Cert 12 | 118 mins | 2019
5 Star
Portrait of a Legend.
With only his second feature, writer/director Robert Goold (True Story) was set the task of taking the ‘Olivier’ and ‘Tony’-nominated West End and Broadway play End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter. What a job he has done. With Renée Zellweger (Jerry Maguire, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Chicago, Miss Potter) stealing the show as the forty seven…more
Cert 16+ | 51 mins | 2019
5 Star
Digital Dating
Actor/ director Jon-Paul Gates (Brexit: The Will of the People, The Haunting of Borley Rectory) once again brings us a documentary, this time studying the rise of internet dating and the app’s people use to hook up online.
Filmed on sunny days in the UK’s capital around Leicester Square and Kings Cross station, our intrepid reporter asks those…more
Cert 12 | 291 mins | 2018
4 Star
A Petulant Teen Playing with Kaiju.
From the anime house that brought us Kill La Kill, Studio Trigger now brings us the adaptation of the 1993–1994 tokusatsu series Denkou Choujin Gridman with up-to-date slick animation and plenty of destruction, as Kaiju wreak havoc across the city.
The fictional Japanese city of Tsutsujidai and Yūta Hibiki (Brandon McInnis, Attack on Titan, The…more
Cert 15 | 168 mins | 2017 - 2018
4 Star
What Price Independence?
For forty years Yoshiyuki Tomino (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, Gundam Reconguista in G) has been involved in the Mobile Suit Gundam World, from its original release to this 2017 Origin story of some of the main players of the one year war. V and VI show us the pivotal moments (Clash at Loum, Rise of the Red…more
Cert 12 | 350 mins | 2019
4 stars of high octane exorcism action.
Twin Star Exorcists is based on the Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Yoshiaki Sukeno and is adapted to anime by Studio Pierrot (Tokyo Ghoul, Naruto Shippuden). It is directed by Tomohisa Taguchi. This release is Part 3 of the series and comprises episodes 27 – 40.
“The spell power you get from devouring others is nothing compared to the…more
Cert PG | 81 mins | 1946
4 Star
A Singer, A Drunk and an Accused Man.
Black Angel is Roy William Neill’s (Fifty Fathoms Deep, Murder Will Out, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death) swan song after a career spanning nearly thirty years and one hundred and ten directorial credits. Black Angel is a Film-Noir, with its sights definitely set on the dark recesses of…more
Cert 15 | 104 mins | 2019
4 Star
Samurai, Ninjas and Guns.
Writer/director Bernard Rose (Anna Karenina, Frankenstein) started out making videos for the likes of UB40 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood and went on to direct one of our all time horror faves Candyman. This time he tells the story of a Japanese event, that has lasted to this day. The Japanese Marathon.
For two hundred and sixty…more
