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The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme starts today across various venues across the UK www.jpf-film.org.uk until 31st March. So here’s a thread with a few recommendations from me.

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair trailer is here – with the Crazy 88 fight in full colour.

The full uncut version is confirmed for UK cinemas on 5 December.

Watch the trailer here: www.empireonline.com/movies/news/...

In our latest Five FrightFest Facts interview, Eric Owen talks about his journey from short fiction to filmmaking ahead of the premiere of his film ‘In a Cold Vein’ tomorrow. lovehorror.co.uk/interview/93... #movies #frightfest

Guy Pearce: ‘I don’t think I’ll look as good in a frock as I did when I was 25’ The actor on getting back on the Priscilla bus, ‘horrible’ characters and the most profound thing anyone has ever said to him

Guy Pearce: ‘I don’t think I’ll look as good in a frock as I did when I was 25’

★★★★ - The Times
★★★★ - The Guardian
★★★★ - FT
★★★★ - Daily Express
★★★★ - Daily Mirror
★★★★ - Daily Star

Ryan J. Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni's stunning, 16mm mystery thriller #Gazer is in select UK cinemas now.

They're back! #TheBadGuys2 is released today in UK and Ireland cinemas from Universal Pictures UK 🐺

The Bad Guys 2 is the sequel this summer needed DreamWorks’ animation addresses complex moral questions in exhilarating, raffish style.

🍿 The Bad Guys 2 is the sequel this summer needed. DreamWorks’ animation addresses complex moral questions in exhilarating, raffish style:

The Shrouds review: a Cronenberg classic of the future - The Skinny David Cronenberg explores the burials of the future in a personal, nightmarish meditation on tech and flesh in new film The Shrouds.

"A paranoid, eroticised nightmare about the ethical and environmental implications of technology in both life and death"

Our film of the month is The Shrouds from body horror maestro David Cronenberg – read our ★★★★ review

The Shrouds review - he wouldn't let it lie “Dying is an act of eroticism,” suggested one of the many disposable characters in David Cronenberg’s first full-length feature, Shivers (1975), and that slippery adage could sum up more than a few of...

★★★★ More from the gruesome internal affairs department of David Cronenberg: The Shrouds traces the travails of a cemetery owner called Karsh writes \James Saynor theartsdesk.com/film/shrouds...

The Shrouds film review — David Cronenberg melds grief and AI in darkly funny thriller The director draws on the loss of his own wife for the story of a bereaved owner of a future-facing cemetery

The Shrouds — David Cronenberg melds grief and AI in darkly funny thriller https://on.ft.com/44dkZqt

The Shrouds review: Cronenberg’s grave encounters David Cronenberg’s macabre modern love story stars Vincent Cassel as a widowed cemetery owner who invents grave cams for the grieving as a way to make sense of his loss.

“It isn’t necessarily about the horrors of the decaying body, but the horror of its no longer being there – which means that above all, Cronenberg has made a love story.”

@nicolasrapold.bsky.social reviews David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, in UK cinemas this week. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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The one and only David Cronenberg 🪰🩸

He chats to Mark about his deeply personal new film THE SHROUDS & how movies help us understand life

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i interviewed David Cronenberg for his new movie THE SHROUDS 🪏 and we talked about grief and bodies and technology www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

David Cronenberg: 'You don’t want to bore peo­ple with how sad you… But then, a year later, I realized that I did get it, and I did like it, and wanted to make the movie. And so it came together in the kind of fusing of…

As The Shrouds final­ly debuts in UK cin­e­mas, the mas­ter of the macabre gets per­son­al about grief.

In conversation with David Cronenberg:

Grab the latest issue of @empiremagazine.bsky.social for a six page interview with David Cronenberg on THE SHROUDS. In cinemas 4 July from Vertigo Releasing.

★★★★
‘A morbid, pulsating testament to the filmmaker’s vision’
The Skinny

★★★★
'Crawls right under your skin'
Empire

★★★★
'Haunting'
SFX

A film by David Cronenberg - THE SHROUDS is in UK and Ireland cinemas 4 July from Vertigo Releasing.

The Ballad of Wallis Island film review — Carey Mulligan and Tim Key bring soul to a melancholy farce News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication

The Ballad of Wallis Island film review — Carey Mulligan and Tim Key bring soul to a melancholy farce

https://www.ft.com/content/6253f742-6ed8-4f65-8fa9-346050e0073d

I sat down with Tim Key, Tom Basden and James Griffiths to discuss their charming, earnest and quintessentially British comedy ‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’. As you can see it was an absolute joy talking to these 3 chaps;

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The Ballad of Wallis Island is in cinemas 30 May.

'The Ballad of Wallis Island' cast tell us about the dream acts they want to reunite The brilliant 'Ballad of Wallis Island' tells the story of an eccentric winner who forks out to bring his favourite band back together. But the question remains, who would stars Tom Basden, Tim Key…

The brilliant 'Ballad of Wallis Island' tells the story of an eccentric winner who forks out to bring his favourite band back together. But the question remains, who would stars Tom Basden, Tim Key and Carey Mulligan choose if money was no object...
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Film of the week: A balm for battered souls | The Observer Carey Mulligan at her most magnetic plays one half of an estranged folk duo booked by lonely superfan Tim Key in what deserves to be this summer’s breakout hit

Hard recommendation for the gorgeous The Ballad of Wallis Island, a lovely, bittersweet cardigan-clad treasure of a film. observer.co.uk/culture/film...

This week, Hanna sits down with Tim Key, Tom Basden and James Griffith to talk about THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND. We review the comedy alongside THE SALT PATH, plus, in our HOT TAKE, we deliver our spoiler-filled verdicts on season 2 of THE LAST OF US. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/3PD9...

Ballad of Wallis Island

Saturday catch-up: Review of The Ballad of Wallis Island. The charming new film comedy with Tim Key, Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan http://dlvr.it/TL5rgx

The Ballad of Wallis Island review - the healing power of the old songs I think The Ballad of Wallis Island is the best British romcom since I Know Where I’m Going! (1945), which it closely resembles.

★★★★★ THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND - Estranged folk duo reunites in a classy British comedy drama - Anthony Cecil acclaims one of the best British romcoms ever theartsdesk.com/film/ballad-...

"The Ballad Of Wallis Island is a big-hearted, consoling hug of a movie."

Two folk musicians (Carey Mulligan and Tom Basden) find themselves reunited by a superfan (Tim Key) in James Griffiths' comedy drama — out in UK cinemas on 30 May.

Read our review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Warning: this podcast contains relentless gushing over The Ballad Of Wallis Island, a discussion of the best films that start in media res (but we didn’t mention your favourite film, probably), and Al Pacino yelling in German.

The Ballad Of Wallis Island is in UK cinemas from today. I love it to pieces. Tim Key had me laughing uncontrollably, relentlessly... and then crying. It's an extremely funny and very touching, often sincerely sad film about loneliness, loss, music, fandom, integrity, ego, vanity, the lot. See it!

The Ballad of Wallis Island review: Gig economy The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig.

The humour might be inconsistent, but there’s real chemistry between Tom Basden and Carey Mulligan as former lovers and bandmates who meet again for a well paid one-off gig.

@francescasteele.bsky.social reviews The Ballad of Wallis Island, out now. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

Win tickets to a special gala screening of Dangerous Animals We have THREE pairs of tickets to give away for new horror movie sensation, Dangerous Animals...

We have THREE pairs of tickets to give away for new horror movie sensation, Dangerous Animals…
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Cloud Cure director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest Japanese chiller, Cloud, is out now in UK cinemas. Read Empire's review.

A chilly and mystifying expression of a modern malevolence which hangs over our lives.”

The director of Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, returns to explore the online world in Cloud — where an online hustle spirals into violence.

Read the Empire review: www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

Cloud review – all-time bleakest episode of Only Fools and Horses Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s latest treads similar thematic territory to his prescient 2001 cyberhorror, through the prism of an e-commerce, vengeance-fuelled thriller.

★★★★ - @lwlies.com 'recommends' Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CLOUD

In cinemas nationwide tomorrow from Blue Finch Film Releasing.