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Recent Reviews

	Troll Hunter Blu-ray The winner of numerous awards at film festivals across the globe, this horror-comedy is a documentary made by some university students who follow Hans, a man whose job doesn’t officially exist. As they watch him go about his work, they learn trolls don’t just exist in fairytales!
	A Lonely Place to Die Blu-ray When a group of climbers in the Scottish Highlands discover a young girl buried underground, they decide to take her to the authorities. However, the criminals who kidnapped her want their captive back and will stop at nothing to recover the girl who is worth a lot of money to them.
	Maniac Cop Blu-ray From producer James Glickenha Larry Cohen and director William Lustig comes this urban horror film about a mysterious killer, dressed in a policeman’s uniform, who murders ordinary innocent people. The cast including Bruce Campbell and Tom Atkins.
	The Cheerleaders DVD Released under the ‘erotic’ section of the ArrowDrome label, this follows a group of high school cheerleaders - with a new virginal recruit - who will do anything to help their football team win - even seducing the whole opposition squad!
	The Exterminator Blu-ray Released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK by Arrow Video, this centres on a Vietnam veteran who, when his best friend is attacked and paralysed by a gang, becomes determined to ‘clean up the streets’, by whatever means necessary.
	Whisper of the Heart Blu-ray This 1995 film from Studio Ghibli is the only film directed by Yoshifumi Kondô. When Youko, a girl in middle school, discovers the books she borrows from the library have all been checked out by someone called Seiji, she wonders who he is whilst also becoming fascinated by a local antique shop.
	Kill List Blu-ray Ben Wheatley's follow-up to the brilliant Down Terrace follows two hitmen, Jay and Gal, who are given a list of those their mysterious employer wants killed. As they meet their targets, Jay’s temper begins to spiral out of control and Gal must try and control his old army friend.

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News
The Exterminator John Eastland returns home from ‘Nam to a tough neighbourhood in New York and his loving family. But when some local thugs badly beat his best friend Mike, leaving him paralysed, something snaps. Did he fight the Vietcong for this?
Tokyo Decadence When Nancy tries to travel to California to escape her miserable home life, she is captured by a pair of wayward lawmen and their siblings who plan to sacrifice her to Satan.
Deadly Blessing Marked as a incubus by her fanatical neighbours, Martha, whose husband has already disappeared, realises time is running out for her and her visiting friends, as they face the violent fury and retribution of old time religion.

Articles

	B-Movies or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Asylum I haven’t exactly been sniffy about B-movies as my film tastes vary from the greatest movies ever made to some of the worst films ever made, some of which are mentioned in this article.
	Top 10 Greatest British Films After watching several excellent British films recently including Ice Cold in Alex, The Cruel Sea and Witchfinder General, I set about whittling down all the great films produced in Britain to just ten.
	Ongoing Film Challenge Quite a while ago, I went through and made a list of the 500 films Empire Magazine considered the Greatest Movies Ever Made and recently challenged myself to watch all of them. The list is shrinking!