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Odyssey
(2025)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 7 2025
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(2025)
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Director – Gerard Johnson – 2025 – UK – Cert. 18 – 110m **** A ruthless London estate agent with mounting debts finds herself at the mercy of criminal backers – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 7th This starts off no holds barred with protagonist Natasha (Polly Maberly from Muscle, Gerard Johnson, 2019) having a […]

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SCALA!!!
Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 2 2024
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Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m ***** From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th Whatever the strengths of this […]

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Muscle

Director – Gerard Johnson – 2019 – UK – Cert. 18 – 110m **** Pump it up! A man dissatisfied with his life comes under the influence of a manipulative bodybuilding trainer – on Sky and NOW from Tuesday, June 1st Newcastle, UK. Simon (Cavan Clerkin) is at a dead end working days in a […]