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20 Jun
2021 |
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| Piccadilly |
| A key late British silent, directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong and featuring an uncredited appearance from a young Charles Laughton, Piccadilly comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens pays a visit. |
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20 Jun
2021 |
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| The Hands of Orlac |
| Conrad Veidt plays a concert pianist whose irreparably damaged hands are replaced with those of a convicted murderer in Robert Wiene's fascinating and expressionistic and horror-tinged mystery-drama from 1924. Slarek absorbs the strong emotions and gets into an issue he has with the ending on the newly released Masters of Cinema Blu-ray. |
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11 Jun
2021 |
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10 Jun
2021 |
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| One Armed Boxer |
| After an illness-enforced dry spell, Slarek gets back into the reviewing saddle with an appreciation of one of the best of the first wave of 70s martial arts movies in Jimmy Wang Yu's action-packed One Armed Boxer on a recently released and damned fine Eureka Blu-ray. |
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10 Jun
2021 |
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4 Jun
2021 |
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28 May
2021 |
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| Columbia Noir #3 |
| It's late, it's long, but Slarek has finally completed his epic review of Indicator's latest, six-film box set of film noir titles from Columbia studios, another superb collection that includes some absolute gems, six excellent commentaries and thumping collection of first-rate special features. |
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28 May
2021 |
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| Dune, Jodorowsky, Dinner in America and more from Arrow in August |
| Arrow has unveiled an absolute feast of Blu-ray and UHD titles for August, including a Jodorowsky double of El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Adam Rehmeier's acclaimed Dinner in America, Dario Argento's A Cat O' Nine Tails and four editions of Blu-ray and UHD remasters of David Lynch's Dune. |
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28 May
2021 |
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27 May
2021 |
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| Bob Clark's Murder by Decree on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital in June |
| One of the finest non-Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes film pits the world's greatest consulting detective against London's most notorious serial killer, and it's coming to UK Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms in June in a new restoration from StudioCanal. |
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25 May
2021 |
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24 May
2021 |
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| Maeve |
| Made in Belfast in 1981, Pat Murphy and John Davies’s film Maeve takes a specifically feminist look at the Irish Troubles. Reviewed by Gary Couzens on newly released BFI Blu-ray. |
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21 May
2021 |
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| Anna May Wong silent melodrama Piccadilly on BFI Blu-ray in June |
| Chinese American screen goddess Anna May Wong stars in one of the pinnacles of British silent cinema and seething with sexual and racial tension, which has been beautifully restored by the National Film Archive and is to be released on UK Blu-ray in June by the BFI. |
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20 May
2021 |
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20 May
2021 |
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17 May
2021 |
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| Jungle Fever |
| An interracial romance is the catalyst for Spike Lee’s sprawling fifth feature Jungle Fever, released on Blu-ray for its thirtieth anniversary by the BFI, reviewed by Gary Couzens. |
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17 May
2021 |
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| Radio On |
| A very English road movie (London to Bristol), Christopher Petit’s debut feature Radio On soon became a cult movie largely due to its New Wave soundtrack. Now reissued on Blu-ray, is it still roadworthy after forty-two years? Gary Couzens finds out. |
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16 May
2021 |
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| Someone to Watch Over Me |
| Director Ridley Scott’s first four films were all visual powerhouses regardless of their commercial or critical performance. It was something of a surprise to hear his fifth film would be set in the present in New York with a ‘standard’ plot. Camus watches over Someone To Watch Over Me… |
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13 May
2021 |
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| Carla's Song |
| Robert Carlyle plays a Glasgow bus driver who has his eyes opened when he falls for a Nicaraguan refugee and travels with her to her war torn home country. Slarek revisits the first collaboration between director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty, and rediscovers a film that has really grown on him over time. |
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11 May
2021 |
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| Play for Today: Volume 2 |
| Play for Today was a landmark drama series, running from 1970 to 1984. The BFI’s second Blu-ray box set, Play for Today: Volume 2, brings together six of them. In his first review for Cine Outsider, Gary Couzens takes a look. |
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5 May
2021 |
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| Karloff at Columbia |
| Six films made by Boris Karloff for Columbia have been brought together in one delicious Blu-ray package by Eureka, complete with commentaries, galleries and radio plays. Slarek dives headlong into the world of mad scientists and is reminded just how good this talented but often underrated actor could be. |
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25 Apr
2021 |
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| Irréversible |
| Gaspar Noé's reverse-narrative rape-revenge movie starkly divided critics and audiences on its original release and still has the power to stun a viewer into shocked silence today. 19 years later, Slarek steps back into the abyss to revisit the film on Indicator's brilliant new 2-disc Blu-ray release. |
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23 Apr
2021 |
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| Raw |
| A young vegetarian in her first year at veterinary school starts to undergo a disturbing transformation following her first small taste of meat during the school's hazing ritual in director Julia Ducournau's terrific drama-body horror feature debut. Slarek revisits one of his favourite films of recent years on a superb new Second Sight Blu-ray. |
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18 Apr
2021 |
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| Straight Shooting & Hell Bent: Two Films by John Ford |
| Two once thought lost westerns from the early days of the career of a then young John Ford have been restored by Universal and brought together in a new two-disc Blu-ray package from Eureka's Masters of Cinema series. Slarek saddles up for two highly enjoyable rides with Cheyenne Harry. |
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16 Apr
2021 |
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| Promising Young Woman |
| Something tells me that Promising Young Woman is not on Supreme Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s ‘must see’ list. It’s a career highlight from actress Carey Mulligan as she attempts to serve justice to potential and bona fide sexual predators. Camus is impressed. |
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14 Apr
2021 |
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| Zack Snyder's Justice League |
| It's rare that a film that undergoes an enforced transformation in production receives the necessary funding for the director to realise his original vision, but that's just what happened with Zack Snyder and Justice League. Longtime absent reviewer Lord Summerisle returns to evaluate the changes made. |
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