Director – John G. Avildsen – 1989 – US – Cert. PG – 112m * Review written on spec at the time of the film’s UK release and never previously published. The first film I saw in this franchise, and clearly not the place to start, since it had reached a low ebb by this […]
Director – Chen Chi-Hwa – 1986 – Taiwan – Cert. 15 – 84m ***1/2 A lazy martial arts student experimenting with magic finds himself helping a girl warrior against a sorcerer and his master – on Blu-ray from Monday, September 23rd At the Taoist martial arts training school Ying Yang Hall, two students are wont […]
Director – Noora Niasari – 2023 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 117m ***** An Iranian mother and her young daughter, holed up in a women’s refuge in Australia, live in fear of the girl’s estranged father who wants to take them both back to Iran – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 2nd […]
Director – Rose Glass – 2024 – US – Cert. 15 – 104m **** A small town member of staff at a gym falls hard for a bodybuilding drifter, both unaware that each has baggage which will cause the other considerable grief – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 3rd The 1980s. New Mexico. […]
Director – Anton Dyakov – 2020 – Russia – 15m 15s ***** A pencil-thin ballerina becomes involved with a rough, stocky boxer. Some things seem destined not to be… And yet… – nominated for Best Animated Short in the 2021/22 (94th) Oscars Olya and Evgeny live near each other’s flats. When running to catch the […]
Director – Hiroyuki Kitakubo – 1991 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 80m ***1/2 Robot beds deal with the major Japanese social problem of caring for their burgeoning elderly populous – in cinemas Touted as manga artist / anime director Katsuhiro Otomo’s follow up to the phenomenally successful Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988), Roujin Z was […]