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Disclosure Day

Director – Steven Spielberg – 2026 – US – Cert. 12A – 145m The first two hours ***** The last half hour *** Hoping to reveal to mankind the hitherto censored truth about aliens visiting Earth, a man and a woman flee their pursuers across the United States – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, […]

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D is for Distance

Director – Chris Petit, Emma Mathews – 2025 – Finland – Cert. 12A – 88m **** A diary film about a boy with epilepsy, his interior world, and parenting – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 3rd Opening and closing, more or less, with one of the quieter themes from Once Upon a Time in the […]

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Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)

Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]

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All of Us Strangers

Director – Andrew Haigh – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 105m ***** A gay Londoner travels by train to visit his parents in Sanderstead, following their deaths in a car crash when he was 12 years old – plays one night only, Sunday, February 8th, 6.45pm, as part of Film Tottenham He (Andrew Scott) […]

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Lollipop

Director – Daisy-May Hudson – 2024 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** After four months in prison, a young woman must deal with the UK’s social services to regain custody of her kids – on BBC iPlayer from Friday, January 16th East Londoner Molly (Posy Sterling) leaves prison following a four-month sentence to […]

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Sister Midnight

Director – Karan Kandhari – 2024 – UK, Sweden, India – Cert. 15 – 110m ***1/2 A young woman in an arranged marriage discovers herself to be a creature of the night… and one of the undead – genre-bender is out on UK digital from Wednesday, June 18th A young woman travels cross-country by train, […]

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Fountain of Youth
(2025)

Director – Guy Ritchie – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 126m * Two estranged, treasure-hunting siblings, with the help of a rich backer, pursue the trail towards the life-giving water source of legend, pursued by forces that want to prevent them from doing so – premieres globally on Apple TV+ from Friday, May […]

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All We Imagine as Light

Director – Payal Kapadia – 2024 – France, India, Luxembourg, Netherlands – Cert. 15 – 118m ***** The lives, loves and challenges of three women working in a hospital in Mumbai – on UK Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) from Monday, March 3rd, on BFI Player from Monday, February 17th, and on iTunes and Amazon Prime […]

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Afternoon Clouds

Director – Payal Kapadia – 2017 – India – 13m ***** An old woman, her home and her cat interact in the former’s coastal flat – Kapadia’s first short evidences a sensibility which will inform her debut feature All We Imagine as Light – on the UK Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) of All We Imagine […]