Breeder (18) |Home Ents Review
With a great set-up that mixes corporate thriller and medical horror, Breeder develops its story in a familiar and brutal direction.
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Author: Colin Dibben
Breeder (18) |Home Ents Review
Possessor (18) | Close-Up Film Review
Tasya (Riseborough) is an assassin who ‘body-jacks’ patsies to get to her targets. Colleagues at her hi-tech brain implants company do the pre-assassination dirty work; kidnapping and surgically altering the brains of the dupes.
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Tomorrow I’ll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (12) | Home Ents Review
This warm-hearted, Soviet-era sci-fi comedy blends time travel paradoxes, ‘Allo-‘Allo-style Third Reichisms and good-natured domestic farce.
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Liberté (18) | Close-Up Film Review
A period drama about sex and libertinage that manages to be both intense, immersive and tedious. Liberté encapsulates the exasperations and provocations of slow cinema rather well, but it may be considered obscene by some of the arthouse audience.
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Relic (15) | Close-Up Film Review
A haunted house horror film that packs a powerful emotional punch, Relic explores the familial love that can coexist with our dread of mental and physical deterioration.
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House of Bamboo (PG) | Home Ents Review
The most beautiful crime thriller ever made, House of Bamboo is an absolute must see, both for fans of crime film and of CinemaScope colour cinematography.
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Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula (15) | Close-Up Film Review
There are flashes of style in this zombie film sequel, but it ultimately feels like ‘just another zombie film’. Which is disappointing, given how original Train to Busan was.
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn (PG) | Close-Up Film Review
A massive old cinema is closing down. On the last night, as torrential rain falls on Taipei, King Hu’s wuxia classic Dragon Inn is playing in an almost empty auditorium.
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Circus of Horrors (15) | Home Ents Review
Daft and overblown, this film looks great in a 4K restoration. But it is so repressed, in such a dull, British way, that it is ultimately a bit of a letdown.
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The Strangers (15) | Home Ents Review
The best home invasion film of the noughties is out now on a Limited Edition Blu-ray. It’s time to think again about what makes The Strangers so good. There are lessons to be learned.
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