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Sorcery (Brujería)

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Post date June 13 2024
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Director – Christopher Murray – 2023 – Chile, Mexico, Germany – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** When the father of an indigenous Christian convert is murdered by her German Christian employer’s dogs, her thirst for justice leads her to employ occult folk magic against his family – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th […]

Tags 13 year old, 1880s, 1881, afterlife, Annick Durán, archipelago, arrest, art house movie, beach, belief system, Bible, bird corpses, birds, cave, Chile, Chiloé, Christianity, Christians, Christopher Murray, coast, communing with nature, convert, corpses, cross, Daniel Antivilo, Daniel Muñoz, death, dogs, drama, family, farm, fever, fire, firelight, firing squad, fisherman, German, German immigrant, grave, gutting fish, Heaven, horror, Huilliche, Iker Echevers, immigrant, in woodlands, incarceration, indigenous, indigenous convert, island, knife, landscape, Leo Heiblum, maid, Matías Bannister, mayor, miscarriage, murder, nails, natural world, nature, Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco, nets, organised farming practices, pray, pregnant, rain, religion, sea, sheep, sheep farm, social justice, sorcery, suffering, tide, torch, torch procession, torchlight, torture, tree, Valentina Véliz Caileo, weather, weirding woman (Neddiel Muñoz Millalonco, witch, witchcraft, woods

Animation Features Movies

Guillermo del Toro’s
Pinocchio

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Post date December 9 2022
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Pinocchio
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Directors – Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 114m ***** Created as a puppet by a bereaved, religious woodcarver father, a little wooden boy must make his way in a world of ruthless show business, Fascism and war – stop-frame puppet movie is out on Netflix on Friday, […]

Tags accent, action, adaptation, afterlife, anteroom, assistant, bad contract, bereavement, blue fairy, blue wood sprite, bring to life, Burn Gorman, Burn!, burning, Carlo Collodi, Cate Blanchett, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholicism, child, Christoph Waltz, church, churchgoer, conscience, contract, cricket, crucified, David Bradley, death, drunk, drunk parent, earnings, Ewan McGregor, fairytale, fascism, fathers and sons, feet, Finn Wolfhard, fish, Frank Passingham, fun, goodness, Gregory Mann, Guillermo del Toro, home, island camp, Italy, James Bond, Jesus Christ, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, local church, maltreat, Mark Gustafson, miniature, miniature sets, model, model animation, monkey, monster, mortality, musical, narrator, nose, one night releasing the last of their bomb, parent, planes, politician, politics, priest, puppet, puppet animation, puppetry, religion, right and wrong, Ron Perlman, school, sea, Second World War, showman, sky, snake tail, soldier, songs, statue, stop-frame, stop-frame animation, stop-motion, stop-motion animation, Tilda Swinton, torso, training, travelling, tree, US, war, Will Vinton, wonder, wood, wood sprite, woodcarver, World War 2, World War II, World War Two, WW2

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Fadia’s Tree

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Post date August 5 2022
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Directors – Sarah Beddington, Susan Simnett – 2021 – UK – Cert. U – 84m ***1/2 A friendship between British artist Sarah and Palestinian refugee Fadia sparks the former into a search for a tree in the latter’s village to which she is currently unable to return – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August […]

Features Live Action Movies

Europa

Director – Haider Rashid – 2021 – Iraq, Italy, Kuwait – Cert. 12a – 75 m **** A young Iraqi migrant is hunted by mercenaries after he crosses the Turkish/Bulgarian border – out in cinemas and on demand on Friday, March 18th A number of movies hang over this bold adventure thriller about Kamal (Adam […]

Tags a woman alone, action, Adam Ali, adventure, birdsong, blood sport, border, border crossing, Bulgaria, car, dogs, driver, Europa, forest, gunmen, Haider Rashid, horror, hunt, hunter, Iraq, lady driver, mercenaries, migrant, paramilitaries, road, Svetlana Yancheva, tree, woodlands, woods

Animation Dance Movies Shorts

Boxballet
(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)

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Post date June 17 2021
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(Boxbalet,
БоксБалет)
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Director – Anton Dyakov – 2020 – Russia – 15m 15s ***** A pencil-thin ballerina becomes involved with a rough, stocky boxer. Some things seem destined not to be… And yet… – nominated for Best Animated Short in the 2021/22 (94th) Oscars Olya and Evgeny live near each other’s flats. When running to catch the […]

Features Live Action Movies

The Lone Ume Tree
(Ume Kiranu Baka,
梅切らぬバカ)

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Post date February 6 2022
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(Ume Kiranu Baka,
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Director – Kotaro Wajima – 2021 – Japan – 77m ***** New next door neighbours pose challenges for a man with learning difficulties and his carer mother – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2022 between Friday, 4th February and Thursday, 31st March Chu-san (Muga Tsukaji) gets up with his alarm, […]

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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. […]

Documentary Features Live Action Movies

The Story Of Looking

Director – Mark Cousins – 2021 – UK – Cert. 15 – 87m **** A highly personal film essay on the importance and significance of our visual senses – out in cinemas and on rental on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 17th This opens with archive interview footage of musician Ray […]

Features Live Action Movies

First Cow

Director – Kelly Reichardt – 2019 – US – Cert. N/C 15+ – 122m ***1/2 Western (set in Oregon!) in which a drifter and an immigrant join forces to surreptitiously milk a rich man’s first cow and better their lot – in UK cinemas from Friday, May 28th A woman with a dog (Alia Shawcat) […]

Dance Features Live Action Movies

Climax

Director – Gaspar Noé – 2018 – France – Cert. 18 – 97m ***** Uppers and downers – either way blood flows. Arthouse enfant terrible Noé combines technical skill and singular focus with some of the most spectacular dancing ever put on film to produce a dark and challenging vision of hell on earth – […]