Chris Connor on Star Wars Rebels… Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012 opened up a wealth of opportunities to expand the Star Wars universe. We have since seen five movies and the live action TV series The Mandalorian, the majority of which have pleased fans with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and The Mandalorian […]
Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo at 60
Chris Connor on Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo… Akira Kurosawa was one of the pioneers of world cinema in the 20th Century directing countless well-loved films particularly within the Samurai genre including Seven Samurai, Ran, Rashomon and one of the main inspirations behind Star Wars, 1958’s The Hidden Fortress. Many of Kurosawa’s films have been adapted in […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Battle Royale Limited Edition 4K UHD Box Set
Battle Royale Limited Edition 4K UHD Box Set, 2021. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku/Kenta Fukasaku. Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Ai Maeda, and Shûgo Oshinari. SYNOPSIS: 4K UHD box set featuring the violent and hugely influential Japanese action shocker, along with its not-so-influential sequel. It would take the hardiest of armchair grouches to grumble […]
Blu-ray Review – Raw (2016)
Raw, 2016. Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas and Joana Preiss. SYNOPSIS: A vegetarian veterinary student gradually turns into a bloodthirsty cannibal after being exposed to meat. In recent times – or relatively recent times – the cannibal movie has gone the way of the zombie movie […]
Movie Review – The Reckoning (2020)
The Reckoning, 2020. Directed by Neil Marshall. Starring Charlotte Kirk, Sean Pertwee, Steve Waddington, Joe Anderson, Leon Ockenden, Indianna Ryan, and Mark Ryan. SYNOPSIS: A young widow in the middle ages is accused of being a witch after her husband dies of the plague. The Reckoning is what happens when a genre filmmaker with a […]
Blu-ray Review – Silent Action (1975)
Silent Action, 1975. Directed by Sergio Martino. Starring Luc Merenda, Mel Ferrer, Delia Boccardo, Delia Boccardo and Tomas Milian. SYNOPSIS: A series of murders made to look like suicides connected to the military leads a cop to suspect foul play. A retired army Major dies after crashing his car into a tree, a Colonel is […]
The Best Film Scores of 2020
Hasitha Fernando on the best film scores of 2020… The film industry took a devastating hit due to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, and even as of yet we are seeing the ripple effect of it over a year later. Theatres closed down indefinitely, many tentpole release dates were pushed back and production activities came to […]
Extreme Cinema – Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Cannibal Holocaust, 1980. Directed by Ruggero Deodato. Starring Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Carl Gabriel Yorke, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi, Salvatore Basile and Ricardo Fuentes. SYNOPSIS: An anthropologist ventures into the Amazon in search of a missing American documentary film crew and retrieves their footage, which documents the gruesome truth behind the ill-fated expedition. One of […]
Movie Review – Chaos Walking (2021)
Chaos Walking, 2021. Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, Cynthia Erivo, Demian Bichir, David Oyelowo, and Nick Jonas. SYNOPSIS: On a dystopian planet where there are no women, and the men can all hear each other’s thoughts, a woman’s spaceship crash lands, causing havoc. Some films seem to be beaten […]
Exclusive Interview – Making Monsters cinematographer Stuart Cameron discusses his work on the new horror film
What’s supposed to be a quiet vacation quickly turns into a horrific nightmare in Samuel Goldwyn Films’ new movie, Making Monsters. The film’s official synopsis reads: A social media prankster and his fiancée find their idyllic country weekend turn into the ultimate video prank, where the stakes are life and death. Making Monsters was written […]
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