By bADVERTISING. Once again here's another fashionably late straight to DVD double-bill. Maybe 'Belated Reviews' could become a regular feature. No? Ok, fair enough

By Epock. Reading 'The scariest killer since Hannibal Lecter' put me in high spirits as I settled in to watch the latest contribution from independent American film-maker Robert A. Masciantonio. Having made a suitably successful tour of the film festival circuit in 2009 Neighbor has been praised for diverging from the

By Bear. This is the third outing of the Chilean director Pablo Larrain. He has returned to the screen accompanied by the same team, and lead actor, that brought us his previous film, Tony Manero. Post Mortem lays out a story of a loner, Mario Cornejo (played by Alfredo Castro), in front of the

By Blitzwing. Japan in the 1830s, the former Shogun's son Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu treats the world as his play toy. Unfortunately young Naritsugu considers playtime to be raping and killing at will. After he kills a man and slices his wife's limbs off a local dignitary decides that enough is enough

By Gordon Foote. Jiro Ono is eighty-five. Every day, he gets up, rides the train to his 10-seat restaurant, situated in a Tokyo basement, and makes sushi.  He has followed this routine, day-in-day-out, since the war. Jiro makes sushi. He does not make noodles. He does not make yakizkana. He does not make tempura. He makes sushi.