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Blue Film

Blue Film

Director – Elliot Tuttle – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 85m

*****

As a gay cam performer visits an older punter to discover they have a shared past, their encounter breaks many taboos – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 11th

Somewhere in L.A., Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) appears in his underwear on cam to web audiences. His platform of choice allows punters to tip him cash tokens as and when either he encourages them or they like what they see. And, who knows, at the end of the night, if you pay the right amount, he might come round to your house…

One of his punters tonight is a much older man (Reed Birney) whose face is concealed by a balaclava mask. Who tips, then turns him off and lies back to relax to music. Later, Aaron will come round for this one night to this punter’s house. Unaware that they have a shared connection from their past lives.

Disturbingly, there are also snippets in the mix of home video footage of a small boy. Wholly innocent footage – or it would be were it not for its one-way communication sex cam context – which renders this footage quite upsetting as your mind starts to make connections warranted or unwarranted. … Read the rest

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Hell or High Water

Director – David Mackenzie – 2016 – US – Cert. 15 – 102m

*****

Hell or High Water

Two brothers embark on a series of bank robberies even as two Texas Rangers follow their trail – out in the UK on 4K UHD

Entering the Texas Midlands bank early in the morning, a woman employee (Dale Dickey from the G, 2023; Iron Man 3, Shane Black, 2013) finds herself at gunpoint from two masked men in the middle of a robbery of a Texas Midlands bank. Sadly, only Mr. Clauson (William Sterchi) has the keys to the safe – and he won’t be in ‘til 8.30. At which point, one of the pair pistol whips him after his friendly, “good mornin’”. The gung-ho car driver is the elder brother Tanner (Ben Foster from Christy, David Michod, 2025; The Messenger, Oren Moverman, 2009); his quieter younger brother Toby (Chris Pine from Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins, 2017; Star Trek, J.J. Abrams, 2009) tells him to slow down.

Another Texas Midlands interior: an old man (Buck Taylor from Yellowstone, TV series, 2018-24; Gettysburg, Ronald F. Maxwell, 1993) is talking with the teller (Kristin K. Berg) about the box of old coins he found when the pair burst in and take the money from the till.… Read the rest

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Drift

Director – Anthony Chen – 2023 – Singapore, UK, France, US – Cert. 15 – 93m

****

A Liberian woman and former London student from a privileged background has lost everything and lives on her wits in a Greek holiday resort until she makes a connection with a tour guide – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 29th

A T-shirt-clad back sits on the beach, facing away from us, looking out to a calm, blue sky and sea. A figure of indeterminate gender at this point. In an isolated, unpopulated landscape. However, as this young black woman (Cynthia Erivo) starts to make her way around the place, elements of both are gradually revealed to us. She travels on a bus with white tourists to a small, sleepy town where Greek lettering on the shop signs gives us some idea of where we are. Later, she takes the return journey and is back on the beach. She washes her underwear (she appears to only have the one pair) and T-shirt in the sea, letting them dry in the sun while she shelters in a cave. She momentarily panics at the sight of a coastguard vessel before realising it’s merely a small fishing skiff.… Read the rest

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