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It’s Never Over,
Jeff Buckley

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 13 2026
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Jeff Buckley
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Director – Amy Berg – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 106m ***1/2 A look at the life of the hugely talented singer / songwriter whose career in the 1990s was cut short by his untimely death – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 13th It’s tempting to place Jeff Buckley among the all […]

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One Battle After Another

Director – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2025 – US – Cert. 12A – 161m ***** Over a decade after they disappeared into a safe town with new identities, a father and now-teenage daughter are tracked down by their army officer nemesis… – one of the most extraordinary Warner Bros. action movies you’ve ever seen is out in […]

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I’m Still Here
(Ainda Estou Aqui)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 21 2025
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(Ainda Estou Aqui)
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Director – Walter Salles – 2024 – Brazil – Cert. 15 – 137m **** When a family man is disappeared by Brazil’s military dictatorship, his wife must fight for justice while raising their family of five children alone – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 21st 1971. The middle of Brazil’s 1964-85 military dictatorship. […]

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Joker
Folie à Deux

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Post date October 3 2024
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Director – Todd Phillips – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 138m ****1/2 Get Happy… Get Ready for the Judgement Day! Prison movie, courtroom drama, musical… the new Joker movie is something of a wild card – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 4th The big surprise about this sequel to Joker (Todd […]

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Riddle of Fire

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Post date May 6 2024
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Director – Weston Razooli – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 115m **** Two siblings and their friend get caught up in a quest through the great hills and woods of Wyoming on their bikes to find a speckled egg so they can bake the boys’ sick mother a blueberry pie – out on […]

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Song of the Sea

Director – Tomm Moore – 2014 – Ireland – Cert. PG – 93m ***** A family is torn apart after the mother returns to the sea as a selkie – reviewed for Third Way, July 2015 Tomm Moore picked up an Oscar nomination for his medieval Irish animated fantasy The Secret Of Kells (2009). Like […]

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àma GLORIA

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Post date June 13 2024
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Director – Marie Amachoukeli – Co-Director (Animation) – Pierre Emmanuel-Lyet – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 84m Live Action **** / Animation ***** After her beloved nanny returns to Cape Verde, six-year-old Cléo visits her for the Summer – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th and on BFI Player from Monday, […]

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IF

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Post date May 16 2024
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Director – John Krasinski – 2024 – US – Cert. U – 104m **** A 12-year-old staying with her grandma in New York meets many imaginary friends forgotten by the adults who befriended them as children – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 17th This follows the time-worn children’s story template of a child […]

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Playground
(Un Monde)

Director – Laura Wandel – 2021 – Belgium – Cert. 15 – 72m ****1/2 A quiet, seven-year-old girl starts school and has to deal with the trauma of her older brother being bullied by bigger boys – out in cinemas on Friday, April 22nd They hug in the playground before going in. It’s the first […]

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Ghostbusters Afterlife

Director – Jason Reitman – 2021 – US – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** A single parent mum and her two teenage kids relocate to a small American town to find strange, paranormal goings-on – currently streaming in Ultra HD and from Monday, January 31st on BD and DVD in the UK Hollywood loves sequels […]