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A quartet of British films from the 40s and 50s from Indicator in June
news | 14 March 2024
Indicator has announced a quartet of British films for a June Blu-ray release in the shape of wartime drama Tomorrow We Live, crime drama The Shop at Sly Corner, noir thriller Obsession, and murder mystery The Whole Truth.
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Dune: Part 2
Dune: Part Two
film review | 13 March 2024
An obvious passion project from one of the top three directors still delivering the mainstream goods, Dune: Part Two arrives with critical fanfares strewn ahead of it. There’s a very good reason for that. Director Denis Villeneuve has delivered a nuanced and yet epic masterpiece. Camus revels in an all too politically pertinent blockbuster…
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7 Mar
2024
Blog: Stalled content in problematic times
Breaking the recent unplanned silence, site editor Slarek pops his head above the personal issues parapet to explain the recent absence of new reviews and news stories on the site and why things may take a while to return to normal.

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7 Mar
2024
Yakuzas, bandits and Jean-Pierre Mocky from Radiance in June
Radiance has revealed its June Blu-ray releases as Fukusaku Kinji's yakuza tale Sympathy for the Underdog, a Vittorio De Seta double of Bandits of Orgosolo and The Lost World, and three0-film box set The Agitator: Three Provocations from the Wild World of Jean-Pierre Mocky.

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1 Mar
2024
Wuxia, yakuza thrillers and explosive action from Eureka in May
Eureka has announced that it will be releasing three title on disc in May, King Hu's last great wuxia masterpiece The Valiant Ones, George Lazenby, Angela Mao, and Jimmy Wang Yu in action-thriller A Queen's Ransom, and the first three Abashiri Prison movies starring Takaura Ken.

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28 Feb 2023
The Wages of Fear
Four desperate men are hired to transport two lorryloads of nitro-glycerine along treacherous mountain roads to stem an oil well fire in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 masterpiece of sustained suspense. Slarek hods his breath and reviews the new BFI 4K UHD release of one of his favourite films.

25 Feb 2023
Getting it Back: The Story of Cymande
A band whose influence – on hip-hop, house and other genres of black music – far exceeded its commercial success, Cymande has its story told in Getting It Back, released on Blu-ray from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.

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25 Feb 2023
Paths of Glory
The 1957 Paths of Glory remains one of director Stanley Kubrick’s finest achievements and a still devastating anti-war drama. It’s still available on Blu-ray from Eureka, so is the label’s new, identically featured UHD upgrade worth a buy? Slarek walks the trenches to find out.

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25 Feb
2024
British chiller The Borderlands on Blu-ray from Second Sight in April
One of the creepiest and most effective found footage chillers of the current millennium, Elliot Goldner’s 2013 The Borderlands comes to UK Blu-ray in Limited and Standard Blu-ray editions in April from Second Sight Films.

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23 Feb
2024
Two UHD upgrades and Pandemonium on Blu-ray from Arrow in May
Arrow video has announced its May disc releases, which include UHD upgrades for its previous Blu-ray releases of Crimson Peak and The Long Good Friday, and a Limited Edition Blu-ray of 2023 fantasy drama Pandemonium.

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23 Feb
2024
Dogfight on Blu-ray and Raging Bull on UHD from Criterion in May
Spirit Entertainment has announced that the two discs from the Criterion Collection that will also be released in the UK in May will be Nancy Savoca's Dogfight on Blu-ray, and Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull on Blu-ray and 4K UHD.

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22 Feb
2024
The Lavender Hill Mob in cinemas in March, on 4K UHD & Digital in April
Much loved 1951 Ealing comedy The Lavender Hill Mob will be released in cinemas in March and on UHD and Digital in April in a new restoration by Studiocanal, together with a UHD release of the 1949 Kind Hearts & Coronets.

16 Feb 2023
I, the Executioner
A serial killer is targeting a group of Tōkyō women in director Katō Tai's smart, well directed but deeply discomforting 1968 drama, which makes its UK Blu-ray debut courtesy of Radiance Films. Slarek takes a walk on the dark side and discovers that there's a lot more to the story here than its confrontational opening scene suggests.

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16 Feb
2024
Genre favourite The Amityville Horror on 4K UHD and Blu-ray in March
One of the most popular horror films of the late 1970s, and the one that drew up the template for the many 'our new house is haunted by malevolent spirits' films that have since followed, The Amityville Horror is coming to to UHD and Blu-ray in a website-only package in March from 88 Films.

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16 Feb
2024
Hettie Macdonald's Beautiful Thing on Blu-ray & Digital in March
Produced by the legendary Tony Garnett and based on the award-winning play by Jonathan Harvey, stage director Hettie Macdonald's debut feature, the romantic comedy Beautiful Thing, comes to Blu-ray and digital from the BFI in March.

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16 Feb
2024
60s British drama The Comedy Man on Blu-ray, DVD & Digital in March
Classic 1964 British kitchen sink drama, The Comedy Man, starring Kenneth Moore as a struggling repertory actor in swinging London, comes to Blu-ray, DVD and Digital from Studiocanal in March.

14 Feb 2023
Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer
An entry-level look at the life and career of Werner Herzog, including testimonials from friends, family and colleagues, Radical Dreamer comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.

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8 Feb 2023
Death Occurred Last Night
Two Milan police detectives embark on a search for an office worker's missing daughter in Duccio Tessari's 1970 Death Occurred Last Night. Slarek is gripped by this intelligent and gripping melding of multiple police and crime subgenres, which looks terrific on this new Blu-ray from Radiance Films.

3 Feb 2023
Impossible Object
Alan Bates stars as an English author living with his family in France whilst having an affair with young married woman in John Frankenheimer’s criminally overlooked Impossible Object. Slarek is intrigued by a film that demands multiple viewings, a task made pleasurable by Indicator’s impressively featured Blu-ray.

24 Jan
2023
When Taekwondo Strikes
The queen of first wave martial arts cinema teams up with the father of American Taekwondo to fight the Japanese forces occupying pre-WW2 Korea in the 1973 When Taekwondo Strikes. A thrilled Slarek is once again transported happily back to his early teens with Eureka's new Blu-ray release.

24 Jan
2023
The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg’s ghost story The Eternal Daughter, with a dual performance from Tilda Swinton, comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens looks at the disc on a dark and stormy night.

19 Jan
2023
Scala!!!
Scala!!! is a documentary about the fifteen-year lifetime of the legendary repertory cinema which lived in most of its life in King’s Cross, London. Maybe you had to be there, but if you were or weren’t, this film will do very nicely. Gary Couzens was there for some of the time.

18 Jan
2023
Jinnah
In what he later regarded as his most important role, Christopher Lee plays the founder of the nation of Pakistan in director Jamil Dehlavi’s handsomely mounted biopic, Jinnah. Camus reviews the film, leaving Slarek to focus on the special features and technical specs of Indicator’s new Blu-ray.

12 Jan
2023
Honor Among Lovers
A soon-to-be-married personal secretary is unexpectedly propositioned by her boss in Dorothy Azner's 1931 romantic drama, Honor Among Lovers, which was released on Blu-ray in December by Indicator. A normally romance-resistant Slarek finds himself drawn into the film by a beguiling central performance from Claudette Colbert.

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5 Jan
2024
The write stuff: Cine Outsider at 20
Cine Outsider has now been around for two decades, and so in a change from his usual end-of-year round-up, site founder and editor Slarek takes an in-depth look back at the journey that led to the creation of the site, how it later developed, and what the future might hold for it in these rapidly changing times.

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5 Jan
2024
XX marks the spot: Cine Outsider at 20
Having been with the site since its original inception and to accompany Slarek's deep dive into the history of Cine Outsider in all of its guises, Camus offers his own celebration of a very special anniversary for the site.

27 Dec
2023
Interrogation
After a period of inactivity due to personal issues, Slarek returns with a review of Second Run’s recent Blu-ray release of Ryszard Bugajski’s harrowing, impeccably performed and still worryingly relevant debut feature, Interrogation [Przesluchanie].

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15 Dec
2023
The Old Oak
Ken Loach's career spans 56 years so it's no surprise that at 87 he's calling it a day. And he ends his career on a cracker, a deeply emotional and well written and acted portrait of a destitute town and how tensions escalate when Syrian refugees move in next door. Camus is swept up in the drama…

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11 Dec
2023
The British Transport Films Collection Volume 15: Life on the Line
Now departing from the BFI is the fifteenth and final British Transport Films Collection set, a two-disc DVD reviewed by Gary Couzens.