Director – Benny Chan – 1990 – Hong Kong – Cert.18 – 92m ***1/2 When a biker and gang member on the lam from a jewel heist takes a well-to-do girl hostage then falls for her, their romance is doomed – out on Radiance Blu-ray from Monday, August 21st 2023 following its screening in the […]
Director – Mang Hoi – 1989 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 90m Movie *** Action Sequences ***** Female FBI agent Cynthia Rothrock is sent to Hong Kong to put a stop to a counterfeit money scam operated by an editor out of a newspapers premises – on Blu-ray from Monday, June 26th With […]
Director – Robert Rodriguez – 2023 – US – Cert.15 – 93m ** A police detective stumbles upon a conspiracy involving people with mind-bending powers – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 26th An underlying insistent rhythm opens Hypnotic, the clicking of a pen in a hand. It belongs to the therapist of Danny […]
Director – Goro Taniguchi – 2022 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 115m ***1/2 A girl who wants to sing to the world and usher in an era of happiness has been possessed by a dark power which has other plans – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 4th (IMAX, subbed), Saturday, November 5th […]
Director – Chen Sicheng – 2021 – China – Cert. 15 – 136m **** The Chinese franchise’s super-sleuth and bumbling sidekick join forces with their Japanese and Thai counterparts in Japan – out in cinemas on Tuesday, January 25th and 26th only No sooner have the brilliant crime-solving sleuth Qin Feng (Liu Haoran) and his […]
Director – Colum Eastwood – 2021 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** A black market Belfast anaesthetist finds herself crossing people it would be unwise to cross – this edge-of-the-seat thriller is out on digital platforms on Monday, July 12th Jo (Antonia Campbell-Hughes from Bright Star, Jane Campion, 2009; Albert Nobbs, Roderigo Garcia, […]
Directors – Ross Adam, Robert Cannan – 2016 – UK – Cert. PG – 98m Jeremy Clarke on a story too crazy to be anything but true… This documentary concerns a South Korean film director and his leading actress, kidnapped by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for the purpose of beefing up that country’s film […]
Director – Hong Eui-jung – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 99m **** Things go from bad to worse for a mute forced to look after an 11-year-old girl for her kidnapper when the latter disappears in this ostensible crime drama – screened as a teaser screening for the London Korean Film Festival […]