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Chicken Run

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 6 2023
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Producer-Directors: Nick Park, Peter Lord – Producer – David Sproxton – 2000 – UK – Cert. PG – 84m ***** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Plasticene stop-frame animation house Aardman Animations’ debut feature film reconceives The Great Escape with chickens – back out in UK cinemas from Friday, 24th July Aardman […]

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China Sea
(Kinų Jūra)

Director – Jurgis Matulevičius – 2025 – Lithuania, Taiwan, Poland, Czechia – 96m ***** A former champion kickboxer whose career has been destroyed by his poor anger management attempts to find direction in life – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival World champion kickboxer Osvald Gurevicious (Marius Rapsys) has it all, but […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

How to Train Your Dragon
(2025)

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Post date June 9 2025
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(2025)
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Director – Dean DeBlois – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 125m **** Instead of fighting dragons like other viking teenagers, Hiccup shoots a dragon out of the sky then secretly trains it as his steed– live action remake of animated classic is out in UK cinemas from Monday, June 9th Following in the […]

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Ballerina
(2025)

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Post date June 6 2025
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(2025)
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Director – Len Wiseman – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 125m ***** A young, female assassin seeks out the man behind the organisation that killed her father – John Wick franchise spin-off is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 6th While the Bond movie No Time To Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021) […]

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Belleville Rendez-Vous
(US: The Triplets of Belleville,
Les Triplettes de Belleville)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 3 2024
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(US: The Triplets of Belleville,
Les Triplettes de Belleville)

Director – Sylvain Chomet – 2003 – France – Cert. 12a – 80m***** Hailing from France, this animated fable is a heady concoction of nightclub singers, long distance cyclists, doting matriarchs and ruthless mobsters – out in UK cinemas from Friday, August 23rd, 2003 Like the animator’s earlier short The Old Lady And The Pigeons […]

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Boy Kills World

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 23 2024
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Director – Moritz Mohr – 2023 – Germany, US, South Africa – Cert. 18 – 111m ***1/2 Relentless, non-stop action via a deaf-mute, orphaned kid, schooled in martial arts, returning to the city as a grown man to wreak vengeance on those who killed his family – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 26th […]

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Next Goal Wins
(2014)

Directors – Mike Brett, Steve Jamison – 2014 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m ***** DVD review for Third Way, 2014. In 2001, American Samoa suffered the worst ever defeat for a soccer team in a World Cup qualifier when they lost to Australia by a staggering 31 goals to nil. Ten years later, […]

Tags American Samoa, capitalism, Christianity, fa’afafine, football, football team, Jaiyah Saelua, Mike Brett, Nicky Salapu, soccer, Steve Jamison, Thomas Rongen, training, UK, Western capitalism, winning, World Cup

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Her Body
(Její Telo)

Director – Natálie Císarovská – 2023 – Czechia, Slovakia – Cert. 18 – 105m **** Olympic diving champion Andrea Absolonová, forced by injury to abandon that career, reinvents herself as a porn actress – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Based on the real life story of […]

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Lessons of Tolerance
(Uroky Tolerantnosti)

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Post date November 10 2023
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(Uroky Tolerantnosti)
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Director – Arkadii Nepytaliuk – 2023 – Ukraine – Cert. none – 95m ***** To help pay off her family’s debt with the accompanying grant, an exasperated teacher enlists her sceptical family in a state LGBT+ awareness training course – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition in the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival NSFW. […]

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Small, Slow But Steady
(Keiko,
Me Wo Sumasete,
ケイコ目を澄ませて)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 29 2023
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(Keiko,
Me Wo Sumasete,
ケイコ目を澄ませて)
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Director – Sho Miyake – 2022 – Japan, France – Cert. 12 – 99m The first half hour **** The rest ***1/2 A completely deaf, young woman trains in the boxing ring at the local gym and turns professional, but when the gym’s closure is announced, she loses the focus needed to carry on – […]