Shame

  Shame UK (2012) Dir. Steve McQueen Successful and single 30-something executive Brandon (Michael Fassbender) has it all yet seems to avoid it to his colleagues. But in his private life Brandon has a voracious and often depraved sex addiction which he stimulates and indulges with one night stands, pornography and other means. All this …

.hack//Quantum

.hack//Quantum (Cert 12) 1 Disc (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 78 minutes approx. When three school friends, Asumi, Eri, and Iori are not studying for their exams they spend the majority of their free time in an online game “The World,” a virtual reality games universe where they’ve adopted the respective personae of Sakuya, Mary, and …

Cutie Honey

Cutie Honey Japan (2004) Dir. Hideki Anno Honey Kisaragi (Eriko Sato) is your average, attractive well meaning office lady with a secret: one touch of her special necklace and the magic words “Honey Flash!” and she transforms into the sexy, pink haired, leather attired super heroine Cutie Honey! The evil Panther Claw gang, lead by …

Blue Gate Crossing (Lan se da men)

Blue Gate Crossing (Lan se da men) Taiwan (2002) Dir. Yee Chih-yen  Meng Kerou (Gwei Lun-mei) tries to help her best friend, shy Lin Yuezhen (Shu-Hui Liang) to get the attention of a boy, Zhang Shihao (Bo-Lin Chen), with whom she has an obsession. However the plan backfires when Lin flees from the various attempts …

Black Lagoon Complete Seasons 1 & 2

Black Lagoon Complete Seasons 1 & 2 (Cert 18) 6 Discs (Distributor: Manga Entertainment/Kaze UK) Running time: 562 minutes approx. So, you spend all your days in an unpleasant work environment, bullied by both your boss and co-workers but you don’t have the guts to stand up for yourself. Then a light at the end …

Yakuza Weapon (Gokudô heiki)

Yakuza Weapon (Gokudô heiki) Japan (2011) Dirs. Tak Sakaguchi & Yûdai Yamaguchi In a South American jungle tough as nails Yakuza fighter Shozo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) is on a four year mission raising all kinds of hell when he receives word that his Yakuza boss father Kenzo (Akaji Maro) has been killed. Upon returning to …

Welcome To The Space Show

Welcome To The Space Show (Cert PG) 1 Disc (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 136 minutes approx. Five school friends – squabbling cousins tomboy Natsuki Koyama and the youngster Amane Suzuki, shy Noriko Nishimura, sci-fi fan Kōji Harada and the eldest, Kiyoshi Satō – embark on their annual school summer camp where the camp pet …

Eccentricities Of A Blonde Haired Girl (Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura)

Eccentricities Of A Blonde Haired Girl (Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura) Portugal (2009) Dir. Manoel de Oliveira On a train heading to Algarve a young accountant, Macário (Ricardo Trêpa), tells the lady (Leonor Silveira) he is sitting next to why he is in such a downbeat mood. It revolves around Macário working for his uncle …

Fireworks Wednesday (Chaharshanbe-soori)

Fireworks Wednesday (Chaharshanbe-soori) Iran (2006) Dir. Asghar Farhadi Roohi (Taraneh Alidoosti) is a young bride-to-be working as a cleaner for an agency, taking a job with the middle class Samiei family on the same day as chaharshanbe-soori, an old Iranian ceremony in which fireworks are let off in advance of the Persian new year, and …

Dragonball Z Complete Season One

Dragonball Z Complete Season One (Episodes 1-39) (Cert 12) 6 Discs (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 906 minutes approx. Every once in a while a title comes along which forces a reviewer to think long and hard about what they are going to write. This may be due to a lot of things – concerns …