because the skin of eldritch abominations tends to dry out in the heat. What I laughingly call normal service around here will resume on Aug...

The marriage of Mark (Sam Neill) – vaguely involved in the kind of espionage business one expects in a film set in Cold War era Berlin – is ...

Freaky Tales (2024): I’m not sure where I caught the case of optimism, but I expected an anthology movie with this particular title to cont...

Original title: 実録・私設銀座警察 1946, Ginza shortly after the end of World War II. A group of traumatized and incredibly violent soldiers realiz...

Flora (Eve Hewson), a mostly single Mom in Dublin – the father Kev (Paul Reid) is around but is clearly useless in most regards – can’t real...

The Deadly Knives aka Fists of Vengeance aka 落葉飛刀 (1972): This is a very standard tale of dastardly Japanese and traitorous Chinese getting ...

Original title: Fuyu no hana After fifteen years spent in prison for murdering a friend and traitor to his group, yakuza Kano (Ken Takakur...

Fight or Flight (2024): I really enjoyed Bullet Train , and apparently, so did James Madigan. In fact, he enjoyed the film so much, he made...

Original title: 清宮啟示錄 The Qing emperor (Ching Miao) has come to his final years and is beginning to think about his successor. His favouri...

Original title: 奪魂鈴 Some travelling martial world evil doers murder the family of young woodcutter Chang Wei Fu (Chang Yi) just for the he...

Shadow Force (2025): Joe Carnahan always has been a bit of a hit or miss filmmaker for me, though when he hits, he does tend to find the bu...

Original title: 女囚さそり 殺人予告 Warning: spoilers for one of the core points of the plot are inevitable! A young woman (Natsuki Okamoto) is w...

Outlaw country musician Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges) is going nowhere. An aging alcoholic, he’s stopped writing songs and is mostly working the ...

Trinil: Kembalikan Tubuhku (2024): After a three month long honeymoon, a couple returns to the Javanese plantation Rara (Carmela van der Kr...

Original title: Der schweigende Stern (There’s also a cut-down, re-cut, English dubbed version of the film called First Spaceship on Venus...

Warning: some spoilers included! Death Whisperer takes place in Thailand in 1972. We’re mostly concerned with a farmer family whose many c...

Until Dawn (2025): There’s very little substance to David F. Sandberg’s horror videogame adaptation (which apparently isn’t any kind of clo...

Original title: 黑店 Stopping off in a tavern, one of those singing beggar monks (Dean Shek Tin) that apparently roam the martial world sing...

Original title: Danger Point: Jigokuhenomichi A couple – and that description can very effectively be read literally, depending on how you...

The Silver Fox aka 玉面飛狐 (1968): You can read many, if not most, wuxia as tales of family tragedy, and there’s little more tragic than a Dad ...

Original title: 明月刀雪夜殲仇 Melancholy wandering swordsman Fu Hong-Xue (Ti Lung) meets wisecracking wandering swordsman Ye Kai (Lau Wing). The...

Agent Legrasse (director, writer, editor and so on Jason Trost), a special ops style operative for a mysterious organization involved in par...

Screamboat (2025): In the realm of the PublicDomainsploitation slasher, something like Steven LaMorte’s murderous Mickey Mouse effort is ba...

Bent policeman Walker (Tom Hardy) is in more than one kind of trouble. Domestically, he’s not only divorced but a horrible father, the kind ...

The Kingdom of Jirocho 4 (1965): In this final of four Jirocho movies starring the great Koji Tsuruta and directed by Masahiro Makino, thin...

aka The Female Followers of the Devil There’s something going on in a small Indonesian village - I mean apart from all of the patriarchal ...

Original title: 明治侠客伝 三代目襲名 Osaka in the late Meiji period, quite literally the end of an era in Japan. Upright Asajiro (Koji Tsuruta) is ...

After her shit-heel boyfriend tries to rape her, Model Susan (Tonya Offer) flees from Los Angeles to the home of her sister Linda (Kristin A...

A Working Man (2025): Unlike quite a few other friends of Stathamsploitation, I already hated David Ayer’s last cooperation with the guy, T...

Warning: there really will be spoilers this time around! A rather angry gentleman named Bull (Neil Maskell) kills his way through the unde...