Cert PG | 112 mins | 2018
4 stars of crazy, watery musical adventure.
Lu Over the Wall is a Japanese animated film, featuring screenplay by Reiko Yoshida (A Silent Voice) and Masaaki Yuasa (Ping Pong: The Animation, Night Is Short, Walk On Girl), who also directs the film.
It has all of his trademark strange animation style but this time it’s a children’s film, so it lacks his…more
Cert 15 | 106 mins | 1950
5 Star
Classic Racial Aggression.
The Masters of Cinema bring us release #191 in their series of classic cinema and what a film No Way Out is, filmed when racial tension was at its height in the USA. Writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (A Letter to Three Wives, The Barefoot Contessa, Cleopatra) takes the raw emotions and puts them on the silver screen…more
Cert U | 97 mins | 1958
5 Star
When Criminals and Cabbages Collide.
Eureka Classics bring us Stanley Kramer‘s (Inherit the Wind, Judgment at Nuremberg, It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World) classic two men on the run film. A film made during the height of the racially sensitive USA in the mid 1950’s. This Academy award winning film (Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Best Writing, Story and Screenplay—Written Directly for the…more
Cert 15 | 85 mins | 2017
4 Star
The Beginning of the E.N.D.
A-1 Pictures (Persona 3 The Movie: #2 Midsummer Knight’s Dream, Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale) and director Tatsuma Minamikawa (Attack on Titan) bring us the penultimate film to the Fairy Tail final Tartaros Arc and how the end started.
High in the froze wastes of Fiore sits a shrine to the dead dragon many…more
Cert 15 | 119 mins | 2017
5 Star
The Old Corrupts the New.
A-1 Pictures (Fairy Tail, Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Occultic;Nine, Persona 3 The Movie: #3 Falling Down) along with Sword Art Online director Tomohiko Itô (Erased, Occult Academy) bring us the next instalment in the world of VRMMORPG and its progression into the new big thing ARMMORPG. With A-1 Pictures animation style this is a winner as Kirito…more
Cert PG | 72 mins | 1932
5 star restoration of a brilliant horror classic.
The Old Dark House was originally released in 1932, is based on the novel Benighted by J.B. Priestley (An Inspector calls) and directed by the magnificent James Whale (Frankenstein, The Invisible Man). It is presented by Eureka in a new 4K restoration and will be released on Dual Format DVD and Blu-ray as part of the…more
Cert PG | 1975
4 Star
A Man, a Train and a Mystery.
Tom Gries (100 Rifles) takes the lesser known Alistair MacLean (The Guns of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare) novel and Maclean’s screenplay and takes us on a whistle stop mystery ride. Now brought up too 1080p quality all courtesy of Eureka Entertainment. Classic Bronson.
It is the 1870’s in Northern California and…more
