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That Burning House
(Shi Le Yuan,
火宅之犬)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 4 2025
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(Shi Le Yuan,
火宅之犬)
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Director – Tsai Yin-chuan – 2025 – Taiwan – 133m ****1/2 Teachers in a juvenile care home attempt to break the cycle of violence among their charges – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival This is one of those films that takes place in several different times in the characters lives, including […]

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Brides

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 26 2025
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Director – Nadia Fall – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 93m *** Two radicalised British, teenage girls run away from home intending to become brides for Islamic State – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 26th When they meet at the local school, Doe (Ebada Hassan) and Muna (Safiyya Ingar) strike up an unlikely friendship. […]

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Riefenstahl

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Post date May 9 2025
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Director – Andres Veiel – 2024 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** An unsettling, deep dive into the indisputable artistic talent, evasive personality and self-reconstructed memory of Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl through her personal archive of some 700 boxes – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Sepia / yellow images. A […]

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No Trees in the Street

Director – J. Lee Thompson – 1959 – UK – Cert. 12 – 96m **** An essentially honest young woman living in her parents’ East End slum fails to stop her impetuous younger brother from becoming involved in the criminal underworld – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and […]

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Padre Pio

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Post date January 26 2024
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Director – Abel Ferrara – 2022 – Germany, Italy – Cert. 15 – 104m ***1/2 Post-WW1, In San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, a Catholic mystic undergoes temptation while down in the village, armed landowners and military officers attempt to halt the rising tide of socialism – out on Blu-ray, DVD & DL from Monday, March 11th […]

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Wonka

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Post date December 8 2023
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Director – Paul King – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 112m Movie **** Hugh Grant as an Oompa Loompa when he eventually appears***** How the youthful Willy Wonka became the world’s most celebrated maker of chocolate – musical based on one of Roald Dahl’s best-known characters is out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]

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Plan 75

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Post date May 11 2023
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Director – Chie Hayakawa – 2022 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 113m **1/2 Dystopian drama Plan 75 posits a plan whereby Japanese people can voluntarily have themselves terminated after age 75 and examines some of the resultant social fallout – out in UK cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, May 12th Sedate […]

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Pickpocket

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Post date June 3 2022
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Director – Robert Bresson – 1959 – France – Cert. PG – 76m ***** Why is a man compelled to pursue acts of petty thievery – acclaimed, arresting, existential drama is out in cinemas on Friday, June 3rd I have just rewatched Bresson’s classic and am still not entirely sure I have its measure. Perhaps […]