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Director – Callum Burn – 2026 – UK – Cert. 15 – 89m

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A British tank crew on the offensive on WW1’s Western Front becomes stranded behind enemy lines when their vehicle is immobilised – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, June 26th

Doom-laden music. Historial WW1 footage. 1917. Captions explain the situation. The Allies, surrounded on three sides near Ypres, France, push forward, sustaining heavy casualties. Visuals: a lone British officer – you can tell by his revolver and moustache – moves around in the murk near a barbed wire barricade. One hesitates to say “advances” because he appears to be going back and forth. Possibly, he’s lost. A German knocks him out with a rifle butt.

Half-way through the movie, we’ll realise this sequence was a flash-forward. Perhaps the screenplay could have delivered a better oening (this one feels like it came out of the editing).

August 22nd 1917. Four privates inside an industrial metal structure, playing cards, argueing. One of them, Ernest (Ernest Hans Braedy – Nadav Burstein) is sketching a bird from memory. Their C.O., who we’ll later learn is Lieutenant Hill (David Dobson from Spitfire Over Berlin, 2022; Lancaster Skies, 2019; Fray Bentos, short, 2014, all Callum Burn), introduces a senior officer Captain Richardson (Vin Hawke from Battle Over Britain, Callum Burn, 2023) who is joining them today.… Read the rest

Elio

Directors – Adrian Molina, Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 99m

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An alien-obsessed orphan, whose aunt tracks space debris for NASA, makes contact with aliens – latest Disney / Pixar romp is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 20th

Young lad Elio Solis (voice: Yonas Kibreab) has never got over the death of his parents, and lives with his aunt Olga (voice: Zoe Soldana) with whom he doesn’t really get on, even though she puts him before the advancement of her career at NASA, where she has forgone aspiring to astronaut training and works tracking space debris. One day, she is having a meal in the large work canteen with him when he vanishes, sneaking in to an exhibit about the cosmos to hear a Carl Sagan monologue about the possibility of extra-terrestrial life.

Following this incident, Elio decides that all his problems would be solved if only aliens would abduct him, and goes out of his way to make this happen, drawing a big “Abduct me” message / diagram on the beach and lying in the middle of it so he can be clearly seen from the sky, not to mention sending ham radio messages to the stars with his woefully inadequate radio transmitter.… Read the rest