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Brides

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 26 2025
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Director – Nadia Fall – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 93m *** Two radicalised British, teenage girls run away from home intending to become brides for Islamic State – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 26th When they meet at the local school, Doe (Ebada Hassan) and Muna (Safiyya Ingar) strike up an unlikely friendship. […]

Animation Features Movies

The Glassworker
(Sheesha Gar,
شیشہ گ)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 25 2024
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(Sheesha Gar,
شیشہ گ)
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Director – Usman Riaz – 2024 – Pakistan, Spain – Cert. 12a – 98m ***** The son of a pacifist glassblower learning his father’s trade falls for the violin-playing daughter of an army colonel in wartime – complex, anti-war drama from the 2024 Annecy International Animation Festival in the Contrechamps section, released in Pakistan on […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Weapons

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 8 2025
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Director – Zach Cregger – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 128m **** One night, all but one of the children in one class in the town school disappear into the dark, leaving the townsfolk baffled as to what happened to them… – Fortean-sounding mystery is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 8th […]

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The Substance

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 20 2024
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Director – Coralie Fargeat – 2024 – US – Cert. 18 – 140m ****1/2 An aging movie star takes a wonder treatment which splits her into her current self and a much younger version – in cinemas in the UK on Friday, September 20th. Hollywood star Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) hosts a network TV keep […]

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The Sweet East

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 29 2024
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Director – Sean Price Williams – 2023 – US – Cert. 18 – 104m **** Dumping her boyfriend, a South Carolina high school student skips a class trip to Washington, DC and falls in with a series of outsiders living in their own isolated visions of America – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March […]

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Monster
(Kaibutsu,
怪物)

Director – Hirokazu Kore-eda – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 126m **** The mother of a school pupil believes her son is being abused by his teacher, who in turn protests his own innocence, yet the truth is more complex – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 15th A movie at once […]

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Animation Features Movies

Chicken
For Linda!
(Linda Veut
Du Poulet !)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 13 2023
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For Linda!
(Linda Veut
Du Poulet !)
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Directors – Sébastien Laudenbach, Chiara Malta – 2022 – France, Italy – 75m *** 1/2 A mother’s relationship with her young daughter lurches into farce as a domestic misunderstanding spirals out of control – from the Annecy International Animation Festival 2023 in the Official Competition section This starts off with a poem in French – […]