Cert 15 | 135 mins | 2017
5 Star
Life, Love, and Longing
Director Xiaogang Feng (Assembly) takes Geling Yan (The Flowers of War) original story and brings it to life in a fantastic story of a group of young people in China during a period of turmoil, treachery and war. With an orchestral score that lifts the spirits and dashes them with equal efficiency, an amazing piece of…more
Cert 15 | 111 mins | 1997
4 Star
Death by Proxy
Eureka bring us the multi award winning film Cure as #181 in their The Masters of Cinema range. They make this the first time to own this psychologically disturbing film as we delve into the mysteries of a serial killer. Writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Journey to the Shore, Creepy) knows how to get into your head and keeps…more
Cert 12 | 74 mins | 1945
4 Star
A Piece of History and the Start of a Legacy.
What do you do when you are ordered to make a propaganda film for the Japanese Navy during World War II? This was the task of Mitsuyo Seo (Momotarô’s Sea Eagles) who two years earlier had made a short film for the Navy. He went and made Japan’s first ever…more
Cert PG | 191 mins | 1979
5 Star
Drums, Cymbals and Ghosts.
Masters of Cinema bring us #185 in their series of remastered masterpieces. This time it is writer/director King Hu‘s (The Swordsman, A Touch of Zen) epic Legend of the Mountain, an ancient tale of good versus evil in the form of humans trying to survive against the spirit world. Legend of the Mountain has been fully…more
Cert 15 | 100 mins | 2016
4 Star
A Ghost, a Little Girl and Death.
Yûji Shimomura (Death Trance) goes from being a stuntman to the director of this close quarters Japanese Martial Arts bloodfest. A simple tale of vengeance and revenge with brainwashed children thrown in for good measure. But boy this Ghost has some considerable material skills, amazing.
In the intro we see special forces on…more
Cert 15 | 105 mins | 2018
4 star stylish gothic horror tale of love and loss.
The Housemaid is a Vietnamese film, written and directed by Derek Nguyen and is his impressive directorial feature debut. It is deservedly the third highest grossing horror film in Vietnamese history and is now available in the UK for the first time courtesy of Montage Pictures, a new range from Eureka…more
Cert 18 | 121 mins | 2017
4 star tense and dark thriller.
Strangled is a Hungarian film, based on real-life events in provincial Hungary, not long after an unsuccessful uprising and during the height of Socialism and is directed by Árpád Sopsits (Abandoned, Fly Trap).
“Isn’t it a bit odd that she killed herself in the nude?”
It’s 1957 in the small Hungarian town of Martfű. Well known for it’s shoe factory, the…more
