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I, the Song
(Dzongkha,
མོ་གི་གསང་བའི་ཞབས་ཁྲ)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 24 2024
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(Dzongkha,
མོ་གི་གསང་བའི་ཞབས་ཁྲ)
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Director – Dechen Roder – 2024 – Bhutan, Norway, Italy, France – 112m ***** A woman fired from her teacher’s job for appearing in an online sex video she claims is of someone else sets out to find her doppelgänger and clear her name – winner of Best Director in the Critics’ Picks Competition of […]

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The Taste of Things
(The Pot-au-Feu)
(La Passion
de Dodin Bouffant)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 14 2024
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(The Pot-au-Feu)
(La Passion
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Director – Tran Anh Hung – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** A nineteenth century, French gastronome tries to persuade his live-in cook to become his wife – in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from Wednesday, February 14th 1885. Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) is the live-in cook for celebrated gastronome Dodin Bouffant […]

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Vampire
Vs
Vampire
(Yi Mei Dao Ren,
一眉道人)

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Post date May 31 2023
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Vs
Vampire
(Yi Mei Dao Ren,
一眉道人)
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Director – Lam Ching-ying – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 87m ***1/2 A Taoist priest must defeat various supernatural forces including a Western-style vampire occupying a coffin in an old church – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, May 22nd as part of Eureka! Video’s Hopping Mad: The Mr. Vampire […]

Tags action, assistant, banana tree sprit, bats, Billy Lau, boyfriend, brothel, burning up, candles, Chan Suet-man, child, chills, Chin Siu-ho, church, church roof infestation, colonialism, comedy, corpse, cross, East and West, excrement, female vampire, Fong (Lui Fong, ghost, gothic, gothic female vampire, Hammer Films, Hong Kong, hopping corpse, jiangshi, Joanna Chan, Lam Ching-ying, Lam Jing Wa, Maria Cordero, mayhem, mirror, missionary Christianity, moonlight, mother superior, Mr. Vampire, nuns, period, priest, proselytise, red candles, red dress, red rope, Regina Kent, rope bridge, Sandra Ng, slapstick, sound effects, spooky, stake, stunts, sunlight, supernatural, swamp, Taoist priest, teeth, thrills, Tom And Jerry, tomb, undead corpses, vampire, vampire lore, Western vampire lore, Western-style vampire, wire work, Yip So, Yuen Biao

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Il Buco

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 10 2022
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Director – Michelangelo Frammartino – 2021 – Italy – Cert. U – 93m **1/2 A Calabrian cowherd nears the end of his life while a group of explorers journey down a deep hole to find out how deep into the ground it descends – out in cinemas on Friday, June 10th Literally, ‘The Hole’. Frammartino […]

Tags abyss, amateur, beam of light, bed down, Bifurto Abyss, Black, black and white TV, blackness, bulls, Calabria. Italy, camera feed, Catholic, Catholic Church, cattle, cave, cave system, cavers, caves, caving, Christ, church, construction, counterpoint, country, countryside, cowherd, crucified, crucified Christ, dark, darkness, depth, doctor, draw, economic miracle, edge, elderly, expedition, explorers, grazing, grotto, ground, group, helmet, hillside, hole, Illumination, interior, Italy, light beam, local Catholic Church, local church, mapping, measure, measuring, metre, Michelangelo Frammartino, multi-storey, natural, natural underground systems, negative image, night, North, Northern Italy, open country, out of sight, plain, pothole, pub, recreation, ridge, rural, science, set up camp, shaft, skyscraper, sleeping, sleeping bags, small town, South, Southern Calabria, Southern Italy, speleologists, speleology, statue, subterranean, sunlight, television, television presenter, thirty storey, torch, torchlight, traversing a cave system, tunnel, TV, TV presenter, two-edged sword, unconscious, underground, unspoiled, urban developments, villagers, watering hole, world record, young

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Still The Water
(Futatsume
No Mado,
2つ目の窓)

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Post date March 23 2021
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(Futatsume
No Mado,
2つ目の窓)

Director – Naomi Kawase – 2014 – Japan / France – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** Two childhood sweethearts living on an island beset by storms must come to terms with the mortality and fallibility of their mothers – on BFI Player (rental) and MUBI. The ocean roars and then, just as suddenly, is quiet. […]

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Free Guy

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Post date August 12 2021
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Director – Shawn Levy – 2021 – US – Cert. 12a – 115m ***1/2 A non-player character in a mayhem-riddled video game decides to take matters into his own hands after meeting the girl of his dreams – out in cinemas on Friday, August 13th Guy (sic) (Ryan Reynolds) works in Free City. In a […]

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The Reckoning

Director – Neil Marshall – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 111m *** A woman accused of witchcraft finds herself pitted in a battle of wills against her witchfinder torturer at the time of the Great Plague – on digital from Friday, April 16th and Shudder UK from Thursday, 13th May On the one […]

Tags 17th century, attempted rape, burned alive, burned at the stake, cartwheel, cavort, Charlotte Kirk, cottage, countryside, death, drama, dungeon, England, Great Plague, hamlet, hanging, horror, Ian Whyte, Joe Anderson, landlord, marriage, misogyny, naked, Neil Marshall, night, plague, prisoner, pub, rain, rat, squire, Steven Waddington, sunlight, torture, UK, witch, witchcraft