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Invisibles
(Invisibles)

Director – Junna Chif – 2025 – Canada – 94m ****1/2 A sex worker turned exotic dancer starts providing sexual services to disabled people – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival “Blow jobs are real jobs – and real jobs suck” reads a slogan held by three boisterous young women […]

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The Silent Virgin
(La Virgen Silenciosa)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 27 2025
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Director – Xavi Sala – 2025 – Mexico – 127m ***** A legal secretary frustrated in her job embarks on a relationship with another woman, but her possessive mother does not approve – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival This certainly knows how to grab your attention at the start. […]

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Alone in the Night
(Yoru ga Mata Kuru,
夜がまた来る)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 17 2025
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(Yoru ga Mata Kuru,
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Director – Takashi Ishii – 1994 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 108m ****1/2 After her undercover cop husband is killed by a gang, Nami infiltrates the gang and suffers much abuse as she attempts to identify and take her revenge on his killer – out on Blu-ray as part of the Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami limited edition digipack set (2000 copies) A […]

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Afternoon Clouds

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Post date March 17 2025
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Director – Payal Kapadia – 2017 – India – 13m ***** An old woman, her home and her cat interact in the former’s coastal flat – Kapadia’s first short evidences a sensibility which will inform her debut feature All We Imagine as Light – on the UK Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) of All We Imagine […]

Tags Africa, Afternoon Clouds, apparition, architectural space, Aurobinda Roy Chowdhury, bark, bed, bedroll, bedspread, bench, bowl of milk, breeze, building, cat, Cephas Subba, chanting, chilli, cloud, coastal flat, contentment, docks, dogs, doze, dream, elderly, food preparation, fruit, ghost, ginger cat, giraffes, home, housework, husband, India, insomnia, interior, kitchen, late husband, laundry, limp, magazines, medication, memory, nap, net curtains, network of relationships, old woman, passing train, Payal Kapadia, pet, picture postcard, pillow, plant, premonition, railway train, roar of the sea, room, rot, sea, ship, singing, sleep, stairwell, steam, surroundings, talk, the next life, tidy, tidying, train, Trimala Adhikari, two day life cycle, two days, Usha Naik, windows

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Sleep
(Jam, 잠)

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Post date July 12 2024
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Director – Jason Yu – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 95m ***1/2 A pregnant woman becomes convinced that her husband is possessed when he starts sleepwalking and otherwise behaving oddly in his sleep at night – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th One night, a wife wakes up and looks […]

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Stopmotion

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Post date May 31 2024
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Director – Robert Morgan – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 93m ***1/2 The bereaved daughter of a stop-frame animator attempts to complete her late mother’s last film – out on Shudder UK, Ireland, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand from Friday, May 31st Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: […]

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The Boogeyman

Director – Rob Savage – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 98m *** 1/2 Two sisters recently bereaved of their mother start to imagine something nasty waiting for them in the darkness of night – Stephen King adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 2nd An uninvited man Lester Billings (David Dalmachian) […]

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The Killing
Of Two Lovers

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Post date June 4 2021
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Of Two Lovers

Director – Robert Machoain – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 84m ****1/2 A family man separated from his wife who has agreed they can each see other people is consumed with hate for the other man she is now seeing – in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, June 4th Morning. […]