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Valley of the
Shadow of Death
(不赦之罪)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 14 2025
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Shadow of Death
(不赦之罪)
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Directors – Jeffrey Lam Sen & Antonio Tam – 2024 – Hong Kong, China – Cert. 15 – 84m ***1/2 The lives of a Christian pastor and his wife become intertwined with that of a youth who believes himself responsible for their teenage daughter’s suicide some years ago – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 14th For roughly its first half, this delivers a narrative […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Nobody 2

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 14 2025
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Director – Timo Tjahjanto – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 89m ** A professional hitman takes his family on holiday to rebuild their trust, embracing and revelling in the violence that erupts around him – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 15th “Who are you people?”, asks one of two investigating officers […]

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Rumours
(2024)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 12 2024
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(2024)
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Director – Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson – 2024 – Germany, Canada – Cert. 15 – 109m ****1/2 The G7 leaders meet at a summit only to find themselves trapped in the woods following an apocalyptic event – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 6th Every so often, the leaders of the world’s […]

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Return to Seoul
(Retour à Séoul)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 2 2023
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(Retour à Séoul)
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Director – Davy Chou – 2022 – France, Belgium, Germany, South Korea – Cert. 15 – 118m ****1/2 A woman born in South Korea and fostered by parents in France unexpectedly returns to the land of her birth – on MUBI from Friday, July 7th Although it looks at first glance like a South Korean […]

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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Animation Movies Shorts

The Fox
And The Pigeon

Director – Michelle Chua – 2019 – Canada – 6m ***** From the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival This starts off opening a children’s book cover for a tale about, you’ve guessed it, a fox and a pigeon. In the time honoured tradition of such books, there are illustrations and words (in rhyming couplets) on […]

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