Cinema has always been my go-to means of escapism and during the middle of a four-day stint of painfully slow internet speeds, Oliver Stone’s U Turn was the perfect detour thanks to its recent arrival on DVD & Blu-ray from Shock Entertainment. Sean Penn heads up a stacked cast as slick drifter, Bobby Cooper, who’s […]
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As many collectors and film fans bask in this 4K climate, the phrase “…first time on DVD.” probably sounds almost foreign to most. However, it’s very much the case for Lunatics: A Love Story, which recently made its surprise debut to the SD format under Umbrella Entertainment in Australia. Hank Stone (Theodore “Ted” Raimi) hasn’t
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Umbrella Entertainment’s announcement of Apt Pupil Blu-ray release to come out of left field but was met with a generally positive response from fans of the suburban thriller. Based on Stephen King’s novella of the same name, our story takes place in Southern California, 1984. Todd Bowden, a 16-year-old student discovers that his elderly neighbour
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I can still remember quite vividly the poster for The Serpent & the Rainbow hanging in the window of my town’s once prosperous video store. Call it my introduction to horror as the sight of a ghoulish Bill Pullman clawing out of a coffin was an image that fractured my fragile 4-year-old mind. It wouldn’t
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Swedish-born filmmaker and drummer Jonas Åkerlund has quite the impressive resume with 139 credits as director, mostly various music videos for the likes of Roxette, Madonna and Metallica just to name a few. With a body of work spanning over thirty-years, Åkerlund adds to his respectable list of feature films with the ultra-hard Lords of
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Cinema Cult wrapped up 2018’s slew of releases with two very distinctive horror classics; Wes Craven’s Haitian nightmare The Serpent & the Rainbow and Paul Schrader’s erotic fantasy Cat People. Based loosely on the Val Lewton original from forty-years earlier, screenwriter Alan Ormsby (Deranged) pens this re-imagining about a young woman’s sexual awakening. Driven by
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Following a brief showing at last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, Brazilian filmmaker and musician Joe Penna’s debut feature Arctic is set for a limited theatrical release across Australia from Thursday, February 14th. Starring Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen (Rogue One), this harrowing survival drama follows a man stranded under sub-zero temperatures in the Arctic after
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Trailing the exhaust fumes left in the wake of Mad Max, Australia’s brand of exploitation cinema reached new heights in the form of The Chain Reaction from veteran film and television director Ian Barry. Unearthed and fully remastered by Umbrella Entertainment, the obscure action sci-fi smashed its way onto Blu-ray last November, much to the
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Event cinema can easily be defined in this day and age as the next studio tentpole-release, of which there are many throughout a single year, but personal taste and anticipation are also defining factors. If you’re a long-time Clint Eastwood fan like myself, then his latest feature The Mule is one such occasion, which sees
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Scottish-born director Lynne Ramsay only has a handful of films to her name, but is synonymous with well-crafted and hard-edged narratives. Her latest feature, You Were Never Really Here had come with much anticipation ahead of its brief run in Australian cinemas last September. Now available on Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment, the brutal crime-drama has
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