Cert PG | 105 mins | 1978
3 Star
Cult Japanese Knock-off.
Writer/director Kinji Fukasaku (Battle Royale, Virus) brings us a way-out-there Sci-fi opera that will blow your mind, as planets are ravaged, people massacred and irreverent punk kids are expected to be heroes. With a very similar story and attempts at visual effects done on a budget, compared to a film that came a year before, Message From…more
Cert PG | 100 mins | 1982
4 Star
Fantastical Fighting.
From martial arts maestro Woo-Ping Yuen (Drunken Master, DREADNAUGHT, IN THE LINE OF DUTY IV) comes a (Eureka Classics) Special Edition Blu-ray that will blow your socks off, as sorcerers and martial artists fight for the life of a Prince. Great stuff for the weekend.
It’s 1663, and it is illegal for Han Chinese and Manchu people to marry,…more
Cert 15 | 291 mins | 1968-69
5 Star
A Woman Scorned!
From the pen of writer/director Norifumi Suzuki (Sex & Fury, Truck Rascals) comes the start of an eight film series. This Eureka Blu-ray release sees these three films fully restored to 1080 HD, and they have done a cracking job of all three films as Sumiko Fuji (Summer Wars, Omocha) takes on the lead role as a…more
Cert 12 | 107 mins | 2024
4 Star
Football, Music, Drive By’s and I and I.
From director/writer Reinaldo Marcus Green (We Own This City (TV Mini Series), King Richard) comes the story of the man who came from nothing to change the face of music and the world. Bob Marley, the Rastafarian who promoted the struggles of his fellow Jamaicans and the path to peace in times…more
Cert 15 | 267 mins | 1965
5 Star
The Start of a Long Journey.
Prolific Japanese filmmaker Teruo Ishii (Female Yakuza Tale, Gensen-Kan Inn) brings us Abashiri Prison. Based on the 1956 novel of the same name by Hajime Itō, Ishii wrote the script as a remake of the 1958 American film The Defiant Ones. This is the first recognized Yakuza film, starting a long-running series of films…more
Cert 12 | 102 mins | 1975
5 Star
The Last of a Great Era.
Written and directed by famed Wuxia filmmaker King Hu (A Touch of Zen, Raining in the mountain) is this sword based action Tour de Force, which takes us back to the thirteenth Century, as the Chinese take on Japanese pirates. It is down to a Colonel and his retainers and a married couple to…more
Cert 18 | 114 mins | 1980
4 Star
Gangster with Aspirations for London.
Arrow, have brought us one of the best gangster films of all time, in The Long Good Friday, the 1980 blockbuster that rocketed its main star to International fame. In this gritty London based fight for the future of the Capital city of Great Britain.
Now Arrow are releasing the Limited Edition 4K UHD Arrow…more
