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Happyend
(HAPPYEND)

Director – Neo Sora – 2024 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 113m *** Two schoolboys play a prank on their despotic principal, who turns it into an excuse to introduce a high tech surveillance system – out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, September 19th In a future dystopian Kobe, Japan, that looks remarkably like the present […]

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Picnic at Hanging Rock
(Director’s Cut,
4K Restoration)

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Post date February 14 2025
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Director – Peter Weir – 1975 – Australia – Cert. 12a – 107m ***** A group of teenage schoolgirls supervised by two teachers go on a picnic beside an isolated volcanic outcrop: three of them never return – Valentine’s Day previews on Friday & Saturday, February 14th & 15th, then is out in UK cinemas […]

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Spy x Family
Code: White
(SPY x FAMILY
CODE: White)

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Post date April 24 2024
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Code: White
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All images © 2023 SPY x FAMILY The Movie Project © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha

Directors – Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Takashi Karagiri – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12A – 111m ***** A spy and an assassin are married to each other, each unaware of the other’s secret career, while neither of them are aware their adopted daughter is a telepath who therefore knows everything they don’t – bonkers anime deploying […]

Tags 2D animation, adultery, airfield, airship, animation, anime, anti-aircraft fire, assassin, Atsumi Tanezaki, Ayane Sakura, Banjo Ginga, business trips, cheating, chocolate, class, class wag, Colonel, competition, cookery, cookery class, crash land, daughter, dessert, divorce, face ripping, family, gifts, husbands and wives, infidelity, infiltrate, Japan, Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Kenichiro Matsuda, Kento Kaku, key, lavatory, luggage, married, meremere, microfilm, Military Intelligence, Natsumi Fujiwara, operations, orphan, parents and children, poop, pretend marriage, principal, pudding, pupils, read minds, rescue, restaurant, Saori Hayama, school, secret, secret identity, sex, sham marriage, Shinsuke Takeuchi, spy, swallow, Takashi Karagiri, Takuya Eguchi, taste of clothes, Tatsuya Endo, telepath, thief, Tomoya Nakamura, train, undercover, wealthy elite

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Blue Jean

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Post date February 6 2023
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Director – Georgia Oakley – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m ***** A woman attempts to keep her LGBTQ lifestyle and her day job as a PE teacher separate, but has reckoned without the widespread anti-gay prejudice of late 1980s Thatcherite Britain – previews in UK cinemas from Monday, February 6thprior to release […]

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The Student
(Uchenik,
Учени́к)

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Post date February 8 2022
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(Uchenik,
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Director – Kirill Serebrennikov – 2016 – Russia – Cert. 15 – 118m **** An obsession with the Bible drives a Russian secondary school student towards dark designs in a film with both religious and political ramifications – out in cinemas on Friday, March 3rd 2017 Late teenager Venya (Pyotr Skvortsov) needs something to believe […]

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Ava

Director – Sadaf Foroughi – 2017 – Iran – 102m ** 1/2 Available on VoD from Friday, August 21st Ava (Mahour Jabbari) is a schoolgirl studying music – against the wishes of her parents, particularly her straight-laced and conservative mother Bahar (Bahar Noohian) who thinks music isn’t a real job and her daughter should consider […]

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