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Islands
(2025)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 11 2025
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Director – Jan-Ole Gerster – 2025 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 123m ****1/2 A British ex-pat tennis coach working for a hotel on a sun-drenched island in the Canaries gets more than he bargained for when he befriends the couple whose young son he is coaching – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September […]

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On Swift Horses

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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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