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Dreaming of Lions
(Sonhar com Leões)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 23 2024
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(Sonhar com Leões)
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Director – Paolo Marinou-Blanco – 2024 – Portugal, Brazil, Spain – 85m **** A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer signs up with a corporate programme allegedly aimed at helping people in her situation to humanely end their own lives – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival “Chemo […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Mother’s Kingdom
(Uhm-mah-ui
Wahng-gook,
엄마의 왕국)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 11 2024
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(Uhm-mah-ui
Wahng-gook,
엄마의 왕국)
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Director – Lee Sang-hak – 2024 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 15 – 97m ***** A Christian mother, her ‘Christian book’ author son, and her local pastor brother-in-law are haunted by traumas from their collective past – suspense thriller from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runs in cinemas from Friday, November […]

Tags abuse, abusive relationship, bad dream, Bible, brother-in-law, Christian, Christian book, Christianity, collective past, crime, cut off, deficient Christianity, dementia, dysfunctional family, early onset dementia, faith, family, God, grace, hairdressing salon, Han Ki-jang, hanging, husbands and wives, isolation, judgement, Korea, Lee Sang-hak, LKFF, LKFF 2024, London Korean Film Festival, London Korean Film Festival 2024, memory, mother, mothers and sons, murder, Nam Kee-ae, New Testament, nightmare, Old Testament, pastor, positivity, Protestant, punishment, recurring bad dream, relationship breakup, relatives, religion, retribution, rigid rules, running a business, self-help motivational books, sins of the fathers, slogan, son, South Korea, thriller, trauma, writer, You Seong-joo

Animation Features Movies

The King and the Mockingbird
(Le Roi et L’Oiseau)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 5 2024
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(Le Roi et L’Oiseau)

This triple review was originally published in Third Way, April 2014. The King and the Mockingbird (Le Roi et L’Oiseau) Director – Paul Grimault – 1980 – France – Cert. U – 83m UK release date 11/04/2014 ***** Wrinkles (Arrugas) Director – Ignacio Ferreras – 2011 – Spain – Cert. 15 – 89m UK release […]

Animation Features Movies

Wrinkles (Arrugas)

This triple review was originally published in Third Way, April 2014. The King and the Mockingbird (Le Roi Et L’Oiseau) Director – Paul Grimault – 1980 – France – Cert. U – 83m UK release date 11/04/2014 ***** Wrinkles (Arrugas) Director – Ignacio Ferreras – 2011 – Spain – Cert. 15 – 89m UK release […]

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The Wind Rises
(Kaze Tachinu,
風立ちぬ)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 2 2024
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(Kaze Tachinu,
風立ちぬ)

Tags 2D animation, aeronautical displays, ageing population, aircraft, aircraft designer, animation, animator, care home, castle, comic, designer, despot, égalité, elderly, fictionalise, flying machines, France, fraternité, Hayao Miyazaki, Ignacio Ferreras, Jacques Prévert, Japan, Joji Horikoshi, king, liberté, liberté égalité fraternité, manga, marriage, Mitsubushi, Mitsubushi Zero, novel, Paco Roca, patients, Paul Grimault, poetic, printed comic, private life, reach for the skies romance, relatives, residents, sanatorium, Second World War, Spain, Studio Ghibli, taboo, talking bird, Tatsuo Hori, TB, terminally ill, test flights, Three Colours, tower, trap doors, war, wartime, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

Features Live Action Movies

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 8 2023
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Director – Nia Vardalos – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 91m *** The Greek-American family from Chicago visit their late patriarch’s small village in Greece to honour his final wish – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 8th Once again written by and starring Vardalos as Toula, the daughter of the rumbunctious, […]

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You Can Live
Forever

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 16 2023
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Forever
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Directors – Mark Slutsky, Sarah Watts – 2022 – Canada – Cert. 15 – 96m *** A not especially religious 17-year-old sent to live with her Jehovah’s Witnesses uncle and aunt becomes smitten with a devout Witness girl her own age – out in UK cinemas and on SvoD and EST streaming platforms from Friday, […]