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Gazer

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Post date July 25 2025
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Director – Ryan J. Sloan – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m *** A single-parent mum, unable to make sense of the passing of time, struggles to get by and find the money to get out of town with her child – largely incomprehensible yet strangely compelling, urban, neo-noir thriller is out in […]

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Control

Director – Anton Corbijn – 2007 – UK – Cert. 15 – 122m ***** UK release date 05/10/2007 The story of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis: his disintegrating marriage, struggles with epilepsy and eventual suicide – review originally published in Third Way magazine, September 2007 For the uninitiated, post-punk Mancunian band Joy Division formed […]

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Aimless Bullet
(Obaltan,
오발탄)

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Post date October 20 2024
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(Obaltan,
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Director – Yu Hyun-mok – 1961 – South Korea – 110m **** Former soldiers and others struggle with the effects of post-war economic depression in the newly constituted South Korea – plays in Echoes In Time | Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema which runs from Monday, October 28th until the end […]

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The Battle for Laikipia

Directors – Daphne Matziaraki, Peter Murimi – 2024 – US, Kenya, Greece – Cert. 12a – 94m ** Disagreements in Kenya between indigenous, pastoralist herdsmen and white immigrant farmers come to a head during a severe drought exacerbated by climate change – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 4th Shot mostly between 2017 and […]

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Great Sertão
(Grande Sertão)

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Post date November 10 2023
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Director – Guel Arraes – 2023 – Brazil – Cert. none – 114m ***** The constantly shifting relationship between a man and his friend constantly shifts against the backdrop of a war between a street gang protecting their turf and an army trying to impose law and order – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition […]

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Wake Wood

Director – David Keating – 2009 – UK, Ireland – Cert. 18 – 90m ***** Things are not what they seem, supernatural power is abroad and terrible prices have to be paid in a mysterious, close-knit village community – out in UK cinemas from Friday, March 25th, 2011 This review originally appeared in Third Way. […]

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The Fox
And The Pigeon

Director – Michelle Chua – 2019 – Canada – 6m ***** From the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival This starts off opening a children’s book cover for a tale about, you’ve guessed it, a fox and a pigeon. In the time honoured tradition of such books, there are illustrations and words (in rhyming couplets) on […]

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