Cert 12 | 101 mins | 2022
4 Star
A Welcome Return to Aincrad.
Following on from Sword Art Online: Progressive – Aria of a Starless Night, director Ayako Kouno (Your Lie in April, After the Rain) takes us back to the early levels of the dungeon they are trapped in by game creator Akihiko Kayaba. This film is a retelling of the events of the dungeon, but in…more
Cert 12 | 120 mins | 1968
4 Star
Viva La Revolution.
Masters of Cinema have done it again with this restoration of Sergio Sollima‘s (Revolver, Violent City) 1968 Spaghetti Western. This limited edition (3000 copies) brings you the uncut version (120 mins), and the original 85-Minute release. From the harsh sunlight of the deserts through to the thick deep snow of the mountains, all for the biggest pay-out…more
Cert 15 | 96 mins | 1986
4 Star
You’ll Know When You’ve Been Yeoh’ed.
This is the second instalment of the ‘Girl’s With Gun’s’ films following on from Yes Madam, that ended up as the ‘In the Line of Duty’ series where we see strong female Martial Artists, using guns in the course of saving their city from would be wrong doers. Once again, the theme is “I…more
Cert 15 | 600 mins | 2005
4 Star
No Harmony, Only Bloodshed.
Based on a series of light novels of the same name by Sunao Yoshida, director Tomohiro Hirata (Peacemaker, Haikyuu!!) brings us a blood fest as humans and vampires have been at war for centuries, and now there is a Cold War, an uneasy peace as they try to coexist, but if you throw in some nanotech…more
Cert 12 | 650 mins | 2004
4 Star
Akira Kurosaw’s Classic
Reborn.
The story of a village plagued by bandits takes a futuristic twist with Samurai 7. The country has been plagued with war for years and the Samurai were the fighting force, until the mechanical Samurai came along. But in the end it was the merchants that came out on top, and the mechanical Samurai ‘the Nobuseri’, turn…more
Cert 12 | 97 mins | 1982
4 Star
The Good, The Bad, and the Dead.
Once again, Eureka Classics brings us one of Sammo Hung’s (Three Films With Sammo Hung, Wheels on Meals, Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, The Fate of Lee Khan, Mr Vampire, Jackie Chan’s PROJECT A & PROJECT A PART II) dark comedies. Directed by Martial Arts master Wu Ma (Kung Fu of 8…more
Cert 15 | 1415 mins | 1978-1993
5 Star
Shaolin on the Rampage.
ARROW VIDEO have done it again, but even bigger this time as we see volume 2 of the masters of Martial Arts film making the Shaw Brothers. Ten, yes, ten disks. Fourteen action packed films (See below) and two disks of soundtracks. Brilliant stuff. Volume two should be the Christmas present for any Kung Fu fan…more
