Shaw Brothers revenge duo on Eureka Classics Blu-ray in June news | 12 April 2025 Eureka Entertainment has announced the release Exact Revenge, featuring two of Shaw Brothers Studio’s most compelling and underrated revenge tales – The Eunuch and The Deadly Knives – on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world in June. Rulers of the City blu-ray review | 11 April 2025 Things quickly complicate for a young man at the bottom of the Italian criminal ladder when he swindles the head of a powerful crime family in genre maestro Fernando Di Leo’s 1976 crime drama-thriller Rulers of the City [I padroni della città]. Slarek rubs shoulders with Roman gangsters on Radiance’s recently released Blu-ray.

9 Apr 2025 Murakawa Toru, Paul Vecchiali, Wayne Wang & Polish Animation from Radiance in July The July Blu-ray releases from Radiance have been announced as Murakawa Toru's The Beast to Die, Paul Vecchiali's Rosa la rose, fille publique, the 27-film Essential Polish Animation, and Wayne Wang's Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper is Expensive. 8 Apr 2025 Ishii Gakuryū's The Box Man on Third Window Blu-ray in June The Box Man, the latest film from Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family director Ishii Gakuryū, is coming to UK Blu-ray from Third Window Films in June with a damned cool slipcase on the first 2000 copies. 8 Apr 2025 Acclaimed war drama Hong Kong 1941 on Eureka Blu-ray in June Eureka Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray release of Hong Kong 1941, the critically acclaimed masterpiece starring Chow Yun-fat, Cecilia Yip and Alex Man, from a brand new 4K restoration in June as part of the Masters of Cinema series. 4 Apr 2025 The Nice Guys & Talk to Me on Second Sight UHD & Blu-ray in June Second Sight has announced that Shane Black's gloriously comedic crime drama The Nice Guys and Danny and Michael Philippou's inventive horror title Talk to Me are coming to Limited Edition UHD/Bluray in June. 4 Apr 2025 Kitano Takeshi's US co-production Brother on BFI Blu-ray in April The BFI has confirmed the April Blu-ray release of Brother, the only film that Kitano Takeshi made outside of Japan and partly in the English language, with special features including the rarely seen short film The Green Flash starring Omar Epps. 3 Apr 2024 Shaolin Boxers One of a slew of attempts to find a new martial arts superstar in the wake of Bruce Lee’s death, the 1974 Shaolin Boxers [Fu Jian Shao Lin quan] saw former supporting player James Tien briefly promoted to the lead in this thinly plotted but action-packed old school basher. Slarek kicks and punches along with Eureka’s new Blu-ray. 2 Apr 2025 A trio of classic Clint Eastwood titles on 4K UHD in April Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment has announced the 4K UHD release of three films starring legendary actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, The Outlaw Josey Wales and Pale Rider in April. 31 Mar 2024 Je t'aime je t'taime A time travel experiment goes wrong in Je t’aime je t’aime, directed by Alain Resnais in 1968. Radiance’s Blu-ray is reviewed by Gary Couzens. 29 Mar 2025 A-list action, sf noir, a subway heist and more from Arrow in June Arrow Video has announced its June UHD and Blu-ray releases as Road House, Dark City, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Witness, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Swordfish and The Invisible Swordsman. 28 Mar 2025 Argento giallo Four Flies on Grey Velvet on UHD and Blu-ray in April One of our favourite UK labels, Shameless, has announced that it will be bringing Dario Argento's cult 1971 giallo Four Flies of Grey Velvet to separate 4K UHD and Blu-ray releases in April. 28 Mar 2025 Four Sided Triangle on Hammer UHD and Blu-ray in March The 1953 science fiction thriller Four Sided Triangle, directed by Hammer legend Terence Fisher and starring Hollywood actress Barbara Payton, will be released as a 4K UHD/Blu-ray Limited Collector's Edition by Hammer Films next week. 27 Mar 2025 Baker in May, Kiarostami, Demy & Girard from Criterion UK in June The UK releases from the Criterion Collection in June have been announced as Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us, François Girard’s Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould and Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, to be preceded by Sean Bakers Prince of Broadway in May. 27 Mar 2025 Tilman Singer's horror thriller Cuckoo on UHD, Blu-ray & DVD in April An unsettling horror tale from writer-director Tilman Singer featuring a strong central performance from Hunter Schafer, Cuckoo will be released in April on UHD, Blu-ray and DVD by Dazzler Media. 26 Jan 2025 Snow White Dogged by controversy for two and a half years over the fallout from misjudged interviews, a famous actor’s disgruntled comments on casting and a slew of questionable creative choices, Snow White is finally here. Camus examines the extent of the controversy and, heigh-ho, off to see it he goes… 25 Mar 2024 Harlequin The second of two Ozploitation films released on Blu-ray and UHD in March 2025 by Indicator, Harlequin from 1980 is an update of the Rasputin legend starring David Hemmings and Robert Powell and directed by Simon Wincer. Review by Gary Couzens. 25 Mar 2025 Simon Perry's Eclipse on BFI Flipside Blu-ray and Digital in April Simon Perry’s eerie, atmospheric psychological thriller Eclipse, adapted from Nicholas Wollaston’s haunting novel and inexplicably blown adrift since its release in 1977, is coming to BFI Flipside Blu-ray and digital platforms in April. 23 Mar 2024 The Rebel & The Punch and Judy Man Tony Hancock was the most popular and gifted British comedian of the immediate post-war period. Studio Canal marks the centenary of his birth with a twinned release of The Rebel and The Punch and Judy Man. Jerry Whyte titters away as he struggles to fathom what made Hancock tick. 18 Mar 2024 Thirst Next in Indicator’s series of Ozploitation releases is Thirst, the vampire film from 1979, released in UHD and Blu-ray and reviewed by Gary Couzens. 17 Mar 2024 The Eel After ten years in prison for a violent crime of passion, an insular man begins a new life in a small riverside hamlet whose residents know nothing of his past misdeeds in The Eel [Unagi], Imamura Shōhei’s masterful tale of guilt, redemption and community. Slarek hangs out in the barbershop with Radiance’s new Blu-ray. 16 Mar 2024 Peter Ibbetson Love never dies in Peter Ibbetson, the third film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper to be released by Indicator. Gary Couzens heads off to dreamland. 14 Mar 2024 The Lives of a Bengal Lancer Starring Gary Cooper and directed by Henry Hathaway, 1935’s The Lives of a Bengal Lancer comes to Blu-ray from Indicator. Gary Couzens heads off to the outposts of the Empire. 9 Mar 2024 Doctor Vampire A surgeon visiting England from Hong Kong stumbles across a nest of vampires and falls victim to one of them in writer-director Jamie Luk’s 1990 horror-comedy, Doctor Vampire. Gort heads east to sink his teeth into a film that is equal parts silly and smart on Eureka’s new Blu-ray. 7 Mar 2024 Now and Forever Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard and Shirley Temple star in Now and Forever, in which a conman is redeemed by his daughter he had never met before. The first of three films released by Indicator on Blu-ray starring Cooper and directed by Henry Hathaway, it is reviewed by Gary Couzens. 3 Mar 2024 All We Imagine as Light Payal Kapadia’s Cannes prizewinner All We Imagine as Light is released dual-format by the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens. 1 Mar 2024 60 Years of Superlative Performances Gene Hackman, RIP With the news that Gene Hackman has passed away in as-yet uncertain circumstances at the grand age of 95 along with his wife Betsy Arakawa, Camus pays trubute of one of the very finest and most beloved screen actors of his generation. 25 Feb 2024 The Cat Three men stage a bank heist in the centre of Düsseldorf but their plan includes more than cleaning out the vault in Dominik Graf’s superbly devised and brilliantly executed 1988 crime thriller, The Cat [Die Katze]. A riveted Slarek watches from behind the barriers as the twisty tale unfolds on Radiance’s splendid Blu-ray. 20 Feb 2024 Queen Bee Joan Crawford is at her bitchy best as the manipulative matriarch of a southern plantation home in Queen Bee, writer-director Ranald MacDougall’s adaptation of Edna’s Lee’s gothic melodrama. Slarek falls under her calculating spell on Indicator’s new Blu-ray. 18 Feb 2024 Chantal Akerman Volume 1 1967-1978 The first of two Blu-ray box sets coinciding with a BFI retrospective in what would have been the director’s seventy-fifth year, Chantal Akerman Volume 1 is a five-disc set including Jeanne Dielman, voted the Greatest Film of All Time in Sight & Sound’s 2022 poll. Review by Gary Couzens. 14 Feb 2025 David Lynch: leaving the darkness of future past Recently, filmmaker, painter, author, musician and occasional actor David Lynch shuffled off this mortal coil, leaving us with a fascinating and artistically thrilling body of work. As a long-standing and passionate fan of Lynch’s cinema, Slarek takes a very personal look back at the film and TV career of this uniquely gifted and visionary artist. 5 Feb 2025 Underworld Beauty A fresh-out-of jail former yakuza is pulled back into his old life when a deal designed to make reparations for a past mistake goes badly wrong in Underworld Beauty, a noir-soaked 1958 crime thriller from director Suzuki Seijun. Slarek follows the money on Radiance’s recently released Blu-ray. 30 Jan 2024 High and Low The second of two Kurosawa films released on Blu-ray by the BFI this week, High and Low is a kidnapping drama from 1963. Gary Couzens goes hunting.