A place for shorter film and media reviews
In 2020, Japanese director Junta Yamaguchi released his feature film debut Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, a micro-budget sci-fi comedy with a time-travel theme and
A review of Juzo Itami’s directorial debut, The Funeral (1984). A playful and human look at the formalities of grieving and how we cope with
Linda Linda Linda is a film about making friends, making music, and enjoying yourself; something I certainly did while watching. It’s a comfortable, joyous experience
Looking back at some of the posts I’ve written on this site, it’s probably fair to say that I’m a bit of a fan of
The Criterion Collection is a distribution company which has been operating for many years, remastering and bringing back to life many old, forgotten or just
Being a follower of Eureka Entertainment’s Twitter account, Midnight is a film I’ve been hearing quite a lot about for the past year or so,
I have really enjoyed some of Jackie Chan’s Hong Kong action stuff in the past, and also really liked 88 Films recent release of The
“Did you know this theatre is haunted?” The first line spoken by a character in the film, nearly 45 minutes into its running time, perfectly encapsulates
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 is a film about a woman in her 30s named Ji-young (Jung Yu-mi) who has recently given birth to her first
Looking through the some of the reviews I’ve done for this site already, it’s pretty clear that I am a fan of much of Japanese
Version watched: UK Criterion Collection Blu Ray The Times of Harvey Milk is a documentary about the rise, election and subsequent assassination of gay San
On the 19th of April 2021, Curzon Artificial Eye released the 7-disc Bong Joon Ho Collection on Blu Ray in the UK. The set contains
Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (literally translated as “ghost stories”) is an anthology of Japanese folk tales, adapted from various stories collected in the writings of Lafcadio
Without Memory is a made-for-TV documentary about a man in Japan named Hiroshi who, after medical mistreatment following surgery, has developed Wernicke’s Encephalopathy, a memory disorder.
Only Yesterday is a Studio Ghibli film that perhaps isn’t talked about as much as it should be. Directed by Isao Takahata (whose more famous
When I was younger, I had a great interest in the martial arts films released by a DVD distribution company called Hong Kong Legends. I
In the 1980s, documentary film-maker Errol Morris was conducting research for a project about psychiatrist Dr. James Grigson, a man who was often called to
In Scotland there’s a word we sometimes use to describe the wet and miserable weather we often get: dreich. I think this could be aptly
In 1993, Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski released the first film in his Three Colours Trilogy, Three Colours: Blue. The trilogy means to explore the French
For me, Dogtown and Z-Boys mostly came off like exclusionary arseholes reminiscing about when they were part of the in-crowd. I guess it makes sense
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