Tag: failure

Lesbian Space Princess

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Post date June 15 2026
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Directors – Leela Varghese, Emma Hough Hobbs – 2025 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 87m ***** A lesbian princess must travel through space to claim her inheritance and rescue her true love (who just dumped her) from straight white maliens – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 19th NSFW Princess Saira of […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Being Towards Death
(10 Jian Gan Si Dui,
10间敢死队,
lit. 10 Fearless Squad)

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Post date June 5 2026
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(10 Jian Gan Si Dui,
10间敢死队,
lit. 10 Fearless Squad)
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Director – Sicheng Chen – 2026 – China – Cert. 12a – 120m ** The terminally ill patients thrown together in hospital Ward 10 decide to adopt a positive attitude towards both life and death – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 5th This has one of those weird Oriental movie titles that doesn’t translate that easily into […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Karate Kid
Legends

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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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Features Live Action Movies

The Last Dance
(Po Dei Juk,
破·地獄)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 15 2024
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(Po Dei Juk,
破·地獄)
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Director – Anselm Chan – 2024 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12a – 130m (extended version – Cert. 15 – 140m) **** (regular version) / unseen (extended version) A failed, professional wedding planner joins a Taoist funeral director as a partner in his company as various crises come to a head in the latter’s family […]

Tags ambulance, Anselm Chan, baptismal class, belief system, bereavement, Breaking Hell’s Gates, business partner, casual sex, Catherine Chau, Catholic, Catholic school, Catholicism, co-worker, community, company, culture, Dayo Wong, death, deceased soul, Elaine Jin, failure, family, family duty, fathers and children, fiery sword, funeral director, funeral directors, funeral parlour, grief, Hong Kong, male-oriented, menstruation, Mexican stand-off, Michael Hui, Michelle Wai, paramedic, Paul Chun, personal demons, priest, professional, reincarnation, religion, religious, retirement, ritual, ritually unclean, robe, shopkeeper, smoker, sons and daughters, subplots, surrogate mother, sword, taboo, Tags: Hong Kong, Taoism, Taoist priest, Thor Lok, Tommy Chu, undertaker, wedding planner

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The Crazy Family
Gyakufunsha Kazoku,
逆噴射家族)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 20 2024
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Gyakufunsha Kazoku,
逆噴射家族)
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Director – Sogo Ishii – 1984 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 105m ***** After proudly moving into their first home as owner-occupiers, a family go berserk and destroy the building – out on Blu-ray on Monday, June 17th This seemingly starts out as a conservative family drama. The family in question comprises father Katsukuni […]

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Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 9 2024
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Planet of the Apes
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Director – Wes Ball – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** The fourth entry in the current franchise reboot takes place several generations after the previous three films when apes live in scattered communities and humans have lost the power of speech – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, May 9th Noa […]

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Animation Features Movies

Lightyear

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Post date June 14 2022
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Director – Angus MacLane – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 107m **1/2 Stranded on a hostile planet, Buzz Lightyear sets out on a series of missions which eventually lead to his first confrontation with the evil Emperor Zurg – plays in the Annecy Animation Festival 2022 which is taking place in a 100% […]

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