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Marty Supreme

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 24 2025
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Director – Josh Safdie – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 149m ***** In the 1950s, a young New Yorker with the odds against him is determined to become a top table tennis player – in cinemas from Friday, December 26th Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the 1950s. Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) has a dream. […]

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Red Path
(Les Enfants Rouges,
الذراري الحمر)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 21 2025
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(Les Enfants Rouges,
الذراري الحمر)
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Director – Lotfi Achour – 2024 – Tunisia, France, Belgium, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** When paradise is suddenly taken away from him, a young innocent must come to terms with stark and brutal forces of corruption and death – searing drama is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June […]

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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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Luminous Woman
(Hikaru Onna,
光る女)

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Post date May 25 2024
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(Hikaru Onna,
光る女)
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Director – Shinji Somai – 1987 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 118m ***** A Hokkaido farmer comes to Tokyo in search of his vanished fiancée but finds a world he has not expected – on Blu-ray from Monday, Monday, May 20th At a rubbish tip on the outskirts of Tokyo, a barefoot man (Takeiji […]

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Winny
(Winny)

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Post date February 2 2024
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Director – Yusaku Matsumoto – 2023 – Japan – Cert. tbc – 127m ***** Based on a true story; the state attempts to prosecute the software developer of the file sharing programme Winny for copyright violation – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2024 between Friday, 2nd February and Sunday, 31st […]

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Awoke
(Bogji Sigdang,
복지식당)

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Post date November 9 2021
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(Bogji Sigdang,
복지식당)

Directors – Jung Jae-ik, Seo Tae-soo – 2021 – South Korea – 97m **** Recovering from an accident that’s left him disabled, an honest but naive man falls prey to both social welfare bureaucracy and scam artists – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival which runs in cinemas from Thursday, November 4th to Friday, […]

Tags bureaucracy, disabled, Han Tae-gyeong, honest, innocent, Jo Min-sang, Jung Jae-ik, Korea, LKFF, LKFF 2021, London Korean Film Festival, London Korean Film Festival 2021, naive, scam artists, Seo Tae-soo, social welfare, social welfare bureaucracy, South Korea