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18 Dec
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18 Dec
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17 Dec
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| 16 Dec 2024 |
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| 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… |
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12 Dec
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12 Dec
2024 |
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11 Dec
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11 Dec
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11 Dec
2024 |
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11 Dec
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11 Dec
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11 Dec
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| 8 Dec 2024 |
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| 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. |
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6 Dec
2024 |
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6 Dec
2024 |
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5 Dec
2024 |
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4 Dec
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4 Drc
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| 29 Nov 2024 |
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| Watership Down |
| The UK’s third-ever animated feature, memorably scarring to a generation of children, Watership Down, comes to Blu-ray and UHD from the BFI. Gary Couzens heads off to the English countryside. |
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| 24 Nov 2024 |
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| Juggernaut |
| When a ransom demand reveals the presence of seven booby-trapped bombs aboard a busy ocean liner, a navy bomb disposal team finds itself working against the clock to diffuse them in Juggernaut, a superb and criminally unsung thriller from 1974. Slarek pops a couple of seasickness pills and jumps aboard for Eureka’s hugely welcome new Blu-ray. |
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| 24 Nov 2024 |
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| Cooking Price-Wise |
| The BFI’s fiftieth Flipside release is Cooking Price-Wise, with Vincent Price in the kitchen for six episodes in 1971. Gary Couzens wishes you all Bon Appétit. |
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| 21 Nov 2024 |
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| The Story of Aèle H. |
| François Truffaut’s The Story of Adèle H., with an Oscar-nominated breakthrough role for Isabelle Adjani, comes to Blu-ray from Radiance. Gary Couzens heads off to Nova Scotia, even if the film was actually shot on Guernsey. |
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21 Nov
2024 |
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| Seven Samurai |
| Kurosawa Akira’s three-and-a-half hour samurai masterpiece Seven Samurai is rightly regarded as a dyed-in-the-wool classic, and has now been beautifully restored in 4K and released on a feature-rich UHD/Blu-ray package by the BFI. An overjoyed Slarek polishes his sword and revisits a personal favourite. |
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| 16 Nov 2024 |
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| Tchao Pantin |
| French director Claude Berri is best known for his breakout movie diptych in the 80s, Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources. But a few years earlier he directed a powerful French noir tale with gritty parallels with the run down location and the actors, one in particular. Camus is impressed by Radiance’s potent revenge thriller… |
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| 14 Nov 2024 |
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| Daiei Gothic |
| In his first review following his return from the land of the rising sun, Slarek explores the wonders of Daiei Gothic, a superb trio of Japanese ghost stories made by the Daiei Studios in the years 1959 and 1968, all splendidly restored and presented here as an excellent three-disc Blu-ray set by Radiance Films. |
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| 25 Oct 2024 |
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| Ozploitation Rarities Volume One |
| 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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| 25 Oct 2024 |
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| 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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| 21 Oct 2024 |
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| 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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| 25 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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