Out now on Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment for the first time in the UK, This Gun for Hire, is a thrilling film-noir that marked the big-screen debut of Alan Ladd; in a role that immortalised the actor for a generation of filmgoers. When assassin Philip Raven (Ladd) is paid in marked bills by a shady […]
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While much of 2020 has been a write-off due to COVID-19, the spooky season that is October is immune to social distancing and True Cult with Alex Boniwell is back with a few choice New Releases for your ‘Watch-List’. Spanning the spectrum of horror, we have visitors from another world with bad intentions to something
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I remember my introduction to rabies came via a re-run episode of Diff’rent Strokes in which Arnold is bitten by a dog that’s suspected of being rabid. While the show highlighted the severity of contracting the disease, it was nothing compared to the nightmare scenario presented in Stephen King’s Cujo, out now on Blu-ray and
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Making its Blu-ray debut through Via Vision Entertainment, is The Sum of Us, an Australian comedy starring Russell Crowe and Jack Thompson, about a widowed father, Harry, and his son Jeff, who are both in search of a significant other. Jeff is openly gay and has the full support of his open-minded old man, and
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I have to admit I wasn’t particularly excited to watch A Place in the Sun following its announcement from Imprint Films, No. 8 in the label’s second wave, and I’m not mistaken, the only one which hasn’t sold out …yet. Winner of six Oscars including Best Director for George Stevens, this tragic tale of love
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American television during the 1970s treated audiences to a number of absorbing and landmark mini-series’, often exploring the life experiences of everyday people. Rich Man, Poor Man is one such classic, based on Irwin Shaw’s 1969 novel of the same name and follows the diverging paths of two German-American brothers from an improvised migrant home
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Not to be confused with the 1988 spooktacular Night of the Demons, this is the British singular, Night of the Demon, aka Curse of the Demon (United States), that emerged on shelves earlier this month, September 2nd on Blu-ray & DVD from Cinema Cult. Highly regarded as a staple of British horror, this unnerving classic
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Since my last Imprint Films review, I was happy to see that The Carpetbaggers and Night Falls on Manhattan have sold out, which will hopefully prompt a second printing in the near future. No Way to Treat a Lady is one of three premium Blu-ray releases that remain, a classic black comedy based on William
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True Cult with Alex Boniwell is back, looking at a few New Releases on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital while regular presenter Rhianna Patrick, from ABC radio, is away. We’ve got a mysterious villain in a monkey mask, an action-packed classic from Robert Rodriquez and a quirky new comedy from New Zealand about wrestling. I SEE
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If you’re a keen-eye fan of Hammer Films you’ll immediately notice the striking resemblance to their 1965 paranoid-thriller Die! Die! My Darling! has with Lamont Johnson’s You’ll Like My Mother, which arrived on Australian shelves earlier this month, September 2nd, from Cinema Cult. In the dead of winter, a recently widowed woman, Francesca (Patty Duke),
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