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We’re Nothing
at All
(Ngo Mun
Bat Si Sam Mo,
我們不是什麼)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 29 2026
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Bat Si Sam Mo,
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Director – Herman Yau – 2026 – China, Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 128m ***** A seasoned forensics expert pieces together the story behind a bus bombing as the lives and motives of those responsible is revealed in interweaving serial flashbacks – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, May 29th A police procedural but not exactly […]

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Only the River Flows
(He Bian de Cuo Wu,
河边的错误,
lit. Mistake (or Mistakes)
By the River)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 14 2024
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Director – Wei Shujun – 2023 – China – Cert. 15 – 101m ** A cop must solve a complex murder mystery his chief believes to be an open and shut case – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 16th A small boy with a toy gun plays cops and robbers in a deserted […]

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Io Capitano
(Io Capitano)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 28 2024
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Director – Matteo Garrone – 2023 – Italy – Cert. 12a – 121m ***** Two teenage Senegalese boys set out on a journey to Europe and a better life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 5th Garrone’s earlier features (Gomorrah, 2008; Tale of Tales, 2015; Dogman, 2018; Pinocchio, 2019) have a particular, muted […]

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Herself

Director – Phyllida Lloyd – 2020 – UK/Ireland – Cert. 15 – 97m **** A woman leaves her abusive and violent husband and builds a new home for herself and her two young daughters – in UK cinemas from Friday, September 10th Things come to a head in the marriage of Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson) […]

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Herself

A house of her own HerselfDirected by Phyllida LloydCertificate 15, 97 minutesReleased 10 September Herself has a brutal opening in which Sandra (Clare Dunne), a mother of two girls in Dublin, is physically assaulted by her husband Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson), an incident witnessed by her youngest daughter, Molly (Molly McCann), while her eldest, Emma […]

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