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Sirāt
(Sirāt)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 24 2026
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(Sirāt)
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Director – Óliver Laxe – 2025 – Spain, France – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** Young son in tow, a man goes in search of his daughter who has gone missing at raves in the North African desert – 2025 Cannes Jury Prize Winner is out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 27th Luis (Sergi […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Stuntman
(Mou Tai Do,
武替道)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 11 2024
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(Mou Tai Do,
武替道)
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Directors – Albert & Herbart Leung – 2024 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 114m **** 20 years after a stuntman on his team was hospitalised when a stunt went wrong, an action choreographer takes on his first stunt job since the tragic incident – out on digital from Monday, 12 May 2025 This […]

Animation Features Movies

Away

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Post date August 27 2020
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Director – Gints Zilbalodis – 2019 – Latvia – Cert. U – 75m****1/2From the director of Oscar winner Flow (2024), his debut animated feature Away is exclusively back in cinemas from Friday, March 14th It originally played in the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival. A boy hangs from a tree by a parachute in a […]

Tags 3D animation, alone, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2019, bird, boy, bridge, CG, CG animation, computer animation, crashed aircraft, fantasy, flight, giant, island, isolation, lake, landscape, Latvia, meditative, motorbike, mythology, pursuit, survivor

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Giants of La Mancha
(Argentina: Gigantes;
Germany: Das Geheimnis
von La Mancha;
Spain: Los Exploradores;
US: Storm Crashers)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 7 2025
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Germany: Das Geheimnis
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Director – Gonzalo Gutiérrez – 2024 – Argentina, Germany, Spain – Cert. U – 88m ***1/2 The young, present day descendants of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza must save La Mancha from a villainous property developer – animated children’s adventure is out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 7th (UK cinemas are showing the English […]

Tags 3D animation, ancestor, animation, Argentina, bascule bridge, battery, battle, betrayal, bicycle, Bond villain, Bradley Krupsaw, bridge, Carla Petersen, cars, Cassie Glow, Catalina Hannon, CG, CG animation, chasm, climate change, collaborator, corridor, cranes, crossing, crush, Das Geheimnis von La Mancha, delusion, Demián Velazco Rochwerger, descendant, dirigible, dog, Don Quixote, exodus, eyepatch, Germany, giant, Giants of La Mancha, Gigantes, Gonzalo Gutiérrez, henchmen, home, housing development, idealism, Jennifer Moule, Julian Jansson, Karol Sevilla, knight in distress, La Mancha, labyrinth, landscape, Los Exploradores, Marina Blanke, Matthew Morena Lamprea, Matthew Wray, mayhem, mecha, Micke Alejandro Morena Lamprea, monster, mothers and fathers, parachute, parents and children, Patricio Lago, prejudice, property developer, refuse to sign, rhyming couplets, romance, salesman, Sancho Panza, sell up, Spain, spider, storm, Storm Crashers, suit, Thomas Harris, traffic, white rabbit, windmill

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Black Dog
(Gou Zhen,
狗阵)

Director – Guan Hu – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 106m ***1/2 An ex-con returns to his home town, which is infested with wild dogs, and befriends a stray – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, August 30th Looking down from the edge of a slope towards Gobi Desert scrubland. In […]

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Sky Peals

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 8 2024
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Director – Moin Hussain – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 91m **** When his estranged father dies after leaving him an answering machine message, a motorway service station employee starts to question the identity of his father and, by extension, of himself – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 9th Adam (Faraz […]

Tags answering machine, answering machine message, bereavement, bridge, British, Britishness, burgers, car, car park, CCTV, Claire Rushbrook, co-worker, connect, cultural heritage, dead body, death, degraded image, disappear, dislocation, disorientation, employee, estate agent, estranged, ethnic, Faraz Ayub, father, fish-out-of-water, funeral, furniture, glitch, greeter, home, home life, house clearance, identity, indoor bridge, investigation, Islam, isolation, Jeff Mirza, kitchen, loss, manager, Moin Hussain, mosque, mothers and sons, motorway, motorway service station, move out, mundane, Muslim, Natalie Gavin, new manager, new partner, night shift, orders, Pakistani, pointless, post-industrialisation, prospective house buyers, queues, recoding, recording, relationship, relationship breakup, sell a house, selling off, Simon Nagra, single parent mum, Steve Oram, suit and tie, traditional Islamic garb, UK, uncle, vanish, white British, work social, workplace, Yorkshire

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Twisters

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 16 2024
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Director – Lee Isaac Chung – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 117m Film ***1/2 Special Effects (the twisters themselves) ***** A young woman attempts to compensate for failed “twister taming” which caused the tragic deaths of three of her friends, by further pursuing tornadoes – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, July 17th […]

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Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 9 2024
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Planet of the Apes
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Director – Wes Ball – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** The fourth entry in the current franchise reboot takes place several generations after the previous three films when apes live in scattered communities and humans have lost the power of speech – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, May 9th Noa […]

Tags Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, Amanda Silver, apes, attack, battleship, books, bridge, cavalry, Ceasar, chimp, Christianity, circular window-frame, cliff faces, complex, composer, cross-country, crucifix, desert, despot, eagle, eagle eggs, environment, experiments, failure, fast moving water, fiefdom, forest, franchise, Freya Allan, genetics, gorilla, herd, horseback, human, jazz, Jerry Goldsmith, journey, Kevin Durand, labyrinth, landscape, library, Lydia Peckham, mask, militarism, MoCap, monkey, motion capture, oppression, orangutan, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, Owen Teague, pendant, Peter Macon, piano, Planet of the Apes, pool, quest, reboot franchise, religion, religious, Rick Jaffa, rock face, Roman Empire, scarecrow, scientist, ships’ graveyard, soundtrack, speak, stronghold, tall trees, technology, towers, Travis Jeffery, trees, underground, US, village, virus, warmonger, watering hole, weaponry, Wes Ball, Western, Weta FX, William H. Macy, woodland

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Small, Slow But Steady
(Keiko,
Me Wo Sumasete,
ケイコ目を澄ませて)

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Post date June 29 2023
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(Keiko,
Me Wo Sumasete,
ケイコ目を澄ませて)
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Director – Sho Miyake – 2022 – Japan, France – Cert. 12 – 99m The first half hour **** The rest ***1/2 A completely deaf, young woman trains in the boxing ring at the local gym and turns professional, but when the gym’s closure is announced, she loses the focus needed to carry on – […]

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

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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 […]

Tags 1950, air power, battle, battlefield, blood, border, bridge, cast of thousands, CG, CGI, China, combat, Douglas MacArthur, effects, fireball, General Douglas MacArthur, gore, guts, heroism, invasion, Korea, Korean War, Lake Changjin, MacArthur, mountain, North Korea, notebook, People's Volunteer Army, People’s Liberation Army, pipeline, PLA, plane, PVA, rural, sequel, South Korea, tank, Tsui Hark, UN, US, war