The New Boy
Blu-Ray Review
The story of a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery, run by a renegade nun, where his presence disturbs the delicately balanced world.
Army Of Shadows
Blu-Ray Review
Harrowing and stylistically strong drama about the plight of the French Resistance.
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Enter The Clones Of Bruce Lee
Blu-Ray Review
A documentary about the men drafted in to fill the gap and keep audiences happy after the death of cinema's greatest martial arts star.
The End We Start From
Blu-Ray Review
A woman who along with her newborn try to find their way home as environmental crisis that submerges London in flood waters and sees a young family torn apart in the chaos.
Possessor
Blu-Ray Review
Vasya is a corporate agent who uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people’s bodies, driving them to commit assassinations for the benefit of the company. When something goes wrong on a routine job, she finds herself trapped inside a man whose identity threatens to obliterate her own.
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Femme
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Jules is a drag artist in London. After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself. Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito. A revenge thriller.
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V/H/S/94
Blu-Ray Review
Another entry in the popular horror anthology series, this time featuring body horror and a sewer-dwelling monster.
Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Blu-Ray Review
A lonely, clifftop mansion is attacked in no-holds barred massacre.
Yakuza Wolf
Blu-Ray Review
The son of a murdered crime boss exacts his revenge by pitting two rival clans against each other.
Devil Girl From Mars
Blu-Ray Review
An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earthmen as breeding stock.
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