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16 Oct
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10 Oct
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| 6 Oct 2024 |
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| 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 |
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27 Sep
2024 |
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26 Sep
2024 |
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| 24 Sep 2024 |
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| 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. |
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| 24 Sep 2024 |
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| 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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19 Sep
2024 |
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| Two more Jean Rollin titles on Indicator 4K UHD in December |
| Indicator has announced two more 4K restorations in its ongoing and critically acclaimed series of films directed by legendary European horror auteur Jean Rollin for release on UHD and Blu-ray in the USA and the UK in December, the 1972 Requiem for a Vampire and the 1981 The Escapees. |
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| 18 Sep 2024 |
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| 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. |
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13 Sep
2024 |
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11 Sep
2024 |
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10 Sep
2024 |
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| 8 Sep 2024 |
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| 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 |
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5 Sep
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| 1 Sep 2024 |
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| 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… |
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| 28 Aug 2024 |
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| 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. |
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| 18 Aug 2024 |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 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… |
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| 7 Aug 2024 |
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| 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. |
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| 1 Aug 2024 |
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| 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. |
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| 27 Jul 2024 |
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| 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. |
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| 22 Jul 2024 |
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| 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. |
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| 21 Jul 2024 |
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| Single White Female |
| Psychological thrillers, if they are doing their job, should make you uncomfortable watching certain scenes. If the acting is first class, the more deliciously unbearable it can be. Camus revisits an early 90s cinema trip by watching the sparks fly between Allie and Hedy in Single White Female… |
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| 17 Jul 2024 |
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| Night of the Eagle |
| A deeply sceptical academic discovers that his wife has been practising conjure magic and takes action that leaves him exposed to sinister forces in director Sidney Hayers' criminally undervalued 1962 Night of the Eagle. Slarek grasps a protective charm or two and revisits a 60s horror gem on Studiocanal's new Blu-ray. |
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| 15 Jul 2024 |
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| Remembrance |
| Remembrance, one of the earliest Channel 4 productions, comes to Blu-ray as part of the BFI's Flipside line, and is reviewed here by Gary Couzens. |
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