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Rebuilding

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Post date April 13 2026
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Director – Max Walker-Silverman – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 96m **** A divorced man whose home has been destroyed by a forest fire begins to reconnect with his pre-teenage daughter – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 17th This opens with an image of red hot embers rising and falling a black night […]

Tags a small plant, Amy Madigan, area of outstanding natural beauty, auction, bake-outs, belongings, brush, burned, camaraderie, car park, David Bright, desolation, divorced, divorced man, door, drama, electronic tablet, everyday, ex-wife, familiarity, Federal Emergency Management Agency, fellow survivors, FEMA, forest fire fathers and daughters, former beauty, glow in the dark, glow in the dark stars, home, home cooking, home destroyed, homeless, homework, interior trailer walls, into town, introverted, isolated rural dwellings, job well done, Josh O’Connor, Kali Reis, leafless, library, library car park, Lily LaTorre, livestock, Max Walker-Silverman, Meghann Fahy, mother-in-law, natural disaster, neighbours, notice to vacate, ordinary, paint the trailer, pink notes, porch, post-crisis, privacy, Rebuilding, red hot embers rising, school, self-reliance, sell off, shared experience, stars, storybook, survival, survivors, tablet, thrown together, tragedy, trailer, trailer home, trailer park, transcendence, transcendent, transformation of a home, trees, wifi, wooden steps

Features Live Action Movies

Picnic at Hanging Rock
(Director’s Cut,
4K Restoration)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 14 2025
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(Director’s Cut,
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Director – Peter Weir – 1975 – Australia – Cert. 12a – 107m ***** A group of teenage schoolgirls supervised by two teachers go on a picnic beside an isolated volcanic outcrop: three of them never return – Valentine’s Day previews on Friday & Saturday, February 14th & 15th, then is out in UK cinemas […]

Tags 1900, Anne Lambert, Australia, boarding school, brook, buttoned down, Christine Schuler, disappear, Dominic Guard, down to earth, doze, enigma, fee-paying school, fellow students, finance, foul play, gardener, Gheorghe Zamfir, go exploring, Helen Morse, hot weather, inexplicable, isolation, Jane Vallis, John Jarrett, Karen Robson, labyrinth, location, maid Jacki Weaver, mansion, Margaret Nelson, Martindale Hall, missing, mystery, natural, orphan, out in the heat, outcrop: Valentine’s Day, panpipe, perfect day, permission, Peter Weir, picnic, Picnic at Hanging Rock, police, prim and proper, primal, principal, Rachel Roberts, remove shoes and stockings, rock formation, Russel Boyd, school authorities, schoolgirls, search, secrets, sex, socially stratified, St. Valentine’s Day 1900, student attendance, supervision, teachers, teenage, Tony Llewellyn-Jones, trees, turn of the century, unpaid fees, vanish, Victoria, Vivean Gray, volcanic, well-off, wild, working class, young ladies

Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

Wilding

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Post date June 14 2024
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Isabella Tree, as played by Rhiannon Neads

Director – David Allen – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 75m ***** How Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell closed down their failing farm and instead let nature run wild to regenerate the land’s depleted biodiversity – inspiring documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady […]

Tags 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020, adaptation, agro-chemical, animal actors, animation, beaver, biodiversity, book, Charlie and Isabella Tree, Charlie Burrell, computer animation, couple, cow pats, David Allen, debt, documentary, driveway, drone photography, ecology, ecosystem, environment, estate, estate office, Exmoor ponies, extinct’, farming, farming community, farming equipment, food tent, fundraising, grass, herds, inaugural flight, industrial farming practices, industrial ploughing, insect wildlife, intensive ploughing, interconnectedness, interview, Isabella Tree, Knepp farm, Lady Burrell. Inherit, land, mycorrhizal fungi, natural history, nature, nightingales, nutrients, opposition, ornamental lawn, pandemic, pesticides, pigs, polo drive, re-enactment, regenerate, replenish, rewilding, roam free, rooting, songbirds, staging historical events, stewardship, stop farming, Sussex, topsoil, trauma, trees, tuck in, turtle dove, UK, West Sussex, white stork, wild cows, Wilding, wildlife

Features Live Action Movies

Kingdom of the
Planet of the Apes

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 9 2024
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Planet of the Apes
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Director – Wes Ball – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** The fourth entry in the current franchise reboot takes place several generations after the previous three films when apes live in scattered communities and humans have lost the power of speech – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, May 9th Noa […]

Tags Academy Award, Academy Awards, Academy Awards 2024-25, Academy Awards 2025, Amanda Silver, apes, attack, battleship, books, bridge, cavalry, Ceasar, chimp, Christianity, circular window-frame, cliff faces, complex, composer, cross-country, crucifix, desert, despot, eagle, eagle eggs, environment, experiments, failure, fast moving water, fiefdom, forest, franchise, Freya Allan, genetics, gorilla, herd, horseback, human, jazz, Jerry Goldsmith, journey, Kevin Durand, labyrinth, landscape, library, Lydia Peckham, mask, militarism, MoCap, monkey, motion capture, oppression, orangutan, Oscar, Oscar nominations, Oscars, Oscars 2024-25, Oscars 2025, Owen Teague, pendant, Peter Macon, piano, Planet of the Apes, pool, quest, reboot franchise, religion, religious, Rick Jaffa, rock face, Roman Empire, scarecrow, scientist, ships’ graveyard, soundtrack, speak, stronghold, tall trees, technology, towers, Travis Jeffery, trees, underground, US, village, virus, warmonger, watering hole, weaponry, Wes Ball, Western, Weta FX, William H. Macy, woodland

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Evil Does Not Exist
(Aku wa Sonzai Shinai,
悪は存在しない)

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Post date April 6 2024
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(Aku wa Sonzai Shinai,
悪は存在しない)
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Director – Ryosuke Hamaguchi – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 106m ** A small, unspoiled village community is visited by two representatives of a company planning to set up a glamping facility – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 5th This starts and ends with a journey on foot through a forest […]

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The Mourning Forest
(Mogari
No Mori,
殯の森)

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Post date August 24 2020
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(Mogari
No Mori,
殯の森)

Director – Naomi Kawase – 2017 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 97m **** Currently on BFI Player as part of 21st Century Japan. Wind. Trees. Tall grass. A road barely discernible but for the occasional top of a hedge. A fluttering, white banner of a funeral procession moves imperceptibly across the landscape, a futile […]

Tags bereavement, BFI Japan, BFI Japan 2020, BFI Japan 2021, care home, care worker, death, elderly, forest, funeral, grass, guilt, Japan, Japan 2020, Japan 2021, landscape, loss, memory, Naomi Kawase, nature, parents and children, trees, wind

Animation Movies Shorts

Scenes With Beans
(Babfilm)

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Post date September 20 2021
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(Babfilm)

Director – Ottó Foky – 1976 – Hungary – 12m ***** A metal space bird approaches the bean planet to observe various aspects of life upon it before being discovered then shot at with a missile in this remarkable stop-frame short – out on MUBI as part of the animated shorts season Fables, Folklore, Futurism: […]

Animation Movies Shorts

Snow Kid
(Xue Hai Zi,
雪孩子)

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Post date May 11 2021
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(Xue Hai Zi,
雪孩子)

a.k.a. The Snow Child Director – Lin Wenxiao – 1980 – China – Cert. N/C – 20m *** A mother and her daughter build a snow child which comes to life and later saves the girl’s life – available to rent online in the UK & Ireland as part of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio […]

Animation Art Movies Shorts

The Cowboy’s Flute
(Mu Di,
牧笛)

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Post date March 30 2021
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(Mu Di,
牧笛)

Directors – Qian Jiajun, Te Wei – 1963 – China – Cert. N/C U – 20m ***** A flute-playing forest boy loses then is reunited with his beloved water buffalo in the mountains. – available to rent online in the UK & Ireland as part of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio Retro in the Chinese […]