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My Favourite Cake
(Keyke Mahboobe Man,
کیک محبوب من)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 11 2024
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(Keyke Mahboobe Man,
کیک محبوب من)
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Directors – Maryam Mogadam, Behtash Sanaeeha – 2024 – Iran, France, Sweden, Germany – Cert. 12a – 97m ****1/2 An old woman living alone in Iran takes a shine to a taxi driver after learning he has no romantic attachments – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 13th Mahin (Lily Farhadpour), 70, likes to […]

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Firebrand

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 3 2024
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Director – Karim Ainouz – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 121m ***** Henry VIII’s sixth wife Katherine Parr must navigate the increasingly treacherous waters between her desire for religious tolerance and Henry’s more authoritarian take on Christianity – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 6th With her husband Henry VIII away fighting […]

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The Beast
(La Bête)
(2023)

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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 Breadwinner

Afghan life under religious extremism The BreadwinnerDirected by Nora TwomeyCertificate 12A, 94 minutesReleased 25 May Parvana (voiced by Saara Chaudry) is one of three girls living with her mum and dad in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is occupied and run by the Taliban. When her father is arrested by the Taliban on account of his intellectual […]

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The Beast
(La Bête)
(2023)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 27 2024
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(La Bête)
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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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