Shackled: DVD Review
Bringing on the bizarre this week is psychological horror Shackled, a tantalising thriller from female director Upi. Shackled is a David Lynch style murder mystery from Indonesia, which was chosen to...
View ArticleThis is the End/The World's End: Blu-Ray Review.
If the end of the world was at your door, you could do far worse than spend the last night of your life with these two films. Of course, spending the night with Rihanna and Emma Stone would be a...
View ArticleKorean Sci-Fi thriller 11 A.M: review #2
Director: Kim Hyeon-seok. Review: Chris Sawin. A physicist named Woo-seok (Jung Jae-young) is driven by grief after his wife dies and works on making his life's work, a time machine...come to...
View ArticlePhantom of the Paradise: Blu-ray Review
Director: Brian De Palma. Review: Adam Wing. Some films defy description and ten minutes in the company of Phantom of the Paradise may have you questioning your own sanity. He sold his soul for...
View ArticleThe Killers: Blu-Ray Review
Director: Don Siegel. Review: Adam Wing. Commissioned as the very first 'TV movie', Don Siegel's compelling thriller would be forgiven for being utterly forgettable. As it turns out, The Killers is a...
View ArticleBig Trouble in Little China: Blu-Ray Review
Director: John Carpenter. Review: Daryl Wing. I have to get this out of my system. Cigarette Burns (2005) is the only decent thing from John Carpenter since In The Mouth Of Madness way back in 1994....
View ArticleMASQUERADE: U.S Blu-ray review
Director: CHOO Chang-min Review: Stan Glick Masquerade is a marvelous period film set during the rule of Gwanghae, one of the Joseon Dynasty kings. CJ Entertainment released a single disc DVD version...
View ArticleCabin Fever: Patient Zero - DVD Review
Director: Kaare Andrews. Review: Adam Wing. What's that you say, Cabin Fever 3? What the hell happened to Cabin Fever 2? Spring Fever, you say? Nope. Still doesn't ring a bell. In all fairness, you'd...
View ArticleThe Stuff: Blu-ray Review
Director: Larry Cohen. Review: Adam Wing. There's a standout sequence midway through Larry Cohen's demented horror comedy where the stuff of the title comes out of a mattress and attacks a man lying...
View ArticleTHE LADY ASSASSIN: DVD Review
Director: Nguyen Quang Dung. Review: Adam Wing. Vietnamese films aren't exactly easy to come by on our shores, especially martial arts movies filmed in 3D. The Lady Assassin is a feisty action...
View ArticleThe Machine: Film review
Director: Caradog W. James. Review: Adam Wing. Low budget filmmakers tend to avoid high-concept science fiction, especially pitches that borrow heavily from the likes of Blade Runner, The Terminator...
View ArticleWhite of the Eye: Blu-ray Review
Director: Donald Cammell. Review: Adam Wing. Donald Cammell only made four movies, but his life off screen was far more eventful than the time he spent behind the camera. Cammell was born in Scotland,...
View ArticleHell Comes to Frogtown: Review
Director: Donald G. Jackson, R.J. Kizer. Review: Adam Wing. Picture the scene. I was twelve years old at the time. Every Saturday night my dad would come home with a video from the rental store. He...
View ArticleChild of God: DVD Review
Director: James Franco. Review: Adam Wing. If you're looking for a bright and breezy getaway this Easter, enjoying and enduring James Franco's Child of God will be far from your thoughts. Child of God...
View ArticleTHE FATAL ENCOUNTER: DVD review
Director: LEE, Jae-Kyoo. Review: Chris Sawin In 1777, King Jeong-jo (Hyun Bin) is constantly on edge thanks to the ongoing conflict between the Noron and Soron factions. After witnessing the death of...
View ArticleEVIL FEED: Review
Review: Adam Wing. Director: Kimani Ray Smith. Evil Feed is a new horror film that blends torture-porn excess with bruising MMA fight choreography. The Long Pig Restaurant, known in the underground...
View ArticleLesson of Evil: DVD Review
Director: Takashi Miike. Review: Adam Wing. We all know that Takashi Miike is one of the hardest working directors in the world right now, he's been knocking out up to three pictures a year for as...
View ArticleTHE BURBS: Blu-ray Review
Director: Joe Dante. Review: Adam Wing.Why is Joe Dante so inconsistently consistent? I look back over his career in movies and see some of my favourite films growing up. Dante's first film was...
View ArticleTHE VISITOR: Blu-Ray Review
Review: Adam Wing.Any film that opens with a conversation between Jesus Christ and a room full of bald children has to be worth watching, right? The Visitor combines stunning imagery with devilish...
View ArticleAS THE LIGHT GOES OUT: Review
Director Derek Kwok. Review: Chris Sawin. Three firefighters from Pillar Point Station in Hong Kong, Sam (Nicholas Tse), Yip (Andy On), and Chill (Shawn Yue), go against protocol in an attempt to...
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