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Give It a Shot

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 14 2026
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Director – Vaishali Sinha – 2025 – Canada, India, US – uncertificated – 92m *** An Indian scientist has created a reversible male contraceptive technique, yet a combination of human greed and bureaucracy has so far prevented it reaching the masses – International Premiere at 6.30 pm at the ICA on Tuesday, July 14th in the London […]

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Exhibition on Screen
Frida Kahlo
Special Edition
with new material from
The making of an icon

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 19 2026
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Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 © EXHIBITION ON SCREEN

Director – Ali Ray – 2020, 2026 – UK – Cert. U – 93m, 101m ***** The tragic yet resonant life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, and her transformation into a modern, cultural icon – out in UK cinemas from Tuesday, May 19th As dour piano chords play, a title announces that Frida Kahlo held only […]

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Our Land

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 4 2026
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Director – Orban Wallace – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 90m *** An exploration as to why the English people only have the ‘right to roam’ over some eight per cent of their countryside – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th, with previews Tuesday, May 5th, Wednesday May 6th This sets out its […]

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The Sweet East

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 29 2024
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Director – Sean Price Williams – 2023 – US – Cert. 18 – 104m **** Dumping her boyfriend, a South Carolina high school student skips a class trip to Washington, DC and falls in with a series of outsiders living in their own isolated visions of America – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March […]

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Hunt
(Heon-teu,
헌트)

Director – Lee Jung-jae – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. – 121m ****1/2 Two top KCIA operatives, each heading up his own department, both come to believe that the North Korean mole they are hunting is the other – out in cinemas Friday, November 4th; opened the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) as […]

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Dear Pyongyang

Director – Yang Yong-hi – 2005 – Japan – 107m **** The return of a Japanese-Korean woman’s brothers to North Korea, encouraged by her parents, causes her considerable grief over the years – online in the UK as part of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) from Monday, January 17th to Sunday, February 6th, 2022. […]