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Episode 2: The Chronicle Podcast Listen Now
It’s finally here Episode 2 of The Chronicle, the official Podcast of Chronicles In Film. For this week’s episode we have 2 classics from Asian Cinema from Eureka Entertainment. First up is Hong Kong action comedy Magnificent Warriors (1987). Starring a young Michelle Yeoh as a secret agent during the Sino-Japanese war. A film which…
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Great Yakuza Films
To tie in with Eureka Entertainment’s release of Hideo Gosha’s Violent Streets out now on Blu-ray, I’ve decided to look some of the best Yakuza films. Yakuza, Japanese crime syndicates aka the Japanese Mafia. They had their hand in every honey pot from entertainment sector, politics, publishing, I could go on and on and on.…
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Film Review: Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2022)
How could you not love this shell? Like the trailers and posters, they say everybody loves the shell…Marcel The Shell With Shoes On. The American audiences did in 2022 Universal Pictures and A24 Films bring Dean Fleischer-Camp’s feature length debut to UK cinemas. Going by the reviews it seems most of the UK critics adore…
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Film Review- Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
2014 I was told ‘How dare you criticise this!’ I asked ‘why?’ ‘It has Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad in it!’ . That film was the uninspiring Need For Speed and this friend believed it was criticising the cult series Paul also starred in. Same could be said about the Marvel Cinematic Universe which for…
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Film Review – The Whale (2022)
Ever since it’s festival premiere in 2022, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale has come with a big entourage. Glowing reviews, outstanding performances and award nominations. Now 2023, A24 Films extend their UK distributed releases finally releasing the film here. Does it deserve the buzz that has followed it since that premiere? Yes and no. Darren Aronofsky…
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Must See Films To Watch At 2023 Glasgow Film Festival
The 19th edition of Glasgow Film Festival will take place between 1st and 12th March. This year’s festival will have 70 UK premieres, 6 world, 16 international and 6 Scottish premieres set to play. There is something for all at this festival and every year they do surprise us. Below is 10 films we are…
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Film Review – Skinamarink (2022)
Ever since Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, horror films with micro-budgets started to be taken more seriously. The big studios in hunt for the next thing had their eyes open very wide. 2022, Kyle Edward Ball’s no budget experimental horror Skinamarink made big waves on the film festival circuit. Shudder obliged by picking u the rights…
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Listen To The Chronicle Episode 1, Chronicles In Film Podcast!
2023 I promised be the year I get many things I’ve been saying I would do, started. Today I’m delighted to announce The Chronicle, the official podcast of Chronicles In Film has officially launched. Anyone who follows The Peoples Movies knows I have been trying to start a podcast for a very long time. I…
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Film Review – Knock At The Cabin (2023)
Amazing to think M.Night Shyamalan was once labelled by some film critics as the new ‘Steven Spielberg’ all thanks to his tight direction with his breakthrough chiller The Sixth Sense. Then came Marky Mark and the funky bunch aka Mark Wahlberg apologising to rubber plants on behalf of humanity in the apocalyptic disaster The Happening.…
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Film Review: The Fabelmans (2022)
Cinema is the one true place we all love to go to escape. Immerse ourselves with the world that’s on the screen, a world we think we belong to. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans will transport us into that world, with a love letter to film. Or is it to his own parents? Both. This is…
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