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Phil Mulloy
Extreme Animation

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 15 2025
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Director – Phil Mulloy – 2001 – UK – Cert. 18 – shorts of various lengths, total running time 2 hr 33 mins – Original Aspect Ratios (various) – Dolby Digital 5.1 ***** To mark the recent passing of Phil Mulloy (29 August 1948 – 10 July 2025), my review from 2001 of the BFI […]

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Slade in Flame

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Post date April 28 2025
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Director – Richard Loncraine – 1975 – UK – Cert. – 91m **** Slade play Flame, a small-time rock band who cut their musical teeth managed by lowlife crooks before going on to a meteoric rise and fall managed by corporate suits – 2K Remaster for the film’s 50th Anniversary Re-release is out on UHD […]

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Collectors
(Do-gul,
도굴,
lit. Grave Robbery)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 13 2021
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(Do-gul,
도굴,
lit. Grave Robbery)

**1/2 Director – Park Jung Bae – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 12 – 114m A disparate group of tomb raiders attempt to outwit each other to find and obtain a valuable archaeological artifact in this lightweight, comedy caper – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival which runs in cinemas from Thursday, November […]

Animation Movies Shorts

The End

Director – Wiebe Bonnema – 2019 – Netherlands – 4m 36s ***** From the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival I had to blink while I was watching this. Its opening two minutes play out like the animated title sequence of a spaghetti Western, and if you’ve seen a few of those you’ll know that a […]

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