‘Till Death Do Us Laugh’ hits a nice balance of horror and comedy, with neither outweighing the other, whilst never taking itself so seriously as a collective that the audience can’t have a bit of fun with it.
As much a twisty-turny drama as an all out action flick, ‘The Villainess’ overdoes both its noble attempts at gritty drama and action technical wizardry.
The result is every bit as wonderful and awful as it sounds, a quite dizzying display of opportunism and ineptitude that has to be seen to be believed. Essential.
‘New Blood’ is a smart, efficient and alarmingly effective genre piece that sits effortlessly alongside some of the finer horror entries of the period as an unremittingly morbid and blood-curdling exercise in unadulterated terror.
It tackles a complex subject with real skill and, while not pretending to be the definitive film on the matter – as if any one film could claim to be – it is a work of rare brilliance.
‘House of the Damned’ is just another of the numerous B-grade horror entries that emerged from the late-nineties, albeit sexed up with lashings of gratuitous nudity and as loud, crude and unruly as any of its peers.
‘Kung Fu League’ (功夫联盟) is an upcoming Chinese martial arts comedy directed by Jeff Lau.
Cinedigm Entertainment are bringing Zhang Xianfeng’s Chinese sci-fi actioner ‘Kung Fu Traveler 2’ to US DVD on July 17, 2018.
‘Bleach’ (ブリーチ) is an upcoming live-action Japanese adaptation of Tite Kubo’s ‘Bleach’ manga.
MVD Entertainment Group are bringing the 1990 martial arts film ‘Angel Town’ to US Blu-ray on September 25, 2018.
‘Love Illusion’ (aka ‘Legends of the Three Kingdoms’) is an upcoming Chinese fantasy action film written and directed by Lv Kejing.
Anime Limited are bringing Kentaro Hagiwara’s live-action ‘Tokyo Ghoul’ movie to UK Blu-ray and DVD on July 9, 2018.
‘Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade’ (인랑) is an upcoming South Korean sci-fi thriller directed by Kim Jee-Woon.
Arrow Video are bringing the classic 1955 Japanese samurai film ‘Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji’ (血槍富士) to UK and US Blu-ray on September 4, 2018.
