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  • Blood Cells (2014)
    Review preview for Blood Cells

    Wells delivers a great performance.

    Luke Shaw · 2.5 out of 5
    A farmer's son is faced with a decison about whether to return to the home he has exiled himself from.
  • Cemetery Junction (2010)
    Review preview for Cemetery Junction

    Perhaps most impressive of all is how the themes of ambition, friendship and life-affecting decisions are dealt with without resorting to mush or cheesy-sentiment.

    Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5
    A new job spells change for three friends in the Seventies.
  • Extinction (2019)
    Review preview for Extinction

    It is funny, sharp, and like the best of the short film genre – all creds to director Jack Cooper Stimpson - pretty much every second works towards sketching a neat, clear picture of the issues with minimal lines.

    Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
    A political satire about climate change. Focused on the protest group Extinction Rebellion.
  • No Angels (2004)
    Review preview for No Angels

    Like the best observational comedy, it deals in exposing simple truths through humour and swearing, combined with cracking one-liners that I shall be stealing and passing off as my own.

    Kotleta · 4 out of 5
    Four nurses behaving badly in realistic TV hospital series.
  • Rose Of Nevada (2025)
    Review preview for Rose Of Nevada

    Jenkin’s style, impressionistic when it comes to places, is particular in regard to objects, the real anchors of our lives.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
  • Wrath Of The Gods (2026)
    Review preview for Wrath Of The Gods

    There are moments when things come together and the fierce weather generates a powerful mood.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    The North Sea island of Hel is cloaked in mystery, myth and misogyny. Isolated because the local community despise her, Anna is torn between the ghosts of the past and the gods of the present as an ill wind blows through, and young girls vanish.

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