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Moana
(2026)

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Post date July 10 2026
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Director – Thomas Kail – 2026 – US – Cert. PG – 115m ***1/2 Disney’s live action remake of its Polynesian heroine mythological romp – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 10th It’s a curious experience watching Disney’s live action remake of Moana (John Musker, Ron Clements, 2016), one of the Studio’s better animated movies of recent years. […]

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Hard Target

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Post date November 24 2024
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Director – John Woo – 1993 – US – Cert. 18 – 100m (UK version), 86m (US version) **** John Woo’s US debut is a New Orleans remake of The Most Dangerous Game with action star Jean-Claude Van Damme – plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank […]

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Bugonia

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Post date October 31 2025
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Director – Yorgos Lanthimos – 2025 – US, Ireland, South Korea – Cert. 15 – 118m **** A man with a grievance against a corporation kidnaps its CEO, believing her to be an alien with hostile designs on the human race – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 31st As Teddy (Jesse Plemons from […]

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How to Train Your Dragon
(2025)

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Post date June 9 2025
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Director – Dean DeBlois – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 125m **** Instead of fighting dragons like other viking teenagers, Hiccup shoots a dragon out of the sky then secretly trains it as his steed– live action remake of animated classic is out in UK cinemas from Monday, June 9th Following in the […]

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Karate Kid
Legends

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Post date May 29 2025
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Legends
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Director – Jonathan Entwhistle – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 94m ***** Latest franchise entry plays by all the rules that you would expect, yet somehow manages to completely break the mould and come up with something fresh and original – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 28th All a Karate Kid […]

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The Body
(2024)
(Il Corpo)

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Post date November 18 2024
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Director – Vincenzo Alfieri – 2024 – Italy – 115m ***** The body of a rich industrialist’s wife vanishes from the morgue after her death – stylish giallo premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival An unashamed genre piece, The Body is a giallo – an Italian crime […]

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Handsome Guys
(Haenseomgaijeu,
핸섬가이즈)

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Post date November 7 2024
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Director – Nam Dong-hyub – 2024 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 15 – 102m **** A comedy of errors in horror genre clothing, features a house in which accidents keep occurring, and a demonic goat – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runs in cinemas from Friday, November 1st to Wednesday, […]

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Mean Girls (2024)

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Post date January 17 2024
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Directors – Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr. – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 112m ** A reimagining as a musical of the eponymous, 2004 US High School movie in which the new girl finds herself up against a girl clique – out in UK cinemas on Friday, Wednesday, January 17th Raised and homeschooled […]

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Peter Von Kant
(Peter Von Kant)

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Post date October 8 2022
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Director – François Ozon – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 85m ***1/2 A re-imagining of R.W. Fassbinder’s all-female-cast The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, with the three central gay characters switched from female to male – plays in cinemas from Friday, 30th December Köln, 1972. Peter von Kant (Denis Ménochet) is a […]

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Living

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Post date October 8 2022
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Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 102m ***** Diagnosed with stomach cancer and given only months to live, a bureaucrat searches for something – anything – to give purpose to his hitherto meaningless life in this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November […]