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
Cert 15 | 325 mins | 2020
4 Star
The Continuing Adventures of a Fool.
Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? is based on the Japanese Light Novel Series written by Fujino Ōmori and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda. It is adapted to anime by studio J.C Staff (A Certain Magical Index, A Certain Scientific Railgun).
In the land of Orario, Gods live among the population.…more
Cert 15 | 600 mins | 2019
4 Star
A Life Full of Hate.
This historical anime comes from the manga of the same name, written and illustrated by Makoto Yukimura (Planetes). Here in the Uk we all know the events of 1066, but these events are the precursor to the changing face of Saxon Briton. Expect nonchalant violence and buckets of blood.
In a Viking sea battle at Hjörungavágr,…more
