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A Complete Unknown

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Post date 16 January 2025
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Director – James Mangold – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 141m ***** A feature narrative recreation of Bob Dylan’s career in New York up to the 1965 Newport Folk Festival gig where he switched acoustic guitar for electric – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 17th 1961. Carrying his acoustic guitar, complete […]

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The Girl
with the Needle
(Pigen med Nålen)

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Post date 9 January 2025
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with the Needle
(Pigen med Nålen)
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Director – Magnus Van Horn – 2024 – Denmark, Sweden, Poland – Cert. 15 – 123m ***** A young Copenhagen woman’s attempts to escape poverty following the Great War lead her into a dark nightmare – Denmark’s entry for Best International Feature is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, January 10th In the […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies Top Ten

Top Ten Movies (and more, excluding re-releases) 2024

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Post date 3 January 2025
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All films received either a theatrical or an online release in the UK between 01/01/24 and 31/12/24. Prior to 2020, I’d never included online releases (well, maybe the odd one or two as a special case) but that year saw the film distribution business turned upside down by COVID-19. The movie business is still changing, […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies Top Ten

Top Ten Movies
(and more)
2024

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date 3 January 2025
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(and more)
2024
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All films received either a theatrical or an online release in the UK between 01/01/24 and 31/12/24. This version includes re-releases, but those aren’t numbered. It’s hard to imagine movies improving on Miyazaki’s My Neighbour Totoro or Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. In addition to re-releases, this version also includes films seen in festivals which haven’t had […]

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Nosferatu
(2024)

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Post date 30 December 2024
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(2024)
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Director – Robert Eggers – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 132m ***** Unaware a woman has unwittingly summoned Count Orloc, her husband is sent to the latter’s castle in Transylvania – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, January 1st 2025 The German expressionist silent film Nosferatu (F.W. Murnau, 1922) has been described as […]

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12.12: The Day
(Seour-ui Bom,
서울의 봄,
lit. Seoul Spring)

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Post date 22 December 2024
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(Seour-ui Bom,
서울의 봄,
lit. Seoul Spring)
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Director – Kim Sung Soo – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 141m ***** In 1980, one Major General attempts to stop another from successfully orchestrating a military coup in South Korea – historical drama is South Korea’s entry for 2025 Best International Feature In the aftermath of the assassination of President Park […]

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Animation Features Movies

Wallace & Gromit
Vengeance Most Fowl

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Post date 16 December 2024
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Vengeance Most Fowl
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Directors – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham – 2024 – UK – Cert. U – 79m ***** Feathers McGraw returns to wreak havoc with Wallace’s latest invention, robotic garden smart gnomes – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, December 18th 2024, on the BBC on Christmas Day, and on Netflix from Friday, January 3rd 2025 Opening […]

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Queer

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Post date 13 December 2024
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Director – Luca Guadagnino – 2024 – Italy, US – Cert. 18 – 135m ***** A journey through the gay fleshpots of Mexico City leading, through illness, to a deeper jungle wherein can be found a drug that will enhance telepathy – challenging William Burroughs adaptation with Daniel Craig & Lesley Manville is out in […]

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Blood
The Last Vampire
(2000)

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Post date 12 December 2024
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The Last Vampire
(2000)

Director – Hiroyuki Kitakubo – 2000 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 48m **** Part English, Part Japanese with English Subtitles, Widescreen (1.85) REG 2 DVD / PAL VHS review from Starburst (UK Edition), 2001. The animation weighs in at a mere 46 minutes on home video formats, although on both you also get an […]

Animation Features Movies

Interstella 5555
The 5tory
of the
5ecret 5tar 5ystem

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date 12 December 2024
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The 5tory
of the
5ecret 5tar 5ystem
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Director – Leiji Matsumoto – 2003 – Japan – Cert. PG – 68m ** Back in UK cinemas from Thursday, December 12th 2024 Review from What’s On in London, December 2003. Admirers of legendary anime series Capitaine Albator / Captain Harlock, 1978), electronic band Daft Punk sought out designer and source manga artist Leiji Matsumoto (anime […]