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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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30 Apr
2021 |
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| Demonic delirium, Tarantino and a giallo masterwork from Arrow in July |
| Arrow has announce a seriously impressive set of Blu-ray and UHD titles for July, including Italian horror favourites Demons and Demons 2, The Daimajin Trilogy, a collection of 4 spaghetti westerns, a definitive edition of True Romance and Argento's giallo gem The Cat O' Nine Tails. |
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29 Apr
2021 |
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| Ingmar Bergman: Volume 1 Blu-ray box set from the BFI in July |
| The BFI has announced the July release of the first in a planned series of 4 box sets that will contain an eventual total of 32 films by the great Ingmar Bergman. This first set contains 7 films from the start of Bergman's film career in new 2K restorations. |
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29 Apr
2021 |
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27 Apr
2021 |
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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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23 Apr
2021 |
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| The Babadook Limited Edition UHD/Blu-ray from Second Sight in June |
| The Nightingale director Jennifer Kent's riveting debut, a multi-layered study of loss, depression and the trials of single parenthood dressed up as a terrifying haunted horror tale, is to be released as a Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray package in June by Second Sight. |
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23 Apr
2021 |
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| Play for Today, Volume 2 on 3-disc Blu-ray from the BFI in May |
| Following on from its acclaimed Blu-ray collection of plays from the BBC's prestigious Play for Today, the BFI has announced a second, 3-disc and 7-play set for May, that includes Stocker's Copper, The Spongers, Victims of Apartheid and The Elephants' Graveyard. |
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23 Apr
2021 |
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23 Apr
2021 |
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21 Apr
2021 |
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21 Apr
2021 |
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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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10 Apr
2021 |
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| I Was at Home, But... |
| A woman still recovering from a previous family trauma struggles to cope when her young son shows up are mysteriously disappearing for a week in Angela Schanelec's cinematically minimalist drama. An initially uncertain but ultimately absorbed Slarek rediscovers the importance of small moments on Second Run's typically strong new Blu-ray. |
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3 Apr
2021 |
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| Twentieth Century |
| John Barrymore and Carole Lombard are a riot as a Svengali-like playwright and his protégée in one of the films that gave birth to the screwball comedy subgenre. Howard Hawks directs from a script by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, leaving Slarek to just sit back and enjoy the show on Indicator's new Blu-ray release. |
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29 Mar
2021 |
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| The Mauritanian |
| Imagine having some shady friends who may or may not be involved in a world-changing event that plunges the biggest world power into a global war with a noun. How would that power treat you? Camus tours the Gitmo gift shop (it’s for real) of The Mauritanian… |
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27 Mar
2021 |
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| Fandango at the Wall |
| What the world needs now… are talented musicians on both sides of the dividing wall separating Mexico from the United States. Varda Bar-Kar’s Fandango at the Wall is a celebration of what can unite us when the world seems so torn apart. Camus lets loose his inner percussionist… |
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26 Mar
2021 |
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| The Criminal Code |
| Walter Huston is a District Attorney who takes change of the prison to which he previously sent a young man who unintentionally killed the son of a wealthy individual in The Criminal Code, a compelling early sound film from Howard Hawks. Slarek shares jail time with a first-rate cast on Indicator's newly released Blu-ray. |
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25 Mar
2021 |
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| Rose: A Love Story |
| Text and subtext are in sublime balance in Jennifer Sheridan's assured and compelling Rose: A Love Story, in which a couple have chosen to live in isolation to protect a secret whose exposure could destroy their relationship. We're reposting this London Film Festival review in advance of the film's welcome5 April UK release from Signature Entertainment. |
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21 Mar
2021 |
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| Things Change |
| Revisiting a film that has fallen off your radar after a twenty year gap can find you wondering why you so liked it in the first place, but not so with Slarek and David Mamet's unexpectedly warm delight of a second feature, Things Change, which is released on a fine Blu-ray tomorrow by Indicator. |
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19 Mar
2021 |
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| Viy |
| After an unfortunate encounter with a witch, a young seminary student is called upon to say the last prayers of the women the witch transformed into in the 1967 Soviet supernatural horror, Viy. Slarek falls for a film on a terrific 2-disc Blu-ray set from Eureka that includes a second feature adaptation of the same story. |
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18 Mar
2021 |
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| The Dig |
| Infrequently - which is why it’s such a lovely surprise - a film comes along that is directed in such a novel way, you are transported by the freshness of its vision. A true, albeit melancholy story of a famous historical find, The Dig is a superbly acted gem. Camus uncovers this treasure… |
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13 Mar
2021 |
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| Crimewave |
| All but disowned by director Sam Raimi, his comical follow-up to his smash indie debut The Evil Dead was plagued by production problems and studio interference, but for some of us it's still a hugely entertaining and imaginative work. Slarek visits an old favourite on Indicator's warmly welcomed and impressively featured new Blu-ray. |
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