The late 19th Century. The bandit gang – small army, really – of Chin Da-Kui (Tso Yen-Yung), the owner of the biggest damn fur hat you’ve ev...

Having directed the surprisingly good Solomon Kane adaptation, MJ Bassett has some form with Robert E. Howard adaptations, though this, of c...

Halabala (2025): This Thai production directed by Eakasit Thairaat about an killer cop and a handful of idiots hunting a crazy killer in a ...

The early 50s in the Deep South, Alabama. The Honeydripper Lounge, the juke joint of pianist Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover) has seen better da...

Bai An (Tony Jaa), a man with a rather expert talent for inflicting physical punishment on dozens of goons at once, is going on a bit of a p...

Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (2015): It wouldn’t have been difficult to tell this specific tale as an utter freakshow. It is, after all...

Original title: ミッシング・チャイルド・ビデオテープ Keita (Rairu Sugita) is somewhat obsessed with helping find kids who get lost in woods and mountains - ...

Sophie (Missy Peregrym) and her fiancée Nolan (Damon Runyan) have come to Sophie’s old cabin home in the sticks so Nolan can have an actual ...

The Black Water Vampire (2014): This piece of POV horror directed and written by Evan Tramel is a bit of a strange one. At times, it is a cl...

Margot (Bridget Rose Perrotta) and her girlfriend Rebecca (Destiny Leilani Brown) spend much of their free time visiting the – mostly suppos...

Original titles: 若さま侍捕物手帖 地獄の皿屋敷 & 若さま侍捕物手帖 べらんめえ活人剣 These two one hour films directed by Kinnosuke Fukada (about whose body of work I...

Witches’ Well (2024): A successful horror writer (writer/director/producer/editor/cinematographer Amanda K. Morales) on a research trip to ...

Passive and more than a little alienated college student Fumika Matsuoka (Akari Takaishi) goes through life with only the minimum required a...

Original title: 一代劍王 Swordsman Tsai Yieng-Chieh (Tien Peng) is obsessed with vengeance. He is hunting down the men who killed his family t...

The Butterfly House aka Pernikahan Arwah (2025): A couple’s wedding preparations are disturbed when the groom’s family curse starts making t...

In the confusing future of 2077. Superpowers acquired through gene editing are apparently now a thing, and international gangs/companies of ...

College student Stefani (Kaitlyn Santa Juana) is plagued by recurring nightmares of a big, bloody and very digital catastrophe in a sky-view...

Ballerina (2025): I’m of two minds about the John Wick movies – no, really, I think half of them are pretty brilliant, the other half very ...

Following an attack on a business man he ordered, gang leader – historically he wasn’t a “proper” yakuza - Noboru Ando (Noboru Ando) has to ...

Mojin: The Lost Legend aka 鬼吹燈之尋龍訣 (2015): A trio of traditional-official tomb raiders return from dubious retirement in America to China t...

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...