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Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles
Mutant Mayhem

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Post date July 31 2023
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Ninja Turtles
Mutant Mayhem
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Directors – Jeff Rowe, Kyler Spears – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 99m ***** The much loved comic-generated franchise gets a remarkable reboot in animation that breaks the filmmaking mould to really get under the skin of the teenage experience – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, […]

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Dragonkeeper
(Gardiana de Dragones)

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Post date September 25 2024
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(Gardiana de Dragones)
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Director – Li Jianping, Salvador Simó – 2023 – Spain, China – Cert. PG – 98m **** Faced by powerful forces of empire and a ruthless traitor, a girl must accompany an old dragon to ensure the survival of its egg – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 27th Ancient China. As revealed in […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Meet the Feebles

Director – Peter Jackson – 1989 – New Zealand – Cert. 18 – 97m ** Offbeat special effects puppet movie proves a let-down despite inventive filmmaking – review originally published in What’s On in London, March 1992. Walrus producer Bletch (voice: Peter Vere Jones) wants to take his crummy stage show Meet the Feebles onto […]

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In Broad Daylight
(Bak Yat Ji Ha,
白日之下)

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Post date January 19 2024
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(Bak Yat Ji Ha,
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Director – Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan – 2023 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 106m ***1/2 A woman uncovers a catalogue of abuse visited upon the residents of the Hong Kong care home in which her grandfather lives – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 19th This opens and closes to the strains […]

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Observing
(Opazovanje)

Director – Janez Burger – 2023 – Slovenia, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia – Cert. none – 83m ***** A paramedic must deal with the aftermath of a man being kicked unconscious after people watch the incident on social media livestreaming – plays in the spirit of the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black […]

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Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles II
The Secret
Of The Ooze

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Post date July 30 2023
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Ninja Turtles II
The Secret
Of The Ooze

Director – Michael Pressman – 1991 – US – Cert. PG – 88m *** With the criminal youth cult The Foot in disarray, its leader The Shredder (Francois Chau) emerges from a pile of garbage in a rubbish dump to lead the organisation’s remnant against their hated enemies, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Elsewhere in […]

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Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles
(UK: Teenage Mutant
Hero Turtles)

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Post date July 30 2023
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Ninja Turtles
(UK: Teenage Mutant
Hero Turtles)

Director – Steve Barron – 1990 – US, UK – Cert. PG – 91m 38s (cut) – 93m 25s (cuts waived for 2003 reclassification) BBFC info here ** 1/2 What can you say about four turtles who accidentally wandered into radioactive material, which caused them to grow unnaturally large and speak strange words? Like “pizza!” […]

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Champions

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Post date March 10 2023
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Director – Bobby Farrelly – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 124m **** A disgraced basketball coach is sentenced to community service coaching a team of people with learning difficulties – out on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday, June 12th After spending the night with less than impressed, fortysomething, one night Tinder partner Alex […]

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The Reckoning

Director – Neil Marshall – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 111m *** A woman accused of witchcraft finds herself pitted in a battle of wills against her witchfinder torturer at the time of the Great Plague – on digital from Friday, April 16th and Shudder UK from Thursday, 13th May On the one […]

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