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Arco
(Arco)

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Post date March 17 2026
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Director – Ugo Bienvenu – 2025 – France – Cert. PG – 82m French with subtitles (not in UK cinemas) ***** English dubbed version (in UK cinemas) ****1/2 A boy from the far future attempts time travel too young and gets stranded in an earlier time – animated SF feature is out in UK cinemas on […]

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Animation Features Movies

Spirited Away
(Sen
to Chihiro
no Kamikakushi,
千と千尋の神隠し)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 10 2022
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no Kamikakushi,
千と千尋の神隠し)
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Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2001 – Japan – Cert. PG – 125m ****1/2 (A shorter version of this review was originally published in Third Way for UK release date 12/09/2002. At which point, hardly anyone in the UK outside of anime fandom knew who Miyazaki was.) In director Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, a ten-year-old […]

Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Wilding

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Post date June 14 2024
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Isabella Tree, as played by Rhiannon Neads

Director – David Allen – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 75m ***** How Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell closed down their failing farm and instead let nature run wild to regenerate the land’s depleted biodiversity – inspiring documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Wilding

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Post date June 2 2024
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Good Stewardship Wilding Directed by David Allen Certificate PG, 75 minutes Released 14 June After they inherited the Knepp farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years until the late 1990s, when they were one and a half […]

Features Live Action Movies

Settlers

Director – Wyatt Rockefeller – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 103m ****1/2 The lives of a one-child family living on a farm on Mars are changed forever by the arrival of a hostile outsider – out on digital platforms from Friday, July 30th Reza (Jonny Lee Miller from Regeneration, Gillies Mackinnon, 1997; Trainspotting, […]