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The Florida Project
The Florida Project Limited Edition 4K UHD & Blu-ray in October
news | 16 August 2025
Second Sight Films has announced the Ocober release of a Limited Special Edition 4K UHD & Blu-ray release of Sean Baker's critically acclaimed and multi-award winning 2017 drama, The Florida Project.
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Bonjour Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
blu-ray review | 15 August 2025
Otto Preminger’s film of Françoise Sagan’s novel Bonjour Tristesse, starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven and Jean Seberg, comes to Blu-ray from Indicator. Review by Gary Couzens.
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14 Aug
2025
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy on UHD and Blu-ray in December
Arrow Video has announced a December release of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trilogy, the live action adaptation of the comic book saga of mutants, martial arts and New York mayhem in glorious 4K on limited edition UHD and Blu-ray.

13 Aug 2024
The Dresser
A touring Shakespearean theatre group faces potential crisis when its egotistical actor-manager begins displaying signs of complete emotional collapse in The Dresser, Peter Yates’ acclaimed film adaptation of Ronald Harwood’s successful stage play. Slarek breaks a leg in the shadow of superb performances on Indicator’s recently released Blu-ray.

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10 Aug 2024
Wake in Fright
Directed by Ted Kotcheff in 1970, all but lost for many years, Wake in Fright is a major film from near the start of the Australian Film Revival of the Seventies, now restored in 4K and released in UHD and Blu-ray by Umbrella. Gary Couzens gets the beers in.

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8 Aug
2025
Oshima, Koundouros, Hossein and more in November from Radiance in November
The November disc releases from Radiance Films have been confirmed as the 7-disc Radical Japan: Cinema and State – Nine Films by Nagisa Oshima box set, Nikos Koundouros' The Ogre of Athens, Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein, and the previously revealed Night of the Juggler.

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8 Aug
2025
Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy on Second Run Blu-ray in September
Wendy and Lucy, a moving and acutely observed 2008 drama from Kelly Reichardt, the acclaimed director of Meek's Cutoff, First Cow and the forthcoming The Mastermind will be released on Blu-ray in September by Second Run.

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8 Aug
2025
New Radiance label Transition to release Night of the Juggler on UHD and Blu-ray in November
Radiance Films has announced the launch of Transmission, a new imprint for UK Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases focusing on offbeat cult classics and underappreciated genre film-making, and kicks off in November with the 1979 Night of the Juggler.

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6 Aug 2024
The Old Dark House
Released the same day as its UHD edition of High Noon, Eureka's 2018 Blu-ray edition of James Whales glorious horror-comedy The Old Dark House has also been given a 4K upgrade. Slarek has updated his original review to include details of this new release.

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6 Aug
2025
Werner Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath of God on UHD & Blu-ray in August
One of Werner Herzog’s most brilliant achievements and one of German cinema’s totemic masterpieces, Aguirre, the Wrath of God will be released on UHD and Blu-ray by the BFI in August.

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5 Aug
2025
A Nightmare on Elm Street 7-film collection on 4K UHD in October
All seven films in the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise are to be released on UHD as both a Collector's SteelBook Edition and a standard edition from New Line Cinema and Warner in October.

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4 Aug 2024
High Noon
Having released Fred Zinnermann's western masterpiece High Noon on a top quality Blu-ray back in 2019, Eureka has now upped the game by re-releasing it on an even more impressive 4K UHD. Slarek has updated his original review to include details of the new transfer and a new special feature.

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4 Aug
2025
Hong Kong survival horror The Island on Eureka Blu-ray in October
Director Leong Po-Chih's 1985 cult survival horror The Island will be released in the UK and North America in its first Blu-ray release anywhere outside of Asia in October by Eureka as part of the Masters of Cinema series.

1 Aug 2024
Essential Polish Animation
Radiance has collected 27 key Polish animated shorts together in a single 2-disc Blu-ray package titled Essential Polish Animation, together with informative commentaries and a fact-packed introduction. An overjoyed Slarek takes a deep dive of discovery into one of the best and most welcome Blu-ray releases of the year.

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31 Jul 2025
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
With the exception of the new Jurassic World for which he has no time at all, Camus’s review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps stands as the last of the big four Hollywood tick boxes for this summer. Yes, these films are not this site’s raison d’être but it’s interesting to keep an eye on the mainstream. Camus welcomes Galactus to Earth…

16 Jul 2024
Human Traffic
The weekend lands in Human Traffic, Justin Kerrigan’s hit of 1999, now with a 4K restoration and a release on UHD and Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens reviews the film and the Blu-ray.

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21 Jun 2024
Women in Love
Ken Russell’s classic 1969 adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love gets a UHD upgrade from the BFI. The film and the legacy special features are reviewed by Gary Couzens, with Slarek commenting on the UHD and the special features new to this release.

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19 Jul 2024
Changes ahoy
In his first blog post for some time, Slarek outlines a big change coming to Cine Outsider in the next few months and lays out a roadmap for what lies ahead, as well as providing painful justification for his long standing hatred of spiders.

16 Jul 2024
Bhaji on the Beach
Gurinder Chadha’s 1992 debut feature Bhaji on the Beach, comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens heads off to the seaside.

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14 Jul 2025
Superman
With internet critics circling like sharks around the hapless sailors of the USS Indianapolis, DC’s reboot of Superman finally arrives. Camus remembers a visit to the first Fortress of Solitude with his father in 1978 and is afraid that we’ve lost more than enough innocence for any new iteration to work as well as Richard Donner’s original. Cape on, up we go…

9 Jul 2024
A Day at the Beach
Mark Burns plays an alcoholic who takes his young niece to the seaside on a rainy day in a little seen, Roman Polanski scripted 1970 drama. An empathic Slarek recalls his own drinking days and finds much to admire in this downbeat film and its presentation on Indicator’s recently released Blu-ray.

7 Jul 2024
Chantal Akerman Volume 2
The BFI’s deep dive into the films of Chantal Akerman, in what would have been the year of her seventy-fifth birthday, reaches Volume 2, eleven features and one short taking us from the early 1980s to the end of her career and life. Review by Gary Couzens.

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5 Jul 2025
F1
An aging movie star, like his contemporary Tom Cruise, may well be another hero of 'authentic cinema'. Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B, has produced three Best Picture winners*. F1 may be effortlessly predictable but it's mainstream Hollywood working on all full, satisfying cylinders. Camus straps in…

27 Jun 2024
La terra trema
Luchino Visconti’s neo-realist second feature La terra trema, is released on Blu-ray by Radiance. Gary Couzens heads off to a Sicilian fishing village.

23 Jun 2024
TwentyFourSeven
Shane Meadows’s first full-length feature TwentyFourSeven is released on Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens heads off to the Midlands.

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22 Jun 2025
The Ballad of Wallis Island
Twice in one summer! With The Salt Path leading the way enticing UK audiences back to the big screen, here comes The Ballad of Wallis Island having much the same effect. Has the dire state of the world given new life to the charm of British independent films? Camus celebrates the melancholy and joy of a simple tale very effectively told.

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18 Jun 2024
Girls Without Shame
The fifth feature from French vampire movie maestro Jean Rollin, Girls Without Shame, was his first excursion into the world of erotic cinema. Gort explores the unexpected pleasures of this curious mix of sex, crime and daffy narrative on Indicator’s excellent new UHD.

8 Jun 2024
Four Mothers
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.