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A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) Obsessed with her Bohemian nuisance-neighbour, Julia (Anita Strindberg), wealthy London socialite Carol (Florinda Bolkan) dreams alternately of making love to or killing the other woman, only to find herself the chief suspect when Julia is found dead in real...

Maybe it’s because I never had many ADV discs, but I don’t think I ever saw much of their marketing material. The famous What is Anime schtick was a running gag at the local anime club, but I only ever absorbed that one through osmosis. I do remember them having a couple of trailers on one of...

Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 Having gone into this completely blind, I had an absolute whale of a time with this collection of Fujimoto's short stories - they're beautifully animated and frequently very, very funny. I think my favourite of the bunch was hired-killer comedy Shikaku, but shout out...

My experience of Chinese animation is by no means exhaustive, and I imagine it affects some things more than others, but I have often struggled to shake the feeling of their domestic works being created within a noticeably more narrow field of what you can and can’t say. The raw talent is...

Unsure if I’ll need this thread more than once, but for now, I’m selling the AL Neon Genesis Evangelion Ultimate Edition BD, including that extra replacement disc to cover the missing subtitles. I have it up on eBay for open bidding or buy it now, but depending on how that pans out, I may also...

Lupin III: Immortal Bloodline Having successfully fought off the powerful assassins sent after each of them, Lupin and his gang receive a mysterious invitation to an uncharted island in the Bermuda Triangle, leading them into a final showdown with the sinister mastermind manipulating world...

Shout out for Cyberpunk Edgerunners as the show I most think folk ought to see from that period, but Akiba Maid War is both the one I think is most likely to be overlooked, and also my outright favourite. ‘What if maid cafes were run like the Yakuza’ seems like the sort of mad premise usually...

Overall, I remember being puzzled about what exactly they were trying to achieve with Stampede. It seemed like they’d put a huge amount of effort into giving the characters expressive faces (something so often missing from CG anime) in a way that would have fitted a comedy series really well...

Dan Da Dan ep18-19 I’ve said it before, but I do wish they would drop the sexual assault imagery, it feels so at odds with everything else in the show. It always seems to be Momo who’s the target as well.

Night of the Living Dead (1990) After an unexplained phenomenon causes the recently deceased to apparently return to life and attack the living, seven people find themselves trapped in an isolated house besieged by ghouls in rural Pennsylvania, in this remake of George A Romero’s horror...

Octopussy (1983) After an agent carrying an expertly faked Fabergé egg turns up dead at the British embassy in Berlin, 007 (Roger Moore) is sent to investigate a violent smuggling ring secretly fencing treasures from the Soviet Union, which may conceal a far more sinister agenda. Following a...

It can’t quite match the eerie, oppressive atmosphere of the original, but in many ways, I think Night ‘90 is the better film. The script really fleshes out Barbara as a character (it almost feels like an apology for not giving her anything to do first time round) and, as you say, it’s a great...

Dan Da Dan S2 ep13-16 The resolution to the cliffhanger ending of S1 reminded me of the self-consciously edgy streak I didn’t like about this one, but it’s hard to deny how great it looks. Science Saru have done such a great job with the animation that I’m dying to know what they’ll do with...

Detectives These Days Are Crazy! ep3-12 [end] Didn't expect this to be the one show of the season that I'd see to the end, but here we are. I always assumed it would have done more with its premise, but it seemed content to just amble along as a light-hearted comedy, with the characters doing...

Not sure I’d go as far as to say I like it more than the first one, but I have a lot of time for Predator 2 - it feels like part of that brief window when we got a lot of sci-fi / action movies that were heavily influenced by the kind of dark humour in Robocop.

Nobody 2 Struggling to make time for his wife and family, following a reluctant return to his life as a professional assassin, Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) seizes upon the idea of taking them back to the beloved holiday park he remembers from his childhood, only to discover it has become a...

Started thinking recently about how little I know David Bowie’s output after Let’s Dance, so decided to try going through some of the later albums. Never Let Me Down has a couple of good tracks (notably Time Will Crawl), but it’s so ridiculously over-produced that it becomes exhausting if you...

Weapons (2025) Following the mysterious disappearance of all but one of the children from an elementary school classroom, tensions flare among the local community as they scramble to find some kind of explanation for what has happened. A difficult film to talk about without spoiling anything...

War of the Worlds (2025) Stuck in a remote bunker, Homeland Security surveillance expert Ice Cube tries desperately to guide his family to safety during an alien attack, by tracking their progress on CCTV and electronic gadgets, in this… reimagining of HG Wells’s classic story. Already an...

The Naked Gun (2025) Facing pushback from his superiors after foiling a bank robbery, grizzled detective Frank Drebin Jr. (Liam Neeson) tangles with a shifty tech billionaire who may be connected to the mysterious death of one of his employees, in this soft reboot of the much loved spoof...