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Primavera
(Primavera)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 22 2026
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Director – Damiano Michieletto – 2025 – Italy, France – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** A young Venetian orphan comes into her own learning to play the violin under her orphanage’s new Master of Music, Antonio Vivaldi – period drama is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 24th A group of girls, all […]

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Dreaming of Lions
(Sonhar com Leões)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 23 2024
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Director – Paolo Marinou-Blanco – 2024 – Portugal, Brazil, Spain – 85m **** A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer signs up with a corporate programme allegedly aimed at helping people in her situation to humanely end their own lives – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival “Chemo […]

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Reawakening

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 11 2024
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Director – Virginia Gilbert – 2024 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m *** When a couple’s daughter returns after a decade’s long absence, the husband starts to suspect she is not really their daughter – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 13th It’s been ten years since their daughter Clare left home at […]

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Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 9 2024
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Planet of the Apes
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Director – Wes Ball – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** The fourth entry in the current franchise reboot takes place several generations after the previous three films when apes live in scattered communities and humans have lost the power of speech – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, May 9th Noa […]

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A Haunting
In Venice

Director – Kenneth Branagh – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 103m ** Hercule Poirot’s exposure of a fake medium at a séance in Venice turns into a trail of mayhem and murder in which he must unmask the killer – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 15th Kenneth Branagh’s latest adaptation of […]

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Inu-Oh
(Inu-Oh,
犬王)

Director – Masaaki Yuasa – 2021 – Japan – Cert. – 98m ***1/2 In fourteenth century Japan, a blind musician and a deformed, masked dancer shake up the culturally staid world of Noh theatre by forming a hugely popular rock band – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, September 28th You never quite know what […]

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Beyond The Mask

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 29 2021
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Directors – Jane Harris, Jimmy Edmonds – 2021 – UK – 60m **** People talk about their experiences of bereavement in the light of the COVID-19 lockdown – now free to watch (donation suggested) In March 2020, the unthinkable happened as the world entered a global pandemic. In the ensuing year or so many people […]

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The Batman

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 28 2022
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Director – Matt Reeves – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 175m **** A reinvention of the popular superhero alongside his iconic villain adversaries in a Gotham City run by corrupt elites and gangsters – out in cinemas on Friday, March 4th; home premiere available to rent from Tuesday, April 19th The posters for […]