Tag: truth

Disclosure Day

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Post date June 9 2026
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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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Animation Features Movies

The Most Precious
of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
des Marchandises)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 3 2025
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of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
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Director – Michel Hazanavicius – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** In Winter in a forest, a poor woodcutter’s wife rescues an abandoned baby thrown from a passing train and, despite her husband’s misgivings, raises the girl as her own – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 4th Once […]

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Features Live Action Movies

The Teachers’ Lounge
(Das Lehrerzimmer)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 11 2024
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(Das Lehrerzimmer)
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Director – Ilker Çatak – 2023 – Germany – Cert. 12a – 98m **** 1/2 A new teacher at a school where petty thefts have been taking place for some time makes some bad decisions which put her in a very difficult place – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 12th Schoolboy Lukas (Okar […]

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Monster
(Kaibutsu,
怪物)

Director – Hirokazu Kore-eda – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 126m **** The mother of a school pupil believes her son is being abused by his teacher, who in turn protests his own innocence, yet the truth is more complex – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 15th A movie at once […]

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Lost In The Stars
(Xiao Shi De Ta,
消失的她)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 14 2023
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(Xiao Shi De Ta,
消失的她)
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Directors – Cui Rui, Liu Xiang – 2022 – China – Cert. 15 – 121m ***** A man’s wife vanishes and is replaced by an imposter; when no-one believes him, he hires a hotshot lawyer to find out what’s happening and get his real wife back – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 14th […]

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Let it Ghost
(Meng Gui 3 Bao,
猛鬼3寶)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 13 2023
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(Meng Gui 3 Bao,
猛鬼3寶)
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Director – Wong Hoi – 2022 – Hong Kong – 100m *** Three unlikely ghost stories from Hong Kong: an actor shoots a ghost scene with a real ghost, a young man’s girlfriend is possessed by a ‘horny ghost’, and a sweet romance develops as a cute little girl haunts a shopping mall – plays […]

Tags actor, anthology, artifice, Ashina Kwok, bailiff, Candice Yu On On, car accident, catchphrase, celebrity, convicts, Cyrus Cheung, director, effects animation, evildoers, fame, film set, film shoot, film within a film, Focus Hong Kong, Focus Hong Kong 2023, gender, gender fluidity, genre, genre bender, ghost, ghost story, girlfriend, homophobia, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Focus, Hong Kong Focus 2023, inmates, justice, Ken Law Ho-Ming, Lam Chin-ting, Leanne Lee, lease, Ling Man Lung, Locker Lam, Ng Cheuk Fai, portmanteau movie, postmodern, prison, public lavatory, reality, road accident, romance, security guard, sex, sex comedy, Sham Ka-ki, shopping centre, shopping mall, So Chi-ho, staycation, Taxi Driver, television series, tenant, tenant shopkeepers, traffic cop, truth, TV series, Wayii Cheng, Wong Hoi

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Reality

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 5 2023
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Interrogating the text RealityDirected by Tina SatterCertificate 12a, 83 minutesReleased 2 June A film named after not, as you might imagine, a state of truth, but a young woman, the main protagonist Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney). She works in a US security facility, translating documents from Farsi to English. The room in which she works […]

Animation Features Live Action Movies

Monty Python’s
Life Of Brian

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Post date April 7 2023
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Life Of Brian
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Director – Terry Jones – 1979 – UK – Cert. 12a – 93m **** An absurdist comedy about of Brian, Jesus Christ’s next-door neighbour, who falls in with left-wing activists, develops a religious following and ends up crucified – back out in UK cinemas in Glorious Standard Definition on Friday, April 7th Like The Last […]

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The Mauritanian

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 28 2021
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Director – Kevin Macdonald – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 129m **** A pro bono lawyer defends a post-9/11 terrorist suspect in Guantánamo Bay against his US Army prosecutor – plays Curzon Home Cinema rental from Monday, October 4th Based on a true story, this kicks off in Mauritania, North West Africa in […]

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Real

Director – Aki Omoshaybi – 2019 – UK – Cert. 15 – 78m *** Boy meets girl but both are embarrassed by their economic circumstances so pretend to be much better off than they are – in cinemas and on BFI Player and Sky Store from Friday, September 11th Kyle (director Aki Omoshaybi) and Jamie […]