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Project Hail Mary

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Post date March 18 2026
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Directors – Phil Lord, Christopher Miller – 2026 – US – Cert. 12a – 156m ***** Hail Mary, Full of Grace. A school teacher is sent to a star 12 light years from Earth to determine why it is surviving the emergent life form killing all other stars, including our sun – out in UK […]

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Mo Papa
(Mo Papa)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 18 2025
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(Mo Papa)
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Director – Eeva Mägi – 2025 – Estonia – 88m ***** A young ex-con imprisoned as a teenager for killing his younger brother tries to make his way in present-day Tallinn – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival I am wary of unscripted feature films. There is a reason why […]

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Animation Features Movies

Giants of La Mancha
(Argentina: Gigantes;
Germany: Das Geheimnis
von La Mancha;
Spain: Los Exploradores;
US: Storm Crashers)

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Post date March 7 2025
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Germany: Das Geheimnis
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US: Storm Crashers)
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Director – Gonzalo Gutiérrez – 2024 – Argentina, Germany, Spain – Cert. U – 88m ***1/2 The young, present day descendants of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza must save La Mancha from a villainous property developer – animated children’s adventure is out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 7th (UK cinemas are showing the English […]

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Hellboy
The Crooked Man

Director – Brian Taylor – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 99m **1/2 Hellboy must confront a dark labyrinth of hills, the Crooked Man who tricks people out of their souls, and some unresolved family matter from his own past– latest franchise reboot is out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 13th 1959. Hellboy […]

Animation Features Movies

Boonie Bears Time Twist
(Xiong Chu Mo
Ni Zhuan Shi Kong,
熊出沒·逆轉時空)

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Post date September 12 2024
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(Xiong Chu Mo
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熊出沒·逆轉時空)
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Director – Lin Huida – 2024 – China – Cert. PG – 105m ***1/2 The Boonie Bears’ friend Vick is tricked into giving up his memories of the bears in exchange for working at an office job far away in the city – in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in UK and […]

Tags 3D animation, animation, Boonie Bears, boss, bus, business strategy, CG, CG animation, China, Chris Boike, client, computer keyboard, dome, dream, driving, engineer, flier, forest, franchise, hemisphere, hiring, intern, job, Joseph S. Lambert, Kieran Katarey, laboratory, lateness, lift, Lin Huida, logger, loser, lumberjacks, national park, nature, Nicola Vincent, office, office culture, office job, Olivia Seaton-Hill, parents, past memories, Patrick Freeman, Paul ‘Maxx’ Rinehart, plant, portal, rural and urban, Ruth Urquhart, sci-fi, science fiction, SF, shards, Shen City, Siobhan Lumsden, skills, spider, success, telegraph pole, time travel, trapped, underground, WC, win trust, windscreen, wolves, work hours, working too hard

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Sting

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Post date May 31 2024
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Director – Kiah Roache-Turner – 2024 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 91m ***1/2 A girl traps a venomous spider and cares for it as a pet, but as she feeds it, it grows… and grows… and gets out… – onto UK Home Premiere on Monday, July 15th Helga (Noni Hazlehurst) is hearing strange noises […]

Tags Alyla Brown, apartment, apartment block, aquarium, aquarium tank, arachnid, aunt, Australia, babysitting, bark, Brooklyn, brothers and sisters, building superintendent, cocoons, comic, crawlspace, Danny Kim, dementia, dog, doll’s house, doom, feed, first kill, fish tank, fumigate, giant redback spider, girl, grow, illustrator, income, infest, interior base rim, jar, Jermaine Fowler, Kiah Roache-Turner, lid, maze, medical experiments, meteor, miser, moonlighting, mothballs, Noni Hazlehurst, paralyse, Penelope Mitchell, pest exterminator, pet, pet dog, puppet, Richard Taylor, roach, Robyn Nevin, Ryan Corr, screw lid, second kill, sibling, Silvia Colloca, spectacles, spider, stepdad, stepfather, Sting, The Hobbit, underside, unscrew, venomous, ventilation shaft, web, Weta Workshop, working and parenting

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Indiana Jones
And The
Dial Of Destiny

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 27 2023
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And The
Dial Of Destiny
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Director – James Mangold – 2022 – US / UK – Cert. 12a – 154m ***** In the late 1960s, the newly-retired archaeologist is dragged by his goddaughter into a globetrotting adventure involving Nazis and ancient artefacts – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, June 28th In 1945 in Europe, at the close of the […]

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A Chinese Odyssey
(Sai Yau Gei,
西遊記)

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Post date February 3 2022
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(Sai Yau Gei,
西遊記)

A Chinese Odyssey: Part One – Pandora’s Box (Sai Yau Gei: Yut Gwong Bou Haap, 西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒) A Chinese Odyssey: Part Two – Cinderella (Sai Yau Gei: Sin Leui Kei Yun, 西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣) Director – Jeffrey Lau – 1995 – Hong Kong – 87 + 98m *** The Monkey King is banished to earth with loss of […]