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Tron: Ares

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Post date October 10 2025
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Director – Joachim Rønning – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 119m A CEO uses robots and vehicles from the digital world, which disintegrate after 29 minutes, to hunt down his corporate rival – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 10th **** Third movie in Disney’s Tron franchise doesn’t presuppose much knowledge of the […]

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One Battle After Another

Director – Paul Thomas Anderson – 2025 – US – Cert. 12A – 161m ***** Over a decade after they disappeared into a safe town with new identities, a father and now-teenage daughter are tracked down by their army officer nemesis… – one of the most extraordinary Warner Bros. action movies you’ve ever seen is out in […]

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On Swift Horses

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Post date September 5 2025
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Director – Daniel Minahan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** A husband’s dreams are undermined in 1950s America by the separate lives and desires of his secretly racetrack-gambling wife and his reappearing, disappearing drifter-gambler brother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 5th Lee Walker (Will Poulter from Warfare, Alex […]

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Weapons

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Post date August 8 2025
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Director – Zach Cregger – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 128m **** One night, all but one of the children in one class in the town school disappear into the dark, leaving the townsfolk baffled as to what happened to them… – Fortean-sounding mystery is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 8th […]

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The Road to Patagonia

Director – Matty Hannon – 2022 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 90m **** A keen surfer and former ecology student from Australia sets out on a motorbike journey from Alaska down the West coast of the Americas to Patagonia – out on digital on Monday, July 28th The family of Australian moving picture diarist […]

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The Bad Guys 2

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Post date July 25 2025
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Director – Pierre Perifel Co-Director JP Sans – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 104m **** A criminal gang of animals led by a wolf mastermind attempts to go straight but are extorted into doing one last job – animated feature sequel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 25th Like its predecessor, […]

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Gazer

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Post date July 25 2025
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Director – Ryan J. Sloan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m *** A single-parent mum, unable to make sense of the passing of time, struggles to get by and find the money to get out of town with her child – largely incomprehensible yet strangely compelling, urban, neo-noir thriller is out in […]

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Jurassic World Rebirth

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Post date July 1 2025
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Director – Gareth Edwards – 2025 – US – Cert. – 134m *** A group of mercenary hunters and a traumatised family find themselves on an equatorial island populated by mutant dinosaurs – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, July 2nd The difficult seventh movie, made on a shorter production schedule than its predecessors – […]

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The Road to Patagonia

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Post date June 23 2025
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Directed by Matty HannonCertificate 1590 minutesReleased 27 June In his mid-20s, former ecology student and keen surfer Matty Hannon returns to Melbourne, Australia. For five years, from age 21 to 26, he has lived alongside one of Indonesia’s Sumatran Island tribes, a utopia where people live in harmony with nature, assigning spirit gods to rivers […]

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Elio

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Post date June 18 2025
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Directors – Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 99m **** An alien-obsessed orphan, whose aunt tracks space debris for NASA, makes contact with aliens – latest Disney / Pixar romp is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 20th Young lad Elio Solis (voice: Yonas Kibreab) has […]

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