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All of Us Strangers

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 8 2026
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Director – Andrew Haigh – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 105m ***** A gay Londoner travels by train to visit his parents in Sanderstead, following their deaths in a car crash when he was 12 years old – plays one night only, Sunday, February 8th, 6.45pm, as part of Film Tottenham He (Andrew Scott) […]

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Black Dog
(Gou Zhen,
狗阵)

Director – Guan Hu – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 106m ***1/2 An ex-con returns to his home town, which is infested with wild dogs, and befriends a stray – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, August 30th Looking down from the edge of a slope towards Gobi Desert scrubland. In […]

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The Weak and the Wicked

Director – J. Lee Thompson – 1954 – UK – Cert. 12 – 88m ***1/2 A woman spends 12 months in prison after being convicted of fraud – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and Digital in August, 2024 Jean (Glynis Johns) is marched from her cell and up […]

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Freud’s Last Session

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Post date June 10 2024
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Director – Matthew Brown – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 108m **** Celebrated psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is visited in the last month of his life, living in Britain, by young Oxford don and Christian apologist CS Lewis – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th September 1939. Chamberlain has issued his ultimatum […]

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The Lavender Hill Mob

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 26 2024
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Director – Charles Crichton – 1951 – UK – Cert. U – 78m ***** A Bank of England employee stumbles upon the perfect means to rob his employer of the gold bullion he transports there on a daily basis– classic Ealing comedy is back out in a new 4k restoration in UK cinemas on Friday, […]

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The End We Start From

Director – Mahalia Belo – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 102m ***1/2 As parts of the UK are flooded and submerged by an ecological disaster, a woman births a baby she must then bring up – on Digital from Monday, March 4th following its release in UK cinemas on Friday, January 19th On […]

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Driving Mum
(Á Ferð Með Mömmu)

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Post date March 2 2024
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(Á Ferð Með Mömmu)
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Director – Hilda Oddsson – 2023 – Iceland, Estonia – Cert. 12a – 112m ****1/2 After his mum dies, a man must honour her last wish by driving her to her final resting place… On the way, she talks to him… – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 1st The 1980s. Jón (Þröstur Leó […]

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Bolan’s Shoes

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Post date September 15 2023
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Director – Ian Puleston-Davies – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m **** Two traumatised siblings reconnect as adults years after a childhood coach crash coming back from a Liverpudlian orphanage trip to a T.Rex gig in the 1970s – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 15th *** SPOILER ALERT *** Picture black. […]

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Three Colours: Red
(Trois Couleurs: Rouge)

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Post date April 11 2023
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(Trois Couleurs: Rouge)
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Director – Krzysztof Kieślowski – 1994 – France – Cert. 15 – 99m ***** An up-and-coming model strikes up a friendship with a retired judge after her car accidentally runs over his dog one night – 4K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 14th This represents the third part of a trilogy […]

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Memories
(Memorizu,
メモリーズ)

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Post date May 11 2022
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(Memorizu,
メモリーズ)
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1/ Magnetic Rose (Kanojo no Omoide, 彼女の想いで) 2/ Stink Bomb (Saishu Heiki, 最臭兵器) 3/ Cannon Fodder (Taiho no Machi, 大砲の街) Directors – 1/ Koji Morimoto, 2/ Tensai Okamura, 3/ Katsuhiro Otomo – 1995 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 113m ***** Executive producer Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime anthology adapts three of his dystopian-themed manga stories into […]

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