Published in Cinapse·4 days agoQuadranscentennial: EVENT HORIZON Celebrates 25 with a Gorgeous 4K UHD SteelbookLiberate Tuteme Ex Taedium with this classic sci-fi/horror hybrid — Please note, all screen images in this review are included for illustration purposes only. These screen captures were sourced from the Blu-ray version of the movie and do not represent the resolution, color, or other quality indicators of the 4K disc. It’s frequently said, and often with a hint of…Event Horizon5 min read
Published in Cinapse·Aug 7Fantasia 2022: SPACE MONSTER WANGMAGWIIt’s a terrific time to be a kaiju or tokusatsu fan, with beloved classic series like Godzilla, Gamera, and Daimajin getting deluxe Blu-ray releases from premier distributors like Criterion and Arrow Video. Even the extensive Ultraman catalogue has received a huge push to home video thanks to Mill Creek. But…Space Monster Wangmagwi4 min read
Published in Cinapse·Aug 5Director David Leitch and a Stacked Cast Serve Up a Riotous Ride with BULLET TRAINThe concept of luck can be a little weird. Borrowing from the premise of Unbreakable and keeping things train-themed, suppose that you’re the sole and uninjured survivor of a massive train crash. Are you lucky because you survived, or unlucky to have been a part of the tragedy which…Bullet Train3 min read
Published in Cinapse·Aug 5Fantasia 2022: WHAT TO DO WITH THE DEAD KAIJU?A few years ago the tokusatsu masterpiece Shin Godzilla reinvigorated and reinvented that franchise, delivering a very different kind of Godzilla movie that not only completely reimagined the monster and gave him his most visually impressive outing in a non-Hollywood film, but reframed the narrative as well. The story explored…大怪獣のあとしまつ4 min read
Published in Cinapse·Jul 29Fantasia 2022: SPECIAL DELIVERYPARASITE star Park So-dam returns in South Korea’s new vehicular action crime film — In the tradition of The Transporter and Baby Driver comes Special Delivery, an exciting chase-filled action film from South Korea which recently screened at Fantasia International Film Festival. The film stars Park So-dam, who came to international prominence as the daughter of the family in Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, as…Special Delivery3 min read
Published in Cinapse·Jul 18Gnarly Outback Thriller FAIR GAME (1986) is Back Out, Now on VOD1986’s Fair Game is a harrowing thriller from the back half of the Ozploitation boom. This tale of survival and paranoia pits a lone woman, Cassandra, against a trio of vicious kangaroo hunters. After an encounter on the road in which Cassandra is run off the road by the goons…Fair Game3 min read
Published in Cinapse·Jul 13The Director and Star of THE SWORDSMAN Return with THE KILLEREnjoyable action and characters elevate a by-the-numbers plot — This week brings the release of South Korea’s new gun-fu action thriller The Killer from the director and star of the wildly acclaimed The Swordsman, Jae-Hoon Choi and Jang Hyuk. Let’s clarify from the start — no, it’s not a remake or otherwise related to the John Woo film. Protagonist…The Killer3 min read
Published in Cinapse·Jul 9CHERNOBYL: THE LOST TAPES Provides a Critical Window into the PastHBO Max’s new documentary tells the story in the words of those who lived through it (and many who didn’t) — A couple of decades after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, interest in the event was suddenly renewed when urban explorers started sharing their fascinating travelogues of the eerie, deserted ruins of the exclusion zone on the internet, leading to an explosion of Chernobyl in popular culture — suddenly it was…Chernobyl3 min read
Published in Cinapse·Jul 7A Hem’s Worth — THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER Stitches Down the MCU’s Biggest Loose ThreadNow 29 films deep, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has gradually become one of the most narratively expansive — and commercially dominant — examples of interconnected long-format storytelling. …Thor Love And Thunder4 min read
Jul 4THE ROUNDUP is Must-See Action-Comedy for Fans of LETHAL WEAPONFists fly in the new cop caper starring TRAIN TO BUSAN’s Don Lee (Ma Dong-Seok) — Sporting the tagline “The Beast Cop is back!”, one might understandably misread at a glance that The Roundup (범죄도시2, literally “Crime City 2”) is a followup to the 1998 Hong Kong hit Beast Cops. But the new film, which stars the singular, tanklike Ma Dong-Seok (Train to Busan, The Eternals)…The Round Up3 min read
