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Moana
(2026)

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Post date July 10 2026
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Director – Thomas Kail – 2026 – US – Cert. PG – 115m ***1/2 Disney’s live action remake of its Polynesian heroine mythological romp – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 10th It’s a curious experience watching Disney’s live action remake of Moana (John Musker, Ron Clements, 2016), one of the Studio’s better animated movies of recent years. […]

Animation Features Movies

Arco
(Arco)

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Post date March 17 2026
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Director – Ugo Bienvenu – 2025 – France – Cert. PG – 82m French with subtitles (not in UK cinemas) ***** English dubbed version (in UK cinemas) ****1/2 A boy from the far future attempts time travel too young and gets stranded in an earlier time – animated SF feature is out in UK cinemas on […]

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Features Live Action Movies

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 […]

Animation Features Movies

The Lord
of the Rings:
The War
of the Rohirrim

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Post date December 12 2024
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The War
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Director – Kenji Kamiyama – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 134m **** A story of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth, set around 200 years before The Lord of the Rings – English language anime is out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 13th This narrative is based on one of the appendices in J.R.R. Tolkien’s […]

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A Quiet Place
Day One

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Post date June 28 2024
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Day One
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Director – Michael Sarnoski – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** A terminally ill woman returns to the New York of her childhood as hostile aliens land and start wreaking havoc – franchise prequel is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 28th Another attempt to duplicate the success of […]

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Ponyo
(Gake no Ue no Ponyo,
崖の上のポニョ,
lit. Ponyo on the Cliff)

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Post date August 1 2024
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(Gake no Ue no Ponyo,
崖の上のポニョ,
lit. Ponyo on the Cliff)

Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2008 – Japan – Cert. U – 103m ***** A girl fish spirit takes on human form to become a companion to a human boy – reviewed for Third Way, February 2010 Miyazaki’s animated filmography prior to international crossover item Spirited Away (2001) has scarcely graced UK screens, despite colossal […]

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Jackdaw

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Post date January 24 2024
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Director – Jamie Childs – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m ** When ex-British army mercenary Jack Dawson – a.k.a. Jackdaw – retrieves a package from the North Sea for a client, things go horribly wrong, forcing him to go through the North East in search of answers – British action thriller is […]

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The Dive

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Post date August 23 2023
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Director – Maximilian Erlenwein – 2022 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 91m ***1/2 Two women go diving near a remote stretch of coastline and find themselves in trouble – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 25th following its UK Premiere at Frightfest on Thursday, August 24th Opening with an image of light shining […]

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

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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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Weathering With You
(Tenki No Ko,
天気の子,
lit. Child Of Weather)

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Post date April 3 2023
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(Tenki No Ko,
天気の子,
lit. Child Of Weather)

Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2019 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 112m ***1/2 A runaway teenage boy in a constantly raining Tokyo falls for a girl who can replace rain with sunshine – Makoto Shinkai’s feature returns to cinemas for one day only on Wednesday, April 5th, ahead of the release of Shinkai’s new […]