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| 23 Sep 2016 |
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| 19 Sep 2016 |
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| 13 Sep 2016 |
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| 13 Sep 2016 |
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| 12 Sep 2016 |
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| Pablo Larraín's Neruda comes to UK cinemas in December |
| The latest film from site favourite Pablo Larraín – the story of celebrated poet, diplomat and politician Pablo Neruda – plays in competition at this year's London Film Festival and comes to UK cinemas in December from Network. |
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| 12 Sep 2016 |
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| 12 Sep 2016 |
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| 9 Sep 2016 |
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| 9 Sep 2016 |
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| 8 Sep 2016 |
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| 6 Sep 2016 |
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| 6 Sep 2016 |
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| 5 Sep 2016 |
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| 2 Sep 2016 |
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| 30 Aug 2016 |
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| 30 Aug 2016 |
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12 Sep
2016 |
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| The Blue Dahlia / The Glass Key |
| Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake both enjoyed great success in a series of films that exploited their natural outsider DNA, starring in both The Blue Dahlia and The Glass Key. Camus cruises the noir streets and reviews both Blu-ray releases from Arrow Academy. |
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12 Sep
2016 |
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| Matinee |
| Fear of nuclear annihilation peaks during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis – what better time to open a gimmick-laden, atomic themed monster movie? Joe Dante's pean to the joys of cinemagoing and late 50s genre B-movies looks terrific on Arrow's superb new Blu-ray. Slarek goes Mant! |
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7 Sep
2016 |
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| A Scene at the Sea |
| A film built around surfing in which surfing plays a background role and the two lead characters never say a word is the basis for one of Kitano Takeshi's most gently mesmerising films, and it looks and sounds terrific on Third Window's new and most welcome Blu-ray. |
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29 Aug
2016 |
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| The Flight of the Phoenix |
| The Flight of the Phoenix is the very definition of a rousing, intelligent Hollywood adventure yarn with terrific characters played by a host of Tinseltown’s finest. Camus brushes the sand off, braves the fierce desert sun and reviews the upcoming Eureka Blu-ray. |
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29 Aug
2016 |
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| The Shop on the High Street |
| In a Slovak town during the Second World War, a disgruntled carpenter is made Aryan Master of a Jewish shop and starts to bond with its elderly owner in Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos's superb 1965 drama, which looks terrific on Second Run's fine Blu-ray. |
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23 Aug
2016 |
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| Hangmen Also Die |
| In the middle of World War II, the assassination of a German official made life very difficult for occupied Czech citizens. Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die tells this story with skill and suspense galore. Camus rues the facts and celebrates the fiction… |
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22 Aug
2016 |
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| The Bloodstained Butterfly |
| A giallo devoid of setpiece murders and focussed on story and character instead? Director Duccio Tessari's smart and compelling 1971 melding of murder mystery, courtroom drama and police procedural is just that. Gort immerses himself in Arrow's fine new Blu-ray. |
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17 Aug
2016 |
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| Sweet Bean |
| Kiki Kirin is superb as an elderly woman whose upbeat attitude and culinary skills start to transform the life of a lonely dorayaki seller in Kawase Naomi's deeply moving drama, released on dual format on Monday by Eureka as part of the Masters of Cinema series. |
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12 Aug
2016 |
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| The Count Yorga Collection |
| Robert Quarry shines in two films that marked a transition period that saw the vampire movie move into the modern age, both of which have been brought together in Arrow's excellent Blu-ray set. Slarek covers his neck and sharpens his stake. |
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8 Aug
2016 |
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| Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection |
| Kaji Meiko shines as feminist antihero Scorpion in a quadrilogy of films from the early 70s that strikingly meld exploitation and high art, brought together with new transfer and extra features in a superb box set from Arrow Video. |
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7 Aug
2016 |
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| Suicide Squad |
| Comic giant DC was thrust into a war with Marvel after the latter’s stock took flight with Iron Man and now soars in the box office stratosphere. After the widely panned Batman vs. Superman, DC is pinning its hopes on its bad guys. Camus goes punk. |
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23 July
2016 |
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| The BFG |
| Roald Dahl’s charming tale of a dream weaving giant makes it to the big screen courtesy of a director who was probably born to make it, Steven Spielberg in full 1982 E.T. mode. Camus cautiously ventures into Giant Country and samples a jar of dreams… |
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28 July
2016 |
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| Buster Keaton – The Complete Short Films 1917-1923 |
| 32 films – 32 great films – charting Buster Keaton's journey from supporting player to comedy giant have been brought together and restored for Eureka's brilliant Blu-ray box set. Slarek has spent the last week with the widest of appreciative smiles on his face. |
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23 July
2016 |
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| Star Trek Beyond |
| The 2009 Star Trek reboot rushes on to its second sequel after two films that, while entertaining, didn’t boldly go where no one had gone before which is kind of the point. We are assured this one does. Camus goes Beyond… |
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20 July
2016 |
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| Joshua Oppenheimer: Early Works |
| Documentary meets avant-garde to thrilling effect in this collection of 12 early films by The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence director Joshua Oppenheimer, recently released on UK DVD by Second Run. Slarek revels in the joys of political experimental cinema. |
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14 July
2016 |
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| Ghostbusters |
| The 1984 Ghostbusters has acquired a classic status and there are a lot of people out there in webland who think misogyny is an Irish girl who lives in a lamp. Camus, like director Paul Feig, is stunned that we are even having this conversation. Funny is funny. Right? |
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