Meg 2: The Trench first published by Sight and Sound, online and in the October 2023 issue Review: An insect is eaten midair by a dragonfly, the dragonfly is snatched up by a lizard, that lizard by a larger lizard, which is chased into the surf by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, which in turn is caught…
Kamui: The Lone Ninja first published by EyeforFilm Sai Yoichi’s Kamui: The Lone Ninja resurrects a brand of hyper-stylised, ultra-bleak chanbara not seen since the Wakayama Tomisaburo-starring hexalogy of 1970s Baby Cart films, whose peripatetic heroes Lone Wolf and Son are perhaps best-known to English-speaking viewers through Robert Houston’s re-dubbed remix of the first two Baby instalments…
The Reef first published by LWLies. Near the beginning of The Reef, Sydney-sider Katie (Zoe Naylor) gives her ex-boyfriend, able seaman Luke (Damian Walshe-Howling), a conciliatory present. Delivered with a coy smile and the words, “I really miss you”, the present turns out to be a long, fat salami – but if this seems the sort of…