MESRINE
Thirty years after his death (he was shot 19 times in a brutal police operation), the facts of Jacques Mesrine’s life and criminal career read like the results of some fevered pulp imagination.
Review by Mark Stafford
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Baba Yaga
Valentina was the late Guido Crepax’s regular heroine in 30 years of comic strips, and much of the reason to watch the film lies with curiosity over how well Crepax’s world transfers to celluloid.
Review by Mark Stafford
BRONSON
The film’s worth mainly lies with its version of Bronson as a terrifying, unpredictable and ludicrous individual utterly lacking in self-awareness, a rebel without a clue, a kidnapper without demands.
Review by Mark Stafford
Not Quite Hollywood
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is music promo director Mark Hartley’s affectionate no-holds-barred-pedal-to-the-metal salute to Ozploitation cinema, charting its rise in the late 60s, fall in the late 80s, and recent resurgence with the likes of Wolf Creek (2005).
Review by Mark Stafford
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Kim Ji-woon’s insanely enjoyable ‘oriental Western’ The Good, The Bad, The Weird, in which three great Korean actors chase each other, fight each other, then chase and fight some more as they scramble after some kind of treasure map in 1930s Manchuria.
Review by Mark Stafford
Best Filmic Events of 2011
Electric Sheep‘s pick of the best filmic events, screenings, festivals and retrospectives in 2011.