Tag: darkness

Underland

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 26 2026
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Director – Rob Petit – 2025 – US, UK – Cert. 12a – 79m *** Three separate journeys beneath the Earth’s surface in the company of an archaeologist, a particle physicist and an urban explorer – had its sold out UK Premiere at the Barbican on Tuesday, March 24th and is out in UK cinemas on […]

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Animation Features Movies

Savages
(Sauvages)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 1 2025
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(Sauvages)
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Director – Claude Barras – 2024 – Switzerland – Cert. PG – 87m French with English subtitles. ***** An indigenous pre-teenage girl stands up to loggers destroyingthe local rainforest – stop-frame animated feature from the director of My Life as a Courgette is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 1st From its opening moments […]

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Animation Features Movies

Watership Down
(new 4K restoration)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 25 2024
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(new 4K restoration)
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Directed by Martin RosenCertificate PG92 minutesReleased 25 October Reviewed for Reform magazine. Now fully restored in a new 4K restoration, this 1978 tale of rabbits on the run proved that an animated film need be neither made by Disney nor sugar-coated for children. Watership Down, although a children’s film, came from the producer of the […]

Animation Features Movies

Watership Down
(new 4K restoration)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 12 2024
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(new 4K restoration)
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Director – Martin Rosen – 1978 – UK – Cert. PG – 92m ***** When a young rabbit visionary foresees doom for those who remain, some of the rabbits leave their warren in search of a safer home, encountering many life-threatening perils along the way – new 4K restoration of animated feature is out in […]

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Features Live Action Movies

The Latent Image

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 8 2023
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Director – Alexander McGregor Birrell – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 82m ***1/2 A mystery thriller writer working alone in a secluded cabin in the woods is interrupted by the arrival of a stranger – out in UK cinemas and on digital platforms from Sunday, October 8th Developed from his 20 minute, 2019 […]

Features Live Action Movies

The Boogeyman

Director – Rob Savage – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 98m *** 1/2 Two sisters recently bereaved of their mother start to imagine something nasty waiting for them in the darkness of night – Stephen King adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 2nd An uninvited man Lester Billings (David Dalmachian) […]

Features Live Action Movies

Bodies Bodies Bodies

Director – Halina Reijn – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 94m * A make-believe party game of murder turns into horrifying reality when pretend dead bodies turn out to be really dead and the genuine body count continues to mount – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 9th Five women, three couples, […]

Features Live Action Movies

Il Buco

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Post date June 10 2022
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Director – Michelangelo Frammartino – 2021 – Italy – Cert. U – 93m **1/2 A Calabrian cowherd nears the end of his life while a group of explorers journey down a deep hole to find out how deep into the ground it descends – out in cinemas on Friday, June 10th Literally, ‘The Hole’. Frammartino […]

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Live Action Movies Trailers

The Endless

Directors – Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead – 2017 Never go back. Watch a kaleidoscopic marvel, the extraordinary, online trailer for the latest film by (and featuring) independent filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead – in cinemas and digital HD on Friday, June 29th 2018 Quote: “I was told… that they were all going to kill […]