Cert PG | 102 mins | 2015
5 stars for this beautifully animated, heart-warming and heart-breaking true story.
Directed by Mizuho Nishikubo (Musashi: The Dream Of The Last Samurai), produced by Production I.G (Psycho Pass, Ghost In The Shell) and brought to us in the UK by Anime.Ltd (Patema Inverted), Giovanni’s Island is set on the tiny Japanese island of Shikotan, at the end of World War II.
The…more
Cert 15 | 90 mins | 2015
3 stars for this great story, retold and repackaged yet again.
One Piece – The Movie: Episode Of Alabasta is the eighth film based on the characters created by Eiichiro Oda and the first one to be translated into English, so you can enjoy it with the familiar voices we are so used to hearing in the series.
This film tells the…more
94 mins | 2014
5 Star, it is British, Bad Ass and Brutal.
From the people that made Vendetta comes another brilliant revenge film.
Writer/Director Sacha Bennett (Bonded by Blood) brings us a hard hitting, brutal story of the East End of London, where the old firm take back the streets, with that blend of deadpan humour that only the British can deliver.
Richie (Ian Ogilvy, Driving…more
Cert 18 | 71 mins | 1987
0.1 stars for this utterly unnecessary waste of perfectly good celluloid.
Nekromantik is written and directed by cult German director, Jorg Buttgereit (The Death King, Schramm: Into The Mind Of A Serial Killer), who clearly specializes in this kind of “made only for the purpose of shocking” trash. As ill conceived concepts go, this film makes The Human Centipede look like…more
Cert 18 | 102 mins | 2014
5 Star Frank Miller and Robert Rodriquez creation.
We have eagerly awaited the follow on from the 2005 smash release of the New-Noir that was Sin City.
This Festive release comes with the all singing all Nancy dancing (excellent Christmas Present) release of the Sin City: Ultimate Killer Deluxe box set and a Steelbook. Frank Miller changed the way the world viewed…more
Cert 15 | 2 x 58 mins | 2014
4 Stars The Rise of Major Motoko Kusanagi.
From the celebrated anime house I.D. Productions comes a 4 part OVA chronicling her rise from owned cyber-hardware to freelance operative in control of her own squad that we know and love so much. Ghost in the Shell is based on the works of Shirow Masamune. As this is a prequel it may…more
Cert 15 | 90 mins | 2014
3 stars for this glossy video game adaptation.
Bayonetta (The Movie): Bloody Fate is based on the smash hit video game, Bayonetta and presented by Studio Gonzo (Hellsing, Rosario and Vampire)).
Bayonetta is a powerful witch who hunts demons for a living, when she isn’t helping out the local funeral director or hanging out at The Gates Of Hell, a bar (and…more
