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Strongroom

Director – Vernon Sewell – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 80m ***** Three men have planned the perfect bank robbery… but then, everything goes wrong – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 30th, BFI Blu-ray Monday, February 23rd, and BFI Player Monday, March 23rd Strongroom doesn’t hang around. It opens with a strongroom door which […]

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Features Live Action Movies

The Shadow’s Edge
(捕风追影,
Bu Feng Zhui Ying)

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Post date October 2 2025
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(捕风追影,
Bu Feng Zhui Ying)
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Director – Larry Yang – 2025 – China – Cert. 15 – 141m ****1/2 To hunt a criminal mastermind adept at eluding their surveillance systems, Macau cops bring back an old surveillance man whose expertise predates contemporary technology– Jackie Chan cops and robbers movie pairs him with acting legend Tony Leung Ka Fai – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 3rd […]

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Cloud
(Kuraudo,
クラウド)

Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2024 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 124m ***** The art of the deal. The past of an internet goods reseller driven by making money who has made enemies among his one-off suppliers and customers comes back to bite him – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 25th Ryosuke […]

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The Conversation

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 14 2024
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R.I.P. Gene Hackman (1930-2025) Director – Francis Ford Coppola – 1974 – US – Cert. 12a – 113m ***** A surveillance expert records a conversation between two people, then worries about turning the recording over to his corporate client as contracted – 50th anniversary 4K Restoration is out on UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on Monday, […]

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Wallace & Gromit
Vengeance Most Fowl

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Post date December 16 2024
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Vengeance Most Fowl
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Directors – Nick Park, Merlin Crossingham – 2024 – UK – Cert. U – 79m ***** Feathers McGraw returns to wreak havoc with Wallace’s latest invention, robotic garden smart gnomes – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, December 18th 2024, on the BBC on Christmas Day, and on Netflix from Friday, January 3rd 2025 Opening […]

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Features Live Action Movies

Champions

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Post date March 10 2023
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Director – Bobby Farrelly – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 124m **** A disgraced basketball coach is sentenced to community service coaching a team of people with learning difficulties – out on Blu-ray and DVD on Monday, June 12th After spending the night with less than impressed, fortysomething, one night Tinder partner Alex […]

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Jackie Chan’s
Police Story
Trilogy

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Post date June 8 2023
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Police Story
Trilogy
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Police Story (Ging Chaat Goo Si, 警察故事) ***** Director – Jackie Chan – 1985 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 100m Police Story II (Ging Chaat Goo Si Juk Jaap, 警察故事續集) ***1/2 Director – Jackie Chan – 1988 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 101m Police Story 3 Supercop (Ging Chaat Goo Si […]

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Over My Dead Body
(Seisi Seisi Seisapsei,
死屍死時四十四)

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Post date April 20 2023
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(Seisi Seisi Seisapsei,
死屍死時四十四)
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Director – Ho Cheuk Tin – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 119m ** Confronted with a naked corpse, the residents of three separate flats in a tower block try to get shot of it before its discovery can reduce their apartments’ selling prices – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 21st […]

Live Action Movies Shorts

GoGo Club
(梁韻怡)

Director – Rei Leung Wan-yi – 2019 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 15+ –25m ***** The progress of a former nightclub employee following his fortuitous encounter with a girl in a panda suit – FREE TO VIEW online in the UK in the Fresh Wave short films strand of Focus Hong Kong 2021 Easter from Wednesday, […]