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D is for Distance

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Post date March 30 2026
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Director – Chris Petit, Emma Mathews – 2025 – Finland – Cert. 12A – 88m **** A diary film about a boy with epilepsy, his interior world, and parenting – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 3rd Opening and closing, more or less, with one of the quieter themes from Once Upon a Time in the […]

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Features Live Action Movies

The White Ribbon
(Das Weiße Band)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 13 2024
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(Das Weiße Band)

Director – Michael Haneke – 2009 – Austria, Germany – Cert. 15 – 144m ***** Reviewed for Third Way magazine to coincide with UK release date 13/11/2009. Plays in Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, in UK cinemas from Friday, June 6th and on BFI Player from Thursday, September 11th 2025. Haneke’s first period drama for […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Bambi:
a Tale of Life in the Woods
(Bambi,
l’histoire d’une Vie
dans les Bois)

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Post date August 15 2025
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a Tale of Life in the Woods
(Bambi,
l’histoire d’une Vie
dans les Bois)
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Director – Michel Fessler – 2024 – France – Cert. PG – 78m ***** The woods. A faun is born, looked after by its mother, and learns to fend for itself – remarkable live action adaptation of Bambi, shot with real live animals, is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 15th It’s inevitable that […]

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Animation Features Movies

The Lord
of the Rings:
The War
of the Rohirrim

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Post date December 12 2024
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The War
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Director – Kenji Kamiyama – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 134m **** A story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, set around 200 years before The Lord of the Rings – English language anime is out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 13th This narrative is based on one of the appendices in J.R.R. Tolkien’s […]

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Animation Features Movies

Puffin Rock
and the
New Friends

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Post date August 11 2023
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and the
New Friends
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Director – Jeremy Purcell – 2022 – US, UK, Ireland, China – Cert. U – 92m ***1/2 The puffin and animal community of Puffin Rock is thrown into crisis by the arrival of a few refugees, the disappearance of a puffin egg and a terrible storm – spinoff feature from preschool children’s animated TV series […]

Animation Features Movies

Guillermo del Toro’s
Pinocchio

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Post date December 9 2022
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Pinocchio
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Directors – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 114m ***** Created as a puppet by a bereaved, religious woodcarver father, a little wooden boy must make his way in a world of ruthless show business, Fascism and war – stop-frame puppet movie is out on Netflix on Friday, […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Fortune Favours
Lady Nikuko
(Gyoko No
Nikuko-chan,
漁港の肉子ちゃん)

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Post date August 10 2022
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Lady Nikuko
(Gyoko No
Nikuko-chan,
漁港の肉子ちゃん)
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Director – Ayumu Watanabe – 2021 – Japan – Cert. PG – 97m ***** A large, single parent mum continues to make bad relationship choices as her daughter tries to make her way in the Northern Japanese coastal village where they currently live– out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, August 10th Charging in its opening […]

Animation Movies Shorts

The Fox
And The Pigeon

Director – Michelle Chua – 2019 – Canada – 6m ***** From the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival This starts off opening a children’s book cover for a tale about, you’ve guessed it, a fox and a pigeon. In the time honoured tradition of such books, there are illustrations and words (in rhyming couplets) on […]

Tags 2D animation, animals, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2020, author, book, Canada, children, children’s book, family, illustration, narrative, narrator, postmodernism, struggle, text, words