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The Testament
of Ann Lee

Director – Mona Fastvold – 2025 – US, UK – Cert. 15 – 130m **** In the mid-eighteenth century, wishing to preach her unique take on the Christian Gospel, Ann Lee crosses the Atlantic with a small party from from Manchester, England, to establish a Shaker community in America – unlikely religious musical is on Disney+ from […]

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How to Make a Killing

Director – John Patton Ford – 2026 – UK, France – Cert. 15 – 105m **** A disinherited son culls the seven family members standing between him and the fortune of his super-rich family one by one – US reimagining of Kind Hearts and Coronets is out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th Sentenced to death for […]

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From Hilde, With Love
(In Liebe, Eure Hilde)

Director – Andreas Dresen – 2024 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 125m *** A young, pregnant German woman involved with a group of radicals trying to undermine the Nazi regime is arrested and put on trial with a possible death sentence – out in UK cinemas accompanied by the Kate Bush short Little Shrew […]

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The Count of Monte Cristo
(Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
(2024)

Directors – Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 173m ***** An innocent Frenchman framed and imprisoned as a Napoleonic partisan escapes to impose justice on his false accusers – new Dumas adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 30th There have been numerous adaptions of […]

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Mother Night

Director – Keith Gordon – 1996 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m ***** In this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, a former Nazi propagandist awaits trial in Israel for war crimes – retail VHS review from Home Entertainment, 1997 From his Israeli prison cell where he must compose his memoirs while awaiting trial for […]