Akira
In the futuristic year 2019, Tokyo has been destroyed and a new metropolis built on artificial islands now rife with violence, protest and gang warfare. During a skirmish the young […]
In the futuristic year 2019, Tokyo has been destroyed and a new metropolis built on artificial islands now rife with violence, protest and gang warfare. During a skirmish the young […]
Since we’re covering the classics it is about time I reviewed one of my all-time favourites, the movie I reference more than any other; the film that did for sleep […]
Even in the wild filmography of Australian director George Miller (helmsman of the Mad Max, Babe and Happy Feet franchises), his 1987 comedy The Witches of Eastwick is something of […]
A Japanese brother and sister (Tsutomu Tatsumi and Ayano Shiraishi) struggle to survive the end of World War II in Studio Ghibli’s only 12A-rated feature. Isao Takahata’s (Pom Poko, The Tale […]
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a pre-Ghibli Hayao Miyazaki movie set in a post-apocalyptic kingdom bordering a toxic jungle. Though watching the dubbed version is less than […]
The Slumber Party Massacre is one of those horror movies whose title is also its synopsis, alongside Night of the Bloody Apes and Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. The […]
A nerdy florist (Rick Moranis) discovers an all-singing, all-dancing, all-consuming alien plant (the Four Tops’ Levi Stubbs) in this 1986 horror musical. Just as John Waters’ Hairspray went from indie […]
The Return of the Return of the Living Dead might be a more appropriate title since I have already reviewed this 1985 zombie comedy, but as tends to happen when […]
A Hong Kong gangster (Andy Lau) goes to great lengths to protect his protégé “Mr Fish Balls” (Jacky Cheung) from Hong Kong loan shark Tony (Alex Man) – that’s right, […]
Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s 1986 sequel opens on a TV show about some teenagers finding the remains of the demons from Demons, which then escape the TV to attack […]