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September 5

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 6 2025
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Director – Tim Fehlbaum – 2024 – US, Germany – Cert. 15 – 95m ****1/2 A dramatisation of the events of September 5, 1972 when broadcast TV sports journalists found themselves covering the terrorist kidnapping of Israeli athletes in the Olympic village – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, February 6th There have been movies […]

Tags 16mm, 1972 Olympics, ABC anchor, ABC Sports, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, Ben Chaplin, broadcast news, broadcast TV, conspiracy thriller, drama, English, first day on the job, German, Germany, high-pressure environment, Israeli athletes, Jim McKay, John Magaro, journalist, kidnapping, Leonie Benesch, live broadcast news coverage, live sports coverage, Markus Förderer, Munich Olympics, no time to think, Olympic village, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, Peter Sarsgaard, Peter Sarskaard, police, police cordon, police radio, seat of their pants, September 5 1972, sports, Steenbeck film editing table, terrorism, terrorist, Tim Fehlbaum, translation, TV producer, US, US network television, work shift, Zinedine Soualem

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Shiri
(Swiri,
쉬리)

Director – Kang Je-Gyu – 1999 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 125m **** South Korean intelligence men track a North Korean sniper who has gone to Earth – plays in Echoes In Time | Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema which runs from Monday, October 28th until the end of […]

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Kneecap

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 23 2024
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Director – Rich Peppiat – 2023 – Ireland, UK – Cert. 18 – 105m **** A fictionalised origin story about an Irish language rap band as a music teacher teams up with two younger men to turn their confrontational, anti-British poetry into Irish rap music – provocative sex-, drugs-, and violence-laced music biopic is out […]

Tags ‘Brits Out’, 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, abuse, alcohol, along with drug dealing, armed resistance, arms struggle, authoritarian, backing music, band, baptism, beating people up, biopic, Catholic, DayGlo colours, DJ Próvaí, drama, drug abuse, drug use, drugs, drugs dealing, explosions, factions, Gaelic, hedonism, helicopter, IRA, Ireland, Irish, Irish language, Irish language march, Irish tricolour, Jessica Reynolds, Kneecap, lifestyle, masochist, Michael Fassbender, Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, music, music teacher anti-British, Northern Ireland, onstage alias, oppression, origin story, paramilitary factions, party animals, Peelers, poetry, PÖFF, PÖFF 2024, PÖFF 28, police, pro-Irish language, pro-Republican, Protestant, rap, rap music, repressive regime, Rich Peppiat, riding crop, RUC, school, searchlights, sectarian, sex, shootings, Simone Kirby, socio-political, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2024, taser, terrorist, the Beatles, the troubles, violence, West Belfast, wood, woods, woollen hood, words

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Restore Point
(Bod Obnovy)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 1 2024
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(Bod Obnovy)
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Director – Robert Hloz – 2023 – Czech Republic – Cert. 15 – 113m ***** A detective investigates the murder of a couple, one of who helped create the technology for restoring people to life after they die – thought-provoking SF thriller is out UK on digital on Monday, April 1st In essence this is […]

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Paris Memories
(Revoir Paris)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 3 2023
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(Revoir Paris)
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Director – Alice Winocour – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m **** A woman tries to recall her memories of a Paris terrorist attack – out in UK cinemas on Friday, Aug 4th Were it not for a singularly unconvincing sex scene (as in, why are these two characters having sex?) about ten […]

Tags Alice Winocour, Amadou Mbow, ambulance, Anne-Lise Heimburger, apron, Benoît Magimel, bereavement, bloodstained, bursts of gunfire, cook, corridor, crutches, details, evening, everyday life, France, French, Grégoire Colin, gunman, haunting, holding hands, hospital, immigration services, injury, lavatory, lock yourself in, Mali, Maya Sansa, meal, memories, memory, migrant workers, motorbike, Nastya Golubeva), normality, parents, parents and children, Paris, Paris Metro, play dead, police, radio station, rain, recuperate, rescue, restaurant, Russian, Senegal, shooting, Sofia Lesaffre, Sri Lanka, surgeon, survivors, take for granted, terrorist, terrorist attack, time off from work, translator, underclass, undocumented, Virginie Efira, waking life, weekly meeting, workplace

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The Mauritanian

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 28 2021
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Director – Kevin Macdonald – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 129m **** A pro bono lawyer defends a post-9/11 terrorist suspect in Guantánamo Bay against his US Army prosecutor – plays Curzon Home Cinema rental from Monday, October 4th Based on a true story, this kicks off in Mauritania, North West Africa in […]

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Shock Wave 2,
(Chai Dan
Zhuan Jia 2,
拆彈專家 2)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 10 2021
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(Chai Dan
Zhuan Jia 2,
拆彈專家 2)

Director – Herman Yau – 2020 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15 – 120m **** A former bomb disposal expert suspected of a terrorist atrocity must prevent a terrorist organisation from destroying the Hong Kong International Airport and taking numerous innocent lives in the process – now available to rent online in the new […]

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Ali And Me
(我和阿里的故事)

Director – Lam Ting-hin – 2015 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 12+ – 25m **** A cricket-obsessed Chinese-Indian, Muslim boy and a Chinese music student get to know each other after being put on neighbouring desks in class – FREE TO VIEW online in the UK in the Fresh Wave short films strand of […]