Cannon films where rarely more iconic than when they produced the Ninja Trilogy. In 2016, films that pay homage to the richness of the Eighties, or the type of genre silliness that ensued, seek to exploit that which came before through the lens of irony. While blaxploitation, producers like Corman […]
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Host of the Uncut Network. With a love of movies kicked off by Hong Kong Action and Claymation Monsters, Rob has forever been cradled in the bosom of Cinema. Rob has his hands in many a pie, including no budget film making. Filthy
Escape from the Liberty Cinema (1990) intoxicatingly rebellious riff on the Purple Rose of Cairo (Review)
Second Run are one of the more remarkable labels operating in the UK, focusing on forgotten and obscure Eastern European films during the past decade. There is one concurrent theme common in many of the titles they pluck from obscurity, their political awareness. The by-product of this is a dual-pronged […]
Just Jim (2015) Just another low-key actor/director project, only with a surrealist edge (Review)
Many actors take the leap from in front of the camera to behind it, while more common for established names who want to try something new or complete a passion project they’ve been sat on for years – there has been a swelling of young actors adding themselves to that […]
Day of the Outlaw (1959) The entire history of the Western in a three-act structure (Review)
Westerns and Martial Arts cinema have a remarkable amount in common, for one they remake each other constantly; also, their kinship is important due to them being genre’s that are hard to penetrate for the uninitiated. Both are stuck in a quagmire of form, they are both the definition of […]
Best Films of 2015
It’s that time of the year again, we bid adieu to the past 12 months by looking at the best films to hit cinema screens.
The Reflecting Skin (1990) Even with a few wrinkles, this is an anti-vampire masterpiece (Review)
Poet, Author and Film Maker Philip Ridley made his directorial debut in 1990 with this 1950 set American Prairie Horror. Thanks to the pulpy novels read his Dad the young Seth Dove (Jeremy Cooper) believes his secretive neighbour, Dolphin Blue (Lindsay Duncan), to be a Vampire; that belief isn’t helped […]
A New Leaf (1971) A Romantic Comedy ANYONE can enjoy! (Review)
There is a great joy to be gleaned from the current golden age of boutique home video labels in their discovery of films previously lost to time; enter Masters of Cinema with their release of Elaine May’s A New Leaf. As expressed in the featured video essay, the Bluebeard of […]
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between A Criminal & A Whore (2016)(Review)
Philippine director Khavn De La Cruz collaborates with Wong-Kar Wai alumni DP Christopher Doyle for Third Windows latest in an exceptionally difficult film to pigeon-hole due to its outright evasion of genre convention. On its surface, Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore is a musical […]
Song of the Sea (2015) One of the most beautiful animated films we’ve ever seen (Review)
There is a problem in British Cinema and it’s the relationship with its own mythology and history; go to Korea, Japan, Scandinavia or India and you’ll find numerous movies, cartoons, comic books and other paraphernalia devoted to traditional folklore. British Cinema is more captivated by modern history, politics and its […]
The Ladykillers (1955) Impossibly influential dark comedy caper is still as fresh as a daisy (Review)
Few cinematic institutions rival Ealing Studios; the only similar shadows are cast by British Horror emblem Hammer and the Hong Kong Martial Arts stalwarts, the Shaw Brothers. Between 1930 and 1959, the West London studio bore cinematic fruit that not only stands up to this day, many titles could also […]