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18 Feb
2021 |
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17 Feb
2021 |
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| Columbia Noir #2 |
| Indicator has followed its excellent collection of noir titles from Columbia Studios with the appropriately titled Columbia Noir #2, another terrific six-film set of lesser-seen but quality noir titles, all with commentaries and other supplemental features. A delighted Slarek steps back into the shadows. |
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13 Feb
2021 |
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| Breeder |
| Social commentary meets torture porn in screenwriter Maria Møller Christoffersen and director Jens Dahl's well made, well acted but uneven mix of up-to-date concerns and too-familiar horror tropes. Slarek gets medical with Montage Pictures' new Blu-ray. |
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13 Feb
2021 |
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1 Feb
2021 |
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| Light Sleeper |
| Willem Dafoe plays a lonely courier who works for a high class drug dealer played by Susan Sarandon in Paul Schrader's arresting, richly textured and compellingly performed 1992 character study. Slarek revists a too-often overlooked film on Indicator's impressive new Blu-ray. |
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10 Feb
2021 |
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9 Feb
2021 |
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| Dawn of the Dead Blu-ray and 4K UHD Standard Editions in March |
| Following the huge success of its lavish Limited Edition box sets released in Autumn 2020, Second Sight have announced the March release of Standard Editions of its acclaimed 4K UHD and Blu-ray releases of George Romero's genre-defining Dawn of the Dead. |
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9 Feb
2021 |
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| Bassam Tariq's Mogul Mowgli on BFI Blu-ray in February |
| Following its UK premiere at the London Film Festival and its cinema and BFI player release in November to widespread critical acclaim and starring Riz Ahmed in one of his finest roles, Mogul Mowgli comes to UK Blu-ray later this month from the BFI. |
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3 Feb
2021 |
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| Columbia Noir #3 and Someone to Watch Over Me from Indicator in May |
| Indicator has announced its May Blu-ray releases, the cream of which is the third in its ongoing Noir collections, the six-film Columbia Noir #3, which is joined by Ridley Scott's erotic thriller Someone to Watch Over Me and a standard edition of John Huston's Fat City. |
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31 Jan
2021 |
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| Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea |
| A bonkers Czech comedy about Nazis time traveling to deliver an H-bomb to Hitler and the man pretending to be his own twin in order to inadvertently save the world comes to Blu-ray via Second Run. Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea is reviewed by clydefro. |
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30 Jan
2021 |
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29 Jan
2021 |
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| Cult favourites, exploitation classics & more from Arrow in April |
| The April releases from Arrow Video have been announced, which include Blu-ray special editions of Death Has Blue Eyes, Clapboard Jungle and Switchblade Sisters, a Blu-ray Steelbook of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and 4K UHD special editions of Battle Royale and Donnie Darko. |
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28 Jan
2021 |
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| Karloff, Lugosi, Ford and Russian Raid on Eureka Blu-ray in March/April |
| Eureka has announced its April Blu–ray releases, which include a six-film collection of Boris Karloff films, a welcome re-release of the excellent Bela Lugosi/Edgar Allen Poe three-film set, and a double-bill of lesser seen John Ford westerns, plus a late March release of a recent Russian action movie. |
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25 Jan
2021 |
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| Link |
| Camus was at director Richard Franklin’s side all through pre-production, production and some post-production of his anthropological thriller Link, shot in the UK in 1985. After an attempt at a dispassionate Blu-ray film review, a few behind the scenes stories… |
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24 Jan
2021 |
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| The Valdez Horses |
| Charles Bronson gives one of his finest performances as a mixed-race horse trader who forms a bond of friendship with a young boy who turns up at his door looking for work in a captivatingly understated and gently paced 70s western. Slarek is completely caught out by the poetry of a film he might not have seen were it not for Indicator's fine new Blu-ray. |
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21 Jan
2021 |
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| The Valachi Papers |
| Charles Bronson plays real-life mafia foot soldier and whistleblower Joe Valachi in this engaging chronicle of his life of crime. Slarek is surprised just how faithful the film is to actual events, and learns a lot about Valachi, his criminal career and the making of the film from the excellent special features on Indicator's new Blu-ray. |
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16 Jan
2021 |
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| The Don is Dead |
| One of the first of the mob-themed crime films to appear in the wake the wake of the success of The Godfather, The Don is Dead is a neat little gangster movie whose qualities easily eclipse its small flaws. Slarek mobs up for a film whose director and cast are worth the price of admission alone and which looks great on Eureka's new Blu-ray. |
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10 Jan
2021 |
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| Saint Maud |
| In cinemas last October, the assured little gem, Saint Maud suffered, like every one else, from the Covid effect. It becomes available on digital, DVD and Blu-ray on the 1st February… Camus has seen a review screener and urges you to seek it out. |
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5 Jan
2021 |
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29 Dec
2020 |
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| A Soldier's Story |
| Howard E. Rollins Jr. plays a Captain investigating the murder of the sergeant of an all-black company in WW2 in Norman Jewison's compelling film adaptation of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Slarek revisits an important film on Indicator's typically impressive new Blu-ray. |
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19 Dec
2020 |
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| Devil in a Blue Dress |
| Denzel Washington stars as an out-of-work WW2 veteran who is drawn into a dangerous world of crime and subtefuge in Carl Franklin's stylish and hugely enjoyable neo-noir. Slarek revisits one of his favourites from the 1990s, which looks and sounds superb on Indicator's new Blu-ray. |
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14 Dec
2020 |
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| Road Games |
| Before director Richard Franklin hit the Hollywood big time with Psycho II, he made a road movie inspired by Rear Window in which a truck driver on the famous east-west highway cutting across Australia’s vast Nullarbor Plain, is convinced he is following a serial killer. Camus plays Road Games… |
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13 Dec
2020 |
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| Goodbye, Dragon Inn |
| The final screening at a run-down Taipei cinema is the venue for Tsai Ming-Liang's poetic, touching and intermittently humorous example of 'slow cinema'. Slarek becomes absorbed by the film's lingering focus on suggestion and small character details and salutes the quality of Second Run's recent Blu-ray release. |
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5 Dec
2020 |
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| Columbia Noir #1 |
| Indicator has released its first collection of noir thrillers and dramas from Columbia's back-catalogue and it's a a beautiful thing, with six terrific films and a slew of excellent special features. Slarek emerges from the shadows a happy and satisfied man and looks enthusiastically forward to volume 2. |
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25 Nov
2020 |
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| Sweet Charity |
| Based on a successful Broadway musical, Sweet Charity tells the tale of a young lady looking for love in Manhattan in the 60s. The movie was unsuccessful. Bob Fosse’s feature debut almost sank Universal Pictures. But hey, it’s still Bob Fosse… Camus spends a little time on the Blu-ray… |
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