Cert PG | 350 mins | 2016
4 stars, the Iwatobi Swim Club are back!
Free! Eternal Summer is based on the light novel High Speed! by Kōji Ōji and produced by Kyoto Animation (K-On!!, Clannad) and Animation Do. It is the sequel to the highly popular series Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club.
“Join us and become a more muscular you!”
It’s the start of a new school year and the…more
Cert 15 | 12 x 23 mins | 2014
4 Star
Swords, Twin-Tails and Fetishes.
From Production IMS (Castle Town Dandelion) and director Hiroyuki Kanbe comes a bizarre series even for the Japanese’s strange sense of humour. At a 15 Certificate I think that the viewer should be of a sexually educated age and know that there are strange fetishes out there. But that said I found it very funny and…more
Cert 18 | 92 mins | 1988
3 stars for a classically silly eighties creature feature.
Sex and Slugs and Rock and Roll!
First released in 1988, Slugs is based on the novel of the same name by Shaun Hutson and directed by Juan Piquer Simon (The Rift, Extraterrestrial Visitors).
“Killer slugs for chrissakes. What’ll it be next? Demented crickets? Rampaging mosquitos maybe?”
Slugs is set in small town America, downtown Ashton,…more
Cert PG | 101 mins | 1946
4 stars for this classy and glamorous whodunnit.
The Blue Dahlia was first released in 1946. It was the only produced original screenplay by renowned crime writer Raymond Chandler (The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye) and was directed by George Marshall (Destry Rides Again, How The West Was Won).
“I told you she was poison. They’re all poison sooner or later.”
Johnny Morrison…more
Cert 15 | 92 mins | 2016
4 stars for this original and genuinely scary horror film.
Friend Request is written and directed by Simon Verhoeven (Men in the City 1 and 2) with screenplay by Matthew Ballen and Philip Koch (Outside the Box).
“You know a lot of dead people, Miss Laura.”
Laura (Alycia Debnam-Carey – Into the Storm) is a popular college student, who spends lots of time on social…more
Cert 15 | 10 x 23 mins | 2015
5 Star
Guns, Knives and Tentacles.
Seiji Kishi (Humanity has Declined) continues his Tour-De-Force of Assassination Classroom as season 1 part 2 hits the shelves and the moon damaging tentacled super fast teacher continues to take Class 3-E through their paces to become assassins.
Life continues at Kunugigaoka Junior High School for Class 3-E and their assassin training continues under the tutelage of…more
Cert PG | 433 mins | 1921-1925
4 Star
Drama, Intrigue and Inter-titles.
Eureka bring us #140-144 in their Masters of Cinema’s collection taking us all the way back to the roaring 20’s (1920’s that is), they bring us 5 of the early surviving films of Murnau (Nosferatu). All painstakingly restored with the inter-titles translated from the original German. The films are Schloβ Vogelöd, Phantom, Die Finanzen des groβherzogs,…more
