by Sebastian Kluth
In the year 2021, unconventional action-comedy Baby Assassins was a remarkable success despite its limited budget thanks to creative characters, gripping martial arts elements and unpredictable plot elements. The idea to plan and film a sequel entitled...
The King of Musang King is a Malaysian-Singaporean comedy-drama of epic proportions. The story revolves around durian farmer Liu Mei Lian who has to deal with numerous challenges. She has raised three children as a single mother for twenty years. Suddenly,...
Evolving from death metal over doom metal to gothic metal, Swedish quintet Katatonia has been cementing its very own contemporary style for more than a decade by now. The group plays dreamy, gloomy and melancholic alternative rock with a hypnotizing atmosphere...
Villain in Me is a melodic gothic metal band hailing from Estonia and Dark Harmonies is its second full length effort. This release comes around with one instrumental opener, one acoustic song and eight regular genre tracks clocking in at a concise total...
After years of half-hearted efforts of meandering quality, Dutch septet Within Temptation has finally found its very own style on new full length effort Bleed Out. The band offers futuristic melodic alternative rock music with oomph. The eleven songs...
For years, fans of Tommy Wiseau have been waiting for the release of Big Shark. A trailer was dropped, then the project seemed to be on hold, up next it appeared to be canceled, suddenly a new trailer dropped and the film was finally released last year....
Dominum might be a brand-new band but its four band members have already been or are still involved in quite a few interesting bands. Singer Dr. Dead has been playing guitar and singing for twelve years with Hyrax and has already been playing as a guest...
Within Temptation was a commercially successful symphonic gothic metal band that made me discover and appreciate its music two decades ago. Throughout the last decade, the band had been on a steep creative downward spiral but the Dutch septet has been...
Rebound is a wonderful South Korean sports drama inspired by true events. The once-renowned basketball team of Jungang High School in Busan is on the verge of being shut down. A social worker decides to step in as an unexperienced head coach with a severely...
Bullet Train is a black humour thriller by Japanese author Isaka Kotaro. It was published under its original title Maria Beetle in 2010 by Kadokawa Shoten. The novel is loosely connected to Three Assassins, originally released as Grasshopper back in 2004,...
Ishtar is one of the few South Korean metal bands that has shown great potential but hasn't had much success since its genre is still being overlooked and underestimated in its home country. The band has had a streak of two extended plays and two full...
Orphaned Land is a completely unique quintet from Israel that has been promoting understanding, peace and diplomacy for decades by now. The group offers a most fascinating mixture of epic heavy metal soundscapes, atmospheric doom metal passages and even...
Leviathan III concludes Therion's mythological symphonic metal trilogy consisting of three separate full length efforts released in three consecutive years and featuring a total of thirty-three songs clocking in at one hundred fifty minutes. If compared...
I have been a massive fan of the Godzilla franchise since my early childhood for more than two and a half decades by now. Some instalments have been above expectations, most have been fairly average and others have been somewhat disappointing. Godzilla...
For years, fans of Tommy Wiseau have been waiting for the release of Big Shark. A trailer was dropped, then the project seemed to be on hold, up next it appeared to be canceled, suddenly a new trailer dropped and the film was finally released last year....
Beibî Warukyûre / Baby Assassins (2021) - Underrated Action Comedy Gem That Breaks Conventional Genre Boundaries in a Refreshing Way - 8/10 Baby Assassins is a Japanese action comedy film with unconventional plot and intriguing characters that surprised...
Last Suspect, originally released as Zheng Jiu Xian Yi Ren, finds the perfect balance between a courtroom drama and a vengeful thriller clocking in at an excellent one hundred nineteen minutes. This movie manages to touch viewers emotionally thanks to...
Ring, originally titled Ringu, is a Japanese mystery horror novel from 1991 that propulsed young author Suzuki Koji to national and later on even international stardom. It took the novel twelve years to be published in English. Ring was followed by two...
Four and a half years after its previous single, Japanese visual kei legends X Japan have published another unreleased song from the vault. "Born to Be Free" is in the key of the band's more classical, melodious and progressive tunes from the mid-nineties....
Dear readers, Once more, I feel like trying out something new to look back upon the wonderful year that is slowly coming to an end. I would like to introduce you to my favourite movie posters of the year. Once again, they are in order of preference. I...
I have been a massive fan of the Godzilla franchise since my early childhood for more than two and a half decades by now. Some instalments have been above expectations, most have been fairly average and others have been somewhat disappointing. Godzilla...
Wo Te Po Po Tsen Me Pa Chuan Chuan Kao Tiu Le, internationally known under the stupid title U Motherbaker - The Movie, is a Taiwanese comedy movie based upon the popular television series of the same title. The movie revolves around middle-aged mother...
No More Bets, originally known as Gu Zhu Yi Zhi, is a Chinese movie that could be categorized halfway between a drama and a thriller. The movie clocks in at an excellent running time of one hundred and thirty minutes as it entertains from start to finish....
Ransomed, originally known as Bi-gong-sik-jak-jeon, is one of the greatest movies of the past year. It could be described as an action-thriller that finds the perfect balance between uplifting humour and gruesome realism. The film manages to entertain...
Eight years after its last single, Japanese heavy metal legends X Japan have finally come around with another unreleased song in form of ballad "Angel". News of the new record have however not emerged since then and the tragical death of guitarist Heath...
