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  • THE KID ON A BIKE

    The kid in the title is 11-year-old Cyril and the bike is his means to whiz around the small Belgian town desperately looking for his father who abandoned him in a Children’s Home and who has never bothered coming back even to visit.  Cyril breaks out of the Home one day with the Social Workers…

  • EXPORTING RAYMOND

    This very funny documentary about one man’s quest to hoist  the US’s hit tv situation comedy ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ on an unsuspecting Russian audience could be subtitled ‘Lost in Translation’.  Written, directed and starring Phil Rosenthal the creator of the TV show, its about the frustrations of adapting the hit series for Russian TV. Neither…

  • ETIENNE

    When it comes to bizarre this enchanting quirky tale about a loner taking his dying best (and only) friend on a road trip is definitely up there.  Especially when you know that the said best friend is a dwarf hamster named Etienne. Richard drifts through his gentle small life.  He’s just got a new job…

  • TRISHNA

    A new Winterbottom movie is always something that I really look forward too with great anticipation, partly because it’s almost impossible to predict what genre he will choose let alone the subject matter.  After last year’s wonderfully funny ‘The Trip’ Mr Winterbottom, one of the UK‘s most versatile and prolific directors, has gone back to the…