4.4

Karl the Butcher vs Axe

2009, Germany

• Actors: Eileen Daly, Timo Fuchs, Sascha Hartmann, Eleanor James, Magdalèna Kalley, Marysia Kay, Marc Rohnstock, Timo Rose, Andreas Schnaas, Sam E. Terry, Marc Trinkhaus, Mario Zimmerschitt
• Genre: Action, Horror
• Director(s): Timo Rose
• Available languages:
  • English English.

2023 and Karl The Butcher Jr Returns from hell after 25 years, and is on a mission to kill a new butcher, Axe. But the world he returns to is in devastation, civilization is split between gangs, including the Gang loco, The Others, the tyrant Queen Scara, The Black Monks, and of course, the nomads Axe and his sister Vendetta whose family history is unknown. An ultra-violent journey in a wasteland awaits...

  4.6

Colour from the Dark

2007, Italy

• Actors: Debbie Rochon, Michael Segal, Marysia Kay, Gerry Shanahan, Eleanor James, Matteo Tosi, Alessandra Guerzoni, Emmet Scanlan
• Genre: Horror
• Director(s): Ivan Zuccon
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb. A strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.

  5.6

Stoned

2004, UK

• Actors: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Ben Whishaw, Tuva Novotny, Amelia Warner, Monet Mazur, Luke de Woolfson, David Walliams, David Williams, Gary Love, Johnny Shannon, Melanie Ramsay, Rüdiger Rudolph, Ralph Brown, Alfie Allen, Guy Flanagan, Josef Altin, James D. White, Vanessa Langford, Lisa O'Reilly, Jenna Aarons, Tom Espiner, Anna Madeley, Gerard Bell, Angela Sims, Paul Raffield, Dirk Von Bruck, Lisa Dolan, Simon Chandler
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Stephen Woolley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones, that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones, particularly Keith Richards, that show they had a great respect for him and tried to bring him back into the band as he drifted away. Mixed into the destruction of Jones is a common builder, Frank Thorogood, who is given the unenviable task of trying to please Jones by rebuilding his estate and to watch him per Jones' manager's instructions. Thorogood's life is so far removed from all of the sex and drugs that he sees, that he envies and desires the tawdry life as well, but never quite fits in. Unfortunately, at least according to this film and according to a supposed death bed confessional of Thorogood in 1993, it led to Thorogood's murder of Jones in a swimming pool "accident".