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Street Wanderers
(Los Caminantes
de la Calle)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 28 2025
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(Los Caminantes
de la Calle)
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Director – Juan Martin Hsu – 2025 – Argentina, Peru – 90m ***** Argentinian cops and robbers procedural is set largely in the world of Mendoza’s immigrant Chinese community – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2010. Mendoza, Argentina. The family-run, Chinese restaurant of Dageng (Kon Yam Pin) receives telephone threats for protection […]

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The Return

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Post date April 11 2025
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Director – Uberto Pasolini – 2024 – Italy, Greece, UK, France – Cert. 15 – 116m ** Odysseus returns home to his island kingdom of Ithaca ten years after the Trojan War to find faithful wife Penelope fending off insistent suitors who threaten to kill son Telemachus – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April […]

Animation Features Movies

The Iron Giant

Director – Brad Bird – 1999 – US – Cert. U – 88m ***** 1957. A giant robot falls out of the sky and is befriended by a young boy in Maine. However, the US government proves less sympathetic – animated feature is out in UK cinemas from Friday, December 17th, 1999 This has all […]

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Song of the Sea

Director – Tomm Moore – 2014 – Ireland – Cert. PG – 93m ***** A family is torn apart after the mother returns to the sea as a selkie – reviewed for Third Way, July 2015 Tomm Moore picked up an Oscar nomination for his medieval Irish animated fantasy The Secret Of Kells (2009). Like […]

Animation Features Movies

Ponyo
(Gake no Ue no Ponyo,
崖の上のポニョ,
lit. Ponyo on the Cliff)

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Post date August 1 2024
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(Gake no Ue no Ponyo,
崖の上のポニョ,
lit. Ponyo on the Cliff)

Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2008 – Japan – Cert. U – 103m ***** A girl fish spirit takes on human form to become a companion to a human boy – reviewed for Third Way, February 2010 Miyazaki’s animated filmography prior to international crossover item Spirited Away (2001) has scarcely graced UK screens, despite colossal […]

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Sorcery (Brujería)

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Post date June 13 2024
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Director – Christopher Murray – 2023 – Chile, Mexico, Germany – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** When the father of an indigenous Christian convert is murdered by her German Christian employer’s dogs, her thirst for justice leads her to employ occult folk magic against his family – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th […]

Tags 13 year old, 1880s, 1881, afterlife, Annick Durán, archipelago, arrest, art house movie, beach, belief system, Bible, bird corpses, birds, cave, Chile, Chiloé, Christianity, Christians, Christopher Murray, coast, communing with nature, convert, corpses, cross, Daniel Antivilo, Daniel Muñoz, death, dogs, drama, family, farm, fever, fire, firelight, firing squad, fisherman, German, German immigrant, grave, gutting fish, Heaven, horror, Huilliche, Iker Echevers, immigrant, in woodlands, incarceration, indigenous, indigenous convert, island, knife, landscape, Leo Heiblum, maid, Matías Bannister, mayor, miscarriage, murder, nails, natural world, nature, Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco, nets, organised farming practices, pray, pregnant, rain, religion, sea, sheep, sheep farm, social justice, sorcery, suffering, tide, torch, torch procession, torchlight, torture, tree, Valentina Véliz Caileo, weather, weirding woman (Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco, witch, witchcraft, woods

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Furiosa
A Mad Max Saga

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Post date May 24 2024
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A Mad Max Saga
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Director – George Miller – 2024 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 148m ***** Kidnapped by a biker gang she attacks, young Furiosa must make her way in the desert wasteland populated by despots, bikers, and gas truck drivers – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 24th In the forest where fruit is plentiful […]

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Silver Haze

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Post date March 28 2024
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Director – Sacha Polak – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 102m ***** A young nurse – who seeks closure and revenge from being burned in a fire as a child – falls into a romantic attachment which may lead her towards a sense of community – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March […]

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Silver Haze

Scarred for life Silver HazeDirected by Sacha PolakCertificate 15, 102 minutesReleased 29 March As a small child in real life, the actor Vicky Knight was burned in a fire. Today, her body still bears the physical scars of the trauma she suffered. In Dirty God (2019), her first film with the director Sacha Polak, Knight […]

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Jackdaw

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Post date January 24 2024
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Director – Jamie Childs – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m ** When ex-British army mercenary Jack Dawson – a.k.a. Jackdaw – retrieves a package from the North Sea for a client, things go horribly wrong, forcing him to go through the North East in search of answers – British action thriller is […]