Video nasty habit: Giulio Berruti's giallo-esque KILLER NUN (1979) is now available uncut on region-free Blu-ray (in a new restored 1080p encode) from Shameless Films https://projectedfigures.c...
06:08 AM - Apr 24, 2024
"a stylised succession saga of murder and madness, and a romantic melodrama with claws": Paul Leni's THE CAT AND THE CANARY (1927) on Blu-ray from today via Eureka Entertainment. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
02:17 AM - Apr 22, 2024
"illusion, reality, collective mesmerism, corporate control, or a personal breakdown viewed from the inside": Seventies chatshow found footage LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL now on Shudder https://projectedfigures.c...
03:42 AM - Apr 19, 2024
Livid with spoilers: ensemble abduction thriller ABIGAIL is an agile genre-leaping play on viewers' expectations, whose surprises would have benefitted from more radio silence in its own promotional campaign. In UK cinemas now. Review for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/reviews...
02:54 AM - Apr 19, 2024
His and hearse: "Orçun Behram’s nekromantic road/cult movie charts a lonely hearse driver’s relationship with his not quite dead cargo." THE FUNERAL (CENAZE, 2023) screens 9pm tonight at BIFFF. Astonishing! https://projectedfigures.c...
04:17 AM - Apr 16, 2024
Brucesploitation!: David Gregory's doc ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE LEE is "a funny, bittersweet slice of monofocused nostalgia". Screens 5pm today at Fantaspoa https://projectedfigures.c...
04:04 AM - Apr 15, 2024
"the first, tentative taste of a very adult lesson about patriarchy and pecking order in Japan’s social hierarchies": I WAS BORN, BUT... (1932) out on Blu-ray from today as part of BFI's set TWO FILMS BY YASUJIRO OZU. Capsule for LWLies https://lwlies.com/article...
03:26 AM - Apr 15, 2024
"scenes of Tarantino-esque mayhem, messy rebirth and ultra-violent destruction serve to dramatise Sun-woo’s conflicting inner desires as he shadow-boxes with himself": Kim Jee-woon's A BITTERSWEET LIFE now on digital via Blue Finch https://lwlies.com/article...
06:32 AM - Apr 11, 2024
"like a comic Korean rejoinder to Fight Club": Kim Jee-woon’s second feature THE FOUL KING (BANCHIKWANG, 2000) is now on digital via Blue Finch. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
06:13 AM - Apr 11, 2024
"questions are raised as to whether what unfolds is illusion, reality, collective mesmerism, corporate control, or a personal breakdown viewed from the inside": LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (2023) is now in Australian cinemas https://tinyurl.com/hctbya...
04:38 AM - Apr 11, 2024
With a "tangible depth and texture", Nacho Cerdà's knowingly derivative haunted house movie THE ABANDONED (LOS ABANDONADOS, 2006) "approaches something like the Platonic ideal of its genre". On Limited Edition Blu-ray from today via Unearthed Films
04:12 AM - Apr 09, 2024
"The typhoon that these schoolmates use as an excuse not to go home also serves as an objective correlative for their raging, potentially dangerous emotions": Shinji Somai's TYPHOON CLUB (1985) screens 8pm tonight at The Cube Microplex. https://lwlies.com/article...
02:49 AM - Apr 03, 2024
"All at once reconstruction of a lost empire, ripping boy’s own adventure, and eschatological allegory, Mel Gibson’s Mayan movie comes as something of a Revelation": APOCALYPTO (2006) https://projectedfigures.c...
04:25 AM - Mar 26, 2024
“Either I’m going out of my mind or something very, very strange is happening”: Lucio Fulci's Lovecraftian CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980) cracks the screen with its infectious irrationality. On 4K UHD from today via Arrow Video. https://lwlies.com/article...
03:40 AM - Mar 25, 2024
FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: BEAST STABLE (1973) is "a sombre, haunting and at times achingly beautiful film that allows its heroine to ascend to a realm of pure myth."
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07:06 PM - Mar 24, 2024
"foregrounds debates about the veridicality of what we are seeing, and... introduces enough narrative layers to confound everything (while conjuring entities that “thrive on confusion”)": LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL (2023), from today in UK cinemas via Vertigo, US via IFC https://shorturl.at/dptAI
05:26 AM - Mar 22, 2024
"makes the whole slash-and-dash genre look like child's play": David Moreau & Xavier Palud's THEM (ILS) invades Australian homes from today on Blu via Umbrella Entertainment, including a booklet essay from me. Meanwhile, here's my old review: https://projectedfigures.c...
03:23 AM - Mar 20, 2024
"As [Sonny] Chiba’s first martial arts film, this was also PR for the badass actor": Ryûichi Takamori's BODYGUARD KIBA (1973) platforms a high-kicking hard man's services. Now on a double Blu with its sequel via Eureka!. Capsule for LWL https://lwlies.com/article...
04:38 AM - Mar 18, 2024
"a martial arts film of a rather philosophical bent, constantly calling into question the meaning and value of the very conflicts that constitute its genre" Joseph Kuo's THE SWORDSMAN OF ALL SWORDSMEN (1968) now on Ltd Edn Blu from Eureka https://lwlies.com/article...
04:13 AM - Mar 18, 2024
"a ghost story of maternity and madness that is, beyond all its dripping atmosphere and uncanny creepiness, awash with moving waves of melancholy and loss": Hideo Nakata's DARK WATER (2002) on 4K UHD from today via Arrow Video. https://lwlies.com/article...
03:52 AM - Mar 18, 2024
"the closer this intense action star comes to the rôles he typically plays, the more absurdly postmodern the exercise becomes": Yûdai Yamaguchi's meta martial arts movie ONE PERCENTER (2023) now on Blu/digi via Third Window. Capsule for LWL https://lwlies.com/article...
07:59 AM - Mar 13, 2024
"Falling somewhere between Taxi Driver, Maniac and neon-lit neo-noir, Ferrari’s tawdry feature anatomises Manhattan vice in much the way that the killer carves up his victims": FEAR CITY (1984) now on Blu via 101 Films. Capsule for LWLies https://lwlies.com/article...
07:48 AM - Mar 13, 2024
"a winning combination of small-scale parochialism and big-screen monster mayhem, all filled to the gills with a warm wit": Kevin Lehane's creature feature GRABBERS (2012) puts the B in bibulous. Now on Shudder (US)
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05:42 AM - Mar 01, 2024
"a gothic melodrama of twisted redemption, and (perhaps) also a new beginning": Mick Garris' prequel/sequel PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING (1990), now on Arrow's 4K UHD/Blu boxset PSYCHO - THE STORY CONTINUES. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
02:53 AM - Feb 26, 2024
“The past is never really the past, it stays with me all the time”: Anthony Perkins directs himself in PSYCHO III (1986), released today in Arrow Video's 4K UHD/Blu boxset PSYCHO - THE STORY CONTINUES. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
02:43 AM - Feb 26, 2024
"If those little sweethearts won’t face German bullets, they’ll face French ones": Stanley Kubrick's anti-war drama PATHS OF GLORY (1957) is available on 4K UD from today via Eureka Entertainment. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
02:21 AM - Feb 26, 2024
The wicker woman: William Brent Bell's Lord of Misrule (2023) regenders folk horror, and rewrites the rules. On Blu-ray/DVD from today via Signature Entertainment. Capsule for Little White Lies https://lwlies.com/article...
01:59 AM - Feb 26, 2024
"delivering ur-horror that is the template (and origin) of a future genre", Andrew Cumming's OUT OF DARKNESS (aka THE ORIGIN, 2022) is a primeval quest for humanity. In UK cinemas from today https://projectedfigures.c...
02:31 AM - Feb 23, 2024
Carrie on coming of (r)age: Joachim Trier's queer horror THELMA (2017) "dives deep before eventually coming out – and the result is an involving apocalypse of adolescence." On MUBI from today. https://projectedfigures.c...
01:53 AM - Feb 20, 2024
"It may feature doppelgangers and deep space, but Mike Cahill’s astonishing debut keeps its humanist concerns grounded": ANOTHER EARTH (2011)
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10:57 AM - Feb 19, 2024
