The Iron Rose & Girls Without Shame on Indicator UHD & Blu-ray in May news | 20 February 2025 In May, Indicator will be releasing two more brand-new 4K restorations in its critically acclaimed series of films by legendary European horror auteur Jean Rollin, The Iron Rose and Girls Without Shame, both of which will be released in May on 4K UHD and Blu-ray. Queen Bee blu-ray review | 20 February 2025 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. 10 Feb 2025 All We Imagine as Light on streaming in February, Dual Format in March Following critical acclaim, huge success in cinemas around the world, and recognition for multiple awards, writer/director Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light is coming to UK Dual Format from the BFI in March following streaming on BFI Player in February. 7 Feb 2025 A supernatural slasher, Italian giallo, yakuza wives and more from 88 Films in April The April disc releases from 88 Films have been confirmed as The Incubus, Wacko, Yakuza Wives, Jakoman and Tetsu, Nine Guests for a Crime, Night of the Felines and Lady With A Sword on Blu-ray, and Night Train Murders on UHD. 6 Feb 2025 The Magnificent Chang Cheh on Eureka Blu-ray in April Two 'magnificent' films from director Chang Cheh – The Magnificent Trio and Magnificent Wanderers – will be released as The Magnificent Chang Cheh by Eureka Entertainment in April. 6 Feb 2025 The BFI announces its April-June UHD, Blu-ray and DVD releases The BFI has announced its home entertainment releases for April, May and June, which will include 4K UHD editions of Throne of Blood and La Haine, and Eclipse, Brother, Slade in Flame, TwentyFourSeven, Four Mothers and more Chantal Ackerman on Blu-ray. 5 Feb 2024 Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years (1928) on Eureka Blu-ray in April Eureka Entertainment have announced Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years (1928), ten silent shorts featuring Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy to be released in the UK on two-disc Blu-ray in May. 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. 5 Feb 2025 Films by Faraldo, Nakajima, Germi and Di Leo from Radiance in May Radiance Films has announced that its May 2025 Blu-ray releases will include Claude Faraldo's Themroc, Nakajima Sadao's The Rapacious Jailbreaker, Pietro Germi's The Railroad Man, and on the Raro Video label, Fernando Di Leo's Shoot First, Die Later. 4 Feb 2025 Ringo Lam's The Adventurers on Eureka Blu-ray in April Eureka Entertainment is to release The Adventurers , an action-packed tale of heroic bloodshed featuring Andy Lau and Rosamund Kwan, presented on Blu-ray from a brand new 2K restoration as part of the Eureka Classics range in te UK and the North America in April. 4 Feb 2025 Yasuda Junichi's A Samurai in Time on Blu-ray & Digital in April Made on a tiny budget with just 10 crew members and a bona fide phenomenon in its native Japan, director and rice farmer Yasuda Junichi's A Samurai in Time will be released on Blu-ray and Digital in April by Third Window Films. 4 Feb 2025 Sean Baker's Anora on Criterion UK UHD and Blu-ray in May Sean Baker's audacious anti–Cinderella story, a whirlwind neorealist screwball comedy with an aching heart that has topped a whole slew of 2024 Best of the Year polls, is being released on UHD and Blu-ray in May as part of The Criterion Collection. 4 Feb 2025 Charlie Chaplin, Wong Kar-wai & Arthur Penn from Criterion UK in April Spirit Entertainment has announced The Criterion Collection UHD and Blu-ray UK releases for April, which include Charlie Chaplin’s silent masterpiece A Woman of Paris, Wong Kar-wai classic Chunking Express, and Arthur Penn’s haunting neo-noir, Night Moves. 1 Feb 2025 A 90s action thriller classic, an F/X double, a V-Cinema set and more from Arrow in April Arrow has confirmed that its April disc releases will include Booger, double-bill of F/X: Murder by Illusion and F/X 2: The Deadly Art of Illusion and box set V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal on Blu-ray, and The Long Kiss Goodnight on UHD. 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. 30 Jan 2025 Cult time travel noir thriller Trancers on UHD & Blu-ray in March Time-travelling, cult 80s sci-fi tech noir classic Trancers (1984) will be released as a 4K UHD and Blu-ray set in the UK for the first time in March by 101 Films with a mix of new and archive special features. 30 Jan 2025 Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy on UHD & Blu-ray in May, June and July Arrow Video has announced the release of a trilogy of classic Sergio Leone westerns, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, on UHD and Blu-ray, and will be released once a month from May to July. 30 Jan 2025 Russ Meyer's Up! and Motorpsycho on UHD & Blu-ray in April Severin Films has announced the UHD/Blu-ray premieres of two more landmark films from the vaults of iconic American auteur Russ Meyer: 1965’s action-and-violence saga Motorpsycho, and the erotic comedy Russ Meyer's Up! 29 Dec 2024 Cure A deeply unsettling collision of crime drama and psychological horror, and the breakout film for Japanese director Kurosawa Kiyoshi,Cure gets a superb 4K upgrade on Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label. Slarek revisits a favourite film in its third and best-yet disc incarnation. 27 Jan 2024 Stray Dog One of two Akira Kurosawa films released simultaneously on Blu-ray by the BFI, Stray Dog from 1949 is a crime thriller involving the search for the stealer of a gun in post-war Tokyo. Gary Couzens investigates. 25 Jan 2024 Edge of Eternity A former city homicide detective turned Arizona patrolman has to call on his former skills when an unidentified man is murdered in Don Seigel’s noir-tinted 1959 crime melodrama, Edge of Eternity. Slarek takes the Grand Canyon murder mystery tour on Indicator’s impressive new Blu-ray. 22 Jan 2025 The Substance Like Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, every now and again along comes a film from what could arguably be labelled an ‘auteur’. The Substance is a film that is sticky with the filmmaker’s finger, hand and body prints, a film that goes deep and then some. Camus revels in one of the most extraordinary films of 2024… 20 Jan 2024 Delta Space Mission In the second of his ongoing series of reviews of Blu-ray releases by American boutique label Deaf Crocodile, Michael Brooke turns the spotlight on the 1984 Romanian animated science fiction tale, Delta Space Mission. 16 Jan 2024 The Unknown Man of Shandigor In the first of a series of reviews of Blu-ray releases by American specialist label Deaf Crocodile, critic and Blu-ray technical producer Michael Brooke explores the work of this worthy distributor before turning his attention to its Blu-ray release of Jean-Louis Roy's mind-bending delight, The Unknown Man of Shandigor. 15 Jan 2025 Standing at the edge of the precipice: review of the year 2024 (and a little bit more) In a lengthy piece that was way too long in the writing due to the usual external forces, Slarek reflects on 2024 and compiles two lists of his favourite films from that year, and even throws in a few from 2023, having skipped doing so last January in order to mark the site’s 20th anniversary instead. 13 Jan 2025 Australia at the Movies: The Ultimate Guide to Modern Australian Cinema 1990-2020 In what might be his final book, David Stratton covers three decades of Australian film history. Gary Couzens reviews and pays tribute. 1 Jan 2025 Life Story Every so often, Horizon, the BBC’s flagship science series, would do some-thing different. In 1987, the BBC hired William Nicholson to write a drama based on an important but pretty arcane subject, partnered the script with the director of Threads and created a television masterpiece. Camus revisits a cherished favourite… 31 Dec 2024 Getting off the antisocial media train In a heartfelt and cautiously over-footnoted blog, a saddened Slarek outlines why after many years on the platform, Cine Outsider will cease posting on Twitter – or “X” if you really must – in the new year and where you can continue to follow us and keep track of our news and review postings instead. 25 Dec 2024 Three Wishes for Cinderella One of the most progressive and playfully enjoyable takes on the ancient folk tale of Cinderella was made back in 1973 by Czechoslovakian director Václav Vorlíček. Slarek escapes the scullery and dons his silvery slippers for Three Wishes for Cinderella on recently released Second Run Blu-ray. 19 Dec 2024 An American Tragedy An American Tragedy, based on Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel and made by Josef von Sternberg amidst his films with Marlene Dietrich, available on Blu-ray from Indicator. Gary Couzens investigates. 16 Dec 2024 Union There are very few David and Goliath stories in today’s culture to summon up enthusiasm for. In said culture, as truth lies bleeding and billionaires claim global political ascendancy, it’s refreshing to find some people sticking it to the man. Camus signs up for the ALU in Union… 8 Dec 2024 Requiem for a Vampire Two girls on the run find themselves at a dilapidated château that is home to an ageing vampire and his protectors in Jean Rollin’s quietly captivating fourth vampire film. Slarek bares his neck for Indicator’s impeccable new UHD release.