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Primate

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 29 2026
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Director – Johannes Roberts – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 89m ****1/2 A girl and her friends discover her family’s pet chimp has turned violent and trapped them in the house – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 30th Coming in commendably under 90 minutes, this is a hugely effective thriller about people […]

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Dark Star

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 10 2025
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Director – John Carpenter – 1974 – US – Cert. PG – 83m (71m Directors Cut) ***** Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star Director – Daniel Griffith – 2010 – US – 118 mins ***** A bored crew of astronauts travel through space blowing up unstable planets – out now as a 4K […]

Tags action figure, alien, astronauts, beach ball, Bill Taylor, bomb bay, bomb timer, bored, Brian Narelle, Cal Cuniholm, cognitive bomb, comedy, control room, Cookie Knapp, crew, Crohn’s disease, cryogenically frozen, cryogenics, cut-out animation, Dan O'Bannon, Daniel Griffith, Dark Star, detonation schedule, Diane O'Bannon, diary entry, documentary, Douglas Knapp, Dre Pahich, eight-track cartridge, explosion, feed, film student, Greg Jein, Jack H. Harris, Jeff Burr, Joe Saunders, John Carpenter, keyboard, lift, lift interior, lift shaft, Major Matt Mason, malfunctioning seat circuit, Mattel, model, model work, musician, Nick Castle, optical effects, production assistant, sci-fi, ship’s chicken food, ship’s computer, ship’s mascot, space travel, special effects, student film, Tommy Lee Wallace, trap, travel, unstable planet, US, use only at sub light velocity

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Bambi:
a Tale of Life in the Woods
(Bambi,
l’histoire d’une Vie
dans les Bois)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 15 2025
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a Tale of Life in the Woods
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Director – Michel Fessler – 2024 – France – Cert. PG – 78m ***** The woods. A faun is born, looked after by its mother, and learns to fend for itself – remarkable live action adaptation of Bambi, shot with real live animals, is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 15th It’s inevitable that […]

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Mission: Impossible
The Final Reckoning

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 21 2025
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The Final Reckoning
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Director – Christopher McQuarrie – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 163m ***** Tom Cruise’s eighth and director Christopher McQuarrie’s fourth Mission: Impossible outing delivers up to par globe-trotting action set pieces and considerably more plot than last time – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 21st When Tom Cruise made his first […]