demons Are Forever
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Director – Ole Bornedal – 2023 – Denmark – 110m ****1/2 A law student’s daughter takes on his old morgue nightwatchman’s job to find out about the killer who traumatised her parents – out on Shudder UK from Friday, May 17th WARNING: don’t watch this sequel until you’ve seen the original Nightwatch (1994). That’s easy […]

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Cape Fear
(1991)

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Post date March 24 2024
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(1991)
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Director – Martin Scorsese – 1991 – US – Cert. 18 – 128m ***** A vicious ex-con seeks revenge on the family of the lawyer he sees responsible for his incarceration in prison – review from Strait – the Greenbelt Newspaper, March 1992. Directed by Martin Scorsese with characteristic and frenetic energy, Cape Fear is […]

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The Other Fellow

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Post date May 19 2023
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Director – Matthew Bauer – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 80m **1/2 The name’s Bond. James Bond. This is a look at real life people who share the name of Ian Fleming’s popular spy character – out in UK cinemas and on demand from Friday, May 19th What’s in a name? When Ian […]

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Sick Of Myself
(Syk Pike)

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Post date April 21 2023
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(Syk Pike)
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Director – Kristoffer Borgli – 2022 – Norway – Cert. 15 – 95m ***** Fed up with the attention her successful artist partner is getting, a woman deliberately consumes dangerous prescription drugs to make herself the centre of attention– out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 21st Young Oslo couple Thomas (Eirik Sæther) and Signe […]

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The Wandering Earth
(Liulang Diqiu,
流浪地球)

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Post date January 26 2023
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(Liulang Diqiu,
流浪地球)
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Director – Frant Gwo – 2019 – China – Cert. 15 – 125m ** An ecological disaster of a deep-frozen, future Planet Earth is powered through space by jets on its surface in search of an alternate living space for the endangered human race – on Netflix UK, with sequel now in cinemas The child […]

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Deliver Us From Evil
(Daman Akeseo
Guhasoseo,
다만 악에서 구하소서)

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Post date June 27 2021
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(Daman Akeseo
Guhasoseo,
다만 악에서 구하소서)
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Director – Hong Won-chan – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 108m ***** An assassin trying to rescue his ex-girlfriend’s child from organ thieves discovers a rival is after him for killing his brother – Wednesday, October 26th, 20.30 at The Cinema At Selfridges as part of a strand of films celebrating actor […]

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Never Look Away
(Werk Ohne Autor)

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Post date July 2 2019
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(Werk Ohne Autor)

Director – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – 2018 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 189m ***** A German boy wishes to become an artist, but his desire is affected by the events of WW2 and its aftermath, in possibly the best narrative piece you will see this year – twice Oscar-nominated film is now available […]

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Breakout Brothers
(To Yuk Hing Dai,
逃獄兄弟)

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Post date July 10 2022
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(To Yuk Hing Dai,
逃獄兄弟)
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Director – Mak Ho-pong – 2020 – Hong Kong – 12 (Camden Council) – 90m **** Three prison inmates attempt to escape so that they can attend to various pressing, personal issues– online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2022 Making Waves from Friday, July 8th to Sunday, July 10th The generic […]