Cert 15 | 300 mins | 2024
4 Star
Finger Licking Good!
Chained soldier manga was created by Takahiro (Yuki Yuna is a Hero) and illustrated by Yohei Takemura, serialized on Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ online platform. This has been adapted for anime by Seven Arcs (Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha). Now MVM brings us season one of this contentious anime that delves into the realms of slave and mistress’. What…more
Cert 18 | 625 mins | 2023
4 star
It’s a Spirit Eat Spirit World.
Horror anime changed in June 2019 when Kenichi Kondo‘s Dark Gathering hit the shelves, bringing the dark horror into the light as our protagonists head to the most haunted areas of Japan, to release a curse. MVM brings us the twenty-five anime episodes of this popular occult series, that gives you plenty of disturbing horror.…more
Cert 18 | 650 mins | 2018
4 Star
Teenager Vs Death Row
MVM brings us three disks of martial arts based on the “Most Evil Death Row Convicts” arc of the second manga series, originally shown on Netflix, now on Blu-ray, with twenty-six episodes to please the most ardent fan of over-the-top action.
Baki is the third anime series, right after the Baki the Grappler (TV) and Baki the…more
Cert 18 (TBC) | 1444 mins | 1967-1983
5 Star
Wuxia Film Binge Time!
Arrow Video bring us the Shaw Brothers, Shawscope volume 3, packed with cult wuxia films with heroes and heroines, some with disabilities, some out for revenge. All fourteen films, directed by legends of the Hong Kong action genre. All-new exclusive restorations, in this amazing limited edition boxset, that would grace the bottom of any Festive tree…more
Cert 15 | 350 mins | 2004
4 star
Veins, Pains and Sibling Rivalry.
From animation studio ‘Madhouse’ (Death Note, Wolf Children) comes a hard hitting Martial-Arts series. This Collectors Edition comes via MVM, and contains the original twenty-four episodes, plus the two OVA’s on Blu-ray. Directed by Toshifumi Kawase (Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (TV Series), The Matchless Raijin-Oh (TV Series)), who gives us rippling muscles, panty-shots and Chi…more
Cert 15 | 288
4 Star
Bell’s Deadly Education.
This series is based on the light novel series created by Fujino Ōmori (Wistoria: Wand and Sword (TV Series), DanMachi: Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side – Sword Oratoria (TV Series), Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon?). Where the adventure of fourteen-year-old…more
Cert 18 | 91 mins | 1983
4 Star
The Beautiful Kung-Fu Game
This whacky football themed film was the first film written and directed by popular martial arts actor Brandy Yuen (In The Line of Duty III, Master of Zen, Drunken Master) who addresses subjects such as the problems of jealousy, corruption and bullying in sports, all in the guise of this 1983 modern slapstick movie. Great skills,…more
