Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 1989 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 67m ***** On Arrow Channel from Friday, September 22nd. Previously on BFI Player as part of Japan 2020. This review originally appeared in Manga Mania. A metals fetishist (played by director Shinya Tsukamoto) inserts a metal tube into his leg and the resultant […]
Bar & Co, Temple Pier, Embankment, opposite Temple tube between Blackfriars and Waterloo Bridges, London. 2018.02.25 ***** This article was originally written as a post on Facebook 2018.02.26. Raf And O’s debut appearance as The Kick Inside to play the songs of Kate Bush, now relaunched as online gigs, 12.00, 20.00 hrs on Saturdays from […]
Director – Paul Morrison – 2020 – UK – Cert. 12a – 102m ****1/2 A man over sixty meets a woman of around the same age over 23 walks with their respective dogs – in cinemas from Friday, September 25th Walk 1. Dave (Dave Johns) is out walking his Alsatian Tilly (Sheila) in a narrow, […]
Director – Hong Khaou – 2019 – UK – Cert. 12a – 85m ****1/2 A man who has lived in England for 30 years returns to Saigon and Hanoi to discover the Vietnam his late parents left behind – in cinemas and on Vimeo, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Amazon and elsewhere from Friday, September […]
Director – Dave Mclean – 2019 – UK – Cert. 15 – 91m **1/2 A local Dundee lad and his two mates get into the promotions end of the music industry and find themselves dealing with gangsters – in cinemas from Friday, September 25th Dundee lad Davie (Conor Berry) arouses the ire of a man […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2015 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 127m **** Currently on BFI Player (extended free trial offer here) as part of 21st Century Japan, MUBI as part of The Uncanny Universe of Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Eureka Video Dual Format BluRay/DVD. Review published in All The Anime. Loner Mizuki (Fukatsu Eri) […]
Director – Justin Pemberton – 2019 – France, New Zealand – Cert. 12 – 103m ***** An adaptation of Thomas Piketty’s controversial economic treatise Capital In The 21st Century – in cinemas from Friday, September 25th The content of French economist Thomas Piketty’s eponymous book couldn’t be more relevant. Far from being dry economics, Piketty’s […]
Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2000 – South Korea – 110m ****1/2 Available exclusively on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 18th. Lecturer Yun-ju (Lee Sun-jae) is looking out the window of his apartment in a block of flats and having been recently passed over for a professorship is on the phone to a […]
Director – Greta Bellamacina – 2019 – UK – Cert. 12a – 85m ***1/2 A single parent mum poet and her upstairs lodger actress pursue their dreams in London’s Fitzrovia and Margate – in cinemas from Friday, September 18th A strangely likeable, meandering little movie, this concerns single mum Celeste Blackwood (director and co-writer Greta […]
Director – Rubika Shah – 2019 – UK – Cert. 15 – 80m ***1/2 Documentary charts the rise of the UK’s Rock Against Racism movement of the late 1970s and features among others The Clash, Steel Pulse and Tom Robinson – in cinemas and on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 18th […]