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The Killer
(Dip Huet
Seung Hung,
喋血雙雄)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 19 2026
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(Dip Huet
Seung Hung,
喋血雙雄)
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Director – John Woo – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 110m ***** Having accidentally blinded a nightclub singer in a hit, a gunman takes on one last job to fund the operation to restore her eyesight – 4K Restoration plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from […]

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Two Way Stretch

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Post date August 14 2025
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Director – Robert Day – 1960 – UK – Cert. U – 78m **** Three prisoners plot a heist with the perfect alibi… that they are incarcerated in prison at the time – classic British prison comedy is out on UK Blu-ray on Monday, August 4th Very much of its time, this British prison comedy […]

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Exhibition on Screen
Michelangelo
Love and Death

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Post date May 20 2025
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Love and Death
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Director – David Bickerstaff – 2017 – UK – Cert. U – 91m ***** Sixteenth Century Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo remains one of the greatest artists of all time, yet his overreaching ambition frequently proved his undoing – back out in UK cinemas to tie in with the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth from Tuesday, May […]

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