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How to Make a Killing

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 12 2026
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Director – John Patton Ford – 2026 – UK, France – Cert. 15 – 105m **** A disinherited son culls the seven family members standing between him and the fortune of his super-rich family one by one – US reimagining of Kind Hearts and Coronets is out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th Sentenced to death for […]

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Kontinental ’25 (Kontinental ’25)

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Post date October 31 2025
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Director – Radu Jude – 2025 – Romania – Cert. 15 – 109m **** Although operating within the bounds of the law, a bailiff is smitten with guilt and remorse for the effect of her job on a ‘client’– out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 31st Carrying large bags, he scavenges at the bases of tree trunks in […]

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The Last Dance
(Po Dei Juk,
破·地獄)

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Post date November 15 2024
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Director – Anselm Chan – 2024 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12a – 130m (extended version – Cert. 15 – 140m) **** (regular version) / unseen (extended version) A failed, professional wedding planner joins a Taoist funeral director as a partner in his company as various crises come to a head in the latter’s family […]

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The Devils

Director – Ken Russell – 1971 – UK – Cert. 18 – 106m 41s (cut) ***** UK DVD release date 19/03/2012, cert. 18, 107 mins plus extras, £19.99. Reviewed for Third Way 40 years after its 1971 theatrical release, the late Ken Russell’s key work reaches UK DVD in its original UK X Certificate version […]

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Handsome Guys
(Haenseomgaijeu,
핸섬가이즈)

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Post date November 7 2024
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Director – Nam Dong-hyub – 2024 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 15 – 102m **** A comedy of errors in horror genre clothing, features a house in which accidents keep occurring, and a demonic goat – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runs in cinemas from Friday, November 1st to Wednesday, […]

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Pharaoh
(Faraon)

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Post date September 15 2024
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Director – Jerzy Kawalerowicz – 1966 – Poland – Cert. 12 – 152m ***** The reformist zeal of a youthful heir to the Ancient Egyptian throne confronts the immovable conservative tradition of the priesthood of the god Osiris – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 16th There is nothing else in cinema quite like Pharaoh. That […]

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Kidnapped
(Rapito)

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Post date April 22 2024
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Director – Marco Bellocchio – 2023 – Italy, France, Germany – Cert. 12a – 135m ***** A boy is forcibly taken from his Jewish family by the Pope to be raised as a Catholic priest because he has been baptised into the Catholic faith – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 26th Italy, the […]

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Kidnapped

One God, two families KidnappedDirected by Marco BellocchioCertificate 12a, 135 minutesReleased 26 April This Italian drama, based on true events, is set when the papacy was both the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the state authority in parts of Italy, a situation that would change with Italian unification in the 1870s and the […]

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Immaculate

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Post date March 19 2024
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Director – Michael Mohan – 2023 – US – Cert. – 89m *** A virginal, American, novice nun cloistered in an Italian convent finds herself mysteriously pregnant – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 22nd A young nun attempts to flee a convent in the middle of the night, but before she can gate […]

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Daaaaaali! (Daaaaaali!)

Director – Quentin Dupieux – 2023 – France – Cert. none – 77m ***** Dali, played by five actors, repeatedly stalls a journalist’s attempts to film an interview with him, and a priest describes a dream over a meal – plays in the spirit of the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights […]

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