Director – Patricion Plaza – 2022 – Argentina, Mexico, Columbia – France 16+ – 21m ***** When a travelling monk falls prey to a fever, the folk remedy administered by an old woman causes him to experience bizarre hallucinations – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2024 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 124m ***** The art of the deal. The past of an internet goods reseller driven by making money who has made enemies among his one-off suppliers and customers comes back to bite him – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 25th Ryosuke […]
Director – Shinji Somai – 1985 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 88m ***1/2 After violently taking out the stress of yakuza business debts on a call-girl, a man finds her two years later and attempts to rekindle a relationship – roman porno is out on UK Blu-ray on, Monday, July 22nd NSFW. Tokyo. Muraki […]
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 […]
Directors – Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger – 1949 – UK – Cert. PG – 106m ***** In London during World War Two, a back room boffin and bomb disposal man struggles with alcoholism – 4K restoration played at BFI Southbank on Tuesday, May 28th prior to release on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital on Monday, June […]
Director – Tran Anh Hung – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** A nineteenth century, French gastronome tries to persuade his live-in cook to become his wife – in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from Wednesday, February 14th 1885. Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) is the live-in cook for celebrated gastronome Dodin Bouffant […]
Director – Tetsuya Nakashima – 2018 – Japan – 133m **** A monster relentlessly pursues its victims until one day it comes to take them away forever – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2023 between Friday, 3rd February and Friday, 31st March This is basically a monster film in which […]
Director – Hong Won-chan – 2020 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 108m ***** An assassin trying to rescue his ex-girlfriend’s child from organ thieves discovers a rival is after him for killing his brother – Wednesday, October 26th, 20.30 at The Cinema At Selfridges as part of a strand of films celebrating actor […]
Director – Robert Machoain – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 84m ****1/2 A family man separated from his wife who has agreed they can each see other people is consumed with hate for the other man she is now seeing – in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, June 4th Morning. […]
How Peter Greenaway’s obsession with various numeric and other cataloguing systems has led to the creation of highly complex, multi-layered film pieces that joyfully play with audiences If ever anyone were to make a film about the Dewey Decimal System, it would be Peter Greenaway. He is obsessed with ways and means to classify the […]