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Star Wars
The Mandalorian
and Grogu

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 22 2026
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The Mandalorian
and Grogu
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Director – Jon Favreau – 2026 – US – Cert. 12A – 132m **** The mercenary Mandalorian and his infant charge, the Yoda-like Grogu, must rescue the young Rotta the Hutt who has been kidnapped by gangsters – out in UK IMAX cinemas on Friday, May 22nd The character of the MandalorIan resembles a bounty hunter from […]

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Documentary Features Live Action Movies

London’s Last Wilderness

Director – Pablo Behrens – 2026 – UK – Cert. 12a – 61m ***** London’s Thames Estuary filmed and edited from the point of view of an alien – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 24th A genre bender of a documentary, this owes a great deal to Petropolis (Peter Mettler, 2009) which comprises […]

Animation Features Movies

Belleville Rendez-Vous
(US: The Triplets of Belleville,
Les Triplettes de Belleville)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 3 2024
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(US: The Triplets of Belleville,
Les Triplettes de Belleville)

Director – Sylvain Chomet – 2003 – France – Cert. 12a – 80m***** Hailing from France, this animated fable is a heady concoction of nightclub singers, long distance cyclists, doting matriarchs and ruthless mobsters – out in UK cinemas from Friday, August 23rd, 2003 Like the animator’s earlier short The Old Lady And The Pigeons […]

Features Live Action Movies

The Dark Knight
The IMAX Experience

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 24 2008
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The IMAX Experience
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Director – Christopher Nolan – 2008 – US – Cert. 12a – 152m ***** If you see The Dark Knight in an ordinary cinema rather than IMAX 70mm, you haven’t seen it at all – review originally published in Third Way in 2008. The Caped Crusader is as significant a figure in the media landscape […]

Features Live Action Movies

A.I. Rising

Original title: Ederlezi Rising Director – Ladar Bodroza – 2018 – Serbia – 18 – 86 mins **** Serbian Sci-Fi shot in the English language in which a male astronaut becomes dissatisfied with the female android programmed to satisfy his every desire on a deep space mission – on Amazon and iTunes You’ve got to […]

Animation Art Movies Shorts

Opera

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Post date June 23 2021
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Director – Erick Oh – 2020 – South Korea – 9m ***** Compelling, Oscar-nominated schematic of a self-contained society’s infrastructure behaviour and movement of groups of people within it over a day and a night – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Short Films In Competition section – Official 4 This feels like […]

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