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The Body
(2024)
(Il Corpo)

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Post date November 18 2024
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(Il Corpo)
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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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The Crime is Mine
(Mon Crime)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 15 2024
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Director – François Ozon – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 102m ***** Two young women, an actress and a lawyer, take advantage of casting couch sex abuse of the former to boost both of their fledgeling careers – sharp period comedy with more to it underneath the surface is out in UK and […]

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Revenge

Director – Coralie Fargeat – 2017 – US – Cert. 18 – 108m **** It’s a man’s world. Or is it? A predictable male fantasy switches gear to bloody thrill ride when a woman turns the tables on a group of men perpetrating violence against her – available on VoD from Monday, September 10th following […]

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The Holdovers

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Post date January 18 2024
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Director – Alexander Payne – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 133m ***** A teenage pupil must remain at school in the care of his strict and widely despised Ancient History teacher over the 1970 Christmas holidays – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 19th A school movie with a difference: this takes […]

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

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Post date November 6 2023
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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 […]

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Bodies Bodies Bodies

Director – Halina Reijn – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 94m * A make-believe party game of murder turns into horrifying reality when pretend dead bodies turn out to be really dead and the genuine body count continues to mount – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 9th Five women, three couples, […]

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Black Medicine

Director – Colum Eastwood – 2021 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** A black market Belfast anaesthetist finds herself crossing people it would be unwise to cross – this edge-of-the-seat thriller is out on digital platforms on Monday, July 12th Jo (Antonia Campbell-Hughes from Bright Star, Jane Campion, 2009; Albert Nobbs, Roderigo Garcia, […]

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Capital
In The
21st Century

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Post date September 23 2020
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In The
21st Century

Director – Justin Pemberton – 2019 – France, New Zealand – Cert. 12 – 103m ***** An adaptation of Thomas Piketty’s controversial economic treatise Capital In The 21st Century – in cinemas from Friday, September 25th The content of French economist Thomas Piketty’s eponymous book couldn’t be more relevant. Far from being dry economics, Piketty’s […]

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A Good Year

Director – Ridley Scott – 2006 – US – 12A – 118 mins ***1/2 A ruthless, successful Square Mile bond trader travels to Provence to sort out the estate he’s inherited from his late uncle – UK release date 27/10/2006 Back in the 1980s, British TV commercials spawned a number of hugely successful feature film […]