Roadrash Reviews

27/08/2026

MVM Entertainment

4 stars, a very unusual and amusing romantic comedy. How I Attended An All Guys Mixer is a 2024 Japanese anime series based on the manga series of the same name, written by Nana Aokawa. Directed by Satoshi Takemoto, Akimori Sakami and Masaki Ogata, it was adapted for television by Studio Ashi Produc...

27/08/2026

4 Star The Secrets From Behind Closed Doors. Richard Thurstan was born in Staffordshire in 1959 and spent over 40 years in the Insurance Industry; 10 years of which was as a Loss Adjuster. He retired in 2021 and now lives in a small market town in Staffordshire with his wife Ann. He takes the reader...

26/08/2026

4 Star Skulduggery, Bar Brawls, and Defenestration. It’s Spaghetti Western time, and in 4K UHD from StudioCanal, this classic 1966 film directed and co-written by Alberto De Martino (The Chosen, Dirty Heroes) who brings you everything you expect in an Italian Spaghetti Western, just not as polishe...

24/08/2026

4 Star 4K UHD Neo-Noir. StudioCanal brings us the 1989 neo-noir film that hits the streets running. Skilfully directed by Walter Hill (The Driver, Hard Times) who brings out in the best of his leading actors. It’s dark, gritty and deadly. Johnny Hansom a great film for when the night starts drawin...

23/08/2026

Arrow Video Fetch Publicity

4 stars, a great restoration of an epic spectacle. In 2004, our cinema screens exploded in a flurry of skirt wearing, sword waving famous actors, bringing familiar names to life in the pursuit of well endowed ladies. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen (Enemy Mine, Poseidon), and loosely based on The Ilia...

23/08/2026

5 Star An Excellent 4K Revival. Arrow Video brings us a very crispy looking cult classic sequel in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. Where not every one is happy with the utopia of the latter end of the twenty-seventh century. They want to destroy the legend of the ‘Wyld Stallyns’ (Bogus). This cl...

20/08/2026

4 Star Not the Enemy You Want. Known simply as ‘Instant Death’, it was a Japanese light novel series created by Tsuyoshi Fujitaka, that was back in 2016. Now MVM brings Okuruto Noboru Studio‘s anime directed by Masakazu Hishida (Innocent Venus (TV Series), Gundam Reconguista in G) to us in thi...

17/08/2026

MVM Entertainment

4 stars, Dragons, Gods and more Dragons! Ragna Crimson is a 2023 Japanese animated series, based on the manga series, written and illustrated by Daiki Kobayashi. It is adapted for television by studio Silver Link (Non Non Biyori, No-Rin). It is available to own in the UK on Collector’s Edition Blu...

09/08/2026

5 Star Historical Whodunit. In 1980 Umberto Eco (The Role of the Reader (1979) and Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)) wrote The name of the Rose, and it didn’t take long before production started on the film version, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud (Enemy at the Gates, Seven Years in...

06/08/2026

Icon Film Distribution UK Fetch Publicity

4 stars of bloody and brutal revamped horror. 30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror/thriller film, based on the 2002 comic book mini-series of the same name written by Steve Niles (Remains). He also co-wrote the screenplay alongside Stuart Beattie (Collateral) and Brian Nelson (Hard Candy). Dir...