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Nomadland

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Post date May 17 2021
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Director – Chloé Zhao – 2020 – US – Cert. 12a – 107m ****1/2 A poor widow drives around the US in her van picking up casual work where she can get it, meeting and making friends with other vandwellers – on VoD, in cinemas from Monday, May 17th There’s a restlessness about Nomadland. In […]

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Promising
Young Woman

Director – Emerald Fennell – 2020 – US – Cert. US R – 113m ***** A med school dropout seeks revenge on the students and others complicit in her best friend’s rape years before – on Sky Cinema and Now from Friday, April 16th Cassie (Carey Mulligan) goes to bars, gets wasted and is picked […]

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Once Upon a Time
in China
(Wong Fei Hung,
黃飛鴻)

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Post date April 3 2021
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in China
(Wong Fei Hung,
黃飛鴻)

Director – Tsui Hark – 1991 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 135m ****1/2 Groundbreaking, period martial arts epic features some of the most spectacular stunt sequences ever filmed, spawned five sequels and made Jet Li a star – online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2021 Easter from Wednesday, March […]

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The Dissident

Spiritual wickedness The DissidentDirected by Bryan FogelCertificate 12 (Amazon advisory), 119 minutesReleased on Amazon Prime Video in the UK and Ireland from April 1st 2021 On 2 October 2018, the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Turkey to obtain a marriage licence. He never came out. It later transpired that Khashoggi […]

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Ishiro Honda
Double Feature
The H Man
(Bijo
To Ekitai-ningen,
美女と液体人間)
and
Battle
In Outer Space
(Uchu Daisenso,
宇宙大戦争)

The H Man ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1958 – Japan – Cert. X – 86m Battle in Outer Space ***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1959 – Japan – Cert. U – 90m Alongside the standalone release of Mothra (1961) comes a double bill of two more Toho science fiction movies directed by […]

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Battle
In Outer Space
(Uchu Daisenso,
宇宙大戦争,
lit. The Great Space War)

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Post date March 31 2021
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In Outer Space
(Uchu Daisenso,
宇宙大戦争,
lit. The Great Space War)

***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1959 – Japan – Cert. U – 90m Battle In Outer Space is one of those films that paints on a bigger canvas and sacrifices character development in favour of big-screen visual spectacle, brought to life with state-of-the-art special effects. According to Kalat, the film owes much to the […]

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Judas
And The
Black Messiah

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Post date March 12 2021
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Black Messiah
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Director – Shaka King – 2021 – US – Cert. 12 – 126m ****1/2 The FBI recruit a small-time thief to infiltrate the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers and report on rising political leader and activist Fred Hampton – two-time Oscar winner is on digital from Monday, April 26th This cleverly and skilfully plays […]

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First Cow

Director – Kelly Reichardt – 2019 – US – Cert. N/C 15+ – 122m ***1/2 Western (set in Oregon!) in which a drifter and an immigrant join forces to surreptitiously milk a rich man’s first cow and better their lot – in UK cinemas from Friday, May 28th A woman with a dog (Alia Shawcat) […]

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The Dissident

Director – Bryan Fogel – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** An investigation into the state-sanctioned killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey in 2018 – on Amazon Prime from Thursday, April 1st If you had to use a single phrase to describe this documentary, it […]

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Mothra
(Mosura,
モスラ)

Director – Ishiro Honda – 1961 – Japan – Cert. PG – 101m ***** Giant moth attacks Tokyo to save fairies. Someone had a meeting about that. You’d be forgiven for assuming Mothra (1961) a typical Toho monster movie in which a giant moth attacks Tokyo. Yet the film single-handedly redefined the genre much as […]