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Little Mermaid, The - Yet another Disney live-action (sort of) remake of one of their cartoon classics and, while this is not as painful as some, it does largely lack emotional connection...

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Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, The - There's a lot in common here with Timothy Spall's 2021 movie The Last Bus, although Broadbent's elderly traveller is travelling here not from John o' Groats to...

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Three Colours: Red (4K reissue) - The third and best of Kieslowski's masterful trilogy (after 'Blue' and 'White'), this is similar in structure to Claude Lelouch's romantic films about Un homme...

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Raging Bull (4K reissue) - The life and times of short-fused boxing brawler Jake La Motta, who rises to the top in the world middleweight division, all the while inevitably embarking on a violent...

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Air - There can't be many more difficult tasks in cinema that making a film that centres on a shoe, so kudos to director/co-star Affleck for having a darned good try, placing...

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Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves - And so another fantasy franchise begins. Muscly Michelle Rodriguez now has two on the go, lucky girl, with the next 'Fast and Furious' movie due soon. This one doesn't...

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John Wick Chapter 4 (IMAX in some cinemas) - This ultimate hymn to mind-numbing violence is (apart from a gun that sets its victims on fire as well as killing them) very much the mixture as before, although at much...

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Pearl - There's a farm and a girl and a dance with a scarecrow, but nary a yellow-brick road in sight, in this blood-soaked prequel to the same director's X. It's 1918...

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