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Dark Star

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Post date December 10 2025
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Director – John Carpenter – 1974 – US – Cert. PG – 83m (71m Directors Cut) ***** Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star Director – Daniel Griffith – 2010 – US – 118 mins ***** A bored crew of astronauts travel through space blowing up unstable planets – out now as a 4K […]

Tags action figure, alien, astronauts, beach ball, Bill Taylor, bomb bay, bomb timer, bored, Brian Narelle, Cal Cuniholm, cognitive bomb, comedy, control room, Cookie Knapp, crew, Crohn’s disease, cryogenically frozen, cryogenics, cut-out animation, Dan O'Bannon, Daniel Griffith, Dark Star, detonation schedule, Diane O'Bannon, diary entry, documentary, Douglas Knapp, Dre Pahich, eight-track cartridge, explosion, feed, film student, Greg Jein, Jack H. Harris, Jeff Burr, Joe Saunders, John Carpenter, keyboard, lift, lift interior, lift shaft, Major Matt Mason, malfunctioning seat circuit, Mattel, model, model work, musician, Nick Castle, optical effects, production assistant, sci-fi, ship’s chicken food, ship’s computer, ship’s mascot, space travel, special effects, student film, Tommy Lee Wallace, trap, travel, unstable planet, US, use only at sub light velocity

Animation Features Movies

Savages
(Sauvages)

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Post date August 1 2025
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(Sauvages)
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Director – Claude Barras – 2024 – Switzerland – Cert. PG – 87m French with English subtitles. ***** An indigenous pre-teenage girl stands up to loggers destroyingthe local rainforest – stop-frame animated feature from the director of My Life as a Courgette is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 1st From its opening moments […]

Tags 11-year-old, 3D animation, ancestors, animation, animator, Babette De Coster, baby, backing of the authorities, Benoît Poelvoorde, Borneo, bulldozer, capitalism, chainsaw, Charles de Ville, child-eating monster, children struggling to cope, Claude Barras, compromise, contemporary life, cousin, darkness, digitally immersive environment, economics of deforestation, embarrassment, environment, environmental theme, fathers and children, film activities, financial gain, followed by jungle, forest, frog, grandfather, grandfathers and children, habitat destruction, hands-on physicality, harvest fruit, heritage, incoming call, indigenous, infant, jungle forest, learned survival skills, loggers, loss of a parent, loss of the mother, Martin Verset, maternal instincts, miniature, model, model animation, model sets, modern technology, monster in the forest, mother’s death, mothers and children, myth making, native, natural habitat, natural outdoors world, nuclear family, orangutan, orphan, ostracise, Oxbridge graduate, palm oil extraction, peer group, Penan, perceived societal norm, Pierre-Isaïe Duc, police, pre-teenage, puppets blink, rainforest, rampage, rasping, resistance, ringtone, rucksack, Sauvages, savage, Savages, school, single-parent families, smartphone battery died, smartphone obsession, smelly boy, snake, spoken language, stop-frame, stop-motion, struggling to cope, swinging on a branch, Switzerland, trauma, tree, tropic, true to his roots, venomous snake, viral video

Features Live Action Movies

Blue
is the Warmest Colour
(La Vie d’Adèle)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 24 2025
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is the Warmest Colour
(La Vie d’Adèle)
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Director – Abdellatif Kechiche – 2013 – France – Cert. 18 – 180m UK release date 22/11/2013; Review originally published in Third Way magazine, November 2013. A loose adaptation of Julie Maroh’s graphic novel Le Bleu est une Couleur Chaude, this is one of the most touching films about romantic love (and physical passion) ever. […]

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Catching Fire:
The Story of
Anita Pallenberg

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Post date May 17 2024
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The Story of
Anita Pallenberg
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Directors – Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 113m ***1/2 The chaotic life of the archetypal rock chick, told through her own words and those of her children – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 17th After her death in 2017, Anita Pallenberg’s two surviving children Marlon and […]

Tags 1960s, 1970s, acid, actress, addiction, Alexis Bloom, Angela Richards, Anita Pallenberg, archive, art school, authorities, autobiography, bereavement, bereavement process, bio, bombs, Brian Jones, career, celebrity, crib death aged 10 weeks, documentary, drug abuse, drug-taking, drugs, England, falling bombs, France, French-speaking person, Germany, heroin, home movie, hospital, house guest, household, incriminating evidence, interview, Kate Moss, Keith Richards, kidnap a Rolling Stone, London, LSD, manuscript, manuscript; autobiography, Marlon Richards, Mediterranean, model, modelling, modelling career, mothers and children, movie actress, movies, New York, parents and children, police, rage, rebel, relationship, rock chick, roulette, Russian roulette, Scarlett Johansson, separation, South Of France, strong-willed, style icon, Super 8, surviving children, Svetlana Zill, swinging sixties, Switzerland, Tangier, Tara Richards, The Rolling Stones, tidy away, UK, unfit mother, US, Volker Schlöndorff, war baby

Features Live Action Movies

No More Bets
(孤注一掷,
Gu Zhu Yi Zhi)

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Post date September 8 2023
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(孤注一掷,
Gu Zhu Yi Zhi)
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Director – Shen Ao – 2022 – China – Cert. 15 – 129m *** A rising star computer programmer and a dropped model are lured into working as forced labour for a fraudulent, foreign online gambling operation – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 8th Zhao Dongran (Yong Mei), the knowledgeable head of a […]

Tags abduction, AK-47, bets, cage, casino, China, crime, croupier, cyber crime, Darren Wang, defraud, Eric Wang, foreign, fraud, gambling, Gina Jin, internet, internet fraud, Lay Zhang, model, modelling, online casino, police, prisoner, scam, Shen Ao, Singapore, Sunny Sun, work, work promotion, Yong Mei, Zhou Ye

Features Live Action Movies

Three Colours: Red
(Trois Couleurs: Rouge)

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Post date April 11 2023
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(Trois Couleurs: Rouge)
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Director – Krzysztof Kieślowski – 1994 – France – Cert. 15 – 99m ***** An up-and-coming model strikes up a friendship with a retired judge after her car accidentally runs over his dog one night – 4K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 14th This represents the third part of a trilogy […]

Animation Features Movies

Guillermo del Toro’s
Pinocchio

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Post date December 9 2022
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Pinocchio
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Directors – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 114m ***** Created as a puppet by a bereaved, religious woodcarver father, a little wooden boy must make his way in a world of ruthless show business, Fascism and war – stop-frame puppet movie is out on Netflix on Friday, […]

Tags accent, action, adaptation, afterlife, anteroom, assistant, bad contract, bereavement, blue fairy, blue wood sprite, bring to life, Burn Gorman, Burn!, burning, Carlo Collodi, Cate Blanchett, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, child, Christoph Waltz, church, churchgoer, conscience, contract, cricket, crucified, David Bradley, death, drunk, drunk parent, earnings, Ewan McGregor, fairytale, fascism, fathers and sons, feet, Finn Wolfhard, fish, Frank Passingham, fun, goodness, Gregory Mann, Guillermo del Toro, home, island camp, Italy, James Bond, Jesus Christ, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, local church, maltreat, Mark Gustafson, miniature, miniature sets, model, model animation, monkey, monster, mortality, musical, narrator, nose, one night releasing the last of their bomb, parent, planes, politician, politics, priest, puppet, puppet animation, puppetry, religion, right and wrong, Ron Perlman, school, sea, Second World War, showman, sky, snake tail, soldier, songs, statue, stop-frame, stop-frame animation, stop-motion, stop-motion animation, Tilda Swinton, torso, training, travelling, tree, US, war, Will Vinton, wonder, wood, wood sprite, woodcarver, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

Features Live Action Movies

All Is Vanity

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Post date October 10 2022
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Director – Marcos Mereles – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 72m * A photographer, an intern, a model and a make-up artist unite for a photography shoot that goes horribly wrong – out in cinemas on Friday, October 14th What went wrong, exactly,? asks the opening voice over. He’s referring to a day, […]

Animation Movies Shorts

Scenes With Beans
(Babfilm)

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Post date September 20 2021
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(Babfilm)

Director – Ottó Foky – 1976 – Hungary – 12m ***** A metal space bird approaches the bean planet to observe various aspects of life upon it before being discovered then shot at with a missile in this remarkable stop-frame short – out on MUBI as part of the animated shorts season Fables, Folklore, Futurism: […]

Animation Features Live Action Movies

The Lost World
(1925)

Director – Harry O. Hoyt – 1925 – US – Cert. U – 110m ***** Review of PAL VHS release originally published in Starlog UK, mid-1990s. £12.99, Original Aspect Ratio (Academy), Mono (Golden Age Films) Before Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg purloined the name for their Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World was Sir Arthur Conan […]