Nosferatu the Vampyre (15) |Home Ents Review
A ravishing 4K remaster of the beguiling dark fantasy which is seriously disrupted by performances that remind you of Murnau’s iconic 1922 version.
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Author: Colin Dibben
Nosferatu the Vampyre (15) |Home Ents Review
Wrack and Ruin: The Rubble Film at DEFA (12) |Home Ents Review
Raw and powerful, these five German films created amidst the rubble of Berlin at the end of World War 2 present an intriguing perspective on the effects of the war.
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Flaming Brothers (18) |Home Ents Review
Manic, massed shootouts, comedy, drippy romance and even some song and dance: there’s fun to be had here but Flaming Brothers is no classic of the ‘heroic bloodshed’ action genre.
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The Tattooed Dragon (15) |Home Ents Review
A highly likeable martial arts action film from the director of Bruce Lee classics The Big Boss and Fist of Fury.
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Akira Kurosawa’s Ran: 40th Anniversary 4K Collector’s Edition (12A) |Home Ents Review
This special edition 4K UHD and Blu-ray of Akira Kurosawa’s last masterpiece looks superb and gives lots of context to his retelling of Shakespeare’s King Lear.
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The Shrouds (15) |Close-Up Film Review
David Cronenberg’s new film is his best work this century. It is quietly thrilling and an immaculate piece of world building.
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Heart of Stone (PG) |Home Ents Review
Fans of the classic children’s film The Singing Ring Tree will drool over this astonishingly coloured fairy tale, the first such offering from DEFA, East Germany’s state-owned film studio.
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Divine Love (18) |Home Ents Review
Faith and sexuality face off with surveillance technology and conservative politics in this masterclass in woozy, near-future, dystopian world-building.
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Hong Kong 1941 (12) |Home Ents Review
This intimate epic showcases the nuances Hong Kong film was capable of in its heyday: it is a powerful tale of family tensions, a love triangle, loyalty among friends and a brutal occupation.
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Strange New Worlds: Science Fiction at DEFA (U) |Home Ents Review
Prepare to see something you probably haven’t seen before: East German sci fi films, spanning the continuum from stolid Internationalist propaganda to delirious 70s disco weirdness.
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