boxd.it/e9JHlT Castle Sidcup w/ @sakuratoffee.bsky.social

boxd.it/e0bd6Z Vue Eltham w/ @sakuratoffee.bsky.social

Finally got round to seeing this boxd.it/dXbRaP

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Tonight's watch: a classic of Italian cinema boxd.it/dFsevr

My picks! Best Picture: Marty Supreme Best Director: Chloe Zhao, Hamnet Best Actor: Thimothée Chalomet, Marty Supreme Best Actress: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet Best Supporting Actor: Sean Penn, One Battle After Another Best Supporting Actress: Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

🎬 Weapons 🏆 1 📍The Arzner 📅 15 March 2026 8/10 I do enjoy well made horror with a slight level of humour. Amy Madigan is truly terrifying. And that's all of them. Picks coming shortly!

🎬 Arco 🏆 1 📍 Clapham Picturehouse 📅 15 March 2026 8/10 This is a very sweet story set 50 years into our current future. With themes around AI, climate change, conspiracy theories and social isolation in childhood, this is beautifully animated.

🎬 Kokuhō 🏆 1 📺 Plex 📅 14 March 2026 7/10 A 3 hour epic spanning 50 years in the world of Kabuki theatre. Full of family drama and rivalries.

🎬 Blue Moon 🏆 2 📍 Hackney Picturehouse 📅 14 March 2026 7/10 The best performance I've seen from Ethan Hawke as legendary songwriter Lorenz Hart. The film is heavy on dialogue and the supporting cast nails it too.

🎬 The Smashing Machine 🏆 1 📺 Prime Video 📅 13 March 2026 6/10 Decent film but felt a bit soap-opera-y and with an intrusive soundtrack in places. Dwayne Johnson's transformation into Mark Kerr is impressive.

🎬 Train Dreams 🏆 4 📍 Cineworld O2 Greenwich 📅 13 March 2026 8/10 A story of love, loss and logging, this is beautifully shot and set.

🎬 The Ugly Stepsister 🏆 1 📺 Apple TV 📅 12 March 2026 7/10 The tale of Cinderella meets Scandi body horror. Deserving of its nomination.

🎬 The Alabama Solution 🏆 1 📺 Sky Documentaries 📅 12 March 2026 8/10 Exposing the brutal conditions in the state's prisons as well as the fatal beatings of prisoners by guards, this is a sickening indictment of those who have lost their humanity.

🎬 Diane Warren: Relentless 🏆 1 📺 Plex 📅 12 March 2026 7/10 Documents the career of one of the giants of songwriting, the long running theme is her not winning a competitive Oscar. The song which is nominated should be in with a good shout

🎬 The Secret Agent 🇧🇷 🏆 4 📍 Cineworld O2 Greenwich 📅 11 March 2026 8/10 Shades of Tarantino, this film is full of 70s Latin style, B-movie parodies (The Hairy Leg)

🎬 Bugonia 🏆 4 📍 Cineworld O2 Greenwich 📅 10 March 2026 8/10 Bizarre, but not by Lanthinos' standards, Emma Stone gives a great performance. A cracking score too

🎬 Viva Verdi! 🏆 1 📺 Jolt 📅 8 March 2026 8/10 a lovely documentary showcasing the musicians living at Casa Verdi retirement home in Milan. The nominated song is good, although it's played over the end credits.

🎬 Forevergreen 🏆 1 📺 YouTube 📅 8 March 2026 7/10 a cute story of a bear cub and the tree that raises him

🎬 Retirement Plan 🏆 1 📺 Disney+ 📅 8 March 2026 8/10 Narrated by Domhnall Gleeson, this reminds you to try the things you want to before it's too late

🎬 Papillon 🏆 1 📺 YouTube 📅 8 March 2026 9/10 Animated like an impressionist painting, this tells the story of Alfred Nakache: French Olympic swimmer and Holocaust survivor.

🎬 The Girl Who Cried Pearls 🏆 1 📺 NFB.ca 📅 8 March 2026 8/10 A lovely story produced in stop-motion animation

🎬 The Three Sisters 🏆 1 📺 Bilibili 📅 8 March 2026 7/10 Funny short about 3 sisters fighting for the attention of a sailor who lodges on their island

🎬 Butcher's Strain 🏆 1 📺 Bilibili 📅 8 March 2026 7/10 examining the dynamic between an Arab butcher and his Jewish colleagues in Israel and the mistrust that has crept in since the hostage crisis there

🎬 A Friend of Dorothy 🏆 1 📺 Bilibili 📅 8 March 2026 8/10 a nice film on friendship across the generations with a great performance by Miriam Margolyes

🎬 The Singers 🏆 1 📺 Netflix 📅 8 March 2026 7/10 Quirky piece set in a dive bar.

🎬 Jane Austen's Period Drama 🏆 1 📺 YouTube 📅 8 March 2026 8/10 Hilarious and pithy, this had me in stitches.

🎬 Two People Exchanging Saliva 🏆 1 📺 YouTube 📅 8 March 2026 8/10 Curious experimental film set in a Dystopian France (that's just France?) where kissing is banned and slapping is a form of currency.

🎬 Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud 🏆 1 📺 Plex 📅 6 March 2026 7/10 Cataloguing the bravery of a renowned photojournalist who eventually met his end at the hands of Russian troops in Ukraine. Felt like it needed to be a feature length documentary

🎬 Perfectly a Strangeness 🏆 1 📺 Bilibili 📅 6 March 2026 6/10 Strangeness indeed: a surreal film about 3 donkeys chilling out at an observatory in Chile. Brilliant visuals, but maybe I'm missing the point here!

🎬 The Devil is Busy 🏆 1 📺 Bilibili 📅 6 March 2026 8/10 Following a day at a women's health clinic in Georgia, this shows the pressures that the state's overly-restrictive laws and protests from religious zealots put on those providing healthcare

🎬 All the Empty Rooms 🏆 1 📺 Netflix 📅 6 March 2026 9/10 Following journalists photographing the bedrooms left behind by school shooting victims, this hits hard through it's simplicity and clarity of the consequences of these horrific crimes

🎬 Children No More: Were and are Gone 🏆 1 📺 Sky Docs 📅 6 March 2026 8/10 an interesting film about a group of Israelis silently protesting child deaths in Gaza

🎬 Come See Me in the Good Light 🏆 1 📺 Apple TV 📅 28 February 2026 8/10 a deeply emotional and inspiring documentary dealing with terminal illness and trying to embrace the little things before the end

🎬 Sirât 🏆 2 📍BFI Southbank 📅 27 February 2026 7/10 A decent film that lost me towards end as there's little payoff. The sound is amazing though with the juxtaposing of the rave music with the sound of the desert and various explosions.

🎬 Mr. Nobody Against Putin 🏆 1 📍 Curzon Bloomsbury 📅 26 February 2026 8/10 Hiding in plain sight as a school videographer, Pavel decides to document the propaganda and militarisation of Russian youth after the onset of the Ukraine war

🎬 Cutting Through Rocks 🏆 1 📍 Curzon Bloomsbury 📅 25 February 2026 8/10 inspiring and frustrating in equal measure, this explores the role of women in local Iranian politics and a woman's drive to address child marriage and property rights. Also motorbikes!

🎬 Jurassic World: Rebirth 🏆 1 📺 Prime 📅 24 February 2026 5/10 A flimsy premise and a messy film. Visuals and set pieces (as usual for this franchise) carry the film as much as they can

🎬 The Lost Bus 🏆 1 📺 Apple TV 📅 15 February 2026 7/10 Set during the 2018 California wildfires, it's definitely worthy of the nomination. The fire is relentless and creates a claustrophobic sense of dread.

Shelter (2026) Dir: Ric Roman Waugh Vue Eltham w/ @sakuratoffee.bsky.social 6/10 Enjoyable action film with the Stath playing his go-to character of an ex-special forces soldier with a soul.

🎬 If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You 🏆 1 📍 Picturehouse Hackney 📅 10 February 2026 7/10 Rose Byrne giving an excellent performance as a counsellor going through her own mental health crisis. Under pressure with her child's medical problems, her absent husband and missing patient it becomes a pea soup

🎬 Little Amélie or the Character of Rain 🏆 1 📍 Vue West End 📅 8 February 2026 8/10 I was the only one in the cinema for this one. It's a very sweet story with beautiful animation.

🎬 The Perfect Neighbor 🏆 1 📺 Netflix 📅 7 February 2026 7/10 Presented mostly through body worn video, this depicts a killing in relation to Florida's "Stand Your Ground" laws.