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Toy Story 5

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 19 2026
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Directors – Kenna Harris, Andrew Stanton – 2026 – US – Cert. PG – 102m ***1/2 The toys become sidelined when their child is given a screen-based tech device and she abandons them to spend all her time interacting with it – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 19th After a damaged package of High-Tech […]

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The Shrouds

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 3 2025
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Director – David Cronenberg – 2024 – Canada, France – Cert. 15 – 120m ***** An entrepreneur who has created graveyard corpse-viewing technology to cope with his late wife’s death by cancer finds his inner world disrupted when his creation is vandalised and hacked – The Shrouds is out on UK digital from Monday, August […]

Tags AI, AI personal assistant, areligious, atrocity, bereaved, bereavement, blonde, body, body horror, break-in, breast cancer, brother-in-law, Budapest, but, camera, Canada, cemetery, client and investor base, coding, conspiracy, conspiracy thriller, corpse, corpse-viewing, culture, David Cronenberg, decaying, deceased, Diane Kruger, early adopter, embrace, encryption, entrepreneur, ethnic, financial elite, financially elite, fish pond, France, grave, GraveTech, graveyard, Guy Pearce, hacked, hackers, high tech, identical twin brothers, identical twin sisters, identical twins, identity, investor, James Spader, Japanese interior, Jewish, JG Ballard, koala bear, Korean, loss, mad scientist, male breast cancer, mastectomy scars, materialist, mourning, not religious, outside interests, PC, projection of the self, recording, relationship, religious, Sandrine Holt, scream, sex, shroud, smartphone, tech, tech wizard, technology, Tesla, The Shrouds, thriller, twin brothers, twin sisters, twins, unthinkable, vandalised, vandalism, viewing by the client, Vincent Cassel, wealthy

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Boonie Bears
Future Reborn
(Xiong Chu Mo
Chong Qi Wei Lai,
熊出没·重启未来)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 16 2025
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Future Reborn
(Xiong Chu Mo
Chong Qi Wei Lai,
熊出没·重启未来)
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Directors – Lin Yongchang, Qu Caijia – 2025 – China – Cert. PG – 107m ** Park Ranger Vick unwittingly releases pink spores into the atmosphere, reducing the earth to a toxic wasteland, then he and the bears time travel forward 100 years to sort it out– in a dubbed format for family audiences – […]

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The Conversation

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 14 2024
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R.I.P. Gene Hackman (1930-2025) Director – Francis Ford Coppola – 1974 – US – Cert. 12a – 113m ***** A surveillance expert records a conversation between two people, then worries about turning the recording over to his corporate client as contracted – 50th anniversary 4K Restoration is out on UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on Monday, […]

Tags alienate, alienation, Allen Garfield, analogue sound recording, apartment, assistant, audio, audio quality, audio tape, BFI Southbank, bug, celebrity, Chang’e, change of meaning, Cindy Williams, client, convention, conversation, crowded lift, David Shire, dehumanise, digital sound recording, dream sequence, editor, extra key, failed relationship, following, Francis Ford Coppola, Frederic Forrest, Gene Hackman, girlfriend, guest attendees, Harrison Ford, hearing, hotel; room, industry convention, invasion of personal privacy, jazz, jazz records, John Cazale, landlady, long range microphone, meaning, meeting, mic, Michael Higgins, microphone, mike, obsession, obsessive, office, party, payphone, perception, phone number, piano-only, picture editor, plastic mac, protective, recording, recording tape, relationship, rip off, ripped his flat apart, room number, San Francisco, saxophone, secrets, self-isolated, solitary, sound, sound designer, sound mix, sound source, sound tech, sound technology, spools, spotted, Studio pictures, surveillance, surveillance society, sync, tech, technology, Teri Garr, trailing, Union Square, unlisted, van, volume, Walter Murch, warehouse, workaholic, wreckage

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Boonie Bears
Guardian Code
(Xiong Chu Mo
Ban Wo Xiong Xin,
熊出没·伴我“熊芯”)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 13 2023
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Guardian Code
(Xiong Chu Mo
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Directors – Lin Yongchang, Shao Heqi – 2023 – China – Cert. PG – 99m ****1/2 Abandoned by their mother as children, bear siblings Bramble and Briar uncover a conspiracy involving roboticists and robots – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in cinemas on Friday, May 26th following its premiere at the […]

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Fast X

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Post date May 18 2023
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Director – Louis Leterrier – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 141m *1/2 In this latest entry in the Fast & Furious franchise, the son of a crime lord killed ten years ago sets out to exact his revenge on daredevil driver Dom Toretto and his family and associates – out in UK cinemas […]

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After Yang

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Post date September 22 2022
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Director – Kogonada – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 96m ****1/2 In the distant future, a couple must come to terms with the loss of the eldest child, actually an A.I. purchased as an ethnically programmed companion for their adopted South East Asian daughter – SF mystery drama is on Sky Cinema from […]

Tags A.I., academic, Alexander Weinstein, artificial intelligence, audiovisual memory, brothers and sisters, budget, business, car journey, charge, charge fee, charge sum, Clifton Collins Jr., Colin Farrell, computer tech, conspiracy theory, core, corporate business, corporation, cultural heritage, disaster, ecological collapse, ecology, electric car, ethnicity, exhibition space, family, family portrait, future, garden, GIFs, Haley Lu Richardson, high-flier, home, home computer, image, Jodie Turner-Smith, Kogonada, law, legal, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, memory, moving image, museum, next door neighbour, owner, parents and children, park, policy, post-disaster, reboot, recorded voice, refurbish, resolve issue, retail outlet, Ritchie Coster, robot, Sarita Choudhury, school run, sci-fi, science fiction, self-driving car, SF, shut down, sibling, software, software reader, South East Asia, spyware, tea, tech, technician, technosapien, upward mobility, won’t reboot, workbench, workshop

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Pulse
(Kairo,
回路,
lit. Circuit)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 10 2017
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(Kairo,
回路,
lit. Circuit)

Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2001 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** Plays in the BFI Japan 2021 season October / November at BFI Southbank. Also, currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme Pulse aka Kairo (2001) has long been considered one of the key J-Horror films […]

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A Snake Of June
(Rokugatsu
No Hebi,
六月の蛇)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 18 2021
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(Rokugatsu
No Hebi,
六月の蛇)

Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 2002 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 77m ***** Unlike any terrorised female narrative you’ve ever seen, at once bizarre and hugely rewarding – currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme This review originally appeared in What’s On In London, June 2003. In an […]

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Cam

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 21 2018
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Director – Daniel Goldhaber – 2018 – US – Cert. 15 – 94m ***1/2 An erotic webcam performer discovers to her horror that her online presence has been hacked by an unknown rival, in a film conceived by a real-life cam artist – from the 62nd BFI London Film Festival and on Netflix for a […]