Director – John Woo – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 110m ***** Having accidentally blinded a nightclub singer in a hit, a gunman takes on one last job to fund the operation to restore her eyesight – 4K Restoration plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from […]
Director – Takeshi Koike – 2025 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 93m *** Lupin and his friends are lured to a zombie-populated island run by an immortal being where a toxic gas kills people after 24 hours – out in UK cinemas on Saturday, February 21st Lupin III (or LUPIN THE IIIRD as he’s called here) has […]
Director – Len Wiseman – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 125m ***** A young, female assassin seeks out the man behind the organisation that killed her father – John Wick franchise spin-off is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 6th While the Bond movie No Time To Die (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021) […]
Director – Corey Yuen – 1985 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 93m ***1/2 Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock’s star debut, in which they play two plain-clothes, kickboxing Hong Kong cops – on Blu-ray from Monday, December 12th 2002 and now part of Art of Action, a major UK-wide season celebrating the artistry of […]
Directors – Kazuhiro Fusuhashu, Takashi Karagiri – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12A – 111m ***** A spy and an assassin are married to each other, each unaware of the other’s secret career, while neither of them are aware their adopted daughter is a telepath who therefore knows everything they don’t – bonkers anime deploying […]
Director – Reinaldo Marcus Green – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 104m ***1/2 From his childhood in poverty in Jamaica, Bob Marley rises to stardom and international fame as the bast known proponent of reggae music – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 16th All this movie has to do to succeed […]
Director – Patrick Tam – 1982 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 tbc – 92m ***** A group of young Hongkongers fool around with sex and search for a cultural identity – plays in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2023 at BFI Southbank which runs from Wednesday, July 12th to Saturday, July […]
Director – Hong Won-chan – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 108m ***** An assassin trying to rescue his ex-girlfriend’s child from organ thieves discovers a rival is after him for killing his brother – Wednesday, October 26th, 20.30 at The Cinema At Selfridges as part of a strand of films celebrating actor […]
Director – Cary Joji Fukunaga – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 163m ***** We have all the time in the world. The new Bond movie gives Daniel Craig’s James Bond unexpected space to deal with human relationships and mortality – out on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK on Monday, December 20th and […]
The irredeemable flesh PossessorDirected by Brandon CronenbergCertificate 18, 103 minutesReleased 27 November The controversial director David Cronenberg has long been an exponent of something he calls ‘the new flesh’, ways that humanity might transcend its bodies. His son Brandon is the same, his new film Possessor concerning the world of cybernetic industrial espionage. Tasya Vos […]