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The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk
Martial arts superstar Jet Li plays the title role in this dazzling action flick that won several awards including ‘Best Choreography Award’, ‘Best Martial Arts Direction’ and ‘Best Editing’. Read more...
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Rapt
Rapt is a movie about the 1978 real-life kidnapping of French-Belgium industrialist and millionaire playboy Edouard-Jean Empain, but here the story is updated and turned into a gripping and contemporary thriller. Read more...
Goemon
From acclaimed fashion photographer and music video director Kazuaki Kiriya (Casshern) comes this mind-blowing fantasy action-adventure set in 1582 Japan. Read more...
Animals
Animals is a werewolf movie for adults – combining sex and gore in equal measure. The film is based on the successful 1992 novel by John Skip and Craig Spector - the latter is partially also responsible for the script. Read more...
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Pet Shop Of Horrors
Set in a pet shop in New York’s Chinatown, the frame story concerns the mysterious Count D, a sinister puppet master whose shop offers strange and exotic creatures for every occasion. But beware: those who don’t handle the purchased animals with the right level of care will pay a high price indeed! Read more...
Shelter
This is about as good as it gets, as tense as it gets, and as eerie as it gets! Starring Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the lead roles, Shelter is a chilling supernatural thriller in the vein of Identity and Fallen – but different and really quite unique. Read more...
Hierro
Hierro begins with a nasty car accident, during which the female driver survives but her little son, who sat beside to her when the accident happened, is nowhere to be found… Read more...
Blood River
The winner of several awards, this tense thriller will have you at the edge of your seat. Directed by Adam Mason, Blood River recalls the unnerving atmosphere of films like ‘The Hitcher’, ‘Dust Devil’ and ‘Kalifornia’. Read more...
The Storm Warriors
Based on the successful comic book series ‘Fung Wan’, The Storm Warriors is the highly anticipated sequel to Andrew Lau’s 1998 action-fantasy epic The Storm Riders. While there seems to be a trend in current Asian fantasy cinema that favours style over content, the Pang Brothers (The Eye) have succeeded in creating a sequel Read more...
Oil City Confidential
Welcome to Canvey Island/Essex, 1970’s England and the greatest local band in the world! Oil City Confidential is a feature length film noir rockumentary about Dr. Feelgood, a band that crashed out of Canvey Island and punched the face of rock n’ roll in the process. Read more...
Trucker
This little gem of an independent film was already released in 2008 but failed to make the impact it deserved. While critics praised it, the public by and large overlooked it. Thankfully, writer/director James Mottern’s directorial debut has now been ‘re-discovered’ a second time around. Read more...
The Silent Invasion
To soften the recent World Cup blow, Optimum offers this digitally restored wartime classic in which the Germans are not the winning team. Read more...
The Princess and the Frog
After some straying from what they do used to best, Disney is back with a classic film, both in terms of its hand drawn animation rather than CGI, and also the storyline and music. This film is classic Disney through and through. Read more...
A Prophet
This brutal, intense French crime drama takes prison life and its divided, racial politics to a raw level. Malik El Djebena played by Tahar Rahim begins his six year stretch as a fragile, 19 year old, beholden to the Corsican prison gang leader; Cesar Luciani. Read more...
Village People: Can't Stop The Music
No, you can’t stop the music, neither can you stop the camp with this 80’s disco comedy ‘classic’ that makes films like Saturday Night Fever look positively intellectual! Can’t Stop The Music is the story, if one can call it that, of how six singing macho men from New York’s Greenwich Village became camp cult act The Village People. Read more...
Martin - The immortal edition
Cult director George A. Romero made Martin back in 1977 and although underrated at the time of its release, critics and fans today appreciate his film as a masterful reinvention of the vampire genre. Reason enough to release this low-budget horror gem as a special 2-disc collectors edition that certainly looks big budget! Read more...
Mulan
After Disney’s 1998 animated feature of the same title, here comes the live action period piece of the legendary Chinese folk heroine Mulan, who disguises herself as a soldier (as you do) in order to defend her nation and bring honour to her family. Read more...
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Alice in Wonderland
Tim Burton is definitely one of the first names you would have considered when hearing a live action version of Alice in Wonderland was being made, bearing in mind previous classics like BeetleJuice and Edward Scissorhands. Johnny Depp would probably also be on the short-list for the Mad Hatter Read more...
City Of The Living Dead
Lucio Fulci’s undisputed masterpiece of horror – City Of The Living Dead – gets the royal treatment with this DVD- and Blue Ray release, presenting the film fully restored, uncut and with exclusive extra-features as manifold as tombstones in a cemetery. Read more...
Phobia
For fans of supernatural films from the Far East, Phobia should be a special treat. Four of Thailand’s hippest new directors each deliver a tale of the macabre and of blood-curdling terror. Read more...
Robin Hood
So Russell Crowe teams up with Ridley again in another adventure of honor and daring do. Crowe uses not just bow and arrow in this one, but swords and even a hammer (not for DIY) as he takes the role of Robin our hero returning from the Crusades on the death of Richard the Lion heart. Read more...
Lockjaw (Rise of the Kulev Serpent!)
Now I love movies…… I really enjoy watching and relishing a film. They are artistic fun and mostly enjoyable however I will sit through anything…… With this movie I had to. This movie is really terrible, bad, awful, sorry it was so bad Read more...
Cash
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you won the lotrey or just found a big bag full of money. What would you spend it on' Holidays, houses or cars ' In my mind’s eye it’s a brilliant life instead of typing this review I am on a beach with a Pina Colada being Read more...
Robo-Geisha
Robo-Geisha is the latest offering from the Cine-Asia label and the film can be described in one sentence: it’s a mad and utterly bizarre Kamikaze ride dipped in psychedelic colours. Yes, the movie is about Geisha-assassins afraid of nothing and it’s little wonder considering the equally bizarre, surgically Read more...
The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue
Despite its very English title and the film partially being shot in the UK, The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue is actually a Spanish production from 1974, directed by Jorge Grau and written by Juan Cobos, also both Spanish. As for the cast, once again we Read more...
Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde
What would the horror movie genre be without good old Hammer Horror, and what would the horror fiction genre be without writers like Robert Louis Stevenson' Stevenson’s famous short story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been treated to Read more...
Sooty - The Big Surprise
A Heavy Metal star appearing in a children’s TV-series' Surely not! Actually, yes! The star in question is Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain and the program is cult series The Sooty Show, which aired on the BBC Read more...
44 Inch Chest
From the writers of Sexy Beast this potent and brutal look at the disintegration of one man’s life and mind when his wife drops the bombshell that she has met another man demonstrates how fragile the male ego really is. Read more...
Nowhere Boy
Nowhere Boy, the directorial debut of conceptual artist Sam Taylor-Wood about the teenage years of John Lennon, already caused quite a stir at last year’s London Film Festival and it’s easy to see why. Read more...
Harry Brown
What can be said about Harry Brown' Its gritty depiction of urban gang violence on an inner London council housing estate with the underling tension, violence and the fear of violence is close to the mark. I grew up on the boarders of Broadwater Farm (the Farm) in the 70’s and 80’s Read more...