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Power Ballad

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 29 2026
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Director – John Carney – 2025 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 98m ***** A rock musician reduced to playing weddings but happy with his lot meets a former boy band star who steals one of his songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 29th High heeled feet head for the dance floor. “Cel – […]

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The Naked Gun
(2025)

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Post date August 1 2025
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Director – Akiva Schaffer – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 85m ***** Frank Drebin, the bumbling, self-confident, incompetent, cop and son of Frank Drebin, the bumbling, self-confident, incompetent cop sets out to solve a case involving a self-driving car and a P.L.O.T. Device – reboot of the classic comedy franchise is out in […]

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The Beast
(La Bête)
(2023)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 6 2024
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(La Bête)
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Director – Bertrand Bonello – 2023 – France – Cert. 15 – 146m ***** Required to expunge her emotions by the ruling AI of 2044, a woman with a sense of dread revisits her past lives in 1910 and 2014 and their incarnations of the love of her life – curious mix of art house […]

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The Matrix

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Post date December 22 2021
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Directors – Larry and Andy Wachowski – 1999 – US – Cert.15 – 136 mins ***** The Matrix combines tropes of Japanese animation with live action Hong Kong stunt choreography and groundbreaking ‘bullet time’ special effects. 25th Anniversary UK rerelease (4k remaster): Friday, June 8th, 2024; UK release: June 11th 1999; Article originally published in […]

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The Beast
(La Bête)
(2023)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 27 2024
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A Fatal Belief The BeastDirected by Bertrand BonelloCertificate 15, 146 minutesReleased 31 May As satisfying as it is infuriating, this French genre-bender is part science fiction, part period costume drama and part literary adaptation. It’s based on Henry James’ 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle, in which a man refuses to marry the woman […]

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Light Falls

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 15 2023
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Director – Phedon Papamichael – 2023 – Georgia, Greece, Albania, Germany – Cert. none – 90m***** A Greek island, a lesbian couple from L.A., migrant Albanian workers, a racist cop, and an abandoned brutalist hotel… What could possibly go wrong? – terrific thriller premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

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Ambulance

Director – Michael Bay – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 136m **** Two bank robbers shoot an LAPD officer then hijack as a getaway vehicle the ambulance that came to rescue him – out in cinemas on Friday, March 25th In need of money for his wife’s experimental cancer treatment, army veteran Will […]

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Invasion
Of The Body
Snatchers

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 31 2021
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Of The Body
Snatchers
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Director – Don Siegel – 1956 – US – Cert. PG – 80m ***** The classic, paranoid SF outing about the residents of a small, American town being replaced by conformist, emotionless duplicates – on BFI Blu-ray from Monday, October 25th This is an incomplete review, currently in progress… Made in the middle of Hollywood’s […]

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Daughter
Of Shanghai

Directors – Michelle Chen Miao, Hilla Medalia – 2019 – China – Cert. N/C 15+ – 90m ****1/2 A chronicle of the life and on-off career of Chinese-born, RADA-trained actress and screen legend Tsai Chin – available to rent online until Wednesday, May 12th in the UK & Ireland in the Chinese Cinema Season 2021 […]

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The Endless

Directors – Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead – 2017 – US – Cert. 15 – 111m ***** Second time lucky? Two brothers who escaped from a strange desert cult decide to go back for a second look, which may prove to be their undoing – in cinemas & digital HD on Friday, June 29th and on […]

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