Director – Wu Ma – 1982 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 99m ***** A couple planning an inheritance swindle convince their victim to play along then kill him, after which he comes back as a ghost to take revenge – classic and seminal HK kung fu comedy is out on UK Blu-ray in […]
Director – Lola Quivoron – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m *** Le Fast et la Furieuse. A young woman bike thief makes her mark on a group of bikers living in a bike repair shop run from a prison by its incarcerated owner – out in UK cinemas and exclusively on Curzon […]
Director – Thorold Dickinson – 1949 – UK – Cert. PG – 95m ****1/2 A Russian army officer seeks the occult secret of playing cards that will earn him a vast fortune, but has not bargained for the dark, supernatural forces involved – 4K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 23rd and […]
Director – John Hsu – 2019 – Taiwan – 12A – 103m **** Two Taiwanese students find themselves trapped in their school overnight under that country’s White Terror regime in 1962 – on Shudder (US, Canada) from Monday, February 21st This is a real oddity: an adaptation of a video game set in a specific […]
Director – Jason Reitman – 2021 – US – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** A single parent mum and her two teenage kids relocate to a small American town to find strange, paranormal goings-on – currently streaming in Ultra HD and from Monday, January 31st on BD and DVD in the UK Hollywood loves sequels […]
Director – Min Kyu-dong – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 12a – 108m ***** Just how capable are caregiver androids of looking after their terminally ill patients? – thought-provoking science fiction from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), on now In a vast, multi-storey building complex, end of life patients are attended by […]
Director – Hideo Nakata – 2002 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 101m ***** Plays in the BFI Japan 2021 season October / November at BFI Southbank. Also, currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme. Currently available to view on Amazon Prime, BFI Player and Shudder. Review originally published […]
Ring Director – Hideo Nakata – 1998 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** Spiral (Rasen) Director – Joji Iida – 1998 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 97m ** 1/2 Ring 2 Director – Hideo Nakata – 1999 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 95m ***** Ring 0 Director – Norio Tsuruta – […]
***** Director – Ishiro Honda – 1958 – Japan – Cert. X – 86m The H Man (lit. Beauty And The Liquid People) was scripted by Takashi Kimura, who, as Jasper Sharp notes in the accompanying booklet, wrote monster movies for Honda where the monsters were liquid, gas (The Human Vapor, 1960) and mutant man-mushrooms […]
Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2000 – South Korea – 110m ****1/2 Available exclusively on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, September 18th. Lecturer Yun-ju (Lee Sun-jae) is looking out the window of his apartment in a block of flats and having been recently passed over for a professorship is on the phone to a […]