Cert PG | 93 mins | 1924
4 stars of brilliantly macabre Austrian silent story-telling.
The Hands of Orlac is a black and white silent film directed by master of German Expressionism, Robert Wiene (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari). It is based on the novel Les Mains d’Orlac by visionary body horror author Maurice Renard (The Blue Peril) and was originally released in 1924.
It is presented here on Blu-ray…more
Cert 15 | 87 mins | 2008
4 star goose-bump inducing Australian horror chiller.
Lake Mungo is an Australian psychological horror film originally released in 2008. It is written and directed by Joel Anderson and remains to this day his only feature film. It’s as if he emerged to produce one magnificent film and then disappeared back into the shadows along with his characters.
Filmed on a low budget,…more
Cert 15 | 121 mins | 2020
4 Star
Plenty of Bang for Your Bucks.
From writer director Herman Yau (Shock Wave, Turning Point, Turning Point 2) comes this year’s blockbuster thriller as he teams up once again with writer Erica Li ( Ip Man: The Final Fight) to bring us a stand-alone sequel in name only, set in Hong Kong and using the Police Explosive Ordinance Bureau as…more
Cert 18 | 95 mins | 1979
4 Star
Dirt Bikes, Guns and Anarchy.
Welcome to the isolated planned community of New Granada, east of Denver, Colorado, where you see the wasteland that is the only thing to entertain the youth of New Granada. Over the Edge is based on the true life experiences of the youth of the late 1970’s. Wherever you were based this was the situation…more
Cert 18 | 114 mins | 2000
4 Star
Brutal Death Race, Oh and Babies.
Classic Martial Arts filmmaker, writer, director and Producer Hark Tsui (Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, Once Upon A Time In China Trilogy, Iron Monkey, The Taking of Tiger Mountain) comes to the twenty-first century with this Hong Kong and South American crime fiction. Where young men have to find their place in society…more
Cert 18 | 89 mins | 1972
4 Star
Martial Art Revenge.
Following in the vein of the Shaw Brothers Studio (Come Drink with Me, The One-Armed Swordsman, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) of Hong Kong comes one of their stars Jimmy Wang Yu (The One Armed Swordsmen, One-Armed Boxer II, Return of the Chinese Boxer) as writer, director and starring himself as the lead role. This film pulls together…more
Cert PG | 114 mins | 1965
4 Star
Cat and Mouse Behind the Iron Curtain.
From the pen of spy thriller master John le Carré (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini-Series), Smiley’s People (TV Mini-Series), The Constant Gardener) comes a classic spooks film, directed by Martin Ritt (Hud, The Brotherhood, Norma Rae). He takes us into the underbelly of what we never see, but read about in the…more
