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Two Way Stretch

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Post date August 14 2025
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Director – Robert Day – 1960 – UK – Cert. U – 78m **** Three prisoners plot a heist with the perfect alibi… that they are incarcerated in prison at the time – classic British prison comedy is out on UK Blu-ray on Monday, August 4th Very much of its time, this British prison comedy […]

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Nightwatch
(Nattevagten)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 14 2024
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(Nattevagten)
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Director – Ole Bornedal – 1994 – Denmark – Cert. 18 – 107m ***** Strange goings-on take place in a morgue after a law student takes on the nightwatchman’s job – out on Shudder UK from Friday, May 17th Two male students Jens (Kim Bodnia) and Martin (Nikolaj Coster Waldau) make a pact: they are […]

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Nightwatch:
Demons Are Forever
(Nattevagten –
Dæmoner Går i Arv)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 21 2024
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Demons Are Forever
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Director – Ole Bornedal – 2023 – Denmark – 110m ****1/2 A law student’s daughter takes on his old morgue nightwatchman’s job to find out about the killer who traumatised her parents – out on Shudder UK from Friday, May 17th WARNING: don’t watch this sequel until you’ve seen the original Nightwatch (1994). That’s easy […]

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Typist Artist Pirate King

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 27 2023
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Director – Carol Morley – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 106m ****1/2 Road movie in which her psychiatric nurse drives an artist with mental health issues from London to an open entry exhibition in the North – in cinemas from Friday, October 27th following premieres in the 2023 Raindance Film Festival (UK premiere) […]

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Bolan’s Shoes

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Post date September 15 2023
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Director – Ian Puleston-Davies – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m **** Two traumatised siblings reconnect as adults years after a childhood coach crash coming back from a Liverpudlian orphanage trip to a T.Rex gig in the 1970s – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 15th *** SPOILER ALERT *** Picture black. […]

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Men

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 31 2022
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Director – Alex Garland – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m *** An urban woman dealing with separation and bereavement encounters several men with the same face in an English village – out in cinemas on Wednesday, June 1st A face passes before the eyes of Harper (Jessie Buckley) as her husband James […]

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The Banishing

Director – Christopher Smith – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m ***1/2 A vicar, his wife and their daughter move into a haunted rectory which seems to be out to get them – on digital platforms from Friday, March 26th and Shudder from Thursday, April 15th The Rev Stanley Hall (Matthew Clarke) is […]