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Handsome Guys
(Haenseomgaijeu,
핸섬가이즈)

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Post date November 7 2024
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(Haenseomgaijeu,
핸섬가이즈)
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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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Animation Features Movies

Rebellious

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Post date October 24 2024
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Director – Alex Tsitsilin – 2023 – UK, Cyprus – Cert. PG – 94m *** Her true love must rescue the princess before three rival princes after a dragon abducts her on behalf of an evil wizard – fairy tale animation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 25th A dad reads his small […]

Tags 3D animation, Abe Goldfarb, Alex Tsitsilin, Alyson Leigh Rosenfeld, animation, Anthony Sardinha, architecture graduate, bedtime story, bewitched, boyfriend, Brian Kim, brutish, carried off, CG, CG animation, constrictor, Cyprus, Dan Edwards, David Wills, dragon abduction, Eastern Europe, enchantment, fairy tale, fairy tale archetypes, fathers and daughters, forest, gardens, giant, happiness, Indian, Jennifer Sun Bell, Jon St. John, king, kingdom, ladies’ man, magic, Marc Thompson, Matt Giroveanu, mother’s boy, obese, Oriental, overeating, palace, Pete Zarustica, prince, princess, proposal of marriage, quest, rescue, serpent, shapeshifter, snake, sorceress, spell, statues, strong, suitors, talking bear, traditional, true love, turned into gold, UK, Vanessa Johansson, wizard

Animation Features Movies

Transformers One

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Post date October 11 2024
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Director – Josh Cooley – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 104m *** The origin story of the hero and villain of the Transformers in a long-distant past on their home planet – animated prequel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 11th In a city deep in the bowels of his planet, […]

Animation Features Movies

Dragonkeeper
(Gardiana de Dragones)

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Post date September 25 2024
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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 […]

Tags 3D animation, abandoned baby, ancient China, Andrew Leung, animation, Anthony Howell, Arturo Cardelús, Australian, author, basket of food, Beth Chambers, bets, Bill Bailey, Bill Nighy, cage, captain, Captain of the Guard, Carole Wilkinson, cave, CG, CG animation, China, climb, collapse, computer animation, confidence, cross-country, dragon, dungeon, dying of old age, egg, Emperor, empire, English language version, flight, forces of empire, Honoured Guests, hunt, immortal, immortality, Imperial Court, Imperial Guard, independence, insect, Jacqueline Chan, Jonathan David Mellors, landscape, Li Jianping, longevity, Mayalinee Griffith, mother, mountain ranges, necromancer, necromancy, orphan, Paul McEwan, pearl, pet, power, Qi, rat, rescue, road movie, rooftop, rope, rope bridge, ruthless, Salvador Simo, Sarah Lam, scroll, small town, Spain, survival, telepathy, Tony Jayawardena, trader, trading post, traitor, travel, vast plains, walls, wing

Features Live Action Movies

The Count of Monte Cristo
(Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
(2024)

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Post date August 28 2024
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(Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
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Directors – Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte – 2024 – France – Cert. 12a – 173m ***** An innocent Frenchman framed and imprisoned as a Napoleonic partisan escapes to impose justice on his false accusers – new Dumas adaptation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 30th There have been numerous adaptions of […]

Tags adaption, Adèle Simphal, Alexandre de La Patellière, Alexandre Dumas, Anaïs Demoustier, Anamaria Vartolomei, arrest, bastard son, Bastien Bouillon, body in the water, Bonapartism, burial alive, burial at birth, cell, Chateau d’If, coward, crown prosecutor, disguise, drowning, dungeon, escape, France, grief, incarceration, intrigue, jealousy, Julie De Bona, justice, Laurent Lafitte, Marseilles, Matthieu Delaporte, mistress, novel, partisan, Patrick Mille, Pierfrancesco Favino, Pierre Niney, post-Napoleonic. Napoleon, prison cell, prisoner, prosecutor, prostitution, put things right, recognise, remorse, rescue, revenge, rival in love, ruin, ship in distress, ship on fire, ship’s crew member, skulduggery, Stéphane Varupenne, storm at sea, The Count of Monte Cristo, the fall of Napoleon, treasure, tunnel, unsuspecting, Vassili Schneider, vengeance, Vivant, ward, wedding day, younger generation

Animation Features Movies

Ponyo
(Gake no Ue no Ponyo,
崖の上のポニョ,
lit. Ponyo on the Cliff)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 1 2024
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(Gake no Ue no Ponyo,
崖の上のポニョ,
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Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2008 – Japan – Cert. U – 103m ***** A girl fish spirit takes on human form to become a companion to a human boy – reviewed for Third Way, February 2010 Miyazaki’s animated filmography prior to international crossover item Spirited Away (2001) has scarcely graced UK screens, despite colossal […]

Animation Features Movies

Spy x Family
Code: White
(SPY x FAMILY
CODE: White)

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Post date April 24 2024
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Code: White
(SPY x FAMILY
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All images © 2023 SPY x FAMILY The Movie Project © Tatsuya Endo/Shueisha

Directors – Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Takashi Karagiri – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12A – 111m ***** A spy and an assassin are married to each other, each unaware of the other’s secret career, while neither of them are aware their adopted daughter is a telepath who therefore knows everything they don’t – bonkers anime deploying […]

Tags 2D animation, adultery, airfield, airship, animation, anime, anti-aircraft fire, assassin, Atsumi Tanezaki, Ayane Sakura, Banjo Ginga, business trips, cheating, chocolate, class, class wag, Colonel, competition, cookery, cookery class, crash land, daughter, dessert, divorce, face ripping, family, gifts, husbands and wives, infidelity, infiltrate, Japan, Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Kenichiro Matsuda, Kento Kaku, key, lavatory, luggage, married, meremere, microfilm, Military Intelligence, Natsumi Fujiwara, operations, orphan, parents and children, poop, pretend marriage, principal, pudding, pupils, read minds, rescue, restaurant, Saori Hayama, school, secret, secret identity, sex, sham marriage, Shinsuke Takeuchi, spy, swallow, Takashi Karagiri, Takuya Eguchi, taste of clothes, Tatsuya Endo, telepath, thief, Tomoya Nakamura, train, undercover, wealthy elite

Animation Features Movies

Max Beyond

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Post date April 26 2024
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Director – Hasraf Dullul – 2024 – UK – Cert. 15 – 88m **** Leon fails to rescue his adoptive brother Max from a corporate, experimental facility, so Max starts to move around the multiverse to find the world in which he succeeds – animated SF thriller is out on digital from Monday, April 22nd […]

Animation Features Movies

Robot Dreams

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Post date October 6 2023
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Director – Pablo Berger – 2023 – Spain – Cert. PG – 102m ***** In need of a companion, Dog builds Robot – but then, disaster strikes – charming, dialogue-free 2D animation is out in UK cinemas Friday, 22nd March following its screenings in the 2023 London Film Festival It originally played in the 2023 […]

Features Live Action Movies

Paris Memories
(Revoir Paris)

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Post date August 3 2023
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(Revoir Paris)
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Director – Alice Winocour – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m **** A woman tries to recall her memories of a Paris terrorist attack – out in UK cinemas on Friday, Aug 4th Were it not for a singularly unconvincing sex scene (as in, why are these two characters having sex?) about ten […]

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