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Directors – Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado – 2026 – US – Cert. PG – 98m

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Two young, Filipino women, best friends since childhood, are transported back to the mythical land of the ancestors of one of them – out in cinemas worldwide on Friday, October 16th

The Philippines. (You’re supposed to know this is the location, but if the film explained it anywhere, apart from stating the setting is outside the US, I missed it.) New girl in class Jo (voice: H.E.R.) is doing a show and tell about the island of Natali, which her grandmother claims to have visited as a child, complete with terrifying descriptions of the Manananggal, the bat-winged demon which can split in two – lower half and upper half.

The teacher sends her to the principal for presenting falsehoods as real. Jo is soon joined by the more intellectual Raissa (voice: Lisa Soberano) who stands up for Jo after Jo has been sent out of the classroom. They bond outside the principal’s office, vowing to be best friends and to find the island of Natali together. Raissa is put off by Jo’s producing a knife to make them blood sisters, but it turns out she only wants to cut her a bracelet.… Read the rest

Love Lies Bleeding
(2024)

Director – Rose Glass – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 104m

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A small town member of staff at a gym falls hard for a bodybuilding drifter, both unaware that each has baggage which will cause the other considerable grief – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 3rd

The 1980s. New Mexico. Night. Rising up from a crack in the Earth. Towards the stars. And looking out over the small town, over the Crater Gym. We follow a woman inside. (Who is she? We never find out.) Bodybuilders work out. As Lou (Kristen Stewart) works to unclog a lavatory blocked with something resembling small human body parts (!), she is hassled by Daisy (Anna Baryshnikov) who appears to have been sexually close to her at some time, and possibly still is now only Lou doesn’t care.

Elsewhere in the night, a couple are having sex in a car. He (Dave Franco) is definitely enjoying it; she (Katy O’Brian), it’s hard to tell. She wants to know if she’ll get that job now. He says he’ll sort it. He warns her to be careful where she sleeps; this is a dangerous town. She finds a place at the side of a bridge; in the morning, it’s hot and sunny, she gets up and does her exercises using the edge of the bridge for pull-ups.… Read the rest