Director – Satoshi Kon – 1997 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 81m ***** Multi-layered, identity crisis psycho thriller redefines the boundaries of animation, Japanese or otherwise – 4K Restoration plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June During a gig by girl pop trio […]
Director – Bi Gan – 2025 – China – Cert. 15 – 160m **** An authority figure pursues a Deliriant – a man who escapes the authorities and his own social responsibilities by dreaming – through a period of a hundred years – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th This opens with a long series of intertitles […]
Director – John Rosman – 2023 – US – 85m ***1/2 Neither the widow nor the assassin pursuing her towards the Canadian border are quite what they seem – genre-bending thriller is out on digital in the UK The sound of a distressed woman. Now we see her (Hayley Erin) – her head is bleeding […]
Director – Keiichi Hara – 2022 – Japan – Cert. – 116m ***** Seven children are sucked via mirrors in their homes into a mysterious castle perched high above a sea, presided over by a wolf queen, and prowled by a hungry wolf at night – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film […]
Director – Jean Cocteau – 1950 – France – Cert. PG – 112m ***** Acquitted by mirrors! Rereleased two thirds of a century on, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Greek legend of Orpheus remains as magical as ever – out in the UK on Friday, October 19th, 2018 Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was a self-styled ‘poet’, a versatile, avant-garde […]
Director – Yuen Kim-wei – 2024 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 107m ** A gang including a counterfeit watchmaker and an amateur safe cracker attempt to steal a watch worn by an astronaut on the 1969 moon landing – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 23rd This heist movie is built around […]
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 – Kearen Pang – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. PG – 127m ** A former music business exec tries to get back into the game managing a boy singer while her jealous teenage son takes his exams – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 19th Essentially a three-hander, this centres around middle-aged […]
Director – Christopher Smith – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m ***1/2 A vicar, his wife and their daughter move into a haunted rectory which seems to be out to get them – on digital platforms from Friday, March 26th and Shudder from Thursday, April 15th The Rev Stanley Hall (Matthew Clarke) is […]