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The Regulars

Director – Fil Freitas – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12 tbc – 105m ***1/2 A single day shift in the working life of the staff at London’s legendary Prince Charles Cinema – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 22nd 2019, that halcyon time before the global pandemic. Independent repertory cinemas struggle on, their […]

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Gran Turismo

Director – Neill Blomkamp – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 135m *** ½ Facebook.com/GranTurismoFilm #GranTurismoMovie You can with a Nissan. A Welsh, gaming obsessive is recruited by a PR executive from Japanese car manufacturer Nissan to train as a professional Grand Prix driver – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 11th Cardiff […]

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Breaking The Waves

Director – Lars von Trier – 1996 – Denmark, Sweden, France, Norway, Finland, Italy, Germany, US – Cert. 18 – 160m ***** NSFW. A mentally vulnerable, young woman in an austere Scots religious community marries an outsider only for her husband to be severely injured working on an oil rig – out in a 4K […]

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The Deer King
(Shika No Ou:
Yuna To Yakusoku
No Tabi,
鹿の王 ユナと約束
の旅)

Directors – Masashi Ando, Masayuki Miyaji – 2022 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 113m ** The conquerors of a foreign land succumb to a mysterious plague there – out in cinemas on Wednesday, July 27th This starts off with clearly epic intentions by throwing line after line of convoluted plot at the viewer in […]

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Compartment
No. 6
(Hytti Nro 6)

Director – Juho Kuosmanen – 2021 – Finland – Cert. 15 – 107m ***** A student taking a long, sleeper train from Moscow to the Arctic finds herself sharing a compartment with a drunken male slob – out in cinemas on Friday, April 8th Finnish archaeology student Laura (Seidi Haarla) lives in Moscow with her […]

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Giraffe

Director – Anna Sofie Hartmann – 2019 – Germany, Denmark – 82m **** On MUBI from Thursday, August 6th. As part of a series of films from the 2019 Locarno Film Festival. There is a beautiful, lengthy shot of a giraffe at the start. Beyond that, it’s hard to know why it’s called that. No […]