Not every movie is going to wind up on streaming or be elevated to a disc-based physical format. Some are just “so far down, they’re not even on the map” to quote The Warriors but Vis Vision in Australia has scourged back catalogues to give collectors the relatively unknown Cyndi Lauper classic, Off and Running, […]
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After a while monsters tend to get boring, namely vampires and zombies, but the haunted house movie, more often than not, manages to hit close to home (no pun intended). It’s a genre that operates subconsciously, questioning our understanding of what may or may not lie beyond death. Steven Soderbergh offers more questions than answers
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When we think of animated features during the 80s and 90s, it’s mostly Disney titles that spring to mind, but former long-time animator for the studio, Don Bluth, became a rival player with his breakout film, The Secret of NIMH – available now on Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment. Inside a cinderblock she calls home, which
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In a fun homage to campy classics such as House on Haunted Hill the second big-screen outing for Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, borrows the title font, but provides the hills in Elvira’s Haunted Hills – Available now on Blu-ray (Standard Edition) from 101 Films in the UK. It’s 1851 and Elvira and her maidservant
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Widely regarded as the successor to The Twilight Zone, writer, producer, and former flyweight boxer, Rod Serling, plays curator to Night Gallery – a varied anthology series that’s again available on DVD from Via Vision Entertainment in Australia. As an avid fan of Night Gallery’s predecessor, I found it naturally difficult not to draw comparisons
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101 Films wrapped up 2024 with a Limited-Edition Blu-ray release of Nigel Kneale’s The Stone Tape – a made-for-television feature that was originally broadcast in Britain on Christmas Day 1972 to high acclaim from viewers and critics alike. Spurred by their Japanese competitors, a large electronics company employs a team of scientists who have set up
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Looney Tunes was my introduction to Edward G. Robinson who Buggs Bunny would regularly impersonate, most famously in the 1946 cartoon short Racketeer Rabbit. Interestingly the first movie I saw Robinson in was Soylent Green, which was sadly his last. Now fans can enjoy the liver-lipped actor at his meanest in the bleak obscure classic
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I first heard the phrase ‘A Bridge Too Far’ when purchasing a copy of the follow-up title to the original Close Combat on PC. While impressed by its attention to detail and sophisticated gameplay, it proved to be ‘A Bridge Too Far’ for my patience and skill. It did however fuel my growing interest in
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Imprint Films owned the month of December with four worldwide debut releases on 4K Ultra HD, which included one of Australia’s most iconic and fashionable classics, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – Available now in Limited Edition dual-format release that comes packaged in a 3D lenticular hard box that features the image
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I assumed for years that Tank Girl was a movie about the band, No Doubt, based on the old MGM DVD that I would walk past constantly at a local supermarket. Turns out that’s not Gwen Stefani on the cover, but rather Lori Petty, a girl warrior in a post-apocalyptic Australia where a corporate tyrant
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