Montage Film Reviews Sunday DVD Rental Suggestion - (SDRSP)

Underworld is a trilogy of films about a secret war ragging against vampires and lycans aka werewolves in Europe. It borrows heavily from The Matrix for its imagery with a British and Eastern European twist. The final film ‘Underworld – Rise of them Lycans’ is a prequel which means that these films can easily be watched in a loop. A forth film is currently in production at the time of this podcast going to press.

Dae-su Oh is man with a drinking problem who suddenly disappears outside a phone booth on a rainy day. His best friend had attended the police station to collect him after his arrest for being drunk and disorderly. Nobody knows where he has disappeared to and in his absence his wife is murdered and his child given to foster parents. Dae-su Oh is charged with the murder in his absence but what the police don’t know is that he is being held prisoner by a criminal gang. His release fifteen years later sets him on a quest to find out exactly why he was imprisoned in the first place much to the delight of his watching former jailer.

A group of potholers visit a remote Spanish village when one of the locals discovers a new cave opening after a mudslide. Unfortunately this happens to be the same time as a serial rapist and murderer, who makes his living as a travelling salesman of industrial vacuum cleaners. After attacking one of the visiting group the salesman leaves a whirlwind of revenge and bribery in his wake.

A young thief (Tomás) gets on a plane from Spain to the Caribbean with his ill gotten cash strapped to his stomach hoping to dodge the police, but the plane crashes. He is the only survivor and is put under arrest at the hospital. Ironically he bought insurance before he boarded the flight and therefore now has some illegitimate money. In return for helping Tomás escape from the hospital, the insurance company employee asks him to use the cash as stake in a game of luck.

A young character designer by the name of Tsukiko Sagi is attacked by a schoolboy with a baseball bat. The policemen assigned to the case Detective Mitsuhiro Maniwa and Detective Kellchi Ikari suspect that the attack is figment of her imagination considering the stress that she is under at work. Her last character design won awards but she has been unable to repeat this success. However once a second victim appears they are forced to take the case more seriously.

The Montage Film Reviews Sunday DVD Rental Suggestion Podcast (SDRSP) is an audio podcast, that began life running for the first Sunday in September to the last Sunday in May. Subsequently, there is no set schedule as posting is dependent on availability. However, any new episodes are always released on a Sunday.