Running in Madness, Dying in Love
K;;ji Wakamatsu’s provocative road movie Running in Madness, Dying in Love starts as it means to go on.
Review by John Berra
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Exte: Hair Extensions
Exte succeeds in imbuing its urban nightmare scenario with the director’s trademark societal exposé to be sufficiently interesting for genre aficionados and Sono devotees alike.
Review by John Berra
The Naked Island
Kaneto Shind;;’s The Naked Island is arguably one of the masterpieces of the Japanese New Wave.
Review by John Berra
I’m Still Here
Few mockumentaries have received as much media attention as I’m Still Here, although this is largely due to the manner in which the press was coerced into participating in the project.
Review by John Berra
Best DVD/Blu-ray Releases of 2011
Electric Sheep writers review the best DVD and Blu-ray releases in 2011.
Best Festival Films of 2011
Electric Sheep writers review the best films seen at festivals in 2011, including Shame and Once upon a Time in Anatolia.
Damnation Alley
‘The Third World War left the planet shrouded in a pall of radioactive dust, under skies lurid and angry, in a climate gone insane’.
Review by John Berra
Pitfall
Pitfall was the first feature film to be directed by the multi-disciplinary artist Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Review by John Berra
Pigs and Battleships
The events of Sh;;hei Imamura’s cruelly entertaining Pigs and Battleships take place during the transitional post-war period for Japanese society.
Review by John Berra
Mad Max
Cinematic visions of society on the brink of collapse have rarely been as frightening - yet thrillingly visceral - as Mad Max.
Review by John Berra