Two giallo titles on UHD and Blu-ray from Indicator in September news | 12 June 2025 Indicator has announced a new series of UK-only UHD and Blu-ray releases showcasing several classics from the golden age of Italian genre cinema, beginning in September with Death Carries a Cane and The Perfume of the Lady in Black. Four Mothers blu-ray review | 9 June 2025 A gay man, carer for his elderly mother, gets more than he bargained for in Four Mothers, winner of the audience award at the 2024 London Film Festival, released on Blu-ray by the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.

11 Jun 2025 French extremity, world noir, Carlos Saura, exiled samurai from Radiance in September Radiance Films has announced that its September disc releases will consist of Marina de Van's In My Skin on UHD and Blu-ray, and World Noir Vol. 4, Carlos Saura's Los golfos, samurai great The Betrayal on Blu-ray. 30 May 2025 Shane Meadows' TwentyFourSeven on Blu-ray in June, steaming in July The film that put cult director Shane Meadows on the map, TwentyFourSeven, starring the late great Bob Hoskins, has its UK Blu-ray premiere in June from the BFI and comes to Apple TV and Amazon Prime in July. 8 Jun 2024 Shoot First, Die Later The lives of a top detective and the head of a powerful criminal gang intersect in unexpected and increasingly dangerous ways in writer-director Fernando Di Leo’s gripping but downbeat 1973 poliziotteschi, Shoot First, Die Later. Slarek wonders who the good guys really are on Radiance’s recently released Blu-ray. 6 Jun 2025 The Salt Path A modest British independent film based on a best-selling memoir, The Salt Path is essentially a love story prevailing against every single odd anyone could have stacked against the married couple. Repetitive and grim for a lot of its running time, Camus is nonetheless mesmerised by its leads’ performances… 30 Apr 2024 The Iron Rose Two young people visit a cemetery to make out and are unable to find their way out when night falls in writer-director Jean Rollin’s haunting semi-experimental fifth feature, The Iron Rose. An initially unsure Slarek was ultimately transfixed by Rollin’s very personal vision on Indicator’s new UHD release. 30 May 2025 Scum, Annie Hall, and a whole slew more from 88 Film in July and August 88 Films has announced a slew of titles July and August, including Woody Allen's Annie Hall on Blu-ray, a collection of films from the American Pie franchise, UHD premieres of Scum, The Cannibal Man, and Come Drink With Me, and many more. 30 May 2025 Horror, western, disaster, neo-noir and more from Arrow in August The August disc releases from Arrow have been announced as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Thief and Poseidon on Limited Edition 4K UHD, and The Shootist, Enemy Territory and Perpetrator on Limited Edition Blu-ray. 30 May 2025 Paul Schrader, Vittorio De Sica and Edward Yang from Criterion in August Spirit Entertainment has revealed that The Criterion Collection UK releases for August 2025 will be Paul Schrader’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Vittorio De Sica’s Shoeshine, and A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong – Two Films by Edward Yang. 29 May 2025 Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning Due to a multi-obstacle strewn path to the cinema, ‘one of the most expensive Hollywood films ever made’ (allegedly) finally crosses the finish line. It’s a massive undertaking promising to round off the Mission: Impossible franchise with unparalleled action. Camus straps in for a ride on the potential blockbuster… 27 May 2025 Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day on Eureka UHD and Blu-ray in August Eureka Entertainment has announced the world premiere 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray and UK Blu-ray debut of Trouble Every Day, Claire Denis’ groundbreaking masterpiece of erotic horror, presented as part of the Masters of Cinema series from a brand-new restoration. 27 May 2025 Sally Potter's Orlando on 4K UHD/Blu-ray from Curzon in June Sally Potter's dazzling 1992 film adaptation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel Orlando, starring a superb Tilda Swinton in the time travelling and gender-shifting titular role, is coming to 4K UHD in June from Curzon. 24 May 2025 Peter Medak's satirical black comedy The Odd Job on Blu-ray in August Severin Films is celebrating genre-defying and celebrated Hungarian/British/American director Peter Medak with the August Worldwide Blu-ray premiere of the hilariously dark The Odd Job, which was co-written by and starring Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. 22 May 2025 Hearts of Darkness restored in cinemas and on 4K UHD in July In August, Indicator is releasing 4 films on Blu-ray in the UK – Storm Center, Bonjour Tristesse, The Liberation of L.B. Jones and ...And Justice for All – and two Ealing titles – The Rainbow Jacket and Out of the Clouds in the USA and Canada. 21 May 2025 Hearts of Darkness restored in cinemas and on 4K UHD in July StudioCanal has announced that the seminal documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse will be returning to cinemas in a new 4K restoration and then released as a three-disc UHD Collector's Edition in July. 20 Apr 2024 Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1928 Six months on from one of the best Blu-ray releases of 2024, Eureka has followed up its collection of silent short films from 1927 featuring comedy legends Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy with Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1928. Longtime Stan and Ollie fanboy Slarek finds himself in comedic heaven with this brilliant two-disc set. 19 Apr 2024 Slade in Flame Fifty years old this year, Slade in Flame has a dual-format release from the BFI. Gary Couzens gets down and gets with it and looks wot they dun. 18 Apr 2024 Ozploitation Rarities Volume Two The second of Umbrella’s Ozploitation Rarities box sets showcases three not-often-seen thrillers from the 1980s: Desolation Angels, Coda and The 13th Floor. Review by Gary Couzens. 12 Apr 2025 Sinners Director Ryan Coogler, known for directing the Marvel box-office smash Black Panther, is a filmmaker with so much more to contribute. His latest film offers up many more layers of gratification than a superhero film could allow him to explore. Sinners is a wedding cake by comparison. Camus marvels at every slice… 8 May 2024 La Haine The night after a riot on a French housing estate, three friends find themselves on the path to possible violent confrontation with the police whose brutality triggered the disorder in writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz’s searing 1995 masterpiece La Haine. Slarek returns to the banlieue on the BFI’s superb new UHD/Blu-ray release. 18 Apr 2024 Brother Writer-director Kitano Takeshi casts himself as a yakuza enforcer who flees to America, where he shapes a trio of drug dealers into a force to be reckoned with in the 2000 crime drama Brother. Long-time Kitano fan Slarek joins the gang and revisits a flawed but fascinating film on the BFI’s slightly problematic new Blu-ray. 20 Apr 2025 La Cocina La cocina is a sizzling love story seasoned with a healthy dash of anti-capitalist anger. Alonso Ruizpalacios’ stylish adaptation of Arnold Wesker’s play The Kitchen lifts the lid on invisible working lives, pops racist attitudes to immigration in the pig bin, and invites us to dream. Jerry Whyte toasts a timely tour de force offering nourishing food for thought. 18 Apr 2024 Conclave How can a film headlining the voting in of a new Pope – consisting of only a series of conversations – be so compelling? It’s all in the script, the performances, the editing and the direction. Edward Berger’s Conclave has Camus saluting the inimitable power of the cinematic arts... 15 Apr 2024 Eclipse Almost entirely unseen since its 1977 release and now released on Blu-ray as part of the BFI’s Flipside line, Eclipse is an atmospheric story with plenty of undercurrents, directed by Simon Perry with Tom Conti (in a dual role) and Gay Hamilton. Reviewed by Gary Couzens. 14 Apr 2025 The Thinking Game A modest early 2025 cinema release, The Thinking Game, was never going to be a box office behemoth, but it is the story of something monumental and one that needs to be more widely known. Camus is struck by the heights of human achievement and the unleashing of the benign power of artificial ‘general’ intelligence… 11 Apr 2024 Rulers of the City Things quickly complicate for a young man at the bottom of the Italian criminal ladder when he swindles the head of a powerful crime family in genre maestro Fernando Di Leo’s 1976 crime drama-thriller Rulers of the City [I padroni della città]. Slarek rubs shoulders with Roman gangsters on Radiance’s recently released Blu-ray. 3 Apr 2024 Shaolin Boxers One of a slew of attempts to find a new martial arts superstar in the wake of Bruce Lee’s death, the 1974 Shaolin Boxers [Fu Jian Shao Lin quan] saw former supporting player James Tien briefly promoted to the lead in this thinly plotted but action-packed old school basher. Slarek kicks and punches along with Eureka’s new Blu-ray. 31 Mar 2024 Je t'aime je t'taime A time travel experiment goes wrong in Je t’aime je t’aime, directed by Alain Resnais in 1968. Radiance’s Blu-ray is reviewed by Gary Couzens. 26 Jan 2025 Snow White Dogged by controversy for two and a half years over the fallout from misjudged interviews, a famous actor’s disgruntled comments on casting and a slew of questionable creative choices, Snow White is finally here. Camus examines the extent of the controversy and, heigh-ho, off to see it he goes… 25 Mar 2024 Harlequin The second of two Ozploitation films released on Blu-ray and UHD in March 2025 by Indicator, Harlequin from 1980 is an update of the Rasputin legend starring David Hemmings and Robert Powell and directed by Simon Wincer. Review by Gary Couzens.