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A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin’ in the Schoolyard
(Niwa ni wa
Niwa Niwatori ga ita,
庭には二羽ニ
ワトリがいた。)

Director – Seishiro Negaya – 2025 – Japan – Cert. tbc – 19m ***** Aliens love eating humans, and two humans avoid being eaten by disguising themselves as chickens – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June It’s just another everyday schoolday for Yohei (voice: […]

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Exhibition on Screen
Michelangelo
Love and Death

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 20 2025
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Michelangelo
Love and Death
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Director – David Bickerstaff – 2017 – UK – Cert. U – 91m ***** Sixteenth Century Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo remains one of the greatest artists of all time, yet his overreaching ambition frequently proved his undoing – back out in UK cinemas to tie in with the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth from Tuesday, May […]

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Moor
(Mavr)

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Post date November 26 2024
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(Mavr)
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Director – Adilkhan Yerzhanov – 2024 – Kazakhstan, France – 83m *** A mercenary known by the codename ‘Moor’ returns from the war to the big city to rescue his younger brother’s wife and son from her husband’s debts – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Found […]

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Sleep
(Jam, 잠)

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Post date July 12 2024
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(Jam, 잠)
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Director – Jason Yu – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 95m ***1/2 A pregnant woman becomes convinced that her husband is possessed when he starts sleepwalking and otherwise behaving oddly in his sleep at night – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th One night, a wife wakes up and looks […]

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Civil War

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 10 2024
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Director – Alex Garland – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 109m ***** Four journalists travel across the war-torn US to interview the President before he resigns or flees the country – out in both UK and US cinemas on Friday, April 12th The US President (Nick Offerman) is rehearsing a speech, But he […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Where Is Anne Frank

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 7 2022
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Director – Ari Folman – 2021 – Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Israel – Cert. PG – 99m ***** In Amsterdam, a year from now, her imaginary friend Kitty sets out to discover what happened to Anne Frank – out in cinemas on Friday, August 12th Amsterdam, Holland, about a year from now. Early in the […]

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Where Is Anne Frank

Hiding from deportation Where Is Anne FrankDirected by Ari FolmanCertificate PG, 99 minutesReleased 12 August Amsterdam, about a year from now. Inside the Anne Frank House, Anne’s imaginary pen-friend Kitty (voiced by Ruby Stokes) materialises out of the ink from the pages of Anne’s diary. The perplexed Kitty wants to know what happened to Anne, […]

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