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Animation Features Movies

Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles
Mutant Mayhem

Directors – Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 99m ***** The much loved comic-generated franchise gets a remarkable reboot in animation that breaks the filmmaking mould to really get under the skin of the teenage experience – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, […]

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Features Live Action Movies

We’re Nothing
at All
(Ngo Mun
Bat Si Sam Mo,
我們不是什麼)

Director – Herman Yau – 2026 – China, Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 128m ***** A seasoned forensics expert pieces together the story behind a bus bombing as the lives and motives of those responsible is revealed in interweaving serial flashbacks – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, May 29th A police procedural but not exactly […]

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Marty Supreme

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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Animation Features Live Action Movies Music

Disney’s Snow White
(2025)

(Live action remake of animated feature, so filed under animation, among other categories.) Director – Marc Webb – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 119m ***1/2 Disney’s new Snow White redoes the first animated feature, with its eponymous heroine, wicked queen and dwarfs, as live action – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March […]

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Animation Features Movies

The Breadwinner

Afghan life under religious extremism The BreadwinnerDirected by Nora TwomeyCertificate 12A, 94 minutesReleased 25 May Parvana (voiced by Saara Chaudry) is one of three girls living with her mum and dad in Kabul, Afghanistan, which is occupied and run by the Taliban. When her father is arrested by the Taliban on account of his intellectual […]

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Fez Summer ’55
(” 55″ خمسة وخمسين)

Director – Abdelhai Laraki – 2023 – Morocco – Cert. none – 114m **** An 11-year-old boy navigates the rooftops of a Moroccan city while insurgents plot the overthrow of French colonialists in private courtyards and sometimes confront the occupying police in the streets – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn […]