Cert 15 | 90 mins | 2023
3 star ambitious Chinese B movie.
Restart the Earth is a 2023 Chinese sci-fi action thriller directed by Zhenzhao Lin (Snakes).
It is presented here in Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles and is available to own on DVD, Bluray and Download-to-Own from 22nd May 2023, courtesy of Dazzler Media.
“No one imagined that one day the plants around us would come to life…more
Cert 18 | 105 mins | 1994
4 Star
Brutal Manchu VS Shaolin Monks.
From the dark mind of director Ringo Lam (City on Fire, Full Alert) comes a Martial Arts feast set in the Ching dynasty, when the Manchu were on the hunt for the Shaolin monks for plotting to overthrow the Manchu government. With Lam’s slant on this period, you are in for a dark and twisted…more
Cert 15 | 364 mins | 1986-1989
5 Star
Hopping Ankle Grabbers Galore.
Eureka Classics bring us a feast of Jiangshi, in this four film feature on Blu-ray. Following the success of Mr Vampire, there was a clamour for more, and these are the four films that followed, three by the original director Ricky Lau (Encounter of the Spooky Kind II, The Romance of the Vampires), and the fourth…more
Cert 15 | 151 mins | 2001
4 Star
18th Century Monster Mystery
This French swashbuckling/ martial arts action adventure takes its inspiration from the real events that took place in the county of Gévaudan, Southern France. Writer/director Christophe Gans (Silent Hill, Crying Freeman) gives us a gritty murder mystery with a monster twist, in this crispy 4K restoration. Brotherhood of the Wolf is something to get your teeth…more
Cert 15 | 525 mins | 2022
4 Star
New Cannon, New Adventures.
Paramount Home Entertainment (Paramount +) have taken the Star Trek bull by the horns and reset the timeline, in these brave new adventures in Starfleet’s history. It is the middle of the twenty-third century, and these are the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy during the decade before…more
Cert 12 | 107 mins | 2023
5 star glorious restoration of an Australian classic.
Picnic at Hanging Rock is an Australian mystery/thriller originally released in 1975. Based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay, it is adapted for screenplay by Cliff Green (Power Without Glory) and was an early work by now legendary director Peter Weir (Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show, Master…more
Cert PG | 85 mins | 2023
5 star star-studded animated adventure.
The Amazing Maurice is a 2023 animated adventure film based on the 2001 novel The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents written by the late great Terry Pratchett (Good Omens, The Hogfather).
With a screenplay by Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek) and directed by Toby Genkel (Little Bird’s Big Adventure, The Ogglies), this wonderful children’s film is available…more
