Category: Features

April 6, 2017 · 0 comments

By Roxy Simons. In a similar fashion to Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, it’s the violence that does most of the talking in Tetsuya Mariko’s Destruction Babies. With no clearly defined narrative, the film goes from one fight to the next, with each proving to be more aggressive than the last. It gives the film a […]

April 5, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. “When you love film,” writes Jon Spira in his Kickstarted book Videosyncratic, “it doesn’t just transport you to another world. It transports you back to where you were, who you were, when you first saw it. Hours sat with friends now missing or lost. Sunday afternoons on the sofa with your family. […]

April 1, 2017 · 0 comments

In a hastily-convened ceremony at LA’s Japanese consulate this morning, Manhattan-born celebrity Scarlett Johansson accepted a Japanese passport, and the citizenship that comes along with it. According to a consular press release, she is “hopefully the first of many migrant workers” to participate in a new fast-track programme that awards Japanese passports to anyone who […]

March 31, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jeremy Clarke. The Lone Wolf and Cub franchise began life as a manga in 1970 by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. It proved hugely popular in Japan, where in 1972 the first four of six films appeared. Two more followed in 1973 and 1974. Criterion’s new three-disc Blu-ray release collects together all […]

March 29, 2017 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind – rescued from a refugee boat many years ago and cyber-enhanced to be the perfect soldier. Only her mind remains; the rest of her is artificial, putting her in a unique position as society faces a new threat. Cyber warfare has evolved to […]