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Butterfly and Sword

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1993
 88 minutes (1 hrs 28 mins)

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Michael Mak

Starring

Tony Chiu-Wai Leung · Michelle Yeoh · Joey Wang · Elvis Tsui · Donnie Yen · Tsung-Hua Tou

Full cast & crew

Release dates

Hong Kong release date Hong Kong release: 16th January 1993
South Korea release date South Korea release: 1st May 1993

Certificates

US
Not Rated

16

MA15+

Total grosses

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Director Kenneth Branagh follows up Murder on the Orient Express~2017 and Death on the Nile~2020 with another Agatha Christie novel, this time A Haunting In Venice which has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate threat, violence, suicide references

Kenneth Branagh himself stars in the movie movie as Hercule Poirot and this his co-stars are the likes of Kelly Reilly who has been in 1320~2011 and Last Orders as well as Michelle Yeoh who has starred in Butterfly and Sword and Master Z: The IP Man Legacy.

Kenneth Branagh has helmed 23 movie to day with movies including All Is True and Mary Shelleys Frankenstein.

Movie Synopsis

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a murder while attending a Halloween seance at a haunted palazzo in Venice, Italy.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

  • Title: A Haunting In Venice
  • BBFC age rating: 12A Certificate
  • Reason: moderate threat, violence, suicide references
  • Release date: 15th September 2023
  • Runtime: 103 minutes (1 hours 43 minutes)
  • The movie is being released into movie theatres
  • Directed by:
    • Kenneth Branagh
  • Starring:
    • Kenneth Branagh
    • Kelly Reilly
    • Michelle Yeoh

BBFC movie page

The next movie in the long running Transformers series, Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, has been given a 12A age rating in the UK for moderate action violence, threat, language

The movie stars comedian, and most worked star of the moment Pete Davidson who has previously been in Set It Up and What Men Want, it also stars Michelle Yeoh who has starred in Butterfly and Sword and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor among many other movies.

The director of the movie this time around is Steven Caple Jr. who has previously directed Class~2015 a TV movie from 2015 and The Land he also directed Creed II.

Movie Synopsis

In the year 1994, a pair of archaeologists from Brooklyn come into an ancient conflict through a globe-trotting adventure with the Autobots that ties in with three factions of the Transformers race: the Maximals, the Predacons and the Terrorcons.

BBFC certificate breakdown.

  • Title: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
  • BBFC age rating: 12A Certificate
  • Reason: moderate action violence, threat, language
  • Release date: 9th June 2023
  • Runtime: 127 minutes (2 hour 7 minutes)
  • The movie is being released into movie theatres
  • Directed by:
    • Steven Caple Jr.
  • Starring:
    • Pete Davidson
    • Michelle Yeoh
    • Ron Perlman

BBFC movie page