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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
et
la Métaphysique des Tubes)
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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

Features Live Action Movies

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

Animation Movies Shorts

Little Shrew
(Snowflake)

Director – Kate Bush – 2024 – UK – Cert. PG – 4m ***** As modern warfare decimates a landscape, a shrew crosses countryside and town as a small, spirit-like light falls towards it – short accompanies the UK cinema release of From Hilde, With Love on Friday, June 27th Musician / songwriter Kate Bush […]

Tags 2024, 50 Words for Snow, aircraft, Alan Henry, Albert McIntosh, animation, animation compositor, animator, atmospheric sfx, awareness, background artist, battlefield, beams of light, black and white, black pollutant, blast, block of flats, bomb blast, broken, cathedral, cloud formation, comet, creative process, dead soldier, decimate, decimated by a bomb, detritus, drone videographer, Earth’s atmosphere, edit, egg, emotion, environment, exploration, fall, falling, feelings, flying, Gayle Martin, guided missile, gun, hope and drone animation, illustrator, Inkubus, James Clifford, Jim Kay, Jon Carin, Kate Bush, killed by Russians, landscape, life force, light, Little Shrew, Lorenzo Cenci Di Bello, loud, loudness, Maksim Levin, miniature, missiles, modern warfare, mothers and sons, moving illustration, musician, nebula, need, Nicolas Loudot, Nicolette Van Gendt, nowhere to go, outer space, pair of spectacles, panning, panning shot, photographic naturalism, pocket, pollution, producer, production process, refrain, rendering, Reuters, running, safe haven, scamper, shark, short, short film, shrew, smoke, snarling mouth, Snowflake, son’s voice, song, songwriter, soundtrack, spasms, sperm, spirit, target, telegraph pole, terror, Tomato Twist, tree trunk, twisted metal, Ukraine, voice breaking, war, war-torn, weaponry, womb, wonder, world-building

Features Live Action Movies

Point Break
(1991)

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Post date November 7 2024
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(1991)
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Director – Kathryn Bigelow – 1991 – US – Cert. 15 – 122m ***** A rookie FBI man goes undercover with a group of surfers, believing them to be a gang of bank robbers who disguise themselves as former US Presidents – milestone action movie is out in a 4K Restoration in UK cinemas on […]

Tags action, action hero, adrenaline rush. Physical, agent, Art of Action, Australia, backs, bank robber, beach, briefing, bromance, car, car chase, cars, chase, circle in the air, computer, confrontation, cop, cops and robbers, crash through glass, crime, death of parents, entering people’s houses, Ex-Presidents, FBI, fight, fights, freak weather, game of Chicken, gardens, Gary Busey, glass door, hand ball games, holding hands, impotence, John McGinley, jump from a plane, Kathryn Bigelow, Keanu Reeves, keep going, living in the moment, loose cannon, Lori Petty, male, male bonding, mayhem, new age, night and day, office, on foot, parachute, party, Patrick Swayze, philosophy, physicality, President masks, pursuer and pursued, pursuit, raid, ripcord, run-in, running, rush, sea, sedentary, separate existences, shoulders, sitting, skydiving, stakeout, storm, stunts, surfer, surfing, surfing season, takeaways, testosterone, throw a dog, training school, undercover, US, wave, withering put-downs, without a parachute

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Air

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 4 2023
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Director – Ben Affleck – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 112m ***1/2 In 1984, a Nike executive lifts the company out of its financial rut by building a line of running shoes around an unknown basketball player named Michael Jordan – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, April 5th A curious combination of […]

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I Still Remember
(Er Ci
Ren Sheng,
二次人生)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 1 2021
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(Er Ci
Ren Sheng,
二次人生)

Director – Lik Ho – 2021 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ – 90m ***1/2 A young loser looks back on his life prior to running a 10K marathon to create an achievement of which he can be proud – online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2021 Easter from Wednesday, […]

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Wings Of Eagles

Serving the true God Wings Of EaglesDirected by Stephen Shin, Michael ParkerCertificate 12, 108 minutesReleased 12 March 2018 A sequel of sorts to Chariots of Fire, Wings Of Eagles tells the story of Eric Liddell’s missionary years in China. He’s played here by Joseph Fiennes, an actor who has grappled with one aspect or another […]