Director – Lotfi Achour – 2024 – Tunisia, France, Belgium, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Qatar – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** When paradise is suddenly taken away from him, a young innocent must come to terms with stark and brutal forces of corruption and death – searing drama is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June […]
Director – Akira Kurosawa – 1957 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 110m ***** Out on BFI UHD & Blu-ray on Monday, May 19th 2025. Currently streaming on BFI Player alongside many other Kurosawa films together with a much wider selection of Japanese movies. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most familiar plays. In 1957, Kurosawa […]
Director – Payal Kapadia – 2017 – India – 13m ***** An old woman, her home and her cat interact in the former’s coastal flat – Kapadia’s first short evidences a sensibility which will inform her debut feature All We Imagine as Light – on the UK Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) of All We Imagine […]
Director – Tim Burton – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 104m ***1/2 The hyperactive ghost from the afterlife returns, along with a number of characters from the original – sequel to the 1988 film is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, September 6th When the original Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988) came […]
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 – Enzo d’Alò – 2023 – Luxembourg, Italy, Ireland, UK, Latvia, Estonia, Germany – Cert. U – 88m ****1/2 A young, cookery-obsessed girl with a fear of dogs must come to terms with the fact that her beloved granny is dying – animated feature is out on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital Monday, August 26th […]
Director – Jason Yu – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 95m ***1/2 A pregnant woman becomes convinced that her husband is possessed when he starts sleepwalking and otherwise behaving oddly in his sleep at night – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th One night, a wife wakes up and looks […]
Director – Wong Hoi – 2022 – Hong Kong – 100m *** Three unlikely ghost stories from Hong Kong: an actor shoots a ghost scene with a real ghost, a young man’s girlfriend is possessed by a ‘horny ghost’, and a sweet romance develops as a cute little girl haunts a shopping mall – plays […]
Director – Lam Ching-ying – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 87m ***1/2 A Taoist priest must defeat various supernatural forces including a Western-style vampire occupying a coffin in an old church – out on Blu-ray in the UK on Monday, May 22nd as part of Eureka! Video’s Hopping Mad: The Mr. Vampire […]
Director – Mark Jenkin – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** A lady environmentalist working on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast becomes subject to powerful, localised forces from the area’s past – out on UK Blu-ray/DVD combi and on BFI Player on Monday, May 8th NB The title is pronounced […]