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| 15 Sep 2018 |
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| Salvador |
| James Woods gives a career-best performance as Richard Boyle, a down-on-his luck journalist who goes looking for a story in politically unstable El Salvador in Oliver Stone's blistering third feature. Slarek revisits a personal favourite on Eureka's terrific Masters of Cinema dual format release. |
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| 20 Sep 2018 |
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| 19 Sep 2018 |
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| 18 Sep 2018 |
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| Indie woodland horror The Dark on DVD & Digital HD in October |
| The first film to be released under the FrightFest Presents label, the new venture from leading independent distributor Signature Entertainment and leading genre festival FrightFest, Justin P Lange's debut feature The Dark comes to UK DVD & Digital HD in October. |
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| 16 Sep 2018 |
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| 12 Sep 2018 |
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| 12 Sep 2018 |
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| Witness for the Prosecution |
| Charles Laughton is sublime as a legendary barrister who defies medical advice to take on the case of a man wrongly accused of murder in Billy Wilder's richly entertaining adaptation of Agatha Christie's twisty courtroom drama. Slarek bangs the gavel for Eureka's excellent Blu-ray. |
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| 12 Sep 2018 |
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| 9 Sep 2018 |
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| Ministry of Fear |
| Ray Milland plays a recently released psychiatric patient who inadvertently stumbles into a sinister mystery in Fritz Lang's hugely entertaining film version of Graham Greene's novel. Slarek dives into the crisply rendered shadows of noir on Indicator's recent Blu-ray. |
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| 6 Sep 2018 |
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| 6 Sep 2018 |
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| 3 Sep 2018 |
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| Olenna |
| William H. Macy and Debra Eisenstadt star as a college professor and student who come into conflict in David Mamet's own film adpatation of his incendiary stage play. Slarek ties himself up in knots trying to decode its gender politics and salutes Indicator's fine new Blu-ray. |
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| 2 Sep 2018 |
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| Missing |
| You could never accuse director Costa-Gavras of not sticking to his guns. He’s a consistent and unapologetic political filmmaker with a shrewd eye for the mainstream audience. His Missing arrived on Blu-ray last week and Camus is out after curfew… |
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| 28 Aug 2018 |
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| The Odessa File |
| Jon Voigt stars as a freelance reporter who becomes obessed with tracking down a Nazi concentration camp commander in Ronald Neame's workmanlike adaptation of Frederick Forsyth's second novel. Slarek is still uncertain about the film but loves Indicator's new Blu-ray. |
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| 23 Aug 2018 |
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| Police Story 1 & 2 |
| There's blistering fight choreography and wince-inducing stunt work aplenty in two of Jackie Chan's most popular films, remastered on this 2-disc Eureka Blu-ray set with a terrific collection of special features. Slarek revisits some of the best action cinema of the 1980s. |
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| 14 Aug 2018 |
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| Hammer Volume Three: Blood & Terror |
| The four films in this third Blu-ray box set of little seen films from Hammer Studios are not without their issues, but all are of interest and one is a largely unsung gem. Slarek immerses himself in another wonderfully presented and feature-rich release from Indicator. |
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| 4 Aug 2018 |
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| The Third Murder |
| In what at first seems like a change of direction, Japanese maestro Kore-eda Hirokazu delivers a compelling legal drama that also turns out to be an intriguing study of family disfunction. Slarek finds himself hooked by its low-key approach and impressed with the Arrow Academy Blu-ray. |
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| 3 Aug 2018 |
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| Birdman of Alcatraz |
| Burt Lancaster was a class act and showing his talent at its height is a film about a murderer who became a world authority on birds after rescuing a sparrow. Birdman of Alcatraz is also astonishingly emotional. Camus does time with the new Blu-ray… |
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