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Two Prosecutors
(Zwei Staatsanwälte)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 26 2026
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(Zwei Staatsanwälte)
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Director – Sergei Loznitsa – 2025 – France, Germany, Romania, Latvia, Netherlands, Lithuania – Cert. 12A – 118m ****1/2 Stalinist Russia, 1937. A young, idealistic prosecutor takes up the case of an unjustly imprisoned, political prisoner – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 27th A prison yard. Impassive guards. Inmates on scaffolding work at plastering the […]

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Broken English

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 18 2026
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Directors – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** Musician and cultural icon Marianne Faithfull is interviewed at length, and her life and artistic achievements examined from several angles – compelling documentary is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, March 20th Who is Marianne Faithfull? Given that, sadly, […]

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Scream 7

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Post date February 26 2026
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Director – Kevin Williamson – 2026 – US – Cert. 18 – 114m **** A survivor from the original murder spree tries to protect her 17-year-old daughter from the recently reappeared killer – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 27th This cleverly plays to both anyone who has followed the Scream franchise since its inception and […]

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The Silent Virgin
(La Virgen Silenciosa)

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Post date November 27 2025
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(La Virgen Silenciosa)
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Director – Xavi Sala – 2025 – Mexico – 127m ***** A legal secretary frustrated in her job embarks on a relationship with another woman, but her possessive mother does not approve – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival This certainly knows how to grab your attention at the start. […]

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The Session Man

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Post date November 21 2025
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Director – Michael Treen – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 90m *** A look at legendary pianist Nicky Hopkins who played with numerous bands and on numerous records – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 21st Nicky Hopkins may not exactly be a household name, but anyone who paid attention to credits on […]

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Valley of the
Shadow of Death
(不赦之罪)

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Post date November 14 2025
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Shadow of Death
(不赦之罪)
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Directors – Jeffrey Lam Sen & Antonio Tam – 2024 – Hong Kong, China – Cert. 15 – 84m ***1/2 The lives of a Christian pastor and his wife become intertwined with that of a youth who believes himself responsible for their teenage daughter’s suicide some years ago – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 14th For roughly its first half, this delivers a narrative […]

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Exhibition on Screen
Michelangelo
Love and Death

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Post date May 20 2025
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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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Qualia
(Qualia,
クオリア)

Director – Ryo Ushimaru – 2023 – Japan – 96m ***** A bizarre drama plays out among a group of people running a chicken farm – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025 which runs from Friday, 7th February to Monday, 31st March Wheelchair-bound Satomi (Maya Kudamatsu) likes to hunt. So […]

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Eno

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Post date July 8 2024
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Director – Gary Hustwit – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 83m **** (on this occasion) Musician, artist and activist Brian Eno has been at the cutting edge of creativity for 50 years, and this generative, AI-programmed film plays in a different version every time it is shown – 24-hour online screening event 5pm […]

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Agent
of Happiness

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Post date July 12 2024
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Directors – Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó – 2023 – Bhutan, Hungary – 94m **** A civil servant travels around Bhutan assessing individual people’s happiness even as his personal life begs the questions whether he, himself, is truly happy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th Judging by the opening montage of cloudy and […]

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