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Late Shift
(Heldin)

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Post date August 1 2025
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(Heldin)
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Director – Petra Blondina Volpe – 2025 – Switzerland – Cert. 12a – 92m ****1/2 An experienced and competent nurse in a hospital in the Western world endures a particularly gruelling night shift – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 1st There’s a moment of calm at the start of Late Shift… Scrubs going […]

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Afternoon Clouds

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 17 2025
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Director – Payal Kapadia – 2017 – India – 13m ***** An old woman, her home and her cat interact in the former’s coastal flat – Kapadia’s first short evidences a sensibility which will inform her debut feature All We Imagine as Light – on the UK Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) of All We Imagine […]

Tags Africa, Afternoon Clouds, apparition, architectural space, Aurobinda Roy Chowdhury, bark, bed, bedroll, bedspread, bench, bowl of milk, breeze, building, cat, Cephas Subba, chanting, chilli, cloud, coastal flat, contentment, docks, dogs, doze, dream, elderly, food preparation, fruit, ghost, ginger cat, giraffes, home, housework, husband, India, insomnia, interior, kitchen, late husband, laundry, limp, magazines, medication, memory, nap, net curtains, network of relationships, old woman, passing train, Payal Kapadia, pet, picture postcard, pillow, plant, premonition, railway train, roar of the sea, room, rot, sea, ship, singing, sleep, stairwell, steam, surroundings, talk, the next life, tidy, tidying, train, Trimala Adhikari, two day life cycle, two days, Usha Naik, windows

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Sleep
(Jam, 잠)

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Post date July 12 2024
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(Jam, 잠)
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Director – Jason Yu – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 95m ***1/2 A pregnant woman becomes convinced that her husband is possessed when he starts sleepwalking and otherwise behaving oddly in his sleep at night – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th One night, a wife wakes up and looks […]

Tags accident, appointment, baby, balcony, banging, bed, bedroom, beliefs, binge, binge eat, birth, blood, born, boyfriend, care home, complain, Cure, danger, deranged, diagnosis, doctor, dog, downstairs neighbour, drill, exorcism, film executive, flip-flop, fridge, ghost, hiding, horror, hospital, husbands and wives, intruder, Jason Yu, Jung Yu-mi, Kim Gook-hee, Kim Keum-soon, kitchen, Korea, laundry liquid, Lee Kyung-jin, Lee Sun-kyun, medication, mothers and daughters, move in, moved out, new neighbour, night, noises, old man, old neighbour, padlock, pets, Pomeranian, possessed, possession, pregnancy, pregnant, protect, protection, protective, REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder, rite, security, shaman, sleep, sleep disorder, sleeping bag, sleepwalking, South Korea, spell, spirits, struggling actor, supernatural, thriller, topple, trail, under the bed, unstable, upstairs and downstairs, upstairs neighbour, verandah, wake up, window, Yoon Kyung-ho

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New Life

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Post date June 17 2024
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Director – John Rosman – 2023 – US – 85m ***1/2 Neither the widow nor the assassin pursuing her towards the Canadian border are quite what they seem – genre-bending thriller is out on digital in the UK The sound of a distressed woman. Now we see her (Hayley Erin) – her head is bleeding […]

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Vortex

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Post date May 10 2022
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Director – Gaspar Noé – 2021 – France – Cert. 15 – 142m ***** An elderly man struggles to care for his ailing wife who has dementia – out in cinemas on Friday, May 13th Discounting the lengthy titles detailing among other things the various film clips and images used, this throws us a series […]

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Heaven:
To The Land
Of Happiness
(Hebeun:
Haengbokeui Nararo,
행복의 나라로)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 21 2021
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To The Land
Of Happiness
(Hebeun:
Haengbokeui Nararo,
행복의 나라로)

Director – Im Sang-soo – 2021 – South Korea – 101m ***** A meds thief on the verge of arrest and an escaped convict inadvertently steal money from gangsters – closing gala with a director Q&A as part of a strand of films celebrating actress Youn Yuh-jung at LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival which […]

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Babyteeth

Director – Shannon Murphy – 2019 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 118m ***** In cinemas from Friday, August 14th and on BFI Player from Monday, December 7th Uniformed schoolgirl Milla (Eliza Scanlen) stands on a platform ill at ease with her classmates. The train comes in. Before she can move to get on it, […]

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