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 – Marcell Jankovics – 1981 – Hungary – Cert. 12 – 86m ***** The Hungarian animated epic Son Of The White Mare (1981) is one of the great, largely unknown treasures of animation, if not of cinema. Its late director Marcell Jankovics (1941-2021) made a number of shorts and commercials before his two features […]
Director – Wan Guchan – 1959 – China – Cert. N/C U – 23m*****A Catholic priest attempts with the help of a local official to steal a magic, wealth-producing bowl from a poor fisherman – available to rent online from Friday, February 12th to Wednesday, May 12th in the UK & Ireland as part of […]