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Hell or High Water

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Post date June 14 2026
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Director – David Mackenzie – 2016 – US – Cert. 15 – 102m ***** Two brothers embark on a series of bank robberies even as two Texas Rangers follow their trail – out in the UK on 4K UHD Entering the Texas Midlands bank early in the morning, a woman employee (Dale Dickey from the G, 2023; Iron Man 3, Shane […]

Tags Amber Midthunder, American identity, bank, bank robbers, bank robbery, Ben Foster, bereavement, brothers, Buck Taylor, child support, concealed guard, convoy, cross the border, Dale Dickey, David Mackenzie, diner, drive, dust, evidence, failure to protect, foreclosure, gambling joint, Gil Birmingham, Giles Nuttgens, gunpoint, Hell or High Water, holed up on the ridge, human condition, Jeff Bridges, Joe Berryman, John-Paul Howard, Katy Mixon, Kristin K. Berg, lawyer, live being over, manager, Marin Ireland, masked men, Molotov Cocktail, money, oil on the land, Oklhoma, on camera, pay off the debt, people and land, pistol whip, praising Jesus, protect person and property, protector, ranch, receipt of the fax, rifle, road block, security upgrade, seizure of land, shooting, small towns, stake out, taking land, Taylor Sheridan, teller, Texas, Texas Midlands bank, Texas Rangers, tip, Tom Duffield, US, used truck, waitress, warrant, West Texas, William Sterchi), winnings, wounded

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Köln 75
(Köln 75)

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Post date June 1 2026
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(Köln 75)
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Director – Ido Fluk – 2025 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 112m ***** How an 18-year-old girl came to stage what would become the biggest selling jazz album in history – narrative feature is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 5th At a party honouring her career as a music promoter, 50-year-old Vera Brandes […]

Tags 11pm Friday night, 18-year-old, 300 seat, 50-year-old, air tickets, airport, Alexander Scheer, artists and creatives, back problems, bad start, biggest selling, Bob Dylan, book a tour, Bösendorfer 290 Imperial, broken, broken pedal, car journey, cash in, commission, concert, concert grand piano, conservative family, Daniel Betts, dentist, DJ, ECM, empty your mind, Enno Trebs, fathers and daughters, field, four stages of jazz, free improvisation, free jazz, free thinking, from scratch, Germany, hotel; room, ice cream, Ido Fluk, jazz album, John Magaro, Jördis Triebel, journalist, Keith Jarrett, Köln 75, Köln Opera House, Leo Meier, Leon Blohm, Mala Emde, manager, Manfred Eicher, Michael Chernus, Michael Watts, Michelangelo, money advance, mothers and daughters, music journalist, music journalist Watts, music promoter, musician, no questions, of course, opera Lulu, parents and children, phone line, piano tuner, practice piano, promoter, proper job, quasi-documentary, Ronnie Scott, scaffold, Shirin Lilly Eisa, Sistine Chapel, smokers, sold out, solo, Suzanne Wolff, technician, The Cramps, tour bus, tuning, Ulrich Tukur, upfront fee, Vera Brandes, you can’t use that

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Power Ballad

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Post date May 29 2026
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Director – John Carney – 2025 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 98m ***** A rock musician reduced to playing weddings but happy with his lot meets a former boy band star who steals one of his songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 29th High heeled feet head for the dance floor. “Cel – […]

Tags accommodation, afterparty, alcohol, anthem, audience, backstage, ballad, bass player, Beth Fallon, boy band, business card, busker, cease and desist, children of musicians, comeback song, copyright theft, country house, creative block, crowd, dance floor, Dublin, ensuite, familiar songs, front office, frontman, gatecrash, Glen Hansard, guitar, happy couple, Havana Rose Liu, High heels, hits, home life, Ireland, Jack Reynor, John Carney, Juliette Crosbie, L.A., lawyer, mall, manager, Marcella Plunkett, music, music business, music composition, music festival smartphone torch light, music industry types, musical career, musician, partygoers, Paul Rudd, Peter McDonald, Power Ballad, roadie, Rory Keenan; Keith McErlea; Paul Reid, set up house, shopping mall, social media, solo artist, song, song request, songwriter, songwriting, standards, standards band, The Bride and Groove, transit van, vintage guitar, washed up, wedding, wedding band, wedding gig, wedding party

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Broken English

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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, […]

Tags 1960s, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Loog Oldham, art, beat poet, Bob Dylan, brand, bright young thing, category, celebrity, choreography, cultural icon, culture, dance, dancer, documentary, drugs, drugs raid, epitaph, final years, friend, fur rug, George MacKay, girlfriend, Hal Willner, home, Iain Forsyth, interview, Jane Pollard, Keith Richards, life, manager, Marianne Faithfull, media, memory, mentor, Mick Jagger, Ministry, miscarriage, misogyny, music business, musician, news, Nick Cave, Not Forgetting, paparazzi, photographer, pigeonhole, poetry, police, pop culture, punk, Punk Rock, recording session, Redlands, rehab, rehearsal, relationships, Rolling Stones, sex, Sister Morphine, song lyrics, stage, suit and tie, Sussex, Thurston Moore, Tilda Swinton, Warren Ellis

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Slade in Flame

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Post date April 28 2025
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Director – Richard Loncraine – 1975 – UK – Cert. – 91m **** Slade play Flame, a small-time rock band who cut their musical teeth managed by lowlife crooks before going on to a meteoric rise and fall managed by corporate suits – 2K Remaster for the film’s 50th Anniversary Re-release is out on UHD […]

Tags (Johnny Shannon, 1960s, 1970s, Alan Lake, Andrew Birkin, arrest, back to back streets, backing band, band on tour, band’s manager, banner, bass player, brawl, breaking and entering, British, campaign, car chase, car crash, Chas Chandler, cinematographer, clean-living, coffin, composition, concert, contract, corporate suits, corporate type, costume, crooks, Dave Hill, DJ, Don Powell, drummer, ending, factory, fame, famous, fan, fight, first starring role, flame, gig, gothic horror, graffiti, gran, gritty, guitarist, hearse, heavy industry, helicopter, HP payments, intimidation, Jim Hendrix, Jim Lea, Jimmy Gardner, John Steel, Kenneth Colley, living with parents, lowlife, manager, media publicity, music, music business, music fan, Nigel Terry, Noddy Holder, North of England, Northern, number one singles, off the back of a lorry, padlock, padlocked coffin, performance, Peter Hannan, pirate radio station, police, pop music, product to be sold, publicity, released on bail, Richard Loncraine, rise and fall, rock band, Rock-a-Bye Baby, Screaming Lord Sutch, seventies, Sheila Raynor, Slade, Slade in Flame, small-time, song, soundtrack album, Stoker, talent scout, Thames Estuary, The Animals, the Beatles, thugs, title sequence, Tom Conti, Tommy Vance, treadmill, UK, upskirting, urban, violence, vulnerable, we’ve had enough, wedding party, weddings, well-off, working class, working men’s clubs, writer

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Sky Peals

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Post date August 8 2024
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Director – Moin Hussain – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 91m **** When his estranged father dies after leaving him an answering machine message, a motorway service station employee starts to question the identity of his father and, by extension, of himself – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 9th Adam (Faraz […]

Tags answering machine, answering machine message, bereavement, bridge, British, Britishness, burgers, car, car park, CCTV, Claire Rushbrook, co-worker, connect, cultural heritage, dead body, death, degraded image, disappear, dislocation, disorientation, employee, estate agent, estranged, ethnic, Faraz Ayub, father, fish-out-of-water, funeral, furniture, glitch, greeter, home, home life, house clearance, identity, indoor bridge, investigation, Islam, isolation, Jeff Mirza, kitchen, loss, manager, Moin Hussain, mosque, mothers and sons, motorway, motorway service station, move out, mundane, Muslim, Natalie Gavin, new manager, new partner, night shift, orders, Pakistani, pointless, post-industrialisation, prospective house buyers, queues, recoding, recording, relationship, relationship breakup, sell a house, selling off, Simon Nagra, single parent mum, Steve Oram, suit and tie, traditional Islamic garb, UK, uncle, vanish, white British, work social, workplace, Yorkshire

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Next Sohee
(Da-eum So-hee,
다음 소희)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 14 2024
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(Da-eum So-hee,
다음 소희)
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Director – July Jung – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 134m ***** A schoolgirl on an internship is appallingly exploited by her employers, and a police detective is called in to investigate – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Here’s a film which presents a real problem for reviewers. Something […]

Tags alcohol abuse, alcohol poisoning, apologise, bonus, boy band, bullying, call centre, capitalism, car park, class tutor, company profits, competition, contracts, customer queries, customer scripts, customers, dance studio too, dancing, dead, depression, detective, difficult customer, Doona Bae, drinking, drunk, education inspection board, employee, employer, ethics, exploitation, factory, friends, girl-band, government agencies, harassment, heavy drinking, high school, hospitalisation, illegal, internet, internship, investigate, investigation, job, July Jung, justice, K-pop, Kim Se-eun, Korea, Korean Telecom, manager, manipulation, meet targets, mind control, neoliberalism, not quit, open and shut case, overwork, parents, parents and children, police, police procedural, pressure, real life case, reservoir, right-wing society, routine assignment, school, schoolgirl, secondary school, sign, Sim Hee-seop, South Korea, speakerphone, subcontractor, suicide, targets, terminate contract, visit from head office, vulnerable workers, walk, work pressures, workers' rights, workforce, workplace

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In Broad Daylight
(Bak Yat Ji Ha,
白日之下)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 19 2024
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(Bak Yat Ji Ha,
白日之下)
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Director – Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan – 2023 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 106m ***1/2 A woman uncovers a catalogue of abuse visited upon the residents of the Hong Kong care home in which her grandfather lives – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 19th This opens and closes to the strains […]

Tags abuse, Baby Bo, Bowie Lam, care, care home, China and Hong Kong, civil liberties, client, court case, courtroom drama, Crime And Punishment, David Chiang, disabled, elderly, family, garden hose, grandfather, Henick Chou, Hong Kong, hose down, ice cream, investigative journalism, Jennifer Wu, journalism, law, Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan, lawyer, learning difficulties, legal, manager, Mimi Kung Chi-yan, newspaper, nurse, Pak Hon Chu, Peter Charm Man Chan, political freedom, print journalism, prosecutor, punishment, Rachael Leung, rat, residents, roommate, sadist, sex abuse, social change, staffing level, staple gun, testimony, undercover, undercover reporter, understaffed, vulnerable, vulnerable people, wash, wheelchair, Woo Fung

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Squaring The Circle:
(The Story Of
Hipgnosis)

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Post date July 10 2023
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(The Story Of
Hipgnosis)
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Director – Anton Corbijn – 2022 – UK – Cert. – 101m ***** The story of the visual creatives behind album sleeves, for Pink Floyd and others, who revolutionised the field from the late 1960s and through the 1970s – now out on Blu-ray/DVD combo and various streaming services plus BFI Player following its release […]

Tags 10cc, 1960s, 1970s, 6 Denmark Street, A Saucerful Of Secrets, album, album sleeve, animals, anti-establishment, Anton Corbijn, art, artist, Atom Heart Mother, Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell, bankrupt, bankruptcy, Battersea Power Station, Beatles, boring, burning man, Cambridge, camera, Coil, cow, darkroom, David Gilmour, drugs, Elegy, Emerson, fire, Genesis, giant pig, Giant’s Causeway, Graham Gouldman, hand-coloured photograph, Hipgnosis, Houses Of The Holy, Humphrey Ocean Roger Dean, iconic, illustration, Ireland, Jill Furmanovsky, Jimmy Page, Keith Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Led Zeppelin, Legerton Court, light, London, LP, LP sleeve, LSD, manager, monolith, music video, Nick Mason, Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Peter Christopherson, Peter Gabriel, Peter Grant, photographer, photography, Pink Floyd, presence, prism, record, record sleeve, red balls, refraction, Repulsion, Rick Wright, Robert Plant, Roger Waters, Roman Polanski, Royal College of Art, South Kensington, space rock, statue, Storm Thorgerson, stuntman, The Dark Side Of The Moon, The Nice, The Original Soundtrack, Throbbing Gristle, throwaway, Tottenham Court Road, UK, Wings Greatest, Wish You Were Here

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GoGo Club
(梁韻怡)

Director – Rei Leung Wan-yi – 2019 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ –25m ***** The progress of a former nightclub employee following his fortuitous encounter with a girl in a panda suit – FREE TO VIEW online in the UK in the Fresh Wave short films strand of Focus Hong Kong 2021 Easter from Wednesday, […]