Director – Katsuhiro Otomo – 1988 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 124m ***** Manga artist turned director Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk classic returns to the big screen – back in over 350+ UK and Ireland cinemas, plus every IMAX screen from Friday, April 17th! When Akira first appeared in the UK at the start of the nineties, Disney […]
Directors – Lin Yongchang, Qu Caijia – 2025 – China – Cert. PG – 107m ** Park Ranger Vick unwittingly releases pink spores into the atmosphere, reducing the earth to a toxic wasteland, then he and the bears time travel forward 100 years to sort it out– in a dubbed format for family audiences – […]
Director – Yoon Eun-Kyung – 2023 – South Korea – LKFF Cert. 12 – 90m ***** In a black & white, futuristic Seoul, a tenant who sublets his rental apartment to prevent his eviction finds out that this approach has its drawbacks – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2024 which runsin cinemas from […]
Director – Alice Lowe – 2024 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** A reincarnated woman falls for the same man in different, historical time periods – hilarious romantic comedy of errors is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 11th Agnes (Alice Lowe) is a woman falling madly in love. Sadly, the object […]
Director – Lim Kah Wai – 2023 – Japan – Cert. none – 88m ** A woman meets, loses then searches for a film director who makes films by travelling around finding places and people around which and whom to make films – premieres in the Rebels With A Cause Competition in the 27th Tallinn […]
Director – Danny Boyle – 2010 – US – Cert. 15 – 93m UK release date 07/01/2011, cert. 15, 93 mins The trailer for this gives a pretty good impression of about its first third. Experienced, youthful and single outdoor explorer Aron Ralston (James Franco) mountain bikes through the Utah landscape, meets a couple of […]
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 – Kogonada – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 96m ****1/2 In the distant future, a couple must come to terms with the loss of the eldest child, actually an A.I. purchased as an ethnically programmed companion for their adopted South East Asian daughter – SF mystery drama is on Sky Cinema from […]
Director – Dean Parisot – Writers – Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson – 2020 – US – Cert. PG – 91m **** Party on, dudes! The two friends return having failed over 25 years to write the song to unite all of humanity and prevent the universe unravelling – in cinemas from Wednesday, September 16th […]