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Karate Kid
Legends

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 29 2025
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Legends
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Director – Jonathan Entwhistle – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 94m ***** Latest franchise entry plays by all the rules that you would expect, yet somehow manages to completely break the mould and come up with something fresh and original – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 28th All a Karate Kid […]

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Animation Features Movies

My Neighbour Totoro
(Tonari no Totoro,
となりのトトロ)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 30 2024
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Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 1988 – Japan – Cert. U – 86m ***** Two young girls, whose mother is hospitalised, move to the country with their dad, where they encounter a friendly tree spirit – one of the greatest movies ever made, animated or otherwise, is back out in UK and Ireland cinemas on […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Monsoon

Director – Hong Khaou – 2019 – UK – Cert. 12a – 85m ****1/2 A man who has lived in England for 30 years returns to Saigon and Hanoi to discover the Vietnam his late parents left behind – in cinemas and on Vimeo, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Amazon and elsewhere from Friday, September […]

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