James Marsh

  • From the director of Gantz comes the big screen live action adaptation of the popular novels. In a Bradbury/Orwell future where books are burned as subversive, a young woman joins… Read More

  • This low budget Japanese horror flick from The Ring and The Grudge producer Ichise Takashige is the story of Yuri, who is forced to work as a call girl to… Read More

  • Opening this year’s HK International Film Festival is Herman Yau’s follow up to The Legend Is Born. Anthony Wong stars as an aging Ip Man, forced to abandon his wing… Read More

  • Guillermo del Toro dons his executive producer hat once again, helping first-time writer-director Andres Muschetti adapt his 2008 short film into a feature. Shot in Canada, Mama tells the story… Read More

  • From the creative team behind How To Train Your Dragon comes this prehistoric animated comedy, originally conceived as a project for Aardman Animation, with an original script by John Cleese. Read More

  • My March entry in Twitch’s Full Disclosure feature is Franc Roddam’s big screen adaptation of The Who’s classic album. Phil Daniels plays a pill-popping young Mod, who tires of his… Read More

  • Until now the only time I had seen this film was at university, where our Film Studies lecturer insisted that we included it during the opening semester programme of the… Read More

  • Set in South Korea, this short film is the story of Ji-hye, a beautiful woman whose job as a translator dominates her life. When her 30th birthday comes round and… Read More

  • Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-man) re-teams with James Franco for this big budget prequel to the classic MGM musical, dispensing with the songs but layering on the lurid 3D… Read More

  • Sam Raimi’s spiritual prequel to MGM’s 1939 evergreen classic, The Wizard of Oz, is an incredibly mixed bag, that shows a degree of visual flourish and fun for younger viewers,… Read More

  • Ronny Yu, the director of The Bride With White Hair and Freddy Vs. Jason, tries his hand at the large-scale period Chinese epic, recounting the famous story of General Yang… Read More

  • As a big fan of Jacques Audiard and his films (A Prophet, The Beat That My Heart Skipped), as well as stars Marion Cotillard (Inception, La Vie en Rose) and… Read More

  • I first came to this film during my university days, in the wake of John Boorman’s Deliverance – a film I love to this day. I knew Walter Hill from… Read More

  • Stevan Riley’s fantastic new documentary on the James Bond franchise is now available to watch on iTunes. It is an absolute must-see for any self-respecting Bond fan. You can find… Read More

  • The final film in the Hong Kong Film Archive’s short series honouring the cinematic collaboration between Billy Wilder and Marlene Dietrich, is this masterclass in courtroom drama and wry British… Read More

  • I am in serious danger of over-hyping Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer, for the simple reason that I thought it was going to be rubbish, and it really isn’t.… Read More

  • The last film in my Park Chan-wook retrospective is his utterly bonkers vampire film from 2009. Song Kang-ho plays Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest who volunteers to help find a cure… Read More

  • Early on in Stoker, South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s English language debut, a series of lap dissolves shows us the identical pairs of shoes our heroine, India (played by Mia… Read More