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Blu-Ray Review Journey to the Centre of the Earth

  • September 15, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
Along with H.G. Wells, Jules Verne was a pioneer in science fiction writing. Both men were active in the late 19th Century and their books have been widely adapted to…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Big Knife

  • August 25, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
Narcissism and film-making are often happy bedfellows. Indeed, the theme of Hollywood and the film industry have proved to be fertile ground for screenwriters, directors and producers. There has been…
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Blu-Ray Review: Le Trou

  • August 15, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
When discussion turns to the greats of French film-making, the name Jacques Becker isn’t one which instantly springs to mind. Whilst Truffaut, Godard, Malle, Melville et al all attract swathes…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Saga of Anatahan (Masters of Cinema)

  • August 11, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
After his family emigrated to the United States when he was in his teens, Josef von Sternberg set out on a path to becoming one of the most iconic, difficult…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Music Room (Criterion Collection)

  • August 2, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
Whilst Bollywood dominates the Indian film industry, there’s much more to Bharata’s cinema than merely the conveyor belt of love, loss, song and satire. The greatest Indian film-maker of all…
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Blu-Ray Review: Stalker (Criterion Collection)

  • July 19, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
In today’s effect driven film market, most science fiction cinema is reliant on green screens and CGI. However, as films such as Primer and Coherence demonstrate, more cerebral fare can…
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Blu-Ray Review: Mickey One

  • July 18, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
Whilst it’s fair to say that film noir inspired much of the French new wave, the favour was undeniably repaid. Arthur Penn, whose seminal Bonnie and Clyde marked the beginning…
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Blu-Ray Review: Death in the Garden (Masters of Cinema)

  • June 15, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
Luis Buñuel is arguably the most influential and innovative Spanish director ever to work in cinema. The father of surrealism, he made films in France, Spain, Mexico and the USA.…
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Blu-Ray Review: Bakumatsu Taiyō-Den

  • June 12, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
Today, there appears to be an increasing desire to rekindle some kind of mythical Golden Age. Nostalgia has risen as a way of combatting the depressing times we’re living in.…
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Blu-Ray Review: The Murderer Lives at Number 21

  • June 9, 2017
  • Rob Aldam
Whilst Henri-Georges Clouzot may have built up a reputation of being difficult to work with and temperamental, there’s no denying the quality of his films. With The Wages of Fear…
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