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How to Make a Killing

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 12 2026
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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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Escape
(Talju,
탈주)

Director – Lee Jong-Pil – 2024 – South Korea – LEAFF Cert. 18 – 94m ***** An army sergeant is caught attempting to escape from North to South Korea, but then a second chance presents itself – played as the Opening Gala at the 2024 London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) which runs from Wednesday, […]

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The Critic

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 12 2024
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Director – Anand Tucker – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 101m The first four fifths of The Critic ***** The final fifth of The Critic * In the 1930s, a London theatre critic, a flamboyant homosexual known for destroying careers with his acerbic prose, finds his job under threat from his newspaper’s new […]

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The Boys in the Boat

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 12 2024
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Director – George Clooney – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 123m ***** Based on a true story. A group of students become the rowing team who compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 12th Washington State, the mid-1930s. Engineering student Joe Rantz (Callum Turner) can barely […]

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Light Falls

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 15 2023
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Director – Phedon Papamichael – 2023 – Georgia, Greece, Albania, Germany – Cert. none – 90m***** A Greek island, a lesbian couple from L.A., migrant Albanian workers, a racist cop, and an abandoned brutalist hotel… What could possibly go wrong? – terrific thriller premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

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Tinker Ticker
(Deulgae,
들개,
lit. Wild Dog)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 6 2023
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(Deulgae,
들개,
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Director – Kim Jung-hoon – 2013 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 102m ***** A university professor’s aide who in his spare time builds bombs and sends them to people free of charge connects with a spoiled student prepared to detonate them – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2023 which runs in […]