Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day on Eureka UHD and Blu-ray in August news | 27 May 2025 Eureka Entertainment has announced the world premiere 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and UK Blu-ray debut of Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis’ groundbreaking masterpiece of erotic horror, presented as part of the Masters of Cinema series from a brand-new restoration. Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1928 blu-ray review | 19 May 2025 Six months on from one of the best Blu-ray releases of 2024, Eureka has followed up its collection of silent short films from 1927 featuring comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy with Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1928. Longtime Stan and Ollie fanboy Slarek finds himself in comedic heaven with this brilliant two-disc set

27 May 2025 Sally Potter's Orlando on 4K UHD/Blu-ray from Curzon in June Sally Potter's dazzling 1992 film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel Orlando, starring a superb Tilda Swinton in the time travelling and gender-shifting titular role, is coming to 4K UHD in June from Curzon. 24 May 2025 Peter Medak's satirical black comedy The Odd Job on Blu-ray in August Severin Films is celebrating genre-defying and celebrated Hungarian/British/American director Peter Medak with the August Worldwide Blu-ray premiere of the hilariously dark The Odd Job, which was co-written by and starring Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. 22 May 2025 Hearts of Darkness restored in cinemas and on 4K UHD in July In August, Indicator is releasing 4 films on Blu-ray in the UK – Storm Center, Bonjour Tristesse, The Liberation of L.B. Jones and ...And Justice for All – and two Ealing titles – The Rainbow Jacket and Out of the Clouds in the USA and Canada. 21 May 2025 Hearts of Darkness restored in cinemas and on 4K UHD in July StudioCanal has announced that the seminal documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse will be returning to cinemas in a new 4K restoration and then released as a three-disc UHD Collector's Edition in July. 19 Apr 2024 Slade in Flame Fifty years old this year, Slade in Flame has a dual-format release from the BFI. Gary Couzens gets down and gets with it and looks wot they dun. 18 Apr 2024 Ozploitation Rarities Volume Two The second of Umbrella’s Ozploitation Rarities box sets showcases three not-often-seen thrillers from the 1980s: Desolation Angels, Coda and The 13th Floor. Review by Gary Couzens. 18 May 2025 Quatermass 2 4K UHD Limited Collector's Edition from Hammer in July Created by Nigel Kneale and directed by Val Guest, the sequel to Hammer's breakthrough science fiction feature, The Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass 2 arrives on UHD in a richly featured Limited Collector's Edition from Hammer Films in July. 16 May 2025 Jackie Chan's Crime Story on Collector's Edition UHD/Blu-ray in June 88 Films has announced that it will be releasing Jackie Chan's 1993 action crime drama Crime Story on 4K in a UHD/Blu-ray Collector's Edition in June, sourced from a new 4K remaster and boasting a sizeable collection of special features. 16 May 2025 Comedy-drama Four Mothers on BFI Blu-ray and digital in June Director Darren Thornton and writer Colin Thornton's heartwarming comedy-drama Four Mothers, starring James McArdle and Fionnula Flanagan, is coming to UK Blu-ray and digital platforms in June from the BFI. 12 Apr 2025 Sinners Director Ryan Coogler, known for directing the Marvel box-office smash Black Panther, is a filmmaker with so much more to contribute. His latest film offers up many more layers of gratification than a superhero film could allow him to explore. Sinners is a wedding cake by comparison. Camus marvels at every slice… 9 May 2025 Kung fu classic The Tattooed Dragon on Eureka Blu-ray in July Eureka Entertainment is to release The Tattooed Dragon, Lo Wei’s cult classic that captures the raw, gritty energy of 1970s Hong Kong cinema, on Blu-ray in July on the Eureka Classics label. 9 May 2025 Kurosawa Akira's Ran on in cinemas in June and on 4K UHD in July StudioCanal has announced that Kurosawa's final masterpiece Ran will be returning to UK cinemas in June and will be released as a 3-disc 40th Anniversary UHD/Blu-ray Collector’s Edition in July. 8 May 2024 La Haine The night after a riot on a French housing estate, three friends find themselves on the path to possible violent confrontation with the police whose brutality triggered the disorder in writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz’s searing 1995 masterpiece La Haine. Slarek returns to the banlieue on the BFI’s superb new UHD/Blu-ray release. 7 May 2025 Films from Japan, Poland, Italy and France from Radiance in August The August Blu-ray releases from Radiance have been confirmed as Shinobi Vol 2, Grzegorz Królikiewicz's Through and Through, Luchino Visconti’s Senso, and a double bill of Claude Miller's The Inquisitor and Deadly Circuit. 1 May 2025 Western classic High Noon on 4K UHD from Eureka in July Eureka Entertainment is to release High Noon, Fred Zinnemann’s iconic western starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, in July as part of The Masters of Cinema Series on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray from a 4K digital restoration for the first time ever in UK. 18 Apr 2024 Brother Writer-director Kitano Takeshi casts himself as a yakuza enforcer who flees to America, where he shapes a trio of drug dealers into a force to be reckoned with in the 2000 crime drama Brother. Long-time Kitano fan Slarek joins the gang and revisits a flawed but fascinating film on the BFI’s slightly problematic new Blu-ray. 20 Apr 2025 La Cocina La cocina is a sizzling love story seasoned with a healthy dash of anti-capitalist anger. Alonso Ruizpalacios’ stylish adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s play The Kitchen lifts the lid on invisible working lives, pops racist attitudes to immigration in the pig bin, and invites us to dream. Jerry Whyte toasts a timely tour de force offering nourishing food for thought. 18 Apr 2024 Conclave How can a film headlining the voting in of a new Pope – consisting of only a series of conversations – be so compelling? It’s all in the script, the performances, the editing and the direction. Edward Berger’s Conclave has Camus saluting the inimitable power of the cinematic arts... 15 Apr 2024 Eclipse Almost entirely unseen since its 1977 release and now released on Blu-ray as part of the BFI’s Flipside line, Eclipse is an atmospheric story with plenty of undercurrents, directed by Simon Perry with Tom Conti (in a dual role) and Gay Hamilton. Reviewed by Gary Couzens. 14 Apr 2025 The Thinking Game A modest early 2025 cinema release, The Thinking Game, was never going to be a box office behemoth, but it is the story of something monumental and one that needs to be more widely known. Camus is struck by the heights of human achievement and the unleashing of the benign power of artificial ‘general’ intelligence… 11 Apr 2024 Rulers of the City 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.