Director – Tim Burton – 1988 – US – Cert. 15 – 92m ***1/2 A recently deceased couple hire a bio-exorcist to rid their former house of its new, yuppie occupants – review originally published in Samhain, 1988 Whilst its opening shot recalls the aerial opening of The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) segueying into that […]
Director – Miwa Nishikawa – 2020 – Japan – 126m ***1/2 A former yakuza killer having served his sentence for murder comes out of prison and attempts to go straight – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023 between Friday, 3rd February and Friday, 31st March Masao Mikami (Koji Yakusho) completes […]
Director – Emmanuel Carrère – 2021 – France – Cert. 12a – 106m **** A successful journalist goes undercover in Caen to pose as unemployed and get a job as a cleaner to write a book on conditions in the cleaning industry – out on BFI Player (rental) from Friday, June 24th This opens at […]