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Director – Cal McMau – 2025 – UK – Cert. 18 – 90m

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A prisoner’s chances of achieving parole are threatened by the arrival of a ruthless and manipulative new cellmate – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 20th

Taylor (David Jonsson from The Long Walk, Francis Lawrence , 2025; Alien: Romulus, Fede Alvarez, 2024; Rye Lane, Raine Allen-Miller, 2023), a young inmate in prison, is due for parole provided he behaves as required. However, his new cellmate Dee (Tom Blyth from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Francis Lawrence, 2023; Benediction, Terence Davies, 2021; Robin Hood, Ridley Scott, 2010) has other ideas, including making money by dealing all manner of illicit goods from the outside.

This opens with a row between inmates, one of whom is determined to mete out punishment to whoever it was took his mobile phone. Very quickly, the situation descends into his suspected thief being assaulted with a television set that happens to be nearby. As another prisoner says to the one who carries out the assault, part in awe, part in jest, and part in newly-found respect, “Fucking TV, mate.”

Welcome to the world of Wasteman, the term used to designate central character Taylor who has been written off by British society.… Read the rest

Fukushima 50
(フクシマ50)

Director – Setsuro Wakamatsu – 2020 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 122m

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Historically-based, disaster movie cum drama in which workers struggle to limit the considerable damage to a nuclear power plant hit by an earthquake then a tsunami – on VoD from Monday, March 8th

March 11th, 2011. A powerful earthquake followed by a tsunami hit Japan. Situated near the epicentre of the earthquake on the coast where the tsunami hits is a nuclear power plant. The resultant nuclear disaster threatens to decimate Japan. Coming in at slightly over 9.0, it remains the most powerful earthquake the country has ever experienced.

The above is history. The title Fukushima 50 is the name given to from the crew of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant who at considerable cost to their own health stayed at the plant to limit the damage as much as they could and prevent an undoubtedly appalling situation becoming far worse.

To anyone not well-versed in the specific technical minutiae of how a nuclear power plant works (i.e. most of us) much of what happens in the film is bewildering. Not that it really matters, frankly, because if someone looks at a gauge, reads off a number in units of which you’ve never heard and exclaims that they’ve got to get the number down, you have a pretty good idea what’s going on.… Read the rest