Director – Takahide Hori – 2021 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 101m ****1/2 A cyborg is dropped from the planet’s surface into its depths by his immortal but impotent masters to investigate the beings who have evolved in the levels below – feature length, stop-frame epic is out in UK cinemas on Monday, April […]
Director – Yasuzo Masumura – 1966 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 95m An army nurse is sent to China – as a slogan in one of the film’s trailers puts it, “on the battlefield where life and death is decided.” ***** Full Blu-ray review published at All The Anime. In 1939, for her first […]
Director – Robert Eggers – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 136m ***** A 10th Century Viking prince vows revenge on his father king’s killer and sees it through to death – out in cinemas on Friday, April 15th Young Viking Prince Amleth (Oscar Novak from The Batman) is thrilled when his warrior father […]
Spiritual wickedness The DissidentDirected by Bryan FogelCertificate 12 (Amazon advisory), 119 minutesReleased on Amazon Prime Video in the UK and Ireland from April 1st 2021 On 2 October 2018, the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Turkey to obtain a marriage licence. He never came out. It later transpired that Khashoggi […]
Director – Bryan Fogel – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** An investigation into the state-sanctioned killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Turkey in 2018 – on Amazon Prime from Thursday, April 1st If you had to use a single phrase to describe this documentary, it […]