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Give It a Shot

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 14 2026
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Director – Vaishali Sinha – 2025 – Canada, India, US – uncertificated – 92m *** An Indian scientist has created a reversible male contraceptive technique, yet a combination of human greed and bureaucracy has so far prevented it reaching the masses – International Premiere at 6.30 pm at the ICA on Tuesday, July 14th in the London […]

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The Seed
of the Sacred Fig
(Dane-ye
Anjir-e Ma’abed,
دانه‌ی انجیر معابد)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 7 2025
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of the Sacred Fig
(Dane-ye
Anjir-e Ma’abed,
دانه‌ی انجیر معابد)
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Director – Mohammad Rasoulof – 2024 – Iran, Germany, France – Cert. 15 – 167m ***** An Iranian state functionary, married with two teenage daughters, is promoted to the position of judge at the same time as the Women, Life, Freedom protests erupt… And then, his gun goes missing at home… – out on Blu-ray […]

Tags 2022, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, Amineh Arani, authorities, beaten, behave, best behaviour, bestie, career and promotion, case files, cat and mouse, cells, college, corridor, death sentence, drawer, family night out, family row, France, Germany, germination, home, hometown, husbands and wives, imprisonment, incarceration, interrogator city and country, Iran, Islam, Islamist, judge, keep women down, labyrinth, life cycle, Mahsa Rostami, Missagh Zareh, missing gun, Mohammad Rasoulof, mother, Niousha Akhshi, non-conformism, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, overwork, parents and children, parents and daughters, parents and teenagers, patriarchy, pistol, promotion, protests, radical and conservative, regime, repression, rooftop, roots, rubber stamp, scrupulous, Setareh Maleki, sisters, social climber, social divide, Soheila Golestani, state functionary, status quo, strangulation, strict Islamic dress codes, teenage angst, Tehran, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, totalitarian, tower, tree, Women Life Freedom, workload, wound

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Chang’an
(Chang’an San Wan Li,
长安三万里,
lit. 3 000 Miles from Chang’an)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 26 2025
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(Chang’an San Wan Li,
长安三万里,
lit. 3 000 Miles from Chang’an)
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Directors – Xie Junwei, Zou Jing – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 168m **** General Gao Shi of the Tang dynasty recounts his life, his struggle to become a poet and his friendship with Li Bai, a more renowned poet – animated epic is out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 28th Set […]

Tags 2D animation, 3D computer animation, acolyte, action, animation, ashes of the dead, battle, blowing, burial, calligraphy, cavalry, CG, CG animation, Chang’an, China, class system, conflict, Cui Hau, culture, dancing girls, desk job, drink, drunkard, Du Fu, duel, eagles, emissary, Emperor, enemy, epic, estate, exam, fall on his spear, female beauties, fight, Gao Shi, general, governor, grass, grasslands, historical epic, history, horse, hostelry, inheritance, interrogation, Li Bai, Liang Gardens, Light Chaser Animation Studios, Ling Zhenhe, make an impression, male-dominated society, merchant class, military, military strategy, musician, nobility, oppressed women, painting, palace, patriarchy, poet, poetry, poetry boards, power to commission, princess, prisoner, profligacy, Pujinyi Inn, Qiuzai Jiang, renown, reputation, restaurant, Shang Qui, Shanghai Animation Studio, Shimeng Li, skirmish, soldier, spear, spearman, state official, Sun Lulu, Tang dynasty, Tang poets, Taoist, Tibetan, town and country, trot, Tubo, Wang Wei, war, war movie, wartime and peacetime, wind, wine, wrestling, Wu Junquan, Wuhan, Xiaoyu Liu, Xie Junwei, Yang Tianxian, Yangtse River, Yangzhou, Yellow Crane Tower, Zou Jing

Features Live Action Movies

Nobody Leaves Alive
(Ninguém Sai Vivo Daqui)

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Post date November 15 2023
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(Ninguém Sai Vivo Daqui)
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Director – André Ristum – 2023 – Brazil – Cert. none – 86m **** After a woman is incarcerated in Brazil’s notorious Colonia psychiatric hospital simply because she is pregnant outside of marriage, her hold on reality starts to disintegrate – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival […]

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The Brand New
Testament
(Le Tout Nouveau
Testament)

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Post date August 21 2020
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Testament
(Le Tout Nouveau
Testament)
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Director – Jaco Van Dormael – 2015 – Belgium – Cert. 15 – 113m ***** Review originally published in Reform, read the full review here. Showing on BFI Player from Thursday, July 20th, 2023 At the end of Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, 1981), the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson) bumbles around in a lounge lizard suit […]

Tags Belgium, Brexit, Brussels, Christianity, computer, disciple, Garden Of Eden, God, gorilla, launderette, patriarchy, testament, text message, theology, tunnel, washing machine

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Holy Spider
(Ankabut-e Moqaddas,
عنکبوت مقدس)

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Post date January 17 2023
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(Ankabut-e Moqaddas,
عنکبوت مقدس)
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Director – Ali Abassi – 2022 – Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany – Cert. 18 – 116m ***** An Iranian lady crime journalist poses as a prostitute in an attempt to uncover the identity of a serial killer justifying his killing spree in the name of Islam – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January […]

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Holy Spider
(Ankabut-e Moqaddas,
عنکبوت مقدس)

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Post date January 20 2023
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(Ankabut-e Moqaddas,
عنکبوت مقدس)
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In God’s name Holy SpiderDirected by Ali AbassiCertificate 18, 116 minutesReleased 20 January (UK cinemas), 10 March (MUBI) The year 2000. The Holy City of Mashhad, Iran. Prostitutes are being targeted by a killer who is justifying his crimes with Islamic rhetoric. With the notable exception of her editor Sahrifi (Arash Ashtiani), the journalist Rahimi […]

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A Childless Village (Sonsuz)

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Post date November 23 2022
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Director – Reza Jamali – 2022 – Iran – Cert. – 81m **** A village’s documentary filmmaker returns to the subject of local infertility for which the village’s women beat him up two decades ago – gentle comedy premieres in the 26th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 20 years ago, Kazem made a film about […]

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Hilma

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Post date October 28 2022
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Director – Lasse Hallström – 2022 – Sweden – Cert. 12a – 119m **** Late in her life, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, today considered the world’s first abstract painter, remembers her life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 28th As Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (Lena Olin) takes a tram journey, she […]

Tags Adam Lundgren, Anna Björk, art, art school, artist, astronomy, Benny Box, bereavement, biology, canvas, Catherine Chalk, Clare Holman, death, depth, Edvard Munch, Emmi Tjernström, exhibition, geometry, hide and seek. Drawing, Hilma af Klint, interview panel, Jazzy De Lisser, Jens Hultén, Lasse Hallström, Lena Olin, Lily Cole, Lukas Loughran, Madame Blavatsky, Maeve Dermody, Martin Wallström, mathematics, nature, non-figurative art, ocean floor, painter, painting, patriarchy, Paulius Markevicius, Rebecca Calder, Rudolph Steiner, science, scientific enquiry, sexism, siblings, sisters, slit-scan, sounding, sounding weight, spiral, spiral staircase, spiritual, spiritual world, staircase, Stockholm, Swden, temple, Theosophy, Tom Wlaschiha, Tora Hallström, vision, Wassily Kandinsky

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Hive

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Post date March 16 2022
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Director – Blerta Basholli – 2021 – Kosovo – Cert. 15 – 84m *** A woman whose husband went missing during the war encounters prejudice when she starts a small business to support herself and her family – out in cinemas on Friday, March 18th Kosovan woman Fahrije (Yllka Gashi) lives with her teenage daughter […]