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Rumours
(2024)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 12 2024
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(2024)
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Director – Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson – 2024 – Germany, Canada – Cert. 15 – 109m ****1/2 The G7 leaders meet at a summit only to find themselves trapped in the woods following an apocalyptic event – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 6th Every so often, the leaders of the world’s […]

Tags alcohol, alcoholic, Alicia Vikander, apocalypse, apocalyptic event, bog land, Bog People, bones, bot to entrap paedophiles, Britain, burial, Canada, catastrophe, Cate Blanchett, catering staff, Charles Dance, clearing, corpses, crisis, cross the lake, dark skies, Denis Ménochet, distant, divorce, draft statement, drink, elected leaders, estate, EU President, Evan Johnson, falling asleep, fancy, fantasy, ferry, foggy, follow the rope, food, France, French Premier, G7, Galen Johnson, gazebo, German Chancellor, Germany, giant brain, gibberish, global crisis, gust of wind, Guy Maddin, horror, host, into the water, Italy, Japan, jetty, leaders, LFF, LFF 2024, liberal democracy, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2024, mansion, metaphor, mud, Nicky Amuka-Bird, old age, penis, photo opportunity, pieces of paper, pit, PM, political system, politics, preservation, President, prime minister, protestors, relationship reconciliation, remains, representative, rescue, Rolando Ravello, Roy Dupuis, satire, science fiction, scribble, seven-year-old girl, severed penis, sex, split into groups, statesmen, summit, Swedish, table, Takehiro Hira, terrorists, text, tour, trance, trapped, trapped in the woods, US, US President, waffle, weather, Western democracy, wheelbarrow, wine, woods

Features Live Action Movies

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 […]

Tags 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, a living, Alexander Tuji Nam, animal welfare clinic, Assun Planas, aunt, bath, bathroom, bedside, Blessed Virgin Mary, Brazil, buddy system, BVM, cancer, capitalism, Catholic, chemo, company, conformism, corporate culture, corporate executive, corporate gloss, Critics' Picks Competition, death, Denise Fraga, disenchanted, DIY cutting tool, doctor, Dreaming of Lions, eating treats, electrical appliance, euthanasia of animals, exploitation, faces, fall in love, fee, flight attendant, hospital, hospital visit, industry, inevitable, interview panel, Joana Rebeiro, João Nunes Monteiro) obsessed with death, leaflet, lipstick, Mallorca, mask, masks, military, mise-en-scène, mortuary attendant, paired, Paolo Marinou-Blanco, permanent smile, perpetually happy people., PÖFF, PÖFF 2024, PÖFF 2024: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF 28, PÖFF 28: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF: Critics' Picks Competition, Portugal, positive thinking, prayer, profit, put on a happy face, relatives, religion, Sandra Faleiro, satire, scam, security guard, self-help, self-help industry, selling, service to humanity, sex, slit your wrist, Smile, smiling mouth masks, Sodium Pentobarbital, Sonhar com Leões, Spain, split screen, store cupboard, subservience, suicide, suicide attempts, taboos, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024: Critics' Picks Competition, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, time left, voluntary euthanasia, warehouse

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Monty Python’s
Life Of Brian

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Post date April 7 2023
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Life Of Brian
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Director – Terry Jones – 1979 – UK – Cert. 12a – 93m **** An absurdist comedy about of Brian, Jesus Christ’s next-door neighbour, who falls in with left-wing activists, develops a religious following and ends up crucified – back out in UK cinemas in Glorious Standard Definition on Friday, April 7th Like The Last […]

Tags 2D animation, aliens, Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. Asphyxiation, animation, BBC, Bible, Biblical epic, Biggus Diccus, blasphemous, blasphemy, Brian, Brian Cohen, British radio, British television, Cambridge, Christianity, cross-dressing, crucifixion, den of thieves, dissent, dissenter, Divine Right Of Kings, double-entendre, English pantomime, epic, Eric Idle, false prophets, festival day, followers, frankincense, gifts, gold, Gospels, Graham Chapman, highbrow, highbrow music, Hollywood Biblical epic, intergalactic, intergalactic war, Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, John Cleese, Judea, lampoon, Life Of Brian, Martin Scorsese, men cross-dressing, Michael Palin, money changers, Monty Python, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, multitude, myrrh, names, next-door neighbours, offence, offensive, Oxbridge, Oxford, panto, pantomime cross-dressing, political satire, politics, Pontius Pilate, production design, Ralph Richardson, religion, religious satire, Roman, Romans, satire, spaceship, student drama society, Sue Jones-Davies, temple, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, the Pythons, three wise men, truth, UK, welease Woderick

Documentary Features Movies

Gunda

Director – Victor Kossakovsky – 2020 – US, Norway – Cert. PG – 93m ***** Strangely compelling naturalistic, black and white documentary Gunda, follows the lives of a sow and her litter on a farm – in cinemas from Friday, June 4th and now available to rent on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema Break […]

Tags anthropomorphism, chicken, cow, emotions, farm animal, farming, feelings, film-making, Gunda, intervention, litter, narrative, non-human, Norway, pig, runt, satire, tractor, US