Cert PG | 300 mins | 2023
4 star second series of chilled out anime.
Non Non Biyori Repeat is the second season of the Japanese slice-of-life anime series, originally released in 2015. Based on the Manga written and illustrated by Atto and adapted for anime by Silver Link (No-Rin, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya) it is directed by Shinya Kawatsura.
It is now available on Blu-ray in the original Japanese…more
Cert 15 | 78 mins | 2023
4 star innovative and captivating sci-fi film.
Lola is a 2022 found footage sci-fi film, shot in Ireland during lockdown with a screenplay by Angeli Macfarlane (I Am Slave) and Andrew Legge, who also makes his very impressive feature directorial debut with this imaginative story.
It is available to own on Blu-ray in the UK from 3rd July 2023 courtesy of Signature Entertainment.
“Thom. Papa used…more
Cert 15 | 169 mins | 2023
5 Star
Gratuitous, Insane Violence.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, for once again pairing writer Derek Kolstad (Nobody, Die Hart) and martial artist director Chad Stahelski (The John Wick Quadrille) as they take on the story of the killer who will not tow the party line. Chapter four takes off after the events of Parabellum with John in hiding after taking…more
Cert 18 | 115/77/77/73/85 mins | 2023
5 star gloriously restored trip down memory lane.
If you pine for the good old days of heading down to your local Blockbuster store for a stack of eighties gems in huge plastic boxes then look no further than this box set from Arrow Video. All of the fun without any of the rewinding.
This release features five films from the catalogue…more
Cert 15 | 85 mins | 2023
3 star biopic of an influential British writer.
The Laureate is a 2021 British romantic period drama relating a period in the life of poet Robert Graves. It is written and directed by William Nunez and is available on Blu-ray, DVD and Download in the UK from 26th June 2023 courtesy of Dazzler Media.
“How did it come to this? You once…more
Cert 18 | 281 mins | 1978-1979
4 Star
Savage and Accurate.
The nineteen eighties, while most were enjoying new wave music and men with make-up on, Tôru Murakawa (Lucky 13, New York Undercover Cop) on the other hand, wanted to bring us the tour de force that was the assassin Shouhei Narumi (Yûsaku Matsuda, The Family Game, Black Rain) in this triptych from Arrow Video. A man of…more
Cert 18 | 122 mins | 1981
4 Star
The Dead Are Out For Revenge.
From the writer/director that brought us classic genre defining films such as Tora! Tora! Tora! and Battle Royal, with Samurai Reincarnation he does it again in this fantasy horror. It has way out there ideas that tell the tale of the oppression and massacre of the Christian religion in the seventeenth century Japan. Crazy…more
