When I was a kid, ABC was the place for all things British, from Worzel Gummidge to Keeping Up Appearances, and now we have dedicated labels like Via Vision Entertainment that bring the occasional staple of UK-based film and television to disc-based formats like it the early 2000s, and I mean that as a complement. […]
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South Park satirized it and the internet mocked it, – the ‘Emo’ boom of the early 2000s, a sub-culture that found a kindred spirit in the form of Ginger Snaps. Three movies about two sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, who become entangled with lycanthropy, better known as werewolves; a vessel for teenage angst and an outsider
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I remember there being much fanfare for The Warriors Director’s Cut ahead of its DVD debut in 2005, which included a PlayStation 2 video game adaptation. Subscribing to the hype, I purchased a copy from my local Kmart during the Easter long weekend of that year; spending Saturday afternoon bopping vicariously all the way back
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War movies are often told from the “good guys” perspective, depicting tales of triumph and courage in a very black and white fashion. Although, a more balanced take was attempted with the Hollywood epic, The Longest Day, in which the monumental D-Day landing portrayed a gung-ho Allied force against an over-confident German war machine. Another
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When actor John Heard passed away in 2017, there was a surprisingly moving reaction from fans. Not just of Home Alone, but Heard’s body of work in general, from his days as a New York thespian to his memorable appearance in The Sopranos. However, it was a little film named Cutter’s Way that people were
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Murder was the theme of Imprint Films’ April bundle, from the overwhelmingly popular The Wicker Man to the previously hard-to-find cult thriller, Man on a Swing; starring Joel Grey in a chilling post-Oscar performance opposite all-American leading man, Cliff Robertson. Lifted for the grisly annals of true crime, more specifically The Girl on the Volkswagen
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Dalton Trumbo was a prolific screenwriter famously blacklisted with nine other industry professionals by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Many years after his exile, and understandably jaded, but no less talented Trumbo, adapted his 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun for the big screen, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time. No,
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Space exploration presented an exciting and hopeful new endeavour for mankind, but with any new frontier, comes danger and risk. Marooned offers the possible scenario of being trapped high above in Earth’s breathtaking orbit when three astronauts are unable to return due to a mechanical failure onboard their spacecraft. With their oxygen-limited to only 48
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Screened on British television over two nights to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Whitechapel murders, Jack the Ripper re-ignited the public’s fascination with the now mythical cloaked killer. Available now on DVD from Via Vision Entertainment this award-winning two-parter stars Michael Caine stars as Scotland Yard Inspector Frederick Abberline, a skilled but hard-drinking
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Imprint Films gave us a Neil Simon double whammy in February with The Odd Couple Collection and The Out-of-Towners, the latter of which is making its worldwide Blu-ray debut. Gwen and George Kellerman, a married couple from rural Ohio, have the ideal weekend planned in New York City where George is offered a promotion to
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