Simon Ramshaw

The franchise returns to its creators in a shamefully nihilistic and regressive reclamation.

It's gym bros vs. zombies in Nabeel Qureshi's pleasingly absurd festive horror-comedy.

Not many films have been saved at the last moment by a press tour. When the film is picture-locked, sound mix…

A tragedy claims the lives of many in Herman Yau's harsh and touching LGBT drama.

Jon Bernthal's Punisher returns, yelling, weeping and shooting his way through a repetitive revival.

Karl Urban stars as the hyper-violent beat-'em-up returns, R-rated and ready to rumble.

Looking at the complicated legacy of adapting Shigeru Miyamoto's seminal videogame series, 'The Super Mario G…

Caroline Golum's defiantly low-budget medieval drama is a striking experiment in style and restraint.

The power of the gun is terrible and beautiful in equal measure in the work of John Woo, the inarguable alpha…

Sometimes friends are the last thing you need, as shown in Jessica Barr's ambitious directorial debut - The P…

A very difficult movie, Max DeFalco's street grotty street level drama TEN WILL asks when is someone's senten…

Director Yuen Woo-ping on Passing the Baton and Still Learning After Over 50 Years

The evils of toxic relationships are conjured by a classic ghost story in Takeshi Miike's underseen 2014 horr…

Not so long ago, it was really not very fun to watch someone else play a video game. Whether it was your sibl…

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Ben Wheatley's latest indie film stars Sam Riley, Mark Manero, Noah Taylor, and Alexandra Maria Lara.

Honourable Mentions: 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle), Sinners (Ryan Coogler), Happyend (Neo Sora), Creation of t…

BBFC CEO David Austin talks to Film Stories about video nasties and the board's changing attitude to horror a…

An all-star cast take part in battles without honour (or humanity) in Kinji Fukasaku's genre-reviving samurai…

Romanian satirist and experimental filmmaking punk rocker Radu Jude returns to his usual feel-good(!) terrain…

A remake of the oddest kind, the never-predictable Steven Kostanski hits 1980s sleazetastic fantasy movie Dea…

Hidetoshi Nishijima and Gwei Lun-Mei are parents caught in a New York nightmare in Tetsuya Mariko's ambitious…

One director people could never accuse of being predictable is the eccentric French auteur, Quentin Dupieux. …

Pinku Eiga are a unique, and iconic Japanese entry into the halls of Exploitation Cinema, but how does Takash…