
A manhunt in a period film: Hideo Gosha’s Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
The recent discovery of Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (Kumokiri Nizaemon, 1978), a film that I had never seen before, has…
The recent discovery of Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (Kumokiri Nizaemon, 1978), a film that I had never seen before, has…
A man is driving home at night in the Irish countryside when suddenly the ghostly figure of his father-in-law (Jim…
In Sion Sono’s Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi, 2008), 17-year-old Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) struggles with his sexual awakening. Sono turns the…
Weaving horror techniques with philosophical undertones, Cube (1997) navigates the dark recesses of humanity in a mechanical enigma. In a…
Ánimas Trujano (Mexico, 1962) starts as a documentary film with images of a festival which the villagers in the Mexican…
In his autobiography, Something Like an Autobiography, Akira Kurosawa mentions that since his youth he had loved horses and had…
Special Service agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) approaches both his job and his life with reckless abandon, throwing caution to…
As the clocks turn back and the weather turns cold, I turn back to my favourite genre, film noir, transforming…
Desperado Outpost (Dokuritsu gurentai, Japan, 1959) starts with shots of a man on horseback in a landscape reminiscent of a…