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The Balloonists

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 20 2026
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Director – John Dower – 2025 – UK, Austria, US – Cert. PG – 86m **** The story of balloonist Bertrand Piccard’s three attempts to circumnavigate the globe in a balloon – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 22nd Bertrand Piccard’s house, as his astonished interviewer notes, is a museum, a personal collection of memorabilia […]

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Wuthering Heights
(2026)

Director – Emerald Fennell – 2026 – UK – Cert. 15 – 136m ***1/2 NSFW Emily Brontë’s beloved fantasy romance gets a modern makeover with lashings of sex including some S&M – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 13th The late eighteenth century. A man is publicly hanged in a town square, with crowds in […]

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Bring Them Down

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 7 2025
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Director – Chris Andrews – 2024 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 105m ** A feud between two neighbouring, Irish sheep farmers is made worse by toxic masculinity on both sides– out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, February 7th Two women in a car are being driven down an isolated country road. The […]

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Rumours
(2024)

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Post date October 12 2024
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Director – Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson – 2024 – Germany, Canada – Cert. 15 – 109m ****1/2 The G7 leaders meet at a summit only to find themselves trapped in the woods following an apocalyptic event – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 6th Every so often, the leaders of the world’s […]

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The Body
(2024)
(Il Corpo)

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Post date November 18 2024
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Director – Vincenzo Alfieri – 2024 – Italy – 115m ***** The body of a rich industrialist’s wife vanishes from the morgue after her death – stylish giallo premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival An unashamed genre piece, The Body is a giallo – an Italian crime […]

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Twister

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Post date July 16 2024
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Director – Jan de Bont – 1996 – US – Cert. PG – 108m Film ** Special Effects (the twisters themselves) ***** 1996 review for long defunct website London Calling Internet A twister, as lovers of The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) will know, is a tornado that snatches up objects in its path […]

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Sorcery (Brujería)

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Post date June 13 2024
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Director – Christopher Murray – 2023 – Chile, Mexico, Germany – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** When the father of an indigenous Christian convert is murdered by her German Christian employer’s dogs, her thirst for justice leads her to employ occult folk magic against his family – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th […]

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Typhoon Club
(Taifu Kurabu,
台風クラブ)

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Post date April 3 2024
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(Taifu Kurabu,
台風クラブ)
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Director – Shinji Somai – 1985 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 115m ***** A group of teenagers is trapped inside their school by a typhoon – screenings around the UK and Ireland from Wednesday, April 3rd; also available on Blu-ray from Third Window Films A film about teenagers which uses tropical weather conditions – […]

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Concrete Utopia
(Konkeuriteu Yutopia,
콘크리트 유토피아)

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Post date April 1 2024
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Director – Eom Tae-hwa – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 130m ****1/2 A massive earthquake makes the residents of the sole Seoul apartment block still standing close their doors to survivors outside – out on UK digital platforms on Monday, April 1st Concrete: a structural material made of aggregate, cement, and water. […]

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“i know
where i’m going!”
(IKWIG)

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Post date October 16 2023
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Producers-Writers-Directors – The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) – 1945 – UK – Cert. PG – 92m ***** A London banker’s daughter’s determined to marry her wealthy fiancé on an Hebridean island has reckoned without the weather and other local factors preventing her from doing so – engaging romantic drama is out in UK […]

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