House
The plot of House has the kind of lurid fairy tale scenario that Asian cinema does well.
Review by Alex Fitch
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Lone Wolf and Cub
The 70s Japanese series Lone Wolf and Cub, based on a popular comic by Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, builds on the tradition of 20 years of samurai films.
Review by Alex Fitch
FERMAT’S ROOM
Four mathematicians find themselves trapped in a gradually shrinking room in Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeí±a’s debut film, a tense psychological thriller where it pays to think inside the box.
Review by Alex Fitch
20th CENTURY BOYS
Being a faithful adaptation of the manga, it follows the labyrinthine structure of the source material, including flash-forwards, flashbacks, dream sequences and the same scene repeated from various points of view.
Review by Alex Fitch
X FILMS
X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker documents the making of 10 films that Alex Cox directed between 1978 and 2008.
Review by Alex Fitch
WATCHMEN
While Watchmen hasn’t received the same amount of publicity as last year’s The Dark Knight, it has generated a level of anticipation unprecedented for comic book adaptations in recent years. After all, we’re talking about the ‘Citizen Kane of graphic novels’.
Review by Alex Fitch
Double Take: GAZWRX: The Films of Jeff Keen
The BFI has just released a DVD collection of short films by experimental British filmmaker Jeff Keen. To review a selection of these films, Alex Fitch is joined by Tania Glyde and (belatedly) Kim Morgan, former presenters of Midnight Sex Talk, a frank programme on all aspects of sexuality that ran for two years on Resonance FM.
HANSEL AND GRETEL
This South Korean adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale recasts the children as the villains of the story, making them the cake suppliers who dispose of unwary strangers unlucky enough to chance upon their home in the forest.
Review by Alex Fitch
WESTWORLD
In the near future, a theme park has been created which lets visitors experience the past by interacting with living, breathing creatures. However, something goes wrong and before long the exhibits start killing the guests…
Review by Alex Fitch
LOGAN’S RUN
The most relentlessly 70s of all 70s genre movies, Logan’s Run cast some of the most iconic actors of that decade – York, Agutter, Fawcett, Ustinov – in a sci-fi fable that swings between kitsch and the dystopian fallout of the summer of love.
Review by Alex Fitch