Tag: survivor

We’re Nothing
at All
(Ngo Mun
Bat Si Sam Mo,
我們不是什麼)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 29 2026
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at All
(Ngo Mun
Bat Si Sam Mo,
我們不是什麼)
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Director – Herman Yau – 2026 – China, Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 128m ***** A seasoned forensics expert pieces together the story behind a bus bombing as the lives and motives of those responsible is revealed in interweaving serial flashbacks – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, May 29th A police procedural but not exactly […]

Tags acetylene cylinder, Amanda Lee, Anson Kong, Ansonbeam, basketball court, beaten up, Ben Yuen, bigot, bleak outlook, Bo Pui-Yue, bombing, building site, bus, bus driver, cabbie, CCTV footage identifying the body, Chan Suk-yee, China, closeted gay, complaint, construction worker, cramped apartment, credit card purchase, crime scene, detective, drama, drawing, Ellen Loi Oi-ling, explosion, fathers and sons, forensics, gore, grief, grill restauran, grisly, heartach, Herman Yau, Hermes wallet, Hong Kong, hospital, Justin Chu, Kearen Pang, LGBTQ+ Senior Superintendent, loan, loan shark, lovers, low self-esteem, Madam Chief Superintendent, nightclub, optimism, pain, parents and children, Patrick Tam Yiu Man, place to stay. several storeys up, police, police procedural, police raid, purse, Rachel Leung, re-enactment, retired cop, self-strangulation, Senior Superintendent, sit-in, sketching, Stephanie Che, suicide, survivor, the world against them, Thor Lok, torture, transport card, Valentine’s Day, washroom, We’re Nothing at All, Wong Yu-nam, wristwatch

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Godzilla Minus One
(Gojira -1.0,
ゴジラ -1.0)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 14 2023
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(Gojira -1.0,
ゴジラ -1.0)
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – out on Netflix from Sunday, May 3rd 2026 World War Two, Pacific theatre. Unwilling […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada

Features Live Action Movies

Dongji Rescue
(Dong Ji Dao,
東吉嶼)

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Post date August 22 2025
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(Dong Ji Dao,
東吉嶼)
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Director – Fei Zhenxiang, Guan Hu – 2025 – China – Cert. 15 – 133m The first hour and a half **1/2 The last half hour ****1/2 Chinese islanders under Japanese Occupation in WW2 set out to rescue a thousand plus British prisoners from a sinking, torpedoed ship – streaming on UK VoD from Friday, […]

Tags 1942, bayonet, BBC, big budget, Birmingham, blade, blonde, blowing in the wind, blue-eyed, Brummie accent, cauterise wound, Chen Minghao, China, Chinese, Chinese islanders, coast of China, coastal path, coward, Dongji Rescue, enemy, epic, escape, Fei Zhenxiang, fight, fire, fishing boats, flotilla, funeral procession, grass, Guan Hu, history, Hong Kong, island, isolation, It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, Japan, Japanese Imperial Army, Japanese occupation., jump off a cliff, leg wound, Lisbon Maru, Mandarin, ostracise, pirate blood, POW, prejudice, prisoner of war, rescue, rescue at sea, rescued as a child, romantic liaison, sea, Shanghai, sink, sinking, sniper, spectacular, stereotype, struck by a torpedo, submarine, superstition, survivor, teacher, Tipperary, torpedo, transport ship, trapped, USS Grouper, villagers, vox pop, war, war atrocity, war movie, wartime marching song, William Franklyn-Miller, World War 2, World War Two, WW2

Animation Features Movies

Away

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 27 2020
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Director – Gints Zilbalodis – 2019 – Latvia – Cert. U – 75m****1/2From the director of Oscar winner Flow (2024), his debut animated feature Away is exclusively back in cinemas from Friday, March 14th It originally played in the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival. A boy hangs from a tree by a parachute in a […]

Tags 3D animation, alone, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2019, bird, boy, bridge, CG, CG animation, computer animation, crashed aircraft, fantasy, flight, giant, island, isolation, lake, landscape, Latvia, meditative, motorbike, mythology, pursuit, survivor

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Godzilla Minus One
/ Minus Color
(Gojira-1.0 / C,
ゴジラ -1.0 / C)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 31 2024
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/ Minus Color
(Gojira-1.0 / C,
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – now in black & white – out in UK cinemas from Friday, November 1st […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, black and white, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, minus color, minus colour, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada

Animation Live Action Movies Shorts

Letter to a Pig

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 27 2024
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Director – Tal Kantor – 2022 – France, Israel – 17m ***** Under the watchful eye of an authoritarian teacher, as a class of bored teenagers listens to a visiting Holocaust survivor recount his experiences, one of their number daydreams about the pig with which the survivor shared a barn – nominated for Best Animated […]

Features Live Action Movies

Mother Night

Director – Keith Gordon – 1996 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m ***** In this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel, a former Nazi propagandist awaits trial in Israel for war crimes – retail VHS review from Home Entertainment, 1997 From his Israeli prison cell where he must compose his memoirs while awaiting trial for […]

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Dead Calm

Director – Phillip Noyce – 1989 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** A bereaved couple taking time off on their yacht answer a distress call from another boat and become embroiled in a game of cat and mouse – out in UK cinemas 1989 Royal Australian Naval Officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) arrives […]

Animation Features Movies

The Red Turtle
(La Tortue Rouge)

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Post date May 27 2017
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(La Tortue Rouge)

Director – Michaël Dudok De Wit – 2016 – France / Belgium / Japan – Cert. PG – 82m ***** A man shipwrecked on an island encounters a red turtle. From the get-go, this is not your usual 2D animated film. The Red Turtle is slow-paced, has no dialogue and is certainly not aimed at […]

Tags 2D animation, alone, animation, Belgium, clouds, confinement, disaster, fantasy, forest, France, island, isolation, Japan, jetty, life, mythology, sea, shipwreck, silence, Studio Ghibli, survivor, tsunami, turtle, visuals