Tag: mothers and sons

Happyend
(HAPPYEND)

Director – Neo Sora – 2024 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 113m *** Two schoolboys play a prank on their despotic principal, who turns it into an excuse to introduce a high tech surveillance system – out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, September 19th In a future dystopian Kobe, Japan, that looks remarkably like the present […]

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Bambi:
a Tale of Life in the Woods
(Bambi,
l’histoire d’une Vie
dans les Bois)

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Post date August 15 2025
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a Tale of Life in the Woods
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l’histoire d’une Vie
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Director – Michel Fessler – 2024 – France – Cert. PG – 78m ***** The woods. A faun is born, looked after by its mother, and learns to fend for itself – remarkable live action adaptation of Bambi, shot with real live animals, is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 15th It’s inevitable that […]

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Animation Movies Shorts

Little Shrew
(Snowflake)

Director – Kate Bush – 2024 – UK – Cert. PG – 4m ***** As modern warfare decimates a landscape, a shrew crosses countryside and town as a small, spirit-like light falls towards it – short accompanies the UK cinema release of From Hilde, With Love on Friday, June 27th Musician / songwriter Kate Bush […]

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Animation Features Live Action Movies

Karate Kid
Legends

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Post date May 29 2025
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Legends
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Director – Jonathan Entwhistle – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 94m ***** Latest franchise entry plays by all the rules that you would expect, yet somehow manages to completely break the mould and come up with something fresh and original – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 28th All a Karate Kid […]

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The First
Slam Dunk

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Post date June 13 2023
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Slam Dunk
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Director – Takehiko Inoue – 2022 – Japan – Cert. 12a tbc – 124m ***** A high school basketball team sets out to defeat the seemingly unstoppable league champions – on 4K UHD + Blu-ray Collector’s Edition, Steelbook, Blu-ray, and DVD on 24th March following its debut in the 2023 Annecy International Animation Festival from […]

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The Contestant

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Post date November 29 2024
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Director – Clair Titley – 2023 – UK – Cert.12a – 90m ***** How a man’s incarceration in a room, broadcast on TV, became a media sensation in Japan– out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 29th Before The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998), which would be released later the same year, a couple of […]

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Moor
(Mavr)

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Post date November 26 2024
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Director – Adilkhan Yerzhanov – 2024 – Kazakhstan, France – 83m *** A mercenary known by the codename ‘Moor’ returns from the war to the big city to rescue his younger brother’s wife and son from her husband’s debts – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Found […]

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Mother’s Kingdom
(Uhm-mah-ui
Wahng-gook,
엄마의 왕국)

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Post date November 11 2024
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(Uhm-mah-ui
Wahng-gook,
엄마의 왕국)
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Director – Lee Sang-hak – 2024 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 15 – 97m ***** A Christian mother, her ‘Christian book’ author son, and her local pastor brother-in-law are haunted by traumas from their collective past – suspense thriller from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runs in cinemas from Friday, November […]

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Blitz
(2024)

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Post date November 1 2024
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(2024)
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Directed by Steve McQueenCertificate 12a120 minutesReleased 1 November People just getting on with life in dire circumstances, doing what they have to do. A mother searches for her lost son. An 11-year-old embraces his black identity. Women work in munitions factories. Thieves take advantage of death and devastation to turn a profit. And, unexpectedly, a […]

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Mist
(Angae,
안개)

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Post date October 30 2024
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(Angae,
안개)
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Director – Kim Soo-yong – 1967 – South Korea – 78m **** A married man leaves Seoul to visit his dull hometown for a few days, where he embarks on a brief affair with a music teacher from the local school – plays in Echoes In Time | Korean Films of the Golden Age and […]