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(コットンテール)

Director – Patrick Dickinson – 2023 – UK, Japan – Cert. 12a – 94m **** A Japanese widower comes to England to scatter his late wife’s ashes at Lake Windermere – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 14th Kenzaburo (Lily Franky from Shoplifters, 2018; After the Storm, 2016; Like Father, Like Son, 2013, all […]

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Nowhere to Hide
(Injeong Sajeong
Bol Geot Eobtda,
인정사정 볼 것 없다)

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Post date October 29 2024
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Director – Lee Myung-se – 1999 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 100m, 113m ***1/2 A cop determinedly pursues a gangland killer in a city where, since he committed the murder for which he is bing hunted, it always appears to be heavily raining – plays in Echoes In Time | Korean Films of […]

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Transformers One

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Post date October 11 2024
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Director – Josh Cooley – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 104m *** The origin story of the hero and villain of the Transformers in a long-distant past on their home planet – animated prequel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 11th In a city deep in the bowels of his planet, […]

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The Crazy Family
Gyakufunsha Kazoku,
逆噴射家族)

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Post date April 20 2024
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Gyakufunsha Kazoku,
逆噴射家族)
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Director – Sogo Ishii – 1984 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 105m ***** After proudly moving into their first home as owner-occupiers, a family go berserk and destroy the building – out on Blu-ray on Monday, June 17th This seemingly starts out as a conservative family drama. The family in question comprises father Katsukuni […]

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Kill

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Post date July 5 2024
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Director – Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – 2023 – India – Cert. 18 – 105m ***1/2 Trying to prevent the love of his life from becoming trapped in an arranged marriage, a commando finds himself on a train fighting a violent gang of bandits – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 5th Commando Amrit (Lakshya […]

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La Chimera
(La Chimera)

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Post date May 8 2024
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Director – Alice Rohrwacher – 2023 – Italy – Cert. 15 – 133m *** In an attempt to come to terms with his past, an ex-con returns to his home town, where he previously used to rob ancient artefacts from burial sites and graves – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 10th I wasn’t […]

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Spy x Family
Code: White
(SPY x FAMILY
CODE: White)

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Post date April 24 2024
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All images © 2023 SPY x FAMILY The Movie Project © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha

Directors – Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Takashi Karagiri – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12A – 111m ***** A spy and an assassin are married to each other, each unaware of the other’s secret career, while neither of them are aware their adopted daughter is a telepath who therefore knows everything they don’t – bonkers anime deploying […]

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Full Time
(À Plein Temps)

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Post date June 6 2023
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Director – Eric Gravel – 2021 – France – Cert. 12a – 87m ***** A single mum with two young kids struggles to hold her working life together in a Paris where the transport network in and out of the city is paralysed by strikes – on BBC iPlayer until end 2024 following its release […]

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SCALA!!!
Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits

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Post date January 2 2024
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Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m ***** From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th Whatever the strengths of this […]

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The Red Shoes

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Post date December 3 2023
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Producers-Writers-Directors – The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) – 1948 – UK – Cert. PG – 135m ***** A young dancer gives her all to the art of ballet, symbolised by the story’s centrepiece of the Ballet of the Red Shoes, in which the heroine is danced to death by the eponymous footwear – […]