CINEMA & HOME RELEASES

Marvel’s post-Endgame output has been rather patchy and I had all but given up on the whole thing by avoiding all their films and TV shows for the last 2 years. Thor: Love and Thunder was the breaking point for me.

I can remember it vividly, the excitement, the spectacle and the long drive home afterwards. Needless to say, Batman V Superman, with its convoluted exposition and overall drabness isn’t a film I hold in high regard against its peers.

This twisted Australian horror tale stars Meg Clarke as Grace Jennings who unfortunately gets lost whilst injured and alone in a forest - of course she does - during a mission to look for her brother who has gone missing.

It could be argued that Ken Russell found his perfect combination of themes with his adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, initially released in 1969 and starring Oliver Reed, Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden.

TwentyFourSeven is Shane Meadow’s feature debut and stars Bob Hoskins as a hard-working boxing club owner desperate to help young men in his community get their wayward lives back on track.

Days became weeks. Weeks Became years. In 28 Years Later the rage virus that infected the United Kingdom has evolved, creating new types of zombies that are more brutal and merciless than before.

Released in 1975 at the height of their fame, Wolverhampton band Slade decided that despite their joyous glam rock stylings, a fun playful knockaround film musical romp in the style of A Hard Day’s Night was not what they were looking for creatively.

Shane Black has written his fair share of witty dialogue, buddy-cop movies and his trademark flourishes are on full show in a new special edition release of this 1977-set noir comedy about private detectives investigating a missing girl.

Well, bi-Adolf Hitler BDSM is not something (a) I thought I’d ever see 5 minutes into a movie and (b) ever expected to write in my lifetime to be fair but this spicy start is pretty standard for the work of exploitation filmmaker Russ Meyer.

Ti West’s The House of the Devil makes a wonderful companion piece to his film The Innkeepers. Both maintain the director’s referential approach to horror, incapsulating it in a slow burning 90 minutes that manages to build and maintain tension while cheekily winking to the audience and showing the mechanisms behind the scares.

Warfare is a film based on true events and the memories of Ray Mendoza. During the Iraq war a group of young Navy SEALs begin a surveillance mission. But after everything goes horribly wrong, how will they escape and how will they cope?

After an unexpected stroke, former Judge ‘Stefan’ is forced into an assisted living facility. Whilst there, he is forced into sadistic encounters with another psychopathic resident and his vicious puppet companion.

Filmmakers would kill for a scene as recognisable as the exploding head scene early into Scanners. A moment so sudden and exciting that it was shown out-of-context in place of a trailer in some regions, and has been a horror touchstone, even for those who haven’t seen the film.

Old Guy suggests that being a hitman is a young man’s game but could the same could be asked of action film directors? Well, possibly given what’s on show in this sadly pedestrian action comedy.

Amongst the backdrop of the seedy stage shows of Las Vegas, ex-Baywatch and Playboy model Pamela Anderson stars as Shelly - a middle-aged showgirl dealing with family feuds and the ever-decreasing popularity of the old-style stage event at the Razzle Dazzle venue.