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Oh, What Happy Days! (Ah Che Roozhayeh Khoshi Bood,
آه، چه روزهای خوشی بود. )

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Post date December 15 2025
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Director – Homayoun Ghanizadeh – 2025 – Iran, USA, France, Canada – 107m ***** On a video phone network, a woman is caught between her well-off family and their former servant’s wronged son – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Facing us, photographed in black and white, […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Elio

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Post date June 18 2025
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Directors – Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 99m **** An alien-obsessed orphan, whose aunt tracks space debris for NASA, makes contact with aliens – latest Disney / Pixar romp is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 20th Young lad Elio Solis (voice: Yonas Kibreab) has […]

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Dreaming of Lions
(Sonhar com Leões)

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Post date November 23 2024
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(Sonhar com Leões)
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Director – Paolo Marinou-Blanco – 2024 – Portugal, Brazil, Spain – 85m **** A woman diagnosed with terminal cancer signs up with a corporate programme allegedly aimed at helping people in her situation to humanely end their own lives – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival “Chemo […]

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Sting

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Post date May 31 2024
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Director – Kiah Roache-Turner – 2024 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 91m ***1/2 A girl traps a venomous spider and cares for it as a pet, but as she feeds it, it grows… and grows… and gets out… – onto UK Home Premiere on Monday, July 15th Helga (Noni Hazlehurst) is hearing strange noises […]

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Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Eternal You

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Post date June 28 2024
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Directors – Hans Block, Moritz Reisewieke – 2024 – US – Cert. – 87m ***** People deal with bereavement with the help of interactive versions of their deceased, loved ones recreated by AI – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 28th In a rare visual shot in this mostly verbally based documentary, an aerial […]

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Suzume
(Suzume
No Tojimari,
すずめの戸締まり,
lit. Suzume’s
Locking Up)

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Post date April 14 2023
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(Suzume
No Tojimari,
すずめの戸締まり,
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Locking Up)
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Director – Makoto Shinkai – 2022 – Japan – Cert. PG – 122m ***1/2 Aided by a man turned into a mobile, talking, three-legged chair, a schoolgirl must prevent giant, freak weather ‘worms’ from devastating Japan with earthquakes – anime feature is out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, April 14th Prompted by a […]

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Now, Voyager

Director – Irving Rapper – 1942 – US – Cert. PG – 117m ***** A woman must overcome mental illness caused by her overbearing mother – out in cinemas on Friday, August 6th The wealthy Vale family from Boston invites Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) to meet their youngest daughter Charlotte (Bette Davis) to see if […]