Unsuccessful Australian filmmaker Anthony Frith decides the best way to rescue his dream of becoming a proper director is to send an E-Mail ...

Mutiny (2026): After the promising and even attractive to look at Shelter , this year’s second Jason Statham vehicle devolves to the stage ...

In some kind of interstellar space-faring science fiction future we’ll learn rather more about than we ever may have wanted in the sequels. ...

Five men are found hanging from a particularly creepily picturesque tree. While an older comic relief colleague – who comes with his own com...

Lockbox (2026): I am of course happy to see that Soren Narnia appears to reap some of the fruits of having made one of the best horror/weir...

Tokyo gets into a bit of tizzy when a scientist rises into the air and explodes during a live TV interview with reporter Kyoko Kono (Yu Aoi)...

Alice’s (Souheila Yacoub) marriage to abusive Will (George Pullar) ends rather abruptly when he dies in a drunk driving accident. Well, actu...

The Devil’s Mouth (2026): For a few minutes there, I actually thought Jeff “I Made Kick-Ass 2 And Somehow Still Have A Career” Wadlow’s tee...

Ming (Thaneth Warakulnukroh), a long since defrocked former Catholic exorcist living in a small Thai village is possessed by something very ...

These two short – fifty-two and forty-six minutes respectively – horror comedies by Yu Nakamoto belong together, despite the second film bei...

Black Box (2026): Or, as we should probably call it Body Snatcher Tentacles On A Plane , for this is indeed an unironic attempt at adding mo...

Original title: Butoken: Moko gekisatsu! A domino-masked karateka going by the nom de plum of Iron Dragon (Yasuaki Kurata) is beating up t...

When Budding van lifer Tyler (Jacob Scipio) and his supportive but clearly long-suffering partner Maddie (Lou Llobell) come upon what looks ...

Mother Mary (2026): Sometimes, I really like the films of David Lowery; this one, I really don’t. It’s the kind of film where everything’s a...

Apparently (the movies wouldn’t lie to us!) detention in Thailand means having to spend a day doing chores for a Buddhist temple out in the ...

Three budding idols in some kind of idol training establishment – aerobics are clearly a particularly important part of this – are offered t...

Hive (2026): In the treatment of its truly weird monster, Felipe Vargas’s Hive is absolutely wonderful. It creates something strange, cree...

In a needlessly flashback-heavy plot, Indian super spy Pathaan (Shar Rukh Khan) has to thwart the fiendish and just as needlessly byzantine ...

The Tourist (2010): On paper, I’m all in for the ridiculously named Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s attempt to make a film about the Hol...

My Dearest Assassin aka Lueat Rak Nakkha (2026): Taweewat Wantha’s action movie about the vagaries of having a rare blood type reminds rath...

Original title: 新宿酔いどれ番地 人斬り鉄 After spending the usual ten years in prison for the brutal slaughter of an enemy gang boss, mad dog yakuza ...

As a guy who had a somewhat intense He-Man phase in his childhood, I hardly know what to say about this sad attempt at nostalgia baiting by ...

The Crow   (2024): What a mess. There’s obviously nothing wrong with re-adapting Jamie O’Barr’s classic goth comic. Even though Alex Proyas’...

Original title: Shigatsu no sakana Director Shohei Nemoto ( Yellow Magic Orchestra ’s Yukihiro Takahashi) made a critically acclaimed, yet...

This is the Mad Max film I’ve returned to the least, so seldom indeed it must have last seen it in the late 90s. At that point in time, fol...

Windtalkers (2002): At the time when it came out, John Woo’s American war epic was often unfavourably compared to The Thin Red Line and Sav...

Some kind of vampire hunting organization lead by a Tom Berenger cameo has sent mercenary turned vampire huntress Cora (Dichen Lachman) and ...

I have been pretty vocal about my love for the works of the contemporary king of POV horror Koji Shiraishi, as well as my general love for t...

Videoheaven (2025): We all have our nostalgias; some of us feel the need to make three hour long essay films that attempt to defend them by...

Original title: Fuji sanchô After some years of failed attempts at convincing the government, the Japan Meteorological Agency manages to s...