Blu-Ray Review: Next of Kin
During the 1970s and 1980s the Australian new wave led to a number of actors and directors forging a career within Hollywood. A small, but important, element of this was…
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Blu-ray Review: Swamp Thing
Comic book movies are big business now. Each release is accompanied by a huge fanfare and an extensive marketing campaign. DC dominated last century with Batman and Superman films but…
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Blu-ray Review: Wheels on Meals
Sammo Hung, like Jackie Chan, starred in, choreographed and directed him own films. Both men have had impressive careers and were pivotal in opening up Hong Kong martial arts films-making…
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Blu-Ray Review: Irma La Douce
Last month we lost one of the greatest composers of the modern era. Although André Previn had huge success working in jazz and classical music, aside from an appearance in…
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Blu-Ray Review: Sink the Bismarck!
Named after the former German chancellor, the Bismark was one of a pair of fast battleships which were the largest and most powerful built under the Third Reich. It was…
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Blu-Ray Review: Evil Dead 2
When Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2 was released in 1987, it changed the face of genre cinema forever. It quickly became a cult classic and the video release ensured that…
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Blu-Ray Review: Phantom Lady
Robert Siodmak was just one of many film directors and actors who fled to America to escape the tyranny of Hitler’s Germany. This migration included such eminent figures as Ernst…
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Blu-Ray Review: Take A Girl Like You
Kingsley Amis was described by his biographer as “the finest English comic novelist of the second half of the twentieth century.” Whilst that may have been the case, his range…
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Blu-ray Review: Dawson City: Frozen Time
Bill Morrison may not be a name you’ve seen up in lights but he’s doing a vital job when it comes to preserving our past. The American documentary film-maker and…
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DVD Review: Videoman
Whilst the last decade has witnessed the resurgence of vinyl, the same cannot be said for VHS videotapes. Indeed, quite the opposite in fact. As music connoisseurs have opted for…
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