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Weapons

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date August 8 2025
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Director – Zach Cregger – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 128m **** One night, all but one of the children in one class in the town school disappear into the dark, leaving the townsfolk baffled as to what happened to them… – Fortean-sounding mystery is out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 8th […]

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Hellboy
The Crooked Man

Director – Brian Taylor – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 99m **1/2 Hellboy must confront a dark labyrinth of hills, the Crooked Man who tricks people out of their souls, and some unresolved family matter from his own past– latest franchise reboot is out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 13th 1959. Hellboy […]

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Sorcery (Brujería)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
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 […]

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Animation Documentary Features Live Action Movies

The Witches
Of The Orient
(Les Sorcières
De L’Orient)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 20 2021
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Of The Orient
(Les Sorcières
De L’Orient)

Director – Julien Faraut – 2021 – France, Japan – Cert. U – 100m ***** A look through a prism of anime and archive footage at the Japanese women’s volleyball team that won the 1964 Olympics – out in cinemas and online in the UK and Ireland on Friday, July 16th You don’t really expect […]

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The Painted Bird
(Nabarvené ptáče)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date September 11 2020
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(Nabarvené ptáče)

Director – Václav Marhoul – 2019 – Czech Republic – Cert. 18 – 169m ****1/2 An orphan boy meets a series of adults, a few kind but most cruel, travelling around Eastern Europe during World War Two – in cinemas and online at Amazon, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, IFI@HOME, Rio Cinema Online and Vimeo […]

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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 […]

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Animation Features Movies

Nahuel And
The Magic Book
(Nahuel Y
El Libro Mágico)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 28 2020
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The Magic Book
(Nahuel Y
El Libro Mágico)

Director – Germán Acuña – 2019 – Chile, Brazil – 99m ****1/2 Opening Spotlight in the New York Intl Children’s FF 2021 on Saturday, March 6th at 7pm ET followed by a Q&A with the director. Previously in the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival Nahuel is afraid of the water. This is a problem since […]

Tags 2D animation, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2020, black magic, bullies, childhood, Chile, crows, fear, fisherman, horror, landlord, magic, magic book, parents and children, pub, shipwreck, sorcerer, storm, tower, water, witch

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The Wizard of Oz
3D

Director – Victor Fleming – 2014 (1939) – US – Cert. U (A) – 102m **** UK release April 8th, 2014. A Hollywood classic gets the restoration / 3D treatment. On the big screen, the effect is something like seeing a stage production in places populated with hordes of extras as the spectacular studio sets […]

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