When Takao Saito’s manga creation of the worlds deadliest assassin, Golgo 13, was first optioned by Toei Studios he had but two caveats. The first was that the entire film should be shot on location, and the second was that the actor that the character was based upon should be […]
Movies & Documentaries
O.C. and Stiggs (1987): What Did I Just Watch? (Review)
Radiance continues its run of unearthing movies that have spent too long neglected and in the shadows. What is usually the case with Radiance, is that these movies are European, foreign language productions. Not so this week, were they have dusted down two Hollywood movies from a rightly much acclaimed […]
The Katsuhito Ishii Collection (1995-2022) (Review)
Anyone with an interest in Japanese culture in the mid to late Noughties had heard the stories of these mad films coming out of Japan. There was the one with the weird babies and the other that had a huge head in the garden. It would transpire that the first […]
The Iron Prefect (1977): Giuliano Gemma Cleans Up Sicily (Review)
This week’s release from Radiance is Pasquele Squitieri’s 1977 movie Il Prefetto di Ferro, alternatively known as both The Iron Prefect and I Am the Law in English speaking territories. Fans of Italian genre cinema take note, Radiance offers this up as a delicious primer ahead of their epic Cosa […]
Sleep (2020): An Elusive Waking Dream from the heartland of Germany (Review)
Arrow’s release of Sleep / Schlaf, the debut feature of German director Michael Venus, on Blu-ray is not to be slept on. Puns aside, the film lives up to its name with a dreamy aesthetic and storyline that creeps under your skin. We start with Marlene playing a game of […]
The Circus Tent (1978) – A documentary-esque look at the drifting lifestyle of the marginalised [Review]
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Known as Thamp̄, a title which translates into The Circus Tent, the acclaimed third film of Indian writer/director Govindan Aravindan was once thought to be lost. The Film Heritage Foundation spent nearly eight painstaking months restoring the film from a duplicate negative taken from a 35mm print and managed to […]
The Lair (2022)(II) Very Far Removed from Marshall’s Glory Days (Review)
We all end up rooting for the underdog, don’t we? From humble beginnings to a series of trials, tribulations, knockbacks and naysayers, Neil Marshall has had ’em all. Many will harbour plenty good will for his one-two cult hits of Dog Soldiers and The Descent, both British gold standard uncompromising horrors […]
The Kid (1921): Chaplin’s Classic Comic Melodrama Newly Restored (Review)
Over a century after its initial release, Charlie Chaplin’s debut feature, The Kid, is released in a new 4K digital restoration by Criterion. Initially released as part of his eight picture deal with First National Exhibitors, The Kid built off the prolific number of short comedies he’d been making since […]
Cocaine Bear (2023) Harks back to Classic – & Fun – 70s & 90s Creature Features (Review)
Based on the true story of Andrew Thornton, a former police narcotics investigator turned drug runner, who, through a disastrous attempt at smuggling drugs, caused a black bear to ingest a stomach full of cocaine and consequently die from an overdose, Cocaine Bear is an ode to that coke-fiend critter […]
HOME MOVIE (2008) The Right Recipe for a Found Footage Horror Classic, but… (Review)
It’s hard to believe now, but in 2008 ‘found footage’ movies were still all the rage thanks to the lingering influence of The Blair Witch Project and phone camera’s still mainly being for decoration. Home Movie is typical of the genre but was no doubt over shadowed by the infinitely […]