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Street Wanderers
(Los Caminantes
de la Calle)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 28 2025
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(Los Caminantes
de la Calle)
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Director – Juan Martin Hsu – 2025 – Argentina, Peru – 90m ***** Argentinian cops and robbers procedural is set largely in the world of Mendoza’s immigrant Chinese community – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2010. Mendoza, Argentina. The family-run, Chinese restaurant of Dageng (Kon Yam Pin) receives telephone threats for protection […]

Tags 24 hour deadline, 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, Alex Kawen León Yee, Andres Alberto Tan He, anti-hero, Argentina, Cantonese, car park, César Wong, Chien Min Lee, Chinese, Chinese restaurant, coast, community, convenience store owner, cops and robbers, corpse, crime scene, Critics' Picks Competition, custody, death list, death threat, desert, doomed lovers, Emilio Chau Chiu, estranged mother, family man, family-run, fatal shooting, fathers and daughters, gangster movie, godfather, gunman, immigrant, immigrant Chinese community, immigrant drama, interpreter, Juan Martin Hsu, kill, Kon Yam Pin, last warning, law enforcement, loyalty, Mandarin Chinese, Mendoza, Michael Liao Morey, monitoring phone calls, motorbike, nightclub, Oolong tea, parents and children, people trafficking, Peru, PÖFF, PÖFF 2025, PÖFF 2025: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF 29, PÖFF 29: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF: Critics' Picks Competition, police photos, PRC, procedural, progress at school, Prosecutor in Charge, prosecutor’s office, protection money, raid, restaurant, restaurateur, rider. bike rider, romance, ruthless, shooting, shopkeeper, Spanish, Street Wanderers, SWAT, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2025: Critics' Picks Competition, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, teenage daughter, telecoms hub, telephone threats, Victoria Almeida, William Loo Long, Willy Kon Chin Yi, yellow cables, Yuchen Che

Features Live Action Movies

Point Break
(1991)

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Post date November 7 2024
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(1991)
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Director – Kathryn Bigelow – 1991 – US – Cert. 15 – 122m ***** A rookie FBI man goes undercover with a group of surfers, believing them to be a gang of bank robbers who disguise themselves as former US Presidents – milestone action movie is out in a 4K Restoration in UK cinemas on […]

Tags action, action hero, adrenaline rush. Physical, agent, Art of Action, Australia, backs, bank robber, beach, briefing, bromance, car, car chase, cars, chase, circle in the air, computer, confrontation, cop, cops and robbers, crash through glass, crime, death of parents, entering people’s houses, Ex-Presidents, FBI, fight, fights, freak weather, game of Chicken, gardens, Gary Busey, glass door, hand ball games, holding hands, impotence, John McGinley, jump from a plane, Kathryn Bigelow, Keanu Reeves, keep going, living in the moment, loose cannon, Lori Petty, male, male bonding, mayhem, new age, night and day, office, on foot, parachute, party, Patrick Swayze, philosophy, physicality, President masks, pursuer and pursued, pursuit, raid, ripcord, run-in, running, rush, sea, sedentary, separate existences, shoulders, sitting, skydiving, stakeout, storm, stunts, surfer, surfing, surfing season, takeaways, testosterone, throw a dog, training school, undercover, US, wave, withering put-downs, without a parachute

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Winny
(Winny)

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Post date February 2 2024
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Director – Yusaku Matsumoto – 2023 – Japan – Cert. tbc – 127m ***** Based on a true story; the state attempts to prosecute the software developer of the file sharing programme Winny for copyright violation – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024 between Friday, 2nd February and Sunday, 31st […]

Tags #JFTFP24, arrest, Based On A True Story, computer programme, computer programmer, computer programming, confession, copyright, copyright infringement, copyright violation, corrupt, court case, courtroom drama, custody, deception, developer, due process, file-sharing, film company, guilt, innocence, interrogation, Isamu Kaneko, Japan, Japan Foundation, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024, JPF, JPF 2024, JPF Touring Programme, knee-jerk, lawyer, legal, legal statement, Masahiro Takashide, naive, non-technical, police, police custody, prosecution, questioning, raid, signing, slush fund, software, software developer, statement, Takahiro Miura, technical, the state, true story, whistleblower, Yusaku Matsumoto

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SCALA!!!
Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 2 2024
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Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m ***** From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th Whatever the strengths of this […]

Tags A Clockwork Orange, Alan Jones, album cover, album cover photos, Ali Catterall, Ali Kayley, all-night, all-nighter, animation, audiences, backs of seats, Barry Adamson, BBFC, cats, celluloid, celluloid burnout, censor, censorship, cinema, cinema exhibition, court case, cover photos, cult, cut, David McGillivray, double bill, drugs, extreme cinema, fan, film festival, film print, gay, Gay’s The Word, gigs, graphic design, hardcore porn, highbrow, horror, how it influenced, Iggy Pop, incredibly, interactive, Jane Giles, Japan, John Waters, King's Cross, lavatories, legal loophole, LGBT, London, loophole, Lou Reed, machinery, Matt Johnson, membership, Mick Rock, midnight movie, Mike Leedham, misfits, mixed-up generation, monkey enclosure, monsters, movie buff, movie fan, movies, music, Osbert Parker, police, porn, poster, printers, projector, projector gate, prosecution Warner Bros., punter, raid, reels, rise and fall, risk of prosecution, rumbling, Scala, seats, sex, sexploitation, Shock Around the Clock, sleaze, sprocket holes, Stanley Kubrick, strange, tentacle, Thatcher, The The, Tottenham Street, train, trash, triple bill, UK, uncertificated, underground, weirdos, weirdos and misfits, world’s wildest cinema

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Lancaster

Directors – David Fairhead, Anthony Palmer – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 110m **** The story of World War Two’s iconic Lancaster bomber aircraft, the missions it flew and the airmen who served as its crews – out in cinemas on Friday, May 27th The constant drone-like sound, the view looking downwards moving […]

Tags A.V.Roe, aerial combat, aero-engines, airmen, Anthony Palmer, Avro, Blitz, bomb sighter, bomber, bombing of Dresden, bombing raids, bombing runs, casualties, Christian, Christianity, cities, crew, damage, dams, David Fairhead, designer, Dresden, empty seats, enemy, engines, factories, fire, firestorm, Germany, gunner, Hurricane, infrastructure, interview, Lancaster, Lancaster bomber, last flight out, Mariupol, miliary history, missions, motor, payload, pilot, production, RAF, raid, railway tunnels, Ray Chadwick, Rolls Royce, Rolls Royce Merlin, Rolls Royce Merlin engines, Ruhr Valley, Russia, Second World War, Spitfire, strategic bombing, target, UK, Ukraine, war casualties, wartime production, weapon of war, weapons production, weather, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

Animation Features Movies

Lamya’s Poem

Director – Alex Kronemer – 2021 – US, Canada – 88m ****1/2 A young Syrian girl becomes a refugee at the same time as she explores the writings of 13th century poet Rumi in her dreams – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Official Competition section Lamya (Millie Davis) is a young girl […]