Apr 022012
 
The Adopted: DVD Review

Hello! The Adopted is the feature film directorial debut from the impossibly beautiful Mélanie Laurent. The film which is also co-written by and starring Laurent, as well as Marie Denarnaud, Clémentine Célarié and fellow Inglorious Basterds actor Denis Menochet, is being released on DVD from the 2nd of April 2012 courtesy of the good people [...]

Mar 272012
 
The Doom Generation: DVD Review

Hello! Greg Araki’s The Doom Generation finally comes to DVD in the UK, courtesy of Second Sight Films, on the 26th of March 2012, some 17 years after it was first released in 1995. The film stars Rose McGowan, James Duval and Johnathon Schaech, as well as a host of recognizable faces from the american [...]

Mar 202012
 
The Hourglass Sanatorium: DVD Review

Hello! The Hour-Glass Sanatorium, or Sanatorium pod klepsydrą to give it its Polish title, is a 1973 Polish film directed by Wojciech Has, and is based in main on the Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass stories , by Polish writer Bruno Schulz. The film comes to DVD on the 19th of March from [...]

Mar 192012
 
A Horrible Way to Die: Blu-ray Review

Hello! A Horrible Way to Die arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on the 19th of March 2012 from Anchor Bay. The film split audiences whilst touring the festival circuit last year, mainly down to the cinematography style chosen by director Adam Wingard and cinematographer’s Chris Hilleke and Mark Shelhorse, and not so much the sporadic [...]

Mar 102012
 
The Slipper and the Rose: DVD Review

Hello! The Slipper and the Rose makes its long awaited return to DVD on the 5th of March 2012, having been a deleted title for many years. The double Oscar nominated (Best Music, Original Song & Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score) film from director Bryan Forbes and writing [...]

Mar 042012
 
High Street Blu's: The death of the high street retailer

Hello! Many a film geek often laments the demise of their local video rental store. I myself cannot drive past the location of my childhood VHS rental haven, Take One Video, now a British Heart Foundation charity shop, without getting that pang of nostalgia. For this is the place where I first rented such classics [...]

Jan 232012
 
The Burma Conspiracy (aka: Largo Winch II): DVD Review

Hello! The Burma Conspiracy is the second film in the Largo Winch series, and comes to DVD on the 23rd of January 2012 from Studio Canal. The film is  based on comic books featuring Largo Winch, an adopted heir to a global business empire, Group W. The comic books themselves are based on a series [...]

Jan 172012
 
The Brigand of Kandahar: DVD Review

Hello! The Brigand of Kandahar is another Hammer Films production to be released on 16th of January from Studio Canal. The film again teams director John Gilling and actor Oliver Reed, who had previously worked on 1964′s The Scarlet Blade (also released on 16th of January from Studio Canal). Set on the North West frontier [...]