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On Swift Horses

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Post date September 5 2025
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Director – Daniel Minahan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** A husband’s dreams are undermined in 1950s America by the separate lives and desires of his secretly racetrack-gambling wife and his reappearing, disappearing drifter-gambler brother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 5th Lee Walker (Will Poulter from Warfare, Alex […]

Tags 1950s, A-bomb test, America, American dream, attic, behind his back, betting on horses, book club, brother-in-law, brothers, Bryce Cass, buy property, California, card sharp, carnal, casino, character flaws, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Daniel Minahan, day job, desire, Diego Calva, dream, drifter, estate, exploit the system, fringe, gambling, gambling floor, gambling tips, gay hubs, gay relationship, home, housing estate, husbands and wives, illicit, inheritance, Jacob Elordi, Korean War, Las Vegas, LGBTQ, listens, making a killing, message board, motel room, mugged. Patrol, On Swift Horses, one-way mirrors, part-time, phone calls, poor judge of character, prairie, professional gamblers, prostitution, punters, racetrack, rent boy, San Diego, Sasha Calle, secret, security, selling the house, sex, Shannon Pufahl, single homeowner, underground gay scene, US, vanished, waitressing, Will Poulter

Animation Features Movies

The Most Precious
of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
des Marchandises)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 3 2025
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Director – Michel Hazanavicius – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** In Winter in a forest, a poor woodcutter’s wife rescues an abandoned baby thrown from a passing train and, despite her husband’s misgivings, raises the girl as her own – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 4th Once […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Air America

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Post date October 7 2024
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Director – Roger Spottiswoode – 1990 – US – Cert. 15 – 113m * Reviewed in What’s On in London, January 1991. Released on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD in the UK on Monday, 7th October, 2024. One of the most accurate ways to judge whether or not a movie is worth seeing is to […]

Animation Features Movies

Spy x Family
Code: White
(SPY x FAMILY
CODE: White)

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Post date April 24 2024
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All images © 2023 SPY x FAMILY The Movie Project © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha

Directors – Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Takashi Karagiri – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12A – 111m ***** A spy and an assassin are married to each other, each unaware of the other’s secret career, while neither of them are aware their adopted daughter is a telepath who therefore knows everything they don’t – bonkers anime deploying […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Wonka

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Post date December 8 2023
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Director – Paul King – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 112m Movie **** Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa when he eventually appears***** How the youthful Willy Wonka became the world’s most celebrated maker of chocolate – musical based on one of Roald Dahl’s best-known characters is out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]

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Art Documentary Features Live Action Movies Series Shorts Television

Greenaway
By Numbers

How Peter Greenaway’s obsession with various numeric and other cataloguing systems has led to the creation of highly complex, multi-layered film pieces that joyfully play with audiences If ever anyone were to make a film about the Dewey Decimal System, it would be Peter Greenaway. He is obsessed with ways and means to classify the […]

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