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Rogue Trooper

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 29 2026
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Director – Duncan Jones – 2026 – UK – Cert. 15 tbc – 90 m ***** In the ongoing war between the North and the South, a small elite fighting unit is dropped onto the planet to clear the way for advancing forces – premieres in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, […]

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Furiosa
A Mad Max Saga

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Post date May 24 2024
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A Mad Max Saga
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Director – George Miller – 2024 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 148m ***** Kidnapped by a biker gang she attacks, young Furiosa must make her way in the desert wasteland populated by despots, bikers, and gas truck drivers – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 24th In the forest where fruit is plentiful […]

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Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes

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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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Blue Giant
(BLUE GIANT)

Director – Yuzura Tachikawa – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 120m ***** Three 18-year-olds form a jazz band with the aim of playing at Tokyo’s top jazz club – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, January 31st and Thursday, February 1st Before this property was a movie – an animated movie – it […]

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Wonka

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Post date December 8 2023
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Director – Paul King – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 112m Movie **** Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa when he eventually appears***** How the youthful Willy Wonka became the world’s most celebrated maker of chocolate – musical based on one of Roald Dahl’s best-known characters is out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]

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Final Fantasy:
The Spirits Within

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Post date June 23 2022
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The Spirits Within

Directors – Hironobu Sakaguchi, Motonori Sakakibara – 2001 – Japan, US – Cert. PG – 106m ***** Earth (and its attendant spirit Gaia) have been attacked by aliens, its human and animal populations decimated, its cities deserted – review originally published in Ad Hoc magazine, 2001 The first computer-generated movie to dispense with real live […]