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25 Jul
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| The Birdman of Alcatraz |
| Burt Lancaster was a class act and showing his talent at its height is a film about a murderer who became a world authority on birds after rescuing a sparrow. The Birdman of Alcatraz is also astonishingly emotional. Camus does time with the new Blu-ray… |
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2 Aug
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| Mission Impossible Fallout |
| Tom Cruise, if you can imagine him free from the grip of Scientology, seems like a strongly driven, physically gifted, amiable movie star. We know he can act but as Ethan Hunt he gets to play with all the toys. Camus accepts the latest impossible mission… |
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25 Jul
2018 |
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| You Were Never Really Here |
| Lord Summerisle examines the similarities and differences between Lynne Ramsay's latest feature and Jonathan Ames' novel, the crucial role played by the film's extraordinary soundtrack and the dismaying lack of extra features on Studiocanal's UK Blu-ray release. |
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22 Jul
2018 |
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| Footsteps in the Fog |
| Stewart Granger is a wife-murderer and Jean Simmons is a maid who attempts to blackmail him in the unexpectedly dark and impressively unpredictable 1955 gaslight noir Footsteps in the Fog. Slarek takes a trip to foggy Victorian London with Indicator's fine new Blu-ray. |
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17 Jul
2018 |
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| Black Peter |
| The first dramatic feature from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus director Miloš Forman and one of the films that kicked off the Czech New Wave, the 1964 Black Peter was recently released on Blu-ray by Second Run. Slarek revisits the uncertanties of youth. |
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8 Jul
2018 |
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| Samuel Fuller at Columbia 1937-1961 |
| In a review that may take as long to read as the collection it's covering does to watch, Slarek emerges from two weeks of full immersion in the wonders of Samuel Fuller at Columbia 1937-1961, a superb, seven-film box Blu-ray set of the director's work from Indicator. |
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27 Jun
2018 |
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| The Complete Sartana |
| All five films featuring black-dressed, sharp-shooting, gadget-loving gambler and gunfighter Sartana have been remastered in a richly-featured new Blu-ray box set by Arrow. It's taken two weeks to watch and review the whole thing, but Slarek is now a confirmed fan. |
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19 Jun
2018 |
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| The China Syndrome |
| In 1979, an eerily prescient film introduced the idea of disaster at a nuclear power planet. Hugely entertaining, The China Syndrome is a first class thriller, one that real events – shortly after its release – made its fiction all too plausible. Camus counts the rads… |
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19 Jun
2018 |
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| No Way Out |
| Sidney Poitier is a black doctor who fails to save the life of the brother of a racist criminal in a searing 1950 indictment of racism in post-war America. Slarek grits his teeth and salutes this bold but uncomfortable film, newly released on dual format by Masters of Cinema. |
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11 Jun
2018 |
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| Iron Monkey |
| Donnie Yen stars and master choreographer Yuen Woo-ping directs a 1993 Wu Xia favourite that was not hit on its release but is now regarded as a genre classic. Slarek revisits a higely enjoyable martial arts treat, which has been given an HD makeover on Eureka's new Blu-ray. |
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4 Jun
2018 |
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| The Defiant Ones |
| Stanley Kramer’s The Defiant Ones examines racism in all of its poorly reasoned stupidity by chaining up black and white and then asking both “How useful is racism to either of you now?” It’s Kramer’s signature film. Camus goes on the run with Eureka’s new Blu-ray… |
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4 Jun
2018 |
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| Blade Runner 2049 |
| A little later than intended (apologies abound), Camus takes on the Blu-ray release of Denis Villeneuve’s sequel to one of the most influential films ever made, Blade Runner 2049. Inevitably, the review is strewn with spoilers and covers the single disc release. |
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29 May
2018 |
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| The Old Dark House |
| Having directed one of the all-time great horror films in Frankenstein, James Whale delivered a masterful comedy-chiller that after years as a thought-lost film has undergone a 4K restoration and was recently released on Blu-ray by Masters of Cinema. Slarek is in gothic heaven. |
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