Famously when Leone made A Fistful of Dollars he lifted the plot of Yojimbo and got sued to hell by Kurosawa. They do say great artists steal. Anyway, here Kurosawa is properly credited, though if I were him I’d sue to have my name taken off this thing. It seems like it would be great for modern streaming audiences, as 90% of the dialogue is Willis doing a whispering voiceover explaining what’s going on so you never have to look…

The kind of film that makes you realise just how terrible America is at making films. This could so easily be a Hollywood plot - Mads is away at war, and finds out his wife is killed in a tragic accident, but, maybe it wasn’t an accident after all? Three nerds have a theory about it being a conspiracy that the police just won’t investigate, so Mads is going to have to be the one to find justice. 
But while…

I've seen this before, and I've always loved it, but I'm doing some research at the moment about autism in the movies and this film kept coming up - I had to watch it straight away, it had never occurred to me, but once seen I couldn't un-see it. Barry Egan has Asperger's.
The fixation on details and rules, the awkwardness in social situations, not knowing how to engage in physical appropriately, the violent meltdowns, the literal interpretation of…

I spent much of my teenage years (and beyond) watching horror movies, starting with the standard stuff from the local video shop years before I was meant to be seeing it, on to getting hold of NTSC copies of the then still-banned-in-the-uk classics like The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Then DVD came along and multiregion players and internet ordering and pretty much anything was available and I enjoyed extreme cinema from around the world, but even now as…