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Marty Supreme

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 24 2025
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Director – Josh Safdie – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 149m ***** In the 1950s, a young New Yorker with the odds against him is determined to become a top table tennis player – in cinemas from Friday, December 26th Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the 1950s. Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) has a dream. […]

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The Critic

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 12 2024
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Director – Anand Tucker – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 101m The first four fifths of The Critic ***** The final fifth of The Critic * In the 1930s, a London theatre critic, a flamboyant homosexual known for destroying careers with his acerbic prose, finds his job under threat from his newspaper’s new […]

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Lust, Caution
(Se, Jie,
色, 戒)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 13 2023
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(Se, Jie,
色, 戒)

Director – Ang Lee – 2007 – China, Taiwan, US – Cert. 18 – 158m ***** A Chinese student joins an assassination plot against a high-up Japanese collaborator, for which she must sleep with him – originally published in Third Way, to coincide with 4th January 2008 UK cinema release. Some will consider this erotic […]