Josh Slater-Williams

In Review: Ninja: Shadow of a Tear on DVD

by Josh Slater-Williams 14 May 2014

Isaac Florentine’s direct-to-video film Ninja (2009) introduced the character of Casey Bowman (Scott Adkins), an American orphan raised in a martial arts dojo in Japan, who is tasked with protecting an armoured chest of ancient weapons in New York. Ostensibly a sequel, Ninja: Shadow of a Tear is set in Japan, Thailand and the jungles […]

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In Review: Four Men and a Prayer (1938) on DVD

by Josh Slater-Williams 13 May 2014

Featuring early roles for David Niven and George Sanders, the brisk drama Four Men and a Prayer (1938) proves most notable as a stepping stone for director John Ford. Released in 1938, the film came one year before his trifecta of Oscar-nominated successes in 1939

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In Review: Blue Ruin

by Josh Slater-Williams 1 May 2014

Blue Ruin’s opening introduces us to the largely mute, feral-bearded vagrant Dwight (Macon Blair) living out a life of scrounging for discarded food and sleeping in an abandoned car. One morning, he is told by a police officer that a particular seemingly important person has been released from prison. Within the film’s first twenty minutes, […]

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In Review: The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears

by Josh Slater-Williams 10 April 2014

Before even watching a frame of the work in question, genre-savvy film enthusiasts will likely gather from its title that The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears is a tribute to giallo cinema, a form of Italian thriller fuelled with fantastical horror and eroticism that was host to striking film names such as Your Vice […]

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