Tom Jolliffe takes a look at the bizarre Japanese body horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man…Cinema is full of the bizarre. From rockets being launched into the eye of the man on the moon, to Arnold Schwarzenegger getting pregnant, the beauty of film is that it can offer up a doorway, of almost limitless imagination.Japanese cinema […]
Movie Review – Silence (2016)
Silence, 2016.Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson. Tadanobu Asano, Issei Ogata, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yoshi Oida, Yôsuke Kubozuka, and Ciarán Hinds.SYNOPSIS:In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism.To be honest, Martin Scorsese’s (Goodfellas, The Wolf of […]
