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Ghost Cat Anzu
(Bakeneko Anzu-chan,
化け猫あんずちゃん)

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Post date March 15 2025
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(Bakeneko Anzu-chan,
化け猫あんずちゃん)

Director – Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita – 2024 – Japan – Cert. N/C 15+ – 97m **** When her father leaves to sort out his loan shark debt problem, a man-sized, ghost cat is charged to look after her by her grandfather – animated fable plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme […]

Tags #JFTFP25, 2D animation, a man in a loincloth, absent dad, absent father, animation, arm in plaster, back rub, bereavement, broken down lavatory, Buddha, car chase, cat, cave, daughter, debt problem, down-at-heel, fathers and daughters, fifth grade, fishing, ghost cat, Ghost Cat Anzu, God of Poverty, God of Poverty (vloiced: Shingo Mizusawa), grandfather, grandfathers and granddaughters, harbour, Japan, Japan Foundation, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025, JPF, JPF 2025, JPF Touring Programme, loan shark, loss, massage, Mirai Moriyama, monk, motorcycle, Munetaka Aoki, Noa Goto, Nobuhiro Yamashita, pay off a loan, pay off a loan shark, phone calls, portal, pressure points, schoolgirl, small town, speeding, statue, temple, The Great Screaming Hell, Tokyo, torture, traffic tunnel, undergrowth, World of the Dead, Yoko Kuno

Features Live Action Movies

Things Will Be Different

Director – Michael Felker – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 102m **** A brother and sister go through a portal into the past, are trapped there by an unseen adversary, and must wait for a mysterious visitor – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 4th This movie is different. It’s about philosophical […]

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Hellboy
The Crooked Man

Director – Brian Taylor – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 99m **1/2 Hellboy must confront a dark labyrinth of hills, the Crooked Man who tricks people out of their souls, and some unresolved family matter from his own past– latest franchise reboot is out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 13th 1959. Hellboy […]

Animation Features Movies

Boonie Bears Time Twist
(Xiong Chu Mo
Ni Zhuan Shi Kong,
熊出沒·逆轉時空)

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Post date September 12 2024
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(Xiong Chu Mo
Ni Zhuan Shi Kong,
熊出沒·逆轉時空)
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Director – Lin Huida – 2024 – China – Cert. PG – 105m ***1/2 The Boonie Bears’ friend Vick is tricked into giving up his memories of the bears in exchange for working at an office job far away in the city – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in UK and […]

Tags 3D animation, animation, Boonie Bears, boss, bus, business strategy, CG, CG animation, China, Chris Boike, client, computer keyboard, dome, dream, driving, engineer, flier, forest, franchise, hemisphere, hiring, intern, job, Joseph S. Lambert, Kieran Katarey, laboratory, lateness, lift, Lin Huida, logger, loser, lumberjacks, national park, nature, Nicola Vincent, office, office culture, office job, Olivia Seaton-Hill, parents, past memories, Patrick Freeman, Paul ‘Maxx’ Rinehart, plant, portal, rural and urban, Ruth Urquhart, sci-fi, science fiction, SF, shards, Shen City, Siobhan Lumsden, skills, spider, success, telegraph pole, time travel, trapped, underground, WC, win trust, windscreen, wolves, work hours, working too hard

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Indiana Jones
And The
Dial Of Destiny

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Post date June 27 2023
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And The
Dial Of Destiny
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Director – James Mangold – 2022 – US / UK – Cert. 12a – 154m ***** In the late 1960s, the newly-retired archaeologist is dragged by his goddaughter into a globetrotting adventure involving Nazis and ancient artefacts – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, June 28th In 1945 in Europe, at the close of the […]

Tags 1945, 1969, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, adventure, Andrew Whitehurst, Antekythera, anti-draft demo, Antonio Banderas, archaeologist, archaeology, Archimedes, Beatles, Boyd Holbrook, castle, centipede, CIA, de-aged, de-aging, dial, ell, Ethann Bergua-Isidore, Europe, globetrotting, goddaughter, ILM, Indiana Jones, Industrial Light and Magic, Indy, James Mangold, Karen Allen, Mads Mikkelsen, Nasser Memarzia, Nazi, New York, occult, Olivier Richters, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, portal, relics, Second World War, Shaunette Renée Wilson, special effects, spider, train, trigger-happy, UK, US, US moon landing celebrations, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

Animation Features Movies

Suzume
(Suzume
No Tojimari,
すずめの戸締まり,
lit. Suzume’s
Locking Up)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 14 2023
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(Suzume
No Tojimari,
すずめの戸締まり,
lit. Suzume’s
Locking Up)
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Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2022 – Japan – Cert. PG – 122m ***1/2 Aided by a man turned into a mobile, talking, three-legged chair, a schoolgirl must prevent giant, freak weather ‘worms’ from devastating Japan with earthquakes – anime feature is out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, April 14th Prompted by a […]

Animation Features Movies

Weathering With You
(Tenki No Ko,
天気の子,
lit. Child Of Weather)

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Post date April 3 2023
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(Tenki No Ko,
天気の子,
lit. Child Of Weather)

Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2019 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 112m ***1/2 A runaway teenage boy in a constantly raining Tokyo falls for a girl who can replace rain with sunshine – Makoto Shinkai’s feature returns to cinemas for one day only on Wednesday, April 5th, ahead of the release of Shinkai’s new […]

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Sonic
The Hedgehog 2

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Post date March 30 2022
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The Hedgehog 2
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Director – Jeff Fowler – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 122m **1/2 Sonic teams with Tails The Fox to battle the dastardly Dr. Robotnik and powerful, red nemesis Knuckles – out in cinemas on Friday, April 1st. With Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) trapped on a mushroom planet, Sonic The Hedgehog (voice: Ben Schwartz) […]