What You Wish For

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A down-on-his-luck chef with gambling problems flees to a Latin American villa, where he assumes the identity of another man.

What You Wish For, a film by Nicholas Tomnay.

Trap

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A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realise they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.

Trap, a film by M. Night Shyamalan.

Will Young

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Falling Deep, new music from Will Young.

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Doctor Who

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"In all my travels throughout the universe I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core."

A CGI tour through the sets used in the making of Doctor Who's The Trial of a Time Lord, in BBC Television Centre's TC1 from 1986. Designer Michael Trevor repurposed sets designed by John Anderson, Malcolm Thornton and Mike Kelt, and added his own extensions to them!

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But is there any comfort to be found? Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

M a s s  in  Motion

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You Can't Run Forever

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A teenage girl suffering from anxiety due to a tragic event from her past finds herself hunted through the woods by a sociopath on a murderous rampage.

You Can't Run Forever, a film by Michelle Schumacher.

Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

M a s s  in  Motion

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Happiness is neither virtue or pleasure nor this thing or that, but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing

M a s s  in  Motion

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I Used to Be Funny

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Sam, a stand-up comedian struggling with PTSD, weighs whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.

I Used to Be Funny, a film by Ally Pankiw.

Since the Last Time We Met

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Handsome and stylish Victor is reunited by chance with David, his first love, fifteen years after the last time they saw each other. This reunion revives the clandestine love they had when they were younger..

Since the Last Time We Met, a film by Matías De Leis Correa.

He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories

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Take a tour of Terra Alpha

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"I told them to be happy, but they wouldn't listen. I gave them every chance. Oh, I know they laughed sometimes, but they still cried, they still wept."

Take a tour of Andrew Orton's renders of the sets used in The Happiness Patrol, originally recorded in BBC Television Centre's TC3 in 1988.

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Boys on Film 24

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Let Boys on Film move, inspire and uplift you with this stunning collection of eleven new gay short films, marking the final physical edition of the series.

Showcasing the best filmmaking talent from around the world and starring Enzo Vogrincic (Society of the Snow), Jeremy McClain (Pose), and Sam Retford (Coronation Street), Boys On Film 24: Happy Endings presents over two hours of unashamedly positive stories of love, sex and romance.

Boys on Film 24, is out 15 April 2024.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time

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The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

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Why should the faithfullest heart most love The bitter sweetness of false faces?

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The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

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Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge

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Pet Shop Boys

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Dancing Star, new music from Pet Shop Boys.

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The fascination of what's difficult has dried the sap out of my veins and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of my hear

M a s s  in  Motion

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Darin

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Electric, new music from Darin.

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Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul

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Take a tour of Telos

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"You will be like us."

Take a tour of Andrew Orton's renders of the sets used in The Tomb of the Cybermen, originally recorded in Lime Grove Studio D in 1967.

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Eighteen Years in Prison

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Trying to survive in the ruins of post-war Japan, Kawada (By a Man’s Face Shall You Know Him) and Tsukada (Sympathy for the Underdog) run afoul of the military police after stealing valuable copper wire. Kawada is arrested and sent to prison, but Tsukada uses their gains to start a yakuza gang. Facing violent inmates and a cruel warden (Big Time Gambling Boss), Kawada vows to escape and stop his former partner.

Tai Kato directs this epic prison story with characteristic visual flair, while gangster-turned-actor Ando delivers a stunning performance charged with real-life gravitas. As an examination of the deep scars of wartime, this genre classic is also a clear precursor to Kinji Fukasaku’s epoch-making Battles Without Honour and Humanity series.

Eighteen Years in Prison, a film by Tai Katô, released by Radiance 29 July 2024.

So Long, Stooge

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Bensoussan (Richard Anconina) is a small-time drug pusher in the 18th Arrondissement of Paris. Being trailed by suspicious patrol cops he takes refuge in a petrol station and strikes up a conversation with night manager Lambert (Coluche). As Bensoussan continues to drop in on Lambert they develop a friendship. But it isn't long before problems arise for Bensoussan and Lambert feels a responsibility to the the young tearaway.

Slick and stunningly shot by Bruno Nuytten (Possession), this rain-soaked neo-noir was a multiple winner at the French César Academy Awards taking home acting prizes for both leads, the film anchored by their tender performances. A tale of friendship and revenge set within the fatalistic noir framework, Claude Berri's Tchao Pantin was a box office smash in France.

For the first time outside of France, Tchao Pantin is coming on blu-ray from a 4K restoration supervised by Nyutten.

So Long, Stooge, a film by Claude Berri.

It's a long lane that has no turning

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And no more turn aside and brood Upon love's bitter mystery

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Attack of the Crab Monsters

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The title is risible but Roger Corman's landlocked monster movie boasts more than a few genuinely eerie moments, particularly when the titular creatures begin to communicate using the voices of the people they've murdered. Corman favorite Mel Welles is one of the unfortunates who gets up close and personal with the irradiated crustaceans, meanwhile the rest of the cast is trying to get up close and personal with Pamela Duncan, one of Roger's most fetching scream queens - it's Trailer From Hell!

The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

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Joel Kim Booster’s Closet Picks

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The comedian, actor, and writer recalls wearing out videotapes of Mothra Vs. Godzilla; praises Sound of Metal and its star, Riz Ahmed; and talks about the power and importance of seeing love between two Asian men depicted on-screen in Happy Together.

All Our Fears

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This timely and powerfully emotional drama tells the incredible true story of courageous gay artist Daniel Rycharski. After an unexpected tragedy, Daniel’s uneasy relationship with the people of his deeply religious rural hometown – and his closeted young lover – is fractured when he uses his work to shine a light on the challenges faced by the LGBT community in contemporary Poland.

All Our Fears, a film by Lukasz Gutt and Lukasz Ronduda.

Take a tour of the Ark

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"Here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity."

Take a tour of Andrew Orton's renders of the sets used in The Ark in Space, originally recorded in BBC Television Centre TC1 and TC3, 1974.

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The Long Good Friday

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Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is a businessman with great ambitions. Spotting the development potential of London's derelict Docklands area years before the Thatcher government, he tries to broker a deal with his American counterpart (Eddie Constantine) that will make them both millions. But who is killing Harold's other associates and blowing up his businesses - and why?

Universally regarded as one of the greatest gangster films ever made, The Long Good Friday rocketed Hoskins to international stardom. He's given sterling support from Helen Mirren (as his upper-crust girlfriend), Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Derek Thompson (Casualty), and there's even an early appearance from future James Bond Pierce Brosnan.

The Long Good Friday, a film by John Mackenzie.