Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine on 4K UHD from the BFI in April news | 20 March 2025 The BFI has announced the full set of features for its April 4K UHD release of Mathieu Kassovitz's acclaimed and controversial masterpice, La Haine, which includes a new alternative score by Asian Dub Foundation. The Rebel & The Punch and Judy Man blu-ray review | 23 March 2025 Tony Hancock was the most popular and gifted British comedian of the immediate post-war period. Studio Canal marks the centenary of his birth with a twinned release of The Rebel and The Punch and Judy Man. Jerry Whyte titters away as he struggles to fathom what made Hancock tick.

20 Mar 2025 4 films exploring darker aspects of human nature from Indicator in June In June Indicator is releasing four films that take a daring and uncompromising approach to exploring some of the darker aspects of human nature, namely Carnal Knowldege and A Day at the Beach in the UK, and The Gentle Gunman and The Ship That Died of Shame in the US and Canada. 18 Mar 2024 Thirst Next in Indicator’s series of Ozploitation releases is Thirst, the vampire film from 1979, released in UHD and Blu-ray and reviewed by Gary Couzens. 17 Mar 2024 The Eel After ten years in prison for a violent crime of passion, an insular man begins a new life in a small riverside hamlet whose residents know nothing of his past misdeeds in The Eel [Unagi], Imamura Shōhei’s masterful tale of guilt, redemption and community. Slarek hangs out in the barbershop with Radiance’s new Blu-ray. 16 Mar 2024 Peter Ibbetson Love never dies in Peter Ibbetson, the third film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper to be released by Indicator. Gary Couzens heads off to dreamland. 14 Mar 2024 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Starring Gary Cooper and directed by Henry Hathaway, 1935’s The Lives of a Bengal Lancer comes to Blu-ray from Indicator. Gary Couzens heads off to the outposts of the Empire. 9 Mar 2024 Doctor Vampire A surgeon visiting England from Hong Kong stumbles across a nest of vampires and falls victim to one of them in writer-director Jamie Luk’s 1990 horror-comedy, Doctor Vampire. Gort heads east to sink his teeth into a film that is equal parts silly and smart on Eureka’s new Blu-ray. 7 Mar 2024 Now and Forever Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple star in Now and Forever, in which a conman is redeemed by his daughter he had never met before. The first of three films released by Indicator on Blu-ray starring Cooper and directed by Henry Hathaway, it is reviewed by Gary Couzens. 7 Mar 2025 Fran Rubel Kuzui's Tokyo Pop on Third Window Blu-ray in May An underseen gem of ‘80s American independent cinema by Fran Rubel Kuzui that takes us on a breezy tour through bubble era Tokyo, Tokyo Pop is to be released on UK Blu-ray in May by Third Window Films. 6 Mar 2025 Shaw Brothers studio gem The Bells of Death on Eureka Blu-ray in May The Bells of Death, a cherished gem in the history of Shaw Brothers productions, will be released by Eureka Entertainment on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in May as part of the Eureka Classics range. 5 Mar 2025 Radiance announces its June Blu-ray titles and its first UHD release The June releases from Radiance have been announced will be Katō Tai's The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost, World Noir Vol. 3, and Luchino Visconti's La terra trema, plus Todd Solondz's Palindromes on UHD and Blu-ray. 4 Mar 2025 Terror in the Fog: The Wallace Krimi at CCC Blu-ray box set in May Eureka Entertainment has announced the May release of Terror in the Fog: The Wallace Krimi at CCC, five crime thrillers produced by Artur Brauner adapted from the works of British crime writer Bryan Edgar Wallace and his father Edgar Wallace. 3 Mar 2025 Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance on UHD, Blu-ray & DVD in March MUBI has announced the March release of Coralie Fargeat’s multi-award-winning body horror satire The Substance on UHD, Blu-ray and DVD. 3 Mar 2024 All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia’s Cannes prizewinner All We Imagine as Light is released dual-format by the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens. 1 Mar 2024 60 Years of Superlative Performances Gene Hackman, RIP With the news that Gene Hackman has passed away in as-yet uncertain circumstances at the grand age of 95 along with his wife Betsy Arakawa, Camus pays trubute of one of the very finest and most beloved screen actors of his generation. 28 Feb 2025 Jason, Steppenwolf, The Andromeda Strain and more from Arrow in May Arrow has revealed its May disc releases, which will include I Will Never Leave You Alone and Steppenwolf on Blu-ray, Jason Goes to Hell, Jason X and The Andromeda Strain on UHD, and more. 25 Feb 2024 The Cat Three men stage a bank heist in the centre of Düsseldorf but their plan includes more than cleaning out the vault in Dominik Graf’s superbly devised and brilliantly executed 1988 crime thriller, The Cat [Die Katze]. A riveted Slarek watches from behind the barriers as the twisty tale unfolds on Radiance’s splendid Blu-ray. 28 Feb 2025 The House of the Devil & The Coffee Table from Second Sight in April Second Sight has announced that two more titles will be getting the Blu-ray Limited Special Edition treatment, Ti West's The House of the Devil and Caye Casas's The Coffee Table, both of which will be released in April. 20 Feb 2024 Queen Bee Joan Crawford is at her bitchy best as the manipulative matriarch of a southern plantation home in Queen Bee, writer-director Ranald MacDougall’s adaptation of Edna’s Lee’s gothic melodrama. Slarek falls under her calculating spell on Indicator’s new Blu-ray. 18 Feb 2024 Chantal Akerman Volume 1 1967-1978 The first of two Blu-ray box sets coinciding with a BFI retrospective in what would have been the director’s seventy-fifth year, Chantal Akerman Volume 1 is a five-disc set including Jeanne Dielman, voted the Greatest Film of All Time in Sight & Sound’s 2022 poll. Review by Gary Couzens. 14 Feb 2025 David Lynch: leaving the darkness of future past Recently, filmmaker, painter, author, musician and occasional actor David Lynch shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving us with a fascinating and artistically thrilling body of work. As a long-standing and passionate fan of Lynch’s cinema, Slarek takes a very personal look back at the film and TV career of this uniquely gifted and visionary artist. 5 Feb 2025 Underworld Beauty A fresh-out-of jail former yakuza is pulled back into his old life when a deal designed to make reparations for a past mistake goes badly wrong in Underworld Beauty, a noir-soaked 1958 crime thriller from director Suzuki Seijun. Slarek follows the money on Radiance’s recently released Blu-ray. 30 Jan 2024 High and Low The second of two Kurosawa films released on Blu-ray by the BFI this week, High and Low is a kidnapping drama from 1963. Gary Couzens goes hunting. 29 Dec 2024 Cure A deeply unsettling collision of crime drama and psychological horror, and the breakout film for Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi,Cure gets a superb 4K upgrade on Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label. Slarek revisits a favourite film in its third and best-yet disc incarnation. 27 Jan 2024 Stray Dog One of two Akira Kurosawa films released simultaneously on Blu-ray by the BFI, Stray Dog from 1949 is a crime thriller involving the search for the stealer of a gun in post-war Tokyo. Gary Couzens investigates. 25 Jan 2024 Edge of Eternity A former city homicide detective turned Arizona patrolman has to call on his former skills when an unidentified man is murdered in Don Seigel’s noir-tinted 1959 crime melodrama, Edge of Eternity. Slarek takes the Grand Canyon murder mystery tour on Indicator’s impressive new Blu-ray. 22 Jan 2025 The Substance Like Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, every now and again along comes a film from what could arguably be labelled an ‘auteur’. The Substance is a film that is sticky with the filmmaker’s finger, hand and body prints, a film that goes deep and then some. Camus revels in one of the most extraordinary films of 2024… 20 Jan 2024 Delta Space Mission In the second of his ongoing series of reviews of Blu-ray releases by American boutique label Deaf Crocodile, Michael Brooke turns the spotlight on the 1984 Romanian animated science fiction tale, Delta Space Mission. 16 Jan 2024 The Unknown Man of Shandigor In the first of a series of reviews of Blu-ray releases by American specialist label Deaf Crocodile, critic and Blu-ray technical producer Michael Brooke explores the work of this worthy distributor before turning his attention to its Blu-ray release of Jean-Louis Roy's mind-bending delight, The Unknown Man of Shandigor. 15 Jan 2025 Standing at the edge of the precipice: review of the year 2024 (and a little bit more) In a lengthy piece that was way too long in the writing due to the usual external forces, Slarek reflects on 2024 and compiles two lists of his favourite films from that year, and even throws in a few from 2023, having skipped doing so last January in order to mark the site’s 20th anniversary instead. 13 Jan 2025 Australia at the Movies: The Ultimate Guide to Modern Australian Cinema 1990-2020 In what might be his final book, David Stratton covers three decades of Australian film history. Gary Couzens reviews and pays tribute. 1 Jan 2025 Life Story Every so often, Horizon, the BBC’s flagship science series, would do some-thing different. In 1987, the BBC hired William Nicholson to write a drama based on an important but pretty arcane subject, partnered the script with the director of Threads and created a television masterpiece. Camus revisits a cherished favourite…