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It’s Never Over,
Jeff Buckley

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Post date February 13 2026
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Jeff Buckley
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Director – Amy Berg – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 106m ***1/2 A look at the life of the hugely talented singer / songwriter whose career in the 1990s was cut short by his untimely death – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 13th It’s tempting to place Jeff Buckley among the all […]

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Goat

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Post date February 13 2026
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Director – Tyree Dillihaye – Co-Director – Adam Rosette – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 100m *** A goat sets out to prove that despite being small he can play professional roarball just as well as the big guys who populate the sport – animated feature is out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 13th In a […]

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Primate

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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 […]

Tags aggressive, aggressor, airport, ape, ape suit, balcony, barefoot, Benjamin Cheng, bitten, broken glass, Charlie Mann, college girl, confined space, cranial impact, cranium, danger, deaf, disease, dream house, escape, falling, family, family chimp, family home, family pet, Gia Hunter, glass door, gore, gory, Hawaii, hazard, horror, house, house layout, jaw, Jessica Alexander, jocks, Johannes Roberts, Johnny Sequoyah, levels, lower floor, make up effects, mayhem, Miguel Torres Umba, mobile phone, mongoose, monster, mountainside house, Nadia Nansell, naturalism, nightmare, no way out, over the balcony, pet chimp, Peter Gvozdas, prosthetics, protagonists in peril, rabid, resourceful, resourceful girls, resourceful women, returning home, secluded, sisters, smartphone, spacious, Stephen Murphy, stunt double, suspense, suspense thriller, swimming pool, thriller, Tienne Simon, trap, trapped, Troy Kotsur, twentysomething, upper floor, US, vet, vetinary surgeon, Victoria Wyant, violence, violent, writer

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H is for Hawk

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Post date January 22 2026
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Director – Philippa Lowthorpe – 2025 – US, UK – Cert.12a – 115m ***** An academic grieving her recently deceased photojournalist father buys and trains a goshawk then turns in on herself – adaptation of bestselling memoir is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd Helen (Claire Foy) phones her dad to tell him she’s […]

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The History of Sound

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Post date January 23 2026
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Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 128m **** A Kentucky man falls for a music professor in Boston and accompanies him on a field trip recording folk songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd In 1917, having grown up on a farmstead in rural Kentucky and […]

Tags 1910s, 1920s, 1980s, abusive relationship, academic holidays, army, assistant, bereavement, Boston, Briana Middleton, call up, catalog, catalogue, choir, Chris Cooper, church choir, collect, college, community, coughing, countryside, death of mother, Dion Graham, drafted, Emma Canning, England, ethnic, ethnomusicologist, eviction from the land, family farm, farm, field trip, fireman, folk songs, Frist World War, gay relationship, Hadley Robinson, hobby, indigenous, indigenous folk songs, Italy, Josh O’Connor, Kentucky, Lake District, letter, LGBTQ, LGBTQI, mail, Maine, Malaga Island, Michael Schantz, military draft, mixed black and white ethnic, Molly Price, mothers and sons, music, musicologist, negro spiritual, New England Conservatory of Music, obsession, Oliver Hermanus, Oxford University, paper candle, parents and children, Paul Mescal, performing, photographic memory: Silver Dagger, pianist, piano, police, policemen, poor people, porch, post-WW1, promote a book, pub, record, recording, relationships, Rome, rural, rural and urban, scholarship, sex, shell shock, socialite, song, song gathering, spiritual, stately mansion, student, suitcase, sweet-talking, tent, tenured academic, the happiest time of your life, The History of Sound, travelling, truncheon, tuberculosis, TV appearance, UK, US, war, wax cylinders, wax phonograph cylinders, widow, working the fields, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

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The Running Man
(2025)

Director – Edgar Wright – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 133m ***1/2 In an America controlled by a TV network producing violent game shows, a poor man signs on for its biggest show The Running Man whose contestants never come back – Stephen King adaptation available to buy on digital Tuesday, January 13th & to rent […]

Tags 29 days, 30 days, 48 hours, Arnold Schwarzenegger, baby, banknotes, blacklisted, car driver, Colman Domingo, contestant, contract, cross-country, Daniel Ezra, death, drone camera, dyke, Edgar Wright, Emilia Jones, fake ID, Free-Vee, game show, Glen Powell, hamster wheel, hostess club, hunt, hunter, hunting humans, Josh Brolin, Katy O’Brian, kill, lay low, Lee Pace, leftist radical, live audience, Martin Herlihy, medical costs, medical treatment, Michael Cera, podcast, postbox, poverty, pursuit, reality TV, selection programme, sickness, Stephen King, street child, survival, tenement, the poor, The Running Man, The Running Man (2025), theatre, TV network, US, VHS cassettes, video updates, violence, William H. Macy

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Oh, Canada

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Post date January 13 2026
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Director – Paul Schrader – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 94m From the novel by Russell Banks *** A documentary filmmaker dying of cancer consents to a filmed interview about his life and work to air his dirty laundry – on UK and Ireland digital platforms on Monday, January 12th “Remind me why I […]

Tags 1968, 24-year old, abandoning relationships, adaptation, adultery, ageing, artist, bad decisions, Calvinist upbringing, Canada, Caroline Dhavernas, CEO, Christian, Christianity, close to death, confession, conservative values, death, dirty laundry, disloyal, documentary, documentary films, draft dodger, dream sequence, dreams and reality, dying of cancer, exposing, extra-marital affair, family business, family home, family priest, father-in-law, fathers and sons, filmed interview, first novel, first wife, flashback, former student, frame device, frame story, good offer, high places, humanist, husbands and wives, imagined memory, in-laws, infidelities, investigative, Jacob Elordi, Jake Weary, Kristine Froseth, life and work, life decisions, loyalty, male heir, marital infidelities, Megan MacKenzie, memory, Michael Imperioli, miscarriage, morality, mortality, mother-in-law, novel, novelist, nurse, Paul Schrader, Penelope Mitchell, producer, production assistant, property, prosperity, relationships, religion, retrospective, Richard Gere, rite of Confession, Russell Banks, sex, sexism, Southern US, student conquest, talk things through, Uma Thurman, US, Vermont, Victoria Hill, Vietnam War, voice-over, wives, writer, wrongdoing, younger self, Zach Shaffer

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Top Ten Movies
(and more,
excluding re-releases)
2025

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 1 2026
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2025
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Work in progress – subject to change. Because I am still watching movies released in 2025, so it’s always possible that a new title could usurp the number one in due course. All numbered films received either a theatrical, online or home media release in the UK between 01/01/25 and 31/12/25. This version excludes re-releases […]

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Animation Art Documentary Features Live Action Movies Music Shorts Top Ten

Top Ten Movies
(and more)
2025

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 1 2026
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(and more)
2025

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Marty Supreme

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Post date December 24 2025
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Director – Josh Safdie – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 149m ***** In the 1950s, a young New Yorker with the odds against him is determined to become a top table tennis player – in cinemas from Friday, December 26th Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the 1950s. Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) has a dream. […]

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