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The Vixens Trilogy
Special features for Severein's restored Russ Meyer Vixen trilogy revealed
news | 9 November 2024
Severin Films has confirmed the special features for its upcoming UHD and Blu-ray release of Russ Meyer's celebrated Vixen Trilogy, consisting of Vixen, Supervixens and beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens.
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Ozploitation Rarities Volume One
Ozploitation Rarities Volume One
blu-ray review | 6 November 2024
Three deep cuts in Ozploitation Rarities Volume One, released on Blu-ray by Australian distributor Umbrella Entertainment. Gary Couzens heads off Down Under again.
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8 Nov
2024
Ackerman, Del Toro, Kurosawa and more from the BFI in the new year
The BFI has revealed its first quarter 2025 disc lineup, which will include an 11-film Chantal Ackerman box set, Kurosawa Akira's High and Low and Stray Dog, and Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light on Blu-ray, and Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sanjuroand Guillermo Del Toro's Cronos on UHD and Blu-ray.

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6 Nov
2024
An eclectic quartet of Blu-ray releases from Radiance in February
Radiance Films has announced its February Blu-ray releases as Dominik Graf's heist thriller The Cat, Fukasaku Kinji's Hokuriku Proxy War, Tom Noonan's What Happened Was..., and a double bill of films from Patrick Tam, Nomad and My Heart is that Eternal Rose.

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3 Nov
2024
Elaine May, Jean Eustache and Richard Pryor from Criterion in January
Spirit Entertainment has revelaed that the January UK releases from the Criterion Collection will be Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky on Blu-ray, and Jean Eustache's The Mother and The Whore and Richard Pryor's Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life is Calling on Blu-ray and 4K UHD.

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2 Nov
2024
Culinary treat Cooking Price-Wise on BFI Blu-ray in November
Never previously released on any format, Cooking Price-Wise, a brilliantly bizarre crash course in very 1970s cookery featuring cinema's master of terror, Vincent Price, comes to Blu-ray courtesy of BFI Flipside in November.

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26 Oct
2024
The Usual Suspects and Inglorious Basterds headline Arrow's new year disc releases
Arrow's January disc releases have been confirmed as The Usual Suspects, Inglorious Basterds, Incubus, The Cell and The Gift on Limited Edition UHD and Blu-ray, and Rampo Noir on Limited Edition Blu-ray.

25 Oct 2024
The Oblong Box
Vincent Price and Christopher Lee star in The Oblong Box, an Edgar Allan Poe-inspired horror film from 1969 that has been newly released on Blu-ray by the BFI, which is reviewed here by Gary Couzens.

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24 Oct
2024
Hitchcock: The Beginning 11-disc Blu-ray box set in December
Studiocanal has announced the December release of a phenomenal-looking 11-disc Blu-ray box set of restored early films by master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, complete with a new documentary on the influence of his 1929 Blackmail.

22 Oct 2024
Starve Acre
British folk horror in Starve Acre, written and directed by Daniel Kokotajlo from the novel by Andrew Michael Hurley, starring Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark, released on dual-format by the BFI. Gary Couzens hares off to the Yorkshire countryside.

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16 Oct
2024
Horrible History, four historical epics by Chang Cheh on Blu-ray from Eureka in December
The BFI is to release the classic animated adaptation of Richard Adams' timeless novel, Watership Down, in a new 4K restoration on Limited Edition UHD and Blu-ray, and also on iTunes and Amazon Prime.

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16 Oct
2024
Watership Down on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and streaming in November
The BFI is to release the classic animated adaptation of Richard Adams' timeless novel, Watership Down, in a new 4K restoration on Limited Edition UHD and Blu-ray, and also on iTunes and Amazon Prime.

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10 Oct
2024
Four American classics premiere on UK Blu-ray from Indicator in January
The year's finest monster movie, Godzilla Minus One, is coming to 4K UHD+Blu-ray in a Deluxe Edition, a 4K Steelbook edition, and standard Blu-ray and DVD editions, all from Anime Limited and Toho Co. Ltd.

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6 Oct 2024
A quick October site update
After a hectic few days following a concerning few weeks, Slarek outlines why site updates will be limited during October, and why he is currently sweating instead of shivering in a cold house as he normally would this autumnal month.

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2 Oct
2024
Godzilla Minus One on 4K UHD, Steelbook, Blu-ray & DVD in December
The year's finest monster movie, Godzilla Minus One, is coming to 4K UHD+Blu-ray in a Deluxe Edition, a 4K Steelbook edition, and standard Blu-ray and DVD editions, all from Anime Limited and Toho Co. Ltd.

1 Oct 2024
Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1927
If you’re wondering why Slarek hasn’t posted a review for a while, it’s because he’s been spending all his free time watching and writing about (at considerable length) Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1927, a glorious 15-film Blu-ray release from Eureka that every Stan and Ollie fan should own and treasure.

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27 Sep
2024
Poe inspired gothic horror The Oblong Box on BFI Blu-ray in October
Masters of terror Vincent Price and Christopher Lee are both at their spine-chilling best in grisly gothic tale of the macabre The Oblong Box, inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe story and coming to Blu-ray from the BFI in October.

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26 Sep
2024
Lost Highway, The Fisher King & Funny Girl on Criterion UHD in December
Spirit Entertainment has confirmed the December UK releases from the Criterion Collection, all on 4K UHD & Blu-ray combo editions, as David Lynch's Lost Highway, Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King, Barbara Streisand's screen debut, Funny Girl.

24 Sep 2024
The Outcasts
Robert Wynne-Simmons's The Outcasts, a 1982 Irish excursion into folk horror, is released on Blu-ray by the BFI as part of its Flipside line. Review by Gary Couzens.

24 Sep 2024
Michael Powell: Early Works
Before his partnership with Emeric Pressburger that defined both men's careers, Michael Powell made a name for himself making hit and miss films with critics mentioning him in the same respectful breath as a certain Alfred Hitchcock. The BFI has remastered five of Powell's early works. As a lifelong Powell fan, Camus is understandably hugely curious…

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18 Sep 2024
A Man on His Knees
A coffee stall owner discovers that he has been targeted for assassination for reasons he cannot comprehend in writer-director Damiano Damiani’s superb, socially conscious and ultimately downbeat 1979 crime drama, A Man on His Knees. Slarek feels for the unjust downfall of an ordinary man on Radiance’s excellent new Blu-ray.

8 Sep 2024
The Italian Connection
Two American hitmen are sent to Milan to kill a small-time pimp who is wrongly believed to have stolen a drug shipment from the New York Mob in the second film in director Fernando Di Leo’s acclaimed Milieu Trilogy. Slarek revisits a gripping tale of the Italian underworld on a typically strong Blu-ray from Raro Video.

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8 Sep 2024
Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television 1929-1981
In a slight diversion from his regular disc reviews, Gary Couzens turns his attention to Sheldon Hall's premium priced but richly detailed and extensively researched book, Armchair Cinema: A History of Feature Films on British Television 1929-1981.

1 Sep 2024
The Whole Truth
From an underrated British filmmaker comes a fine, action-oriented whodunnit from 1958. Full of lovely twists and turns and solid performances, it belies its age with ahead-of-its time editing and all round filmmaking craft. Camus heads for the French Riviera (on the outskirts of Walton-on-Thames) to review The Whole Truth

28 Aug 2024
Wolves, Pigs and Men
Three slum-born brothers follow different criminal paths in Fukasaku Kinji's genre redefining 1964 crime drama, Wolves, Pigs and Men. Slarek revels in the film's gripping if nihilistic drive and welcomes its new Blu-ray release on Eureka's Masters of Cinema label.

18 Aug 2024
Ikiru
Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru, in which a dying man reevaluates his life and tries to make an impact on those around him, comes to Blu-ray in a two-disc edition from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.

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18 Aug
2024
Bruiser
A downtrodden cog in the corporate wheel is transformed into a vengeful killer when he wakes one day visually stripped of his identity in George Romero’s too-little seen allegorical revenge drama. Romero fan Slarek argues that the film’s considerable strengths easily outweigh its weaknesses, and it looks an absolute dream on Indicator’s deliciously graded UHD release.

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18 Aug
2024
Alien: Romulus
He’s afraid he just has to see Alien movies. It’s not been a smooth ride but here we are back to its roots. Uruguayan writer/director, Fede Álvarez thrilled Ridley Scott with his initial idea and 20th Century Fox offered him the job. Camus admires some originality with a few caveats and dives back in to where no one can hear you scream…

7 Aug 2024
Revenge of the Blood Beast
Before making his name as a horror director of considerable note with The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General, budding young filmmaker Michael Reeves began his career with this often overlooked low-budget genre work. Slarek weighs up the positives and negatives of a flawed but still interesting film on Raro Video’s new Blu-ray.

1 Aug 2024
The Landlord
Very few film directors' oeuvres have artistic triumphs, one after the other. Box office failure need not define artistic failure. In fact the two are often mutually inclusive. Hal Ashby directed his first seven films in nine years and a case for artistic triumph can be made for each. Until a few hours ago I'd not seen his feature debut… Camus is stunned by 1970's The Landlord.

27 Jul 2024
Message from Space
A breathless and scientifically bonkers Japanese response to Star Wars, the 1978 Message from Space has developed a cult following in subsequent years. Gort watches in disbelief at what unfolds, only to find himself suckered in and seduced by the film on Eureka’s new Blu-ray.

22 Jul 2024
Die, Monster, Die!
Die, Monster, Die!, a 1965 adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” starring Boris Karloff, comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens keeps out of the way of falling meteorites.