Belladonna of Sadness
Despite its disturbing subject matter, this Aubrey Beardsley-influenced Japanese erotic animé supervised by Osamu Tezuka is a must-see.
Review by Alex Fitch
Despite its disturbing subject matter, this Aubrey Beardsley-influenced Japanese erotic animé supervised by Osamu Tezuka is a must-see.
Review by Alex Fitch
A trash cinema oddity – with no zombies.
Review by Alex Fitch
These minor works by great British film directors are worth investigating for cineastes with a curiosity about B-movies aimed at a family audience.
Review by Alex Fitch
Fritz Lang’s five-hour hallucinatory epic take on mythic tale Die Nibelungen is available now from Masters of Cinema (Eureka) in a spectacular new HD restoration DVD/Blu-ray set.
Comic Strip Review by Alex Fitch, Charles Cutting and Timur Hassan
On the eve of its 20th anniversary, one of the most popular animé films of the early 90s finally reached UK cinemas, ahead of an HD release on Blu-ray.
Review by Alex Fitch
In this 1987 rumination on sex, death, art and food, underrated character-actor Brian Dennehy is cast against type as an intellectual romantic lead.
Review by Alex Fitch
A young married couple are kept in separate, futuristic cells and made to answer difficult questions about how much they trust each other.
Review by Alex Fitch
An excellent science-fiction thriller about an inventor whose device allows a person to experience their own or other people’s memories as an interactive virtual reality environment.
Review by Alex Fitch
Robin Hardy’s sequel to his 1973 cult movie takes the audience to another Scottish pagan community who enjoy orgiastic celebrations and sacrificing Christians.
Review by Alex Fitch
I never thought I’d be able to describe a film as ‘a post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, vampire Western’ until I saw Priest.
Review by Alex Fitch