Revolver (15) |Home Ents Review
Oliver Reed is on nice form in this very 1970s slice of political conspiracy euro-thriller, with old-fashioned class struggle resonances.
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Author: Colin Dibben
Revolver (15) |Home Ents Review
Cries and Whispers (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Costume drama meets extreme cinema, with horror film elements, plus a suspicion of satire and exploitation film in the mix too. Cries and Whispers is intense enough to cover all these bases, while powerfully demonstrating the basic human need for physical intimacy and the basic human fears of pain and death.
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Amulet (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Actor turned writer-director Romola Garai, her actors and creative team have created a vividly unique horror film for our times. Amulet is unsettling, nightmarish, claustrophobic, scary, gory and pretty smart too.
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Séance (18) |Home Ents Review
Appealingly deadzone, this horror thriller from the writer of You’re Next mixes schoolgirl nastiness, gore and supernatural trappings to nice effect.
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Session 9 (15) |Home Ents Review
Spooky, real locations, the always watchable Mullan and Caruso and a compelling absence of special effects make this horror film something special.
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The Great Silence (15) |Home Ents Review
Bounty hunter Tigrero (Kinski) knows his days of making money from legalised murder are numbered, so he sets about trapping and killing as many outlaws as possible, as fast as he can.
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Full Alert (15) |Home Ents Review
Cops and robbers, old school Hong Kong style: Ringo Lam’s gritty take on the genre provides some great action sequences but the whole thing looks a bit dated.
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Prisoners of the Ghostland (15) | Home Ents Review
Crazy Nicolas Cage in a post-apocalyptic western with added samurai swordplay? It sounds brilliant. But maverick Japanese director Sono Sion doesn’t really deliver the goods.
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Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu classics from director Joseph Kuo (15) Home Ents Review
Probably the best home entertainment experience of my year, this well-curated set of beautifully restored, old school kung fu films is a wonder in every way.
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Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (15) |Close-Up Film Review
Chuck Steel is a pumped up and maxed out stop motion animation comedy homage to 80s action films. It is packed with gory horror fun that’s just right for Halloween.
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