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Dune
(2021)

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Post date October 17 2021
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Director – Denis Villeneuve – 2021 – US – Cert. 12a – 155m ***** A powerful family is exiled to a desert planet populated with giant sandworms as part of an interplanetary conspiracy to end their dynasty – back out in cinemas from Friday, February 8th 2024 Frank Herbert’s sprawling novel Dune (1965) was read […]

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Lunana:
a Yak in the Classroom
(ལུང་ནག་ན)

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Post date March 9 2023
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a Yak in the Classroom
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Director – Pawo Choyning Dorji – 2022 – Bhutan – Cert. PG – 109m **** A young man trapped in and frustrated with a teaching career is sent to a remote village, which turns out to be the best thing that’s ever happened to him – 2022 Oscar-nominated film for Best International Feature is out […]

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The Worst Person
In The World
(Verdens Verste
Menneske)

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Post date March 25 2022
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Director – Joachim Trier – 2021 – Norway – Cert. 15 – 128m ***** A young woman learns about both herself and life through two personal relationships – twice Oscar-nominated film is on MUBI from Friday, May 13th Trying to reinvent herself, Julie (Renate Reinsve) spends her student days moving from medicine into psychology (believing […]

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Cyrano

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Post date February 25 2022
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Romantic self-doubt CyranoDirected by Joe WrightCertificate 12a, 124 minutesReleased 25 February Edmond Rostand’s 1897 romantic play Cyrano de Bergerac concerns a man who, because of his long nose, considers himself too ugly to tell the girl of his dreams and childhood friend Roxanne that he loves her. This new version ditches the nose to cast […]

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Cyrano

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Post date February 21 2022
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Director – Joe Wright – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** The short stature of Cyrano de Bergerac makes him believe that no woman could ever love him – not even his beloved friend Roxanne, who he can’t bring himself to tell – out in cinemas on Friday, February 25th 17th Century […]

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Boxballet
(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)

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Post date June 17 2021
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Director – Anton Dyakov – 2020 – Russia – 15m 15s ***** A pencil-thin ballerina becomes involved with a rough, stocky boxer. Some things seem destined not to be… And yet… – nominated for Best Animated Short in the 2021/22 (94th) Oscars Olya and Evgeny live near each other’s flats. When running to catch the […]

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Flee
(Flugt)

Director – Jonas Poher Rasmussen – 2021 – Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden – Cert. 15 – 83m **** In a series of interviews, a gay man now living in Denmark tries to explain his experience of fleeing Afghanistan – in cinemas from Friday, February 11th Like The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, 2017) and The Swallows Of […]

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Flee
(Flugt)

On being a refugee FleeDirected by Jonas Poher RasmussenCertificate 15, 83 minutesReleased 11 February Review for Reform magazine, February 2022. There have been animated films about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan before, including The Breadwinner (reviewed in Reform, June 2018), but Flee is different. It covers not only the experience of fleeing your home […]

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Belfast

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Post date January 17 2022
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Director – Kenneth Branagh – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 98m ***** 1969, Belfast, Northern Ireland. The life of a young boy and his family is impacted by The Troubles as Christian sectarianism explodes into violence on their street – out in cinemas on Friday, January 21st Bookended by colour images of contemporary […]

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Nightmare Alley
(2021)

Director – Guillermo del Toro – 2021 – US – Cert. 15 – 150m **** A former carny gets deep into trouble using mind-reading trickery on a wealthy mark – out in cinemas on Friday, January 21st. Also available on Digital Wednesday, March 16th and on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday, March 21st After burning […]