Movie Review – Two Way Stretch

Two Way Stretch UK (1960) Dir. Robert Day You can’t be in two places at once - unless you are an alien able to create some kind of spiritual teleportation of yourself and have it project in a different location to the one you are currently in. Or you could build a robot twin of …

VOD Review – Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin (Cert 15) VOD (Distributor: Arrow Films) Running Time: 112 minutes approx. Release Date – February 14th Confession: Before I watched this documentary, I had not heard of Jean Rollin, although this would be part of the reason why this was made, to help raise the profile …

Movie Review – The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps UK (1935) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Hitchcock film and this came on the TV despite the DVD sitting on top of my player for the past two years. Anyway, my limited knowledge of this film has always been from the 1978 remake with Robert Powell …

Movie Review – Men

Men UK (2022) Dir. Alex Garland Apparently, we chaps are all the same according to women. I don’t think that is true as we come in shapes, sizes, ages, creeds and colours which is a glaringly obvious way to expose the flaw in this assertion. Of course, they are referring to the emotional aspect of …

Movie Review – I’m All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack UK (1959) Dir. John Boulting “You appear to do more work when you’re on strike!” With Britain currently in the grip of strike fever and the Tory government, unwilling to meet the demands of the disgruntled workers, remaining curled up in their comfy ivory towers subsidised by the tax payer, the …

Movie Review – Aftersun

Aftersun UK (2022) Dir. Charlotte Wells Kids will never be able to understand fully what goes on in the heads of their parents. This we know from experience whenever we are denied something we want or told not to do something that looks fun. Their rationale is alien to us until we get older when …

Movie Review – Boiling Point

Boiling Point UK (2021) Dir. Philip Barantini We’ve all been there - the pressure is on, time is against you and as you do your best to get everything done, someone or something is determined to impede you at every step. The worst case scenario is this happening in a public place. Jones & Sons, …

Movie Review – The Italian Job

The Italian Job UK (1969) Dir. Peter Collinson “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” Now I’ve got that out of the way, it is time to find out if this classic crime caper has more to offer than one of the most iconic one-liners in cinema history. Given its legendary status and …

MIB’s Top Ten Anime of 2022 (UK)

It’s been another topsy-turvy year for anime in the UK as we come out of the post-pandemic era with more big changes occurring within the distribution sector. First, you may recall that in 2019 Funimation bought out Manga Entertainment, ending Manga’s 30 year run as the UK’s top anime distributor. In 2022, streaming giant Crunchyroll …

Movie Review – A Matter Of Life And Death

A Matter Of Life And Death UK (1946) Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Until we die, we will never know if there is an afterlife, or “heaven”, leaving us at the mercy of religious scriptures and the imagination of the arts to paint a picture of what it might be like. The one constant …