WWE – Wrestlemania Monday

WWE – Wrestlemania Monday (Cert 15) 3 Discs DVD/2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: Fremantle Media) Running Time: 55 minutes approx. The WWE has long propagated the idea of Wrestlemania as the biggest night of the year for them and certainly is the one that gets the most attention and hype. But over the past few years, …

Busou Shinki: Armored War Goddess Collection

Busou Shinki: Armored War Goddess Collection (Cert 12) 3 Discs DVD / 2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 324 minutes approx. You have you hand it to the Japanese. Whenever someone conceives something that has franchise possibilities, they go all in and milk it to enth degree. Take Busou Shinki - mini armoured female-fighter …

Under The Shadow (Zir-e Sayeh)

Under The Shadow (Zir-e Sayeh) UK/Iran (2016) Dir. Babak Anvari Iran in the 1980’s might seem an unlikely setting for a horror film, let alone a British produced one, but this debut from exiled Iranian filmmaker Babak Anvari is not your average horror film. Lest we forget that Iran was a war torn country with …

Apprentice

Apprentice Singapore (2016) Dir. Boo Junfeng Let’s get all the Lord Sugar, “You’re Fired!” related gags out our systems before proceeding with this review - Boo Junfeng’s dark prison drama looks at the moral issues surrounding the death penalty in Singapore from two different perspectives. Malay officer Sergeant Aiman (Firdaus Rahman) is transferred to Larangan …

Hue And Cry

Hue And Cry UK (1947) Dir. Charles Crichton For a film company with such a rich history within British cinema it is something of an anomaly that Ealing studios is mostly recognised for its specific output during a ten year period, affectionately known as the Ealing Comedies. Hue And Cry kicked off this decade long, …

Serial Experiments Lain Collector’s Edition

Serial Experiments Lain Collector's Edition (Cert 12) 3 Discs DVD/Blu-ray Combo (Distributor: MVM) Running time: 310 minutes approx. MVM’s occasional trip back into the archives resurrects a polarising cyberpunk classic that is both a product of its time yet prescient in its depiction of the Internet. This re-release reduces the DVD disc count to just …

Seoul Station

Seoul Station (Cert 15) 1 Disc (Distributor: Studiocanal) Running Time: 118 minutes approx. I don’t know if this is a precedent or not but after storming the Korean box office with his Train To Busan, Yeon Sang-Ho released an animated prequel a month later. However, both films can be watched without prior knowledge of the …

WWE – Diamond Dallas Page: Positively Living

WWE – Diamond Dallas Page: Positively Living (Cert 15) 3 Discs DVD/2 Discs Blu-ray (Distributor: Fremantle Media) Running Time: 66 minutes approx. It’s fair to say that the soon-to-be (at the time of writing) WWE Hall of Famer Diamond Dallas Page had one of the more unusual entries into the world of wrestling - or …

United States Of Love (Zjednoczone stany milosci)

United States Of Love (Zjednoczone stany milosci) Poland (2016) Dir. Tomasz Wasilewski Don’t be fooled by the title, this isn’t a paean to the Peace and Love ideal of the 1960’s. This challenging third film from Polish auteur Tomasz Wasilewski is hardly a barrel of laughs and certainly doesn’t propose to offer any peaceful resolutions …

One Piece Collection 16

One Piece Collection 16 (Episodes 373-396) (Cert 12) 4 Discs (Distributor: Manga Entertainment) Running time: 566 minutes approx.     This latest instalment of the continuing adventures of the Straw Hats is a mixed bag that sees the unfinished business from the last release reach its resolve, the brief diversion of a swiftly concluded filler arc …