After a glowing reception following its UK premiere at Frightfest 2022 and winning Total Film Frightfest Awards for Best Film, Actor and Actress, Next Exit is finally available on wide release through Blue Finch Film Releasing on digital download in the UK, having been earlier released in the US. It’s […]
Reviews
Violent Streets (1974) Channels the Spirit of John Cassavetes and Kinji Fukusaku (Review)
Far more synonymous with the Chanbara genre, Hideo Gosha brings his taste for the anarchic to the early 70s explosion in Yakuza movies. Cheap and popular, they became a dime a dozen in the late 60s, a taste which Japanese audiences would carry over into the new decade. Gone was […]
Magnificent Warriors (1987) Michelle Yeoh + Hong Kong Action + Raiders of the Lost Ark (Review)
Magnificent Warriors takes place in the middle of the Second Sino-Japanese War of the 1930s, Michelle Yeoh stars as Fok Ming Ming, a daring secret agent who is tasked to enter rural Tibet to rendezvous with Agent 001 aka Paulina. Her mission is to retrieve important information on the Japanese […]
The Cassandra Cat (aka Až přijde kocour) (1963); I See Your True Colours Shining Through (Review)
Jan Werich stands upon Ken Adam’s impressive space-age set, a fluffy white Persian cat with piercing blue eyes cradled in his arms. His co-star Sean Connery has stalked, somewhat like a bored panther, off the Pinewood sound stage as soon as the director called cut and now, the figures who […]
Daughter (2022) Oppressive & Impressive Micro Budget Thriller which questions the family unit (Review)
Masterfully crafting terror in vast and small spaces, Daughter seems to be an interrogation into the idealistic visions of the nuclear family. Corey Deshon (A Million Little Things, Voice, To Police), in his directorial debut, delves into horror with social issues to explore. His scathing, microscopic view of the conservative […]
The Final Programme (1973) 1970s Psychedelic Cult Classic Still Holds Up (Review)
In the new featurette ‘A Feast of Fuest’, Kim Newman proposes that if Robert Fuest had a more successful career, he would’ve possibly become a serious rival to Ken Russell. This is a view that I harboured for most of the time I spent watching The Final Programme. I couldn’t […]
The Fearway (2023) Seeking the Film Within the Film (Review)
The Fearway, the directorial debut from the editor of Lucky (2017), Robert Gajic, has been promoted as horror with quotes like “A Cross between Jeepers Creepers and Duel” appearing in the press materials, it’s also categorised that way on websites like IMDb & Letterboxd. Even if Noah Bessey’s script has […]
Vivre Sa vie (1962): Godard, the ultimate cinephile, makes his most emotional film (Blu-Ray Review)
Which film director best exemplifies cinephilia? For many people today, the answer would be Quentin Tarantino, who’s just published a book giving his personal take on film history, Cinema Speculation. For Godard – who was less than flattered by Tarantino naming his production company after Godard’s 1964 film Bande a […]
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) Wacky 1980’s Terry Gilliam Fun (Review)
In a war-torn European city in The Age Of Reason, the tales of Baron Munchausen are the subject of fantastical amateur dramatics. Before a roaring crowd of townsfolk, a rag-tag group of thespians attempt to take their minds off the war with the mysterious Sultan as they perform the whimsical […]
Yes Madam! (1985) Enjoyably inconsistent Hong Kong Action with Michelle Yeoh & Cynthia Rothrock (Review)
Michelle Yeoh is a badass. This is evident to anyone who has seen Tomorrow Never Dies, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, her Oscar-nominated turn in Everything Everywhere All At Once, and even the misfortune that is The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. What western audiences are perhaps less aware of […]