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Masters
of the Universe
(2026)

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Post date June 3 2026
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Director – Travis Knight – 2026 – UK – Cert. 12a – 132m ***1/2 Prince Adam must recapture Castle Grayskull and the throne of Eternia after his parents, the king and queen, have been deposed by the evil Skeletor – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, June 3rd As his father King Radnor (James Purefoy from High-Rise, […]

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Top Gun:
Maverick

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Post date May 24 2022
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Maverick
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Director – Joseph Kosinski – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 131m **** The eponymous Maverick (Tom Cruise) returns to the Navy pilot Top Gun school to train a dozen new recruits to fly an impossible bombing mission and come back alive – back out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, May 15th […]

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Godzilla Minus One
(Gojira -1.0,
ゴジラ -1.0)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 14 2023
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(Gojira -1.0,
ゴジラ -1.0)
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – out on Netflix from Sunday, May 3rd 2026 World War Two, Pacific theatre. Unwilling […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada

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Project Hail Mary

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Post date March 18 2026
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Directors – Phil Lord, Christopher Miller – 2026 – US – Cert. 12a – 156m ***** Hail Mary, Full of Grace. A school teacher is sent to a star 12 light years from Earth to determine why it is surviving the emergent life form killing all other stars, including our sun – out in UK […]

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Mission: Impossible
The Final Reckoning

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Post date May 21 2025
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The Final Reckoning
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Director – Christopher McQuarrie – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 163m ***** Tom Cruise’s eighth and director Christopher McQuarrie’s fourth Mission: Impossible outing delivers up to par globe-trotting action set pieces and considerably more plot than last time – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 21st When Tom Cruise made his first […]

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Broken Arrow
(1996)

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Post date November 24 2024
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Director – John Woo – 1996 – US – Cert. 15 – 108m *** Woo’s second US outing pits Christian Slater against nuclear stealth bomber co-pilot turned bad John Travolta in the Arizona desert – part of Art of Action, a major UK-wide season celebrating the artistry of real action choreography at cinemas across the […]

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Godzilla Minus One
/ Minus Color
(Gojira-1.0 / C,
ゴジラ -1.0 / C)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 31 2024
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/ Minus Color
(Gojira-1.0 / C,
ゴジラ -1.0 / C)
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Director – Takashi Yamazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** Japan, defeated and demoralised after World War Two, must somehow defeat the seemingly unstoppable menace of Godzilla when it rises from the depths of the ocean – now in black & white – out in UK cinemas from Friday, November 1st […]

Tags 1940s, 3D animation, Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2023-24, Academy Awards 2024, action, aircraft, animation, battleship, belief, black and white, blowing up, CG, CG animation, cowardice, death, decommissioning, destitution, devastatation, explosion, Godzilla, Gojira, guilt, Hidetaki Yoshioka, Japan, Kaiju, Kamikaze, Kamikaze pilot, Kuranosuke Sasaki, mayhem, mines, minus color, minus colour, mistaken belief, monster, mother and baby, Munetaka Aoki, nuclear, nuclear bomb, ocean, Oscars, Oscars 2023-24, Oscars 2024, Pacific, parents and children, pilot, post-war, post-war Japan, post-war Tokyo, poverty, pull the trigger, pyrotechnics, sacrifice, Sakura Ando, Second World War, self-sacrifice, Setsuro Wakamatsu, ship, shoot-to-kill, stop thief, survival, survivor, Takashi Yamazaki, Toho, war guilt, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2, Yuki Yamada

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Air America

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Post date October 7 2024
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Director – Roger Spottiswoode – 1990 – US – Cert. 15 – 113m * Reviewed in What’s On in London, January 1991. Released on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD in the UK on Monday, 7th October, 2024. One of the most accurate ways to judge whether or not a movie is worth seeing is to […]

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Born To Fly
(Chang Kong
Zhi Wang,
长空之王,
lit.
King Of The Sky)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 5 2023
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(Chang Kong
Zhi Wang,
长空之王,
lit.
King Of The Sky)
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Director – Liu Xiaoshi – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 128m ***1/2 Genuinely thrilling action movie about Chinese test pilots owes much to US movies Top Gun and The Right Stuff, even as it attempts to justify current expansionist Chinese views – out on Blu-ray and Digital from Monday, February 5th From above […]

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One Of Our Aircraft
Is Missing

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 22 2023
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Is Missing
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Producers-Writers-Directors – The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) – 1942 – UK – Cert. PG – 103m ***** Forced to bail out following an otherwise successful mission in which one engine is disabled, a British bomber crew must find their way across occupied Holland to return to the safety of Britain – part of […]

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