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Kinaesthesia

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 17 2026
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Director – Gerald Fox – 2026 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m **1/2 A journey through the dream imagery of silent cinema and its cinematographic effects, augmented by present day stagings before the camera – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 17th Long fascinated by dream imagery in cinema, director Fox attended the Harvard course run […]

Tags aesthesis, art practice, China, cinema, cinema experience, cinematograph, cinematographic effects, double exposure, dream imagery, fantasy, farce, film theory, France, Gerald Fox, German expressionism, German expressionist cinema, Germany, Harvard, Harvard course, impression of movement, Japan, Kinaesthesia, kine, lamppost, montage, movement, nightmare, optical tricks, painted backgrounds, Parisian art movement, photographic backgrounds, photographic naturalism, Professor of Film Studies, Russia, Scandinavia, sensation, sensation of movement, sensors in the viewer’s mind, silent cinema, silent cinema influence on sound cinema, silent era techniques, stage director, stagings before the camera, top-hat-and-tails, UK, US, Vlada Petrić. documentary essay

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Orwell: 2+2=5

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Post date March 27 2026
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Director – Raoul Peck – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 119m ****1/2 A primer on the life and work of George Orwell, particularly Nineteen Eighty-Four, and its relevance to today’s post-truth world – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th This belongs to the school of documentary which creates a film out of assembling fragments […]

Tags alter reality, Animal Farm, archive, atrocities, bad conscience, Berlin, book-burning, books banned, Burma, Chile, Damian Lewis, dictatorships, Eric Arthur Blair, found footage, four fingers, Freedom is Slavery, Gaza, George Orwell, Germany, governments, health issues, Ignorance is Strength, imperialism, Indian Imperial Police, Israel, Jura, lies and truth, London, machinery of despotism, manipulate, marching geese, Mariupol, military parades, Myanmar, Nazi Germany, Netenyahu, Newspeak, Nineteen Eighty-Four, ordinary lying, Orwell, Orwell Estate, Orwell: 2+2=5, Outpost of Empire, political language, political predilection, post-truth, POUM, propaganda footage, Putin, Raoul Peck, Ronald Pickup, Russia, Scotland, slogans, Spanish Civil War, storming the White House, the Party, totalitarian states, Trump, tuberculosis, Ukraine, University College Hospital, US, war effort, War is Peace

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They Will Kill You

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Post date March 26 2026
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Director – Kirill Sokolov – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 94m **** A young woman, searching from her missing sister, takes a job as a cleaner in a mysterious, wealthy, New York apartment block – horror action movie is out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th This has been sold as a horror […]

Tags abusive father, action, Alex Litvak, apartment block, attack, barricade, blood, building superintendent, cleaner, conspiracy, conspiracy thriller, cut-away wall, devil, extreme, fight, fire, gore, grocery store, Heather Graham, hooded cape, horror, horror action, human sacrifice, Irish, James Remar, Kirill Sokolov, landlord, lift shaft, lobby, maid, missing sister, Myha’la, mysterious, New York, offering, on the run, optic nerve, paranoia, Paterson Joseph, Patricia Arquette, pig-mask, pig’s head on a stick, raining, Samurai lighter, Satanic, severed eyeball, sex orgy, shower, sisters, steamed-up mirror, stunt choreography, sword, tenant, They Will Kill You, thriller, Tom Felton, trapdoor, underfloor crawlway system, US, ventilation system, violence, wealthy, Zazie Beetz

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Underland

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Post date March 26 2026
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Director – Rob Petit – 2025 – US, UK – Cert. 12a – 79m *** Three separate journeys beneath the Earth’s surface in the company of an archaeologist, a particle physicist and an urban explorer – had its sold out UK Premiere at the Barbican on Tuesday, March 24th and is out in UK cinemas on […]

Tags abandoned, archaeologist, atom bomb, beam of light, beneath the Earth’s surface, bomb shelter, boundaries, Bradley Garrett, broken fridge, burial, cave, chamber, charcoal, city, civilization, concrete, cow falling, dark matter, darkness, deep, deep mine, drainage, drains, earlier generations, Earth, entrance to the Underworld, experiment, exploration, Fátima Tec Pool, feeling of freedom, firelight, flash flood, frustration, future generations, hands on walls, Hannah Peel, hole by the tree, human beings, impression, interference, journey, Las Vegas, life form, light beam, London, low oxygen, man-made, manhole cover, map, Mariangela Lisanti. Canada, Mexico, mine, mining cage, narrow passages, narrow space, networks of caves, nuclear waste, odours, plunder, poverty below ground, radiation, rain, recurring dream, research facility, Rob Petit, rubbish, search, seek the void, sensitive experiment, sewage, skyscrapers, smell, SNOLAB, species, stalk, storage, storm drain, storm drains, technology, the living and the dead, theoretical particle physicist, touch the shadows, toxic waste, trapped, trash, tunnel, two kilometres down, UK, underground, underground exploration, Underland, underworld, unknown, Uranium, urban explorer, urban explorers, US, veins pumping, warning signs, wealth, writer, Yucatán Peninsular

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Project Hail Mary

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Post date March 18 2026
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Directors – Phil Lord, Christopher Miller – 2026 – US – Cert. 12a – 156m ***** Hail Mary, Full of Grace. A school teacher is sent to a star 12 light years from Earth to determine why it is surviving the emergent life form killing all other stars, including our sun – out in UK […]

Tags . unshakeable belief, academic paper, administrator, aircraft carrier, alien technology, Amy Pascal, Andy Weir, Astrophage, Blip A, breed, captain, caree, catch, Christopher Miller, communicate with him, conference of scientists, crew, cryogenic sleep, debate, died in their sleep, dimming star, double act, Drew Goddard, Earth, eat stars, embrace difference, emergent life form, Eridian, exchange names, five legs, Hail Mary, incoming object, intractable opposition, James Ortiz, Ken Leung, life-forms, light years, Lionel Boyce, long shot, memories, middle school teacher, Milana Vayntrub, mission, molecular biologist, novelist, one-way mission, Petrova line, Phil Lord, pilot, Priya Kansara, Project Hail Mary, projectile, rapid cooling of the Earth, rocket fuel, rocks, rocky, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Hüller, school teacher, sci-fi, science, science fiction, security, SF, ship’s computer, single cell organism, sleep chambers, spacesuit, spider, star, Star Virus, sun, sun dimming, US, Venus, walkway, work together

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A Pale View of Hills
(Toi Yamanamino Hikari,
遠い山なみの光)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 12 2026
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(Toi Yamanamino Hikari,
遠い山なみの光)
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Director – Kei Ishikawa – 2025 – UK, Japan, Poland – Cert. 12a – 123m From the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro ***1/2 An aspiring journalist in 1982 England delves into her mother’s past life in 1952 Nagasaki and unearths dark family secrets – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th As will be seen from the above logline description, this essentially […]

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The Testament
of Ann Lee

Directed by Mona FastvoldCertificate 15130 minutesReleased 27 February and on Disney+ from 13 May Few films accurately chronicle a specific, historical Christian sect, fewer still do so as a musical. I knew virtually nothing about the Shakers, before seeing The Testament of Ann Lee, which is based on a true story. | found much to admire […]

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Scream 7

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Post date February 26 2026
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Director – Kevin Williamson – 2026 – US – Cert. 18 – 114m **** A survivor from the original murder spree tries to protect her 17-year-old daughter from the recently reappeared killer – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 27th This cleverly plays to both anyone who has followed the Scream franchise since its inception and […]

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Sinners

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Post date February 26 2026
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Director – Ryan Coogler – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 138m ***** In 1932, a young blues guitarist finds himself out of his depth when two brothers open a juke joint which comes unexpectedly under siege from supernatural forces – plays one night only, Sunday, March 1st, 6.30pm, as part of Film Tottenham following […]

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Crime 101

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Post date February 14 2026
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Director – Bart Layton – 2025 – US, UK – Cert. 15 – 140m ***** A high class lone operator thief and the rigorously analytical cop on his trail cross paths with a disillusioned insurance saleswoman to the wealthy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 13th As coloured dots come into focus, they are revealed […]

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