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Little Amélie
or
The Character of Rain
(Amélie
et
la Métaphysique des Tubes)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 5 2026
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or
The Character of Rain
(Amélie
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Directors – Maïlys Vallade & Liane-Cho Han – 2025 – France – Cert. PG – 77m ***** A Belgian diplomat’s baby daughter growing up in Japan comes to realise, by her third birthday, that she is not God – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th […]

Tags Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2025-26, Academy Awards 2026, animosity, Annecy, Annecy 2026, baby, baby noises, beach, Belgian, Belgian chocolate, bereavement, between two cultures, birthday, bombing raid, books, Brussels, carp, catch up, Cathy Cerda, childhood, children's film, chocolate, comics, commemorating the dead, danger, daughter, departed spirit, diplomat, drowning, early years, earthquake, East and West, family trip, fellow god, Festival for the Month of Boys, first word, France, God, grandma, grandmothers and grandchildren, growing up, grown up situations, grumpy, Haylee Issembourg, housekeeper, housekeeper and employer, Isaac Schoumsky, Japan, Japan and Belgium, Japanese character, Laetitia Coryn, landlady, lantern festival, Liane-Cho Han, Little Amelie, Loïse Charpentier, Maïlys Vallade, Marc Arnaud, missing, monster, mothers and sons, names, naming, neighbour, ornamental gardens, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscar nominations 2025-26, Oscar nominations 2026, Oscars, Oscars 2025-26, Oscars 2026, parents and children, peering out, picture books, pond, post-war, rain, rescue, running, serenity, siblings, small child, survive, taste, The Character of Rain, three years old, toddler, transcendent, tube, two-and-a-half years old, vacuum cleaner, Victoria Grosbois, walking, war, wonder, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, write your name, WW2, Yokusai, Yumi Fujimori

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Disclosure Day

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 9 2026
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Director – Steven Spielberg – 2026 – US – Cert. 12A – 145m The first two hours ***** The last half hour *** Hoping to reveal to mankind the hitherto censored truth about aliens visiting Earth, a man and a woman flee their pursuers across the United States – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, […]

Tags a man and a woman, alien sightings, aliens, aliens visiting Earth, bird, black suits, broadcast, car, car chase, censored, censorship, Christian faith, Christianity, clicking sounds, Colin Firth, collapse, Colman Domingo, conspiracy theory, convent, corporation, cover-up, crash landings, crucifix, data sticks, deer, device, Disclosure Day, disseminate, dreams, Elizabeth Marvel, Emily Blunt, empathy, Evangelical, Eve Hewson, farmhouse, fire truck, fox, get the word out, girlfriend, goods train, hand weapon, heat signature, hiding place, hospital, Information, invisible, Jim Parrack, Josh O’Connor, Kansas City, lab, lab experiments, level crossing, live TV broadcast, MacGuffin, mental collapse, novice, nun, on the run, prayer, psychic, pulled over, pursuers, pursuit, questioning, receive the message, reckless driving, red bird, rescue, reveal, revelation, rucksack, sci-fi, science fiction, see, SF, smartphone, smartphone video, spirit possession, splinter organisation, Steven Spielberg, stigmata, stolen, suppressed, SUVs, theft, thriller, Tommy Martinez, traffic cop, train, trapped bonnet, truth, TV network, UFO, under observation, understand, upload, US, video, WARDEX, we find out, weapon, weather woman, worldwide, Wyatt Russell

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Star Wars
The Mandalorian
and Grogu

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 22 2026
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The Mandalorian
and Grogu
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Director – Jon Favreau – 2026 – US – Cert. 12A – 132m **** The mercenary Mandalorian and his infant charge, the Yoda-like Grogu, must rescue the young Rotta the Hutt who has been kidnapped by gangsters – out in UK IMAX cinemas on Friday, May 22nd The character of the MandalorIan resembles a bounty hunter from […]

Tags action, adventurer, apprentice Grogu, arena fights, baby Yoda, battle, billboard, bomb, bounty hunter, Brendan Wayne, cell, cockpit, collapsed tree trunk, control panel, crime syndicate, do not touch, empire, enemy, explosion, fight, fight sequences, fighting, final match, food vendor, four-armed monkey, galaxy, helmet, Hutt, IMAX, independent contractor, intel, interplanetary travel, Janu. Jonny Coyne, Jedi Master, Jon Favreau, jungle, kidnapped, Lateef Crowder, man in a costume, Martin Scorsese, meditative, mercenary, Metropolis, mountainside, new found fame, New Republic, New York, nurse back to health, Pedro Pascal, Phil Tippett, planet, possibly dead, puppeteer, rescue, Rotta the Hutt, safety catch, seat belt, Sigourney Weaver, small child, snowbound, spacecraft, spaceship, spaceships, special effects, Star Wars, Star Wars:The MandalorIan and Grogu, stop-frame animation, stunt, swagger, the Force, The MandalorIan and Grogu, unconscious, US, warfare, Yoda

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Dongji Rescue
(Dong Ji Dao,
東吉嶼)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 22 2025
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(Dong Ji Dao,
東吉嶼)
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Director – Fei Zhenxiang, Guan Hu – 2025 – China – Cert. 15 – 133m The first hour and a half **1/2 The last half hour ****1/2 Chinese islanders under Japanese Occupation in WW2 set out to rescue a thousand plus British prisoners from a sinking, torpedoed ship – streaming on UK VoD from Friday, […]

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A Pale View of Hills
(Toi Yamanamino Hikari,
遠い山なみの光)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date March 12 2026
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(Toi Yamanamino Hikari,
遠い山なみの光)
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Director – Kei Ishikawa – 2025 – UK, Japan, Poland – Cert. 12a – 123m From the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro ***1/2 An aspiring journalist in 1982 England delves into her mother’s past life in 1952 Nagasaki and unearths dark family secrets – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th As will be seen from the above logline description, this essentially […]

Tags 1952, 1982, A Pale View of Hills, aspiring journalist, atomic bomb, bad dream, bedroom, bereavement, Berkshire, box, bullied, Camilla Aiko, cassette recorder, cat, Chess, consent, drop out, editor, emigrate, England, family history, family secrets, father, fathers and sons, flashback, Fumi Nikaido, Greenham Common, Greenham protests, guilt, headmaster, home life, isolated shack, Japan, journalist, journalistic integrity, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kei Ishikawa, kittens, Kohei Matsushita, leave his wife, London-based, married, memories, militaristic attitude, Mio Suzuki, mother’s house, mothers and daughters, Nagasaki, night, old letters, old photos, parents and children, past life, pregnant, publisher, radiation, rescue, researching Greenham, retired, river, running, schoolchildren, schoolteacher, selling the house, Shogi, sibling bereavement, sister bereavement, sitting room, stories, Suzo Hirose, Tomakazu Miura, UK, unable to sleep, university, US, violin, waif, wartime service, writer, Yoh Yoshida

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Alone in the Night
(Yoru ga Mata Kuru,
夜がまた来る)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 17 2025
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(Yoru ga Mata Kuru,
夜がまた来る)
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Director – Takashi Ishii – 1994 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 108m ****1/2 After her undercover cop husband is killed by a gang, Nami infiltrates the gang and suffers much abuse as she attempts to identify and take her revenge on his killer – out on Blu-ray as part of the Takashi Ishii: 4 Tales of Nami limited edition digipack set (2000 copies) A […]

Tags 4 Tales of Nami, attack, ballroom, bed, bedroom, boss, broken china, clan, clan leader, cold turkey, condolences, cop, curtains, cut off your finger, dance, dream, dreamlike, drugs, drunk, early morning, everyone knows, fight, fix, flashbulbs, floating corpse, gambling, gang leader, gang rape, gangster, guard, gun, gun instruction, gunplay, handgun, hospital, hostess club, hotel; room, injecting, innocence, Japan, Jinpachi Nezu, junkie, Junko Miyashita, keepsake, Kimiko Yo, Kippei Shina, knife, lift, Limbo, locket, Madam, Mah Jong, media circus, Minori Terada, mist, necklace, night, Noriko Hayami, Norimichi Kasamatsu, nudity, overdose, paparazzi, paper, pink marker pen, pistol, police raid, press, psychology, pyjamas, rain, reporters, rescue, revenge, rock, rooftop, scissors, sea, sex, sex scene, sleaze, slit your wrist, snitch, snow, snow falling, speed, stab, stolen drugs, sword, syringe, Takashi Ishii, thug, torment, torture, Toshiyuki Nagashima, undercover cop, urn of remains, waltz, water, water bed, water surfaces, waterfront, wind, Yasushi Sasakibara, Yui Natsukawa

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The Most Precious
of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
des Marchandises)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 3 2025
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of Cargoes
(La Plus Précieuse
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Director – Michel Hazanavicius – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** In Winter in a forest, a poor woodcutter’s wife rescues an abandoned baby thrown from a passing train and, despite her husband’s misgivings, raises the girl as her own – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 4th Once […]

Tags 2D animation, abandoned baby, adaptation, animation, atrocity, authorities, baby, baby crying, beating heart, bodies into pits, child, chimneys belching smoke, complicit, covered wagons, death camp, Denis Podalydès, Dominique Blanc, drawn animation, face missing, fairy tale, fiction, forest, France, Gods of the Trains, Grégory Gadebois, heartless, history, Holocaust, Holocaust denial, isolated, Jean-Claude Grumberg, Jean-Louis Trintignant, nightmare, Once upon a time, paediatrician, passing train, Poland, poor woodcutter, poor woodcutter’s wife, prayer, rescue, secret, shelter, snow, speaking out, Star of David, the Final Solution, The Most Precious of Cargoes, thrown from a train, towers, truth, war, Winter, woodcutter’s wife

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Mickey 17

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Post date March 6 2025
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Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 134m ***** Contracted to have his fleshly body reprinted, and his memory restored every time he dies, the expendable Mickey is assigned to a ship run by a right-wing power couple who plan to colonise a distant planet – science fiction adaptation […]

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Rumours
(2024)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 12 2024
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(2024)
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Director – Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson – 2024 – Germany, Canada – Cert. 15 – 109m ****1/2 The G7 leaders meet at a summit only to find themselves trapped in the woods following an apocalyptic event – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 6th Every so often, the leaders of the world’s […]

Tags alcohol, alcoholic, Alicia Vikander, apocalypse, apocalyptic event, bog land, Bog People, bones, bot to entrap paedophiles, Britain, burial, Canada, catastrophe, Cate Blanchett, catering staff, Charles Dance, clearing, corpses, crisis, cross the lake, dark skies, Denis Ménochet, distant, divorce, draft statement, drink, elected leaders, estate, EU President, Evan Johnson, falling asleep, fancy, fantasy, ferry, foggy, follow the rope, food, France, French Premier, G7, Galen Johnson, gazebo, German Chancellor, Germany, giant brain, gibberish, global crisis, gust of wind, Guy Maddin, horror, host, into the water, Italy, Japan, jetty, leaders, LFF, LFF 2024, liberal democracy, London Film Festival, London Film Festival 2024, mansion, metaphor, mud, Nicky Amuka-Bird, old age, penis, photo opportunity, pieces of paper, pit, PM, political system, politics, preservation, President, prime minister, protestors, relationship reconciliation, remains, representative, rescue, Rolando Ravello, Roy Dupuis, satire, science fiction, scribble, seven-year-old girl, severed penis, sex, split into groups, statesmen, summit, Swedish, table, Takehiro Hira, terrorists, text, tour, trance, trapped, trapped in the woods, US, US President, waffle, weather, Western democracy, wheelbarrow, wine, woods

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Moor
(Mavr)

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Post date November 26 2024
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Director – Adilkhan Yerzhanov – 2024 – Kazakhstan, France – 83m *** A mercenary known by the codename ‘Moor’ returns from the war to the big city to rescue his younger brother’s wife and son from her husband’s debts – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Found […]

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