Well, what can I say? I was gobsmacked when I put this DVD on and at first I thought I may have been given the wrong DVD. Surely I wouldn’t have been given soft-core pornography to review? It se...
When a movie crew invades a small Japanese town, local lumberjack Katsuhiko (Kôji Yakusho) and young filmmaker Koichi (Shun Oguri) form an unlikely bond. The film is very much a character piece and re...
Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing the bleak, moving French film Gervaise, by director Réne Clément. Skip forward seven days and I have sat down, black coffee in hand, to watch Oscar-winning Fo...
By Bex. Wow, a 3D horror film. Now that’s what I’m talking about. This is not one for the fainthearted I have to admit it is pretty much a gore fest, but with a clever twist and a good story. Add to t...
There isn’t much to say about Floating Weeds that hasn’t already been said. Over the decades that have passed since Yasujirō Ozu remade his own silent film, A Story of Floating Weeds, many a superlati...
