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Hidden
(Caché)

Director – Michael Haneke – 2005 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 15 – 117m ***1/2 Covertly delivered VHS videotapes suggest to an upper middle class family that they are being watched, and begin to tease out guilt for an incident in the husband’s past – the closing film of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, […]

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The Guest
(301호 모텔 살인사건)

Director – Yeon Je-gwang – 2023 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 18 – 77m *** An out-of-the-way motel, with numerous hidden cameras covertly recording the unwitting guests, becomes the site of multiple killings – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runs in cinemas from Friday, November 1st to Wednesday, November 13th […]

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The Crazy Family
Gyakufunsha Kazoku,
逆噴射家族)

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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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Bobi Wine:
The People’s President

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Post date August 30 2023
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The People’s President
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Directors – Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 121m ***** Aided by his wife Barbie, Uganda’s opposition leader, the musician Bobi Wine, takes on the country’s corrupt dictator of 35 years President Museveni, in the run up to the 2021 election – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September […]

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Getting Away
With Murder(s)

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Post date September 9 2021
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With Murder(s)
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Director – David Nicholas Wilkinson – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 175m ***** Most of the perpetrators of the Holocaust were never prosecuted: this documentary attempts to understand why not – on BD/DVD combo from Monday, March 27th following its debut on various streaming platforms UK, USA, Canada and Australia on Friday, January […]

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Holy Spider
(Ankabut-e Moqaddas,
عنکبوت مقدس)

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Post date January 17 2023
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(Ankabut-e Moqaddas,
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Director – Ali Abassi – 2022 – Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany – Cert. 18 – 116m ***** An Iranian lady crime journalist poses as a prostitute in an attempt to uncover the identity of a serial killer justifying his killing spree in the name of Islam – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January […]

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Holy Spider
(Ankabut-e Moqaddas,
عنکبوت مقدس)

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Post date January 20 2023
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In God’s name Holy SpiderDirected by Ali AbassiCertificate 18, 116 minutesReleased 20 January (UK cinemas), 10 March (MUBI) The year 2000. The Holy City of Mashhad, Iran. Prostitutes are being targeted by a killer who is justifying his crimes with Islamic rhetoric. With the notable exception of her editor Sahrifi (Arash Ashtiani), the journalist Rahimi […]

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The Crossing
(La Traversée)

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Post date October 14 2021
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(La Traversée)

Director – Florence Miailhe – 2021 – France, Germany, Czechia – 84m ***** Two children undergo a series of adventures as they flee an ethnic cleansing pogrom in this animated feature made with oil paint on glass – from the BFI London Film Festival 2021 which runs from Wednesday, October 6th to Sunday, October 17th […]

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Getting Away
With Murder(s)

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Post date October 1 2021
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With Murder(s)
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State-sanctioned killing Getting Away With Murder(s)Directed by David Nicholas WilkinsonCertificate 15, 175 minutesReleased 1 October The industrial extermination of the Holocaust included most infamously some six million Jews but also smaller numbers of other groups including Poles, gay men, the disabled and political dissidents, some 11 million people in all. It remains a stark reminder […]

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Melancholic
(メランコリック)

Melancholic Director – Seiji Tanaka – 2018 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 114m ***** Melancholic Director – Seiji Tanaka – 2016 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 15m ***** On Dual Format Blu-ray/DVD, rental on Apple TV and Amazon from Monday, September 7th Quiet, unemployed Tokyo University graduate Kazuhiko (Yoji Minagawa, also the film’s […]