Blue Exorcist Part 1

Blue Exorcist Part 1 (Episodes 1-12) (Cert 15) 2 Discs (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 302 minutes approx. Rin Okumura has always felt like a bit of an outsider. Even as a young child the other kids wouldn’t play with him and the mothers would refer to him as a “Demon child” because of his …

Zoom Hunting (Lie yan)

Zoom Hunting (Lie yan) Taiwan (2010) Dir. Cho Li Two sisters, crime novelist Ru-yi, (Ning Chang) and fashion photographer Ru-xing (Chu Chih-ying) live above each other in a small town apartment. Ru-yi is suffering from writer’s block with the deadline for her next manuscript closing in. While taking some random shots from her balcony, Ru-xing …

An Assassin (Asashin)

An Assassin (Asashin) Japan (2011) Dir. Gô Ohara Ryo Hanaki (Ryoma Baba) and Shunichi Misaki (Yûki Kubota) are two skilled assassins, having been trained to kill since they were both very young orphans. However Ryo is the more lenient of the two especially when it comes to taking out witnesses, especially of they are female. …

Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt Complete Series

Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt Complete Series (Cert 18) 3 Discs (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 300 minutes approx. You’ve probably heard this before but for once it’s true - Panty And Stocking With Garterbelt is unlike anything you have seen before in Anime. From the devious minds at Gainax comes a show which doesn’t …

Lion’s Den (Leonera)

  Lion’s Den (Leonera) Argentina (2008) Pablo Trapero A young university student Julia Zárate (Martina Gusmán) awakes one morning in a haze, ignoring the blood on the bed and on her face and heads off to school as normal. When she gets home she finds the dead body on the kitchen floor and another man …

The President’s Last Bang (Geuddae geusaramdeul)

The President's Last Bang (Geuddae geusaramdeul) Korea (2005) Dir. Sang-soo Im On October 26th 1979 the president of South Korea, Park Chung-hee (Song Jae-Ho) is having dinner at the Blue House, with his personal bodyguard Cha Ji-cheol (Won-joong Jung), KCIA Director Kim Jae-kyu (Baek Yoon-sik), Chief Secretary Yang (Sang-ho Kim), a wannabe actress (Jo Eun-Ji) …

Zombie 108

Zombie 108 (Cert 18) 1 Disc (Distributor Showbox Media) Running Time: 83 minutes approx. An isolated virus is accidentally leaked from a lab and quickly spread across Taipei created an epidemic of flesh eating zombies. To help control the situation the Taipei army and a SWAT team is brought in to ward off the zombies …

Love In Between (Du yeoja)

  Love In Between (Du yeoja) Korea (2010) Dir. Chong Yun-Su Han So-Young (Eun-Kyung Shin) is a top gynaecologist happily married to successful architect Yun Ji-Seok (Jeong Jun-Ho) – or so she thinks. One night after work So-Young stops off at the college where Ji-Seok teaches and while waiting for him in his office, sees …

Ajami

Ajami Israel (2009) Dirs. Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani A young Israeli Arab boy Nasri (Fouad Habash) is shown drawing a detailed but gruesome picture while claiming he can foresee the future. We then see five stories based around the events of the Ajami neighbourhood of Jaffa, which seemingly seem loosely connected until they come …

Vodka Lemon

Vodka Lemon Armenia (2003) Dir. Hiner Saleem In a remote village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo (Romen Avinian) is a widower trying to survive on a pitiful pension with three lazy sons begging money from him, and like most of the community, is forced to sell off his belongings to make ends meet. Hamo visits his …