Tag: mothers and sons

A Private Life
(Vie Privée)

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Post date June 22 2026
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(Vie Privée)
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Director – Rebecca Zlotowski – 2025 – France – Cert. 15 – 107m **** A psychiatrist with an unusual eye problem must unravel the mystery of the recent death of one of her patients – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 26th Parisian psychiatrist Dr. Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster from The Mauritanian, Kevin Macdonald, 2021, The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan […]

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Little Amélie
or
The Character of Rain
(Amélie
et
la Métaphysique des Tubes)

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Post date February 5 2026
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or
The Character of Rain
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Directors – Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han – 2025 – France – Cert. PG – 77m ***** A Belgian diplomat’s baby daughter growing up in Japan comes to realise, by her third birthday, that she is not God – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th […]

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Terminator 2
Judgement Day

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Post date April 11 2026
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Judgement Day
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Director – James Cameron – 1991 – US – Cert. 15 – 127m ***** A second Terminator is sent from the future to kill the future leader of the war against the machines – opening film in Film Tottenham’s upcoming programme celebrating female action heroes, plays Sunday, April 12th 2026, 6.30 for 7pm start In […]

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Kaneko’s Commissary
(Kaneko Sashiireten,
金子差入店)

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Post date February 7 2026
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Director – Go Furukawa – 2025 – Japan – Cert. N/C 15+ – 125m **** An ex-con runs a service delivering clothing, other supplies and messages from loved ones to convicted prisoners – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026 which runs from Friday, 6th February to Tuesday, 31st March A young mum, babe in arms, takes bags for […]

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All of Us Strangers

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Post date January 8 2026
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Director – Andrew Haigh – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 105m ***** A gay Londoner travels by train to visit his parents in Sanderstead, following their deaths in a car crash when he was 12 years old – plays one night only, Sunday, February 8th, 6.45pm, as part of Film Tottenham He (Andrew Scott) […]

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The History of Sound

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Post date January 23 2026
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Director – Oliver Hermanus – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 128m **** A Kentucky man falls for a music professor in Boston and accompanies him on a field trip recording folk songs – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd In 1917, having grown up on a farmstead in rural Kentucky and […]

Tags 1910s, 1920s, 1980s, abusive relationship, academic holidays, army, assistant, bereavement, Boston, Briana Middleton, call up, catalog, catalogue, choir, Chris Cooper, church choir, collect, college, community, coughing, countryside, death of mother, Dion Graham, drafted, Emma Canning, England, ethnic, ethnomusicologist, eviction from the land, family farm, farm, field trip, fireman, folk songs, Frist World War, gay relationship, Hadley Robinson, hobby, indigenous, indigenous folk songs, Italy, Josh O’Connor, Kentucky, Lake District, letter, LGBTQ, LGBTQI, mail, Maine, Malaga Island, Michael Schantz, military draft, mixed black and white ethnic, Molly Price, mothers and sons, music, musicologist, negro spiritual, New England Conservatory of Music, obsession, Oliver Hermanus, Oxford University, paper candle, parents and children, Paul Mescal, performing, photographic memory: Silver Dagger, pianist, piano, police, policemen, poor people, porch, post-WW1, promote a book, pub, record, recording, relationships, Rome, rural, rural and urban, scholarship, sex, shell shock, socialite, song, song gathering, spiritual, stately mansion, student, suitcase, sweet-talking, tent, tenured academic, the happiest time of your life, The History of Sound, travelling, truncheon, tuberculosis, TV appearance, UK, US, war, wax cylinders, wax phonograph cylinders, widow, working the fields, World War 1, World War I, World War One, WW1

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Hamnet

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Post date January 5 2026
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Director – Chloé Zhao – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 12a – 125m ***** An imagining of the story of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet, whose name gave rise to the play Hamlet – Maggie O’Farrell’s adaptation of her own novel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 9th According to the opening title card, […]

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Hamnet

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 9 2026
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Directed by Chloé ZhaoCertificate 12A125 minutesReleased 9 January Shakespeare’s romantic relationship, family life and the tragedy of bereavement resulted in his writing one of his bestknown plays, Hamlet. In Elizabethan England, we are told at the start of Hamnet, the two names were interchangeable. Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, this film is well-served by the landscape-friendly sensibilities […]

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The Bone Breakers
(Spaccaossa)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 15 2022
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(Spaccaossa)

Director – Vincenzo Pirrotta – 2022 – Italy – 105m ***1/2 A gang of criminals in Palermo runs an insurance fraud operation involving the breaking of people’s bones – Italian film inspired by real facts premieres at the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival The scene you’re most likely to remember comes right at the start […]

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Tron: Ares

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 10 2025
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Director – Joachim Rønning – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 119m A CEO uses robots and vehicles from the digital world, which disintegrate after 29 minutes, to hunt down his corporate rival – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 10th **** Third movie in Disney’s Tron franchise doesn’t presuppose much knowledge of the […]