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Wallace & Gromit
Vengeance Most Fowl

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Post date December 16 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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Love Lies Bleeding
(2024)

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Post date April 29 2024
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Director – Rose Glass – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 104m **** A small town member of staff at a gym falls hard for a bodybuilding drifter, both unaware that each has baggage which will cause the other considerable grief – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 3rd The 1980s. New Mexico. […]

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Pelikan Blue
(Kék Pelikan)

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Post date November 12 2023
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Pelikan Blue (Kék Pelikan) Director – László Csáki – 2023 – Hungary – Cert. none – 79m **** How three friends wanting to travel to the West after Hungary opened up in 1985 stumbled onto a lucrative scam forging rail tickets – innovative documentary employing animation premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th […]

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Monsters

Director – Gareth Edwards – 2010 – UK – Cert. 12 – 90m ***** Gareth Edwards’ remarkable feature debut is like nothing you’ve ever seen – out on DVD Monday, April 11th 2011 following its release in UK cinemas on Friday, December 3rd, 2010 An extraordinary film defying easy classification, Monsters looks from the outside […]

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No Bears
(Khers Nist,
خرس نیست)

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Post date October 8 2022
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(Khers Nist,
خرس نیست)
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Director – Jafar Panahi – 2022 – Iran – Cert. 12a – 106m ***** An Iranian film director banned from leaving his country rents a house close to the border with Turkey, in which country he is remotely directing a film – available on the following rental streaming services from Monday, March 27th: Amazon Prime, […]

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No Bears
(Khers Nist,
خرس نیست)

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Post date November 1 2022
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A repressive Islamist regime No BearsDirected by Jafar PanahiCertificate 12a, 106 minutesReleased 11 November The Iranian director Jafar Panahi (whose son Panar made the excellent road movie Hit the Road) has been in trouble with the country’s repressive Islamist regime for some time and earlier this year was given six years in prison. The campaign […]

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Hit The Road
(Jaddeh Khaki,
جاده خاکی)

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Post date July 28 2022
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(Jaddeh Khaki,
جاده خاکی)
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Director – Panah Panahi – 2021 – Iran – Cert. 12a – 93m **** Four in a car. An Iranian family drive across Iran towards the Turkish border, for reasons that will only later become clear – out in cinemas on Friday, July 29th A family of four – dad (Hassan Madjooni), mum (Pantea Panahiha), […]

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Europa

Director – Haider Rashid – 2021 – Iraq, Italy, Kuwait – Cert. 12a – 75 m **** A young Iraqi migrant is hunted by mercenaries after he crosses the Turkish/Bulgarian border – out in cinemas and on demand on Friday, March 18th A number of movies hang over this bold adventure thriller about Kamal (Adam […]

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Amulet

Director – Romola Garai – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 99m ***** A border checkpoint soldier moves into a suburban, London house with a dark secret in the attic – out on VoD on Monday, February 28th Somewhere in Russia or Eastern Europe – it’s not clear exactly where – a soldier (Alec […]

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The Battle
At Lake Changjin II
aka
Water Gate Bridge
(Zhang Jin Hu,
长津湖之水门桥)

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Post date February 11 2022
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At Lake Changjin II
aka
Water Gate Bridge
(Zhang Jin Hu,
长津湖之水门桥)

Director – Tsui Hark – 2022 – China – Cert. 15 – 153m ** Ill-considered sequel to box office barnstorming, Chinese war movie fails to match the emotional engagement and excitement of the original – out in cinemas on Friday, February 11th After the exciting and energetic original, this sequel is a disappointment. It has […]

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