Tag: James Bond

Ballerina
(2025)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 6 2025
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(2025)
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Director – Len Wiseman – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 125m ***** A young, female assassin seeks out the man behind the organisation that killed her father – John Wick franchise spin-off is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 6th While the Bond movie No Time To Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021) […]

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Tokyo Pop

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Post date May 1 2025
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Director – Fran Rubel Kuzui – 1988 – US, Japan – Cert. 18 – 99m **** A girl singer, fed up with being sidelined by the music business in New York, relocates to Tokyo and falls in with local rock band hopefuls there – select UK cinema screenings from Friday, April 25th prior to its […]

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Queer

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 13 2024
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Director – Luca Guadagnino – 2024 – Italy, US – Cert. 18 – 135m ***** A journey through the gay fleshpots of Mexico City leading, through illness, to a deeper jungle wherein can be found a drug that will enhance telepathy – challenging William Burroughs adaptation with Daniel Craig & Lesley Manville is out in […]

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Brainwashed:
Sex-Camera-Power

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Post date May 9 2023
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Sex-Camera-Power
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Director – Nina Menkes – 2022 – US – Cert. 18 – 107m ***1/2 A lecture on how movies treat male and female bodies differently, augmented with interviews from female directors, actresses, critics and others, using numerous film clips – on BFI Player from Monday, July 17th This is a film based on a lecture […]

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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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Guillermo del Toro’s
Pinocchio

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Post date December 9 2022
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Pinocchio
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Directors – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 114m ***** Created as a puppet by a bereaved, religious woodcarver father, a little wooden boy must make his way in a world of ruthless show business, Fascism and war – stop-frame puppet movie is out on Netflix on Friday, […]

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

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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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Minions:
The Rise Of Gru

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Post date July 1 2022
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The Rise Of Gru
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Directors – Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, Jonathan del Val – 2022 – US – Cert. U – 87m ***1/2 Three plots involving the Minions, their pre-teen, supervillain master Gru and a gang of supervillains called Vicious 6 compete with each other – out in cinemas on Friday, July 1st This starts off bravely for a […]

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Jurassic World
Dominion

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Post date June 10 2022
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Dominion
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Director – Colin Trevorrow – 2022 – US – Cert.12a – 148m *** Sixth Jurassic movie promises then dumps a plot where humans and dinosaurs co-exist in the modern world and instead heads for a secluded valley where numerous dinosaurs are kept by a dodgy corporation – out in cinemas on Friday, June 10th There’s […]

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Operation Mincemeat

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Post date April 14 2022
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Director – John Madden – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 127m ***** The British WW2 deception involving a corpse and fake documents to make Germany think the Allies are landing in Greece rather than Sicily – out in cinemas on Friday, April 15th At the height of World War II, the Allies plan […]