The Valiant Ones (12) |Home Ents Review
There are only 3 ‘wuxia’ or Chinese heroic swordplay films you really need to see and this is one of them.
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DVD/Blu Ray
The Valiant Ones (12) |Home Ents Review
Butcher Baker Nightmare Maker (18) |Home Ents Review
Susan Tyrell’s off-planet performance is the only reason to watch this former UK video nasty. Even then, you may find yourself hiding your face behind a cushion.
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China O’Brien 1&2 (18) |Home Ents Review
Interesting but pretty lame vehicles for the great Cynthia Rothrock, directed cheap and fast by Robert Clouse of Enter the Dragon and Game of Death fame.
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The Borderlands (15) |Home Ents Review
Ten years on from its first release, this intriguing and tense Brit found footage horror gets the Blu-ray treatment.
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Hamlet (12) |Close-Up Film Review
This is HAMLET starring 84 year-old Ian McKellen as Hamlet, not the filmed version of the stage play that McKellen was in in 2021, but a completely new film.
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Fallen Leaves (12) |Close-Up Film Review
There is something totally endearing about the way Finnish film maker Aki Kaurismäki tells his film stories – their sly, quiet humour, simplicity and empathy with his fellow human beings.
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Happy End (15) |Home Ents Review
This very strange and rather wonderful film uses a simple playing backwards of the visual film material to build up a real WTF viewing experience.
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The Swordsman of All Swordsmen (18) |Home Ents Review
This classic work in the Chinese/ Taiwanese wuxia or ‘heroic swordplay’ genre owes much to King Hu’s early films. Director Kuo keeps things both stately and lively and the heroic feeling is palpable.
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One From The Heart: Reprise (15) |Home Ents Review
Blending cinematic and theatrical techniques to wonderful effect, this blue-collar musical wears its excesses with lightness and style.
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (E) |Home Ents Review
The backstory is more interesting than the finished product in Bill Morrison’s new release. But, if you like his approach to film preservation and related practices, you get a lot of shorter films in the extras.
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