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1 Dec
2021 |
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30 Nov
2021 |
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29 Nov
2021 |
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26 Nov
2021 |
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26 Nov
2021 |
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| Saint Etienne: I’ve Been Trying To Tell You on Blu-ray in December |
| I’ve Been Trying To Tell You is is a road movie like no other, directed by the acclaimed photographer and filmmaker Alasdair McLellan to accompany Saint Etienne’s first sample-driven album since their 1993 classic So Tough, and it comes to BFI Blu-ray in December. |
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25 Nov
2021 |
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23 Nov
2021 |
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| Bleak Moments |
| Fifty years after it was made, Mike Leigh’s debut feature film, Bleak Moments, has a restoration and Blu-ray release from the BFI, and is reviewed by Gary Couzens. |
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22 Nov
2021 |
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| Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu Classics by Joseph Kuo |
| In an inescapably lengthy and delayed review, Slarek punches, jumps and kicks his way through what may be his favourite box set of the year, Eureka's marvellous old-school martial arts Blu-ray collection, Cinematic Vengeance: 8 Kung Fu Classics by Joseph Kuo. |
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21 Nov
2021 |
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| Deep Cover |
| Occasional reviewer SilverBlueSnow returns with a look at the Criterion Blu-ray of Bill Duke's 1992 crime thriller Deep Cover, and pays tribute to leading man Laurence Fishburne's performance, vocal delivery and stylish dress sense. |
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19 Nov
2021 |
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| The Indian Tomb & Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon from Eureka in February |
| Eureka has announced two double-disc Blu-ray releases for February 2022 in the shape of lavish adventure thriller Indian Tomb, written by Thea von Harbou and Fritz Lang, and and the buddy-cop action comedy Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon starring Sammo Hung, Karl Maka and Lau Kar-wing. |
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16 Nov
2021 |
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| Little seen British gems and more Peter Cushing from Indicator in February |
| Indicator has announced its February Blu-ray releases, which are Anthony Friedmann’s Herman Melville adaptation Bartleby, Kevin Billington’s unsettling chiller Voices, Kostas Karagiorgis' offbeat horror The Devil's Men, and Chris Petit's film adaptation of P.D. James' An Unsuitable Job for a Woman. |
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15 Nov
2021 |
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| Ingmar Bergman: Volume 2 |
| The BFI’s second of four Ingmar Bergman Blu-ray box sets, with eight films each, reaches the 1950s, the period where he made his first masterpieces and became a major figure in world cinema. Review by Gary Couzens. |
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10 Nov
2021 |
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| Celia |
| In an unforgivably late review, Slarek is transported back to the freedoms, adventures and conflicts of childhood by director Ann Turner's remarkable 1989 debut feature, Celia, which looks terrific on a splendidly featured and recently released Second Run Blu-ray. |
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5 Nov
2021 |
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| The BFI announces its January-March Blu-ray, DVD & UHD titles |
| The BFI's first quarter 2022 disc releases have been announced, and include Blu-ray and UHD releases of John Hillicoat's The Proposition, a stand-alone release for Bergman's Wild Strawberries, a third volume of titles from the BBC's prestigious Play for Today series, and more. |
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3 Nov
2021 |
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| The Seventh Seal |
| The newly upgraded Slarek makes the BFI's first UHD release his first UHD review, and is delighted by how good the iconic imagery of Ingmar Berman's masterful The Seventh Seal looks in 4K HDR. But with a review of the box set Blu-ray edition also incoming, he elects to focus on a little discussed aspect of one of his favourite films. |
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2 Nov
2021 |
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| MacArthur |
| A little late (blame a certain sandy planet) Camus reviews MacArthur released on Blu-ray last week by Indicator. In the midst of war, General Douglas MacArthur was a towering figure at the height of his popularity, something presidents don’t appreciate. Camus goes back to darker times… |
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28 Oct
2021 |
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| Dune |
| Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction series of novels have defied truly satisfying screen adaptations for being too dense to easily adapt. That is until director Denis Villeneuve rolled up his sleeves. Camus is in no small awe at his astonishing Dune… |
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27 Oct
2021 |
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| Short Sharp Shocks Volume 2 |
| A year on from the BFI’s first Short Sharp Shocks collection of short films often touching on horror and the macabre, along comes Volume 2, with ten more films from the 1940s to the 1980s, reviewed by Gary Couzens. |
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26 Oct
2021 |
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| Gray Lady Down |
| Charlton Heston plays the captain of a submarine that sinks after colliding with a cargo ship in David Greene's 1978 entertaining disaster movie-tinged action-drama, newly released on Blu-ray by Indicator. Slarek dons a wetsuit and reminds himself why a career in the Navy was never on the cards. |
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23 Oct
2021 |
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| Hellfighters |
| The biggest movie star of his day (and many other days) with a career spanning fifty years, stars in this action thriller as an oil firefighter. John Wayne has made his fair share of classics. Camus gets close to the heat reviewing Indicator’s new Blu-ray Hellfighters… |
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21 Oct
2021 |
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| The Sabata Trilogy |
| Lee Van Cleef is skilled gunslinger Sabata, and so is Yul Brynner, and then it's Lee Van Cleef again in three immensely enjoyable Italian westerns from director Gianfranco Parolini. Slarek loses himself in The Sabata Trilogy, a fine Blu-ray box set from Eureka featuring one of the true icons of this distinctive subgenre. |
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20 Oct
2021 |
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| BFI London Film Festival 2021 – Dispatch #7 |
| Composed primarily from stunning archive images of the titanic clashes on the Eastern Front in World War Two, Sergie Loznita’s devastating documentary Babi Yar: Context honours the many thousands massacred outside Kiev in 1941. Jerry Whyte catches his breath and applauds the harrowing highlight of this year’s London Film Festival. |
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18 Oct
2021 |
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| One of Our Aircraft is Missing |
| Powell and Pressburger's first film as The Archers, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, gets a Blu-ray release from the BFI with several other wartime films as extras, and is reviewed by Gary Couzens. |
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15 Oct
2021 |
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| BFI London Film Festival 2021 – Dispatch #6 |
| Jerry Whyte ruminates over a bellicose blockbuster and couple of punchy documentaries (The Harder They Fall, The Taking, All These Sons) and listens to the ideas they exchange on a certain troubling questions about violence, cinema and society. |
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14 Oct
2021 |
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| Invasion of the Body Snatchers |
| Hollywood director Don Siegel (who taught Clint Eastwood a thing or two) was more known as a filmmaker with no discernible personal voice. If he had only directed Invasion of the Body Snatchers, that would be enough for Camus to bow down. After re-checking the greenhouse, he reviews the BFI Blu-ray… |
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13 Oct
2021 |
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| BFI London Film Festival 2021 – Dispatch #5 |
| In his fifth dispatch from this year's London Film Festival, Slarek spends time with Hungarian WWII drama Natural Light, low-budget British drama with a twist All is Vanity, and Spanish character comedy, The Odd-Job Men. |
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