Straight outta nowhere, 101 Films dropped the slightly obscure Michael Caine classic, A Shock to the System, on a standard release Blu-ray, which became available on May 27th. – This darkly comedic crime-thriller follows an overlooked corporate employee, Graham Marshall, who develops a delusion of invincibility after a freak accident, enabling him to climb his […]
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Screen adaptations, particularly those of the science-fiction variety, tend to stand on their merit. However, the recent two-part rendering of Frank Herbert’s Dune has brushed aside the unique vision brought to the screen much earlier by David Lynch. Via Vision Entertainment have rightfully countered this sentiment with a monumental Blu-ray release of the 1984 epic.
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Planet of the Apes is one of the few film series whose integrity hasn’t been diminished by this age of remakes, reboots, and re-imaginings. In fact, the saga continued to prosper thanks to an emphasis on concise storytelling, firmly rooted in the annals of classic science-fiction. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is a
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Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and four years after his passing in 1998 his final original screenplay, The Sea is Watching, made it to the big screen – and just recently made its worldwide Blu-ray debut under the new dedicated sub-label “Imprint Asia.” I’ve come to watch and
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I work in what most would describe as a typical office environment. Fortunately, though, the company’s official colour is a bright shade of green, so there’s some visual stimulant to supplement the lack of windows. It’s the monotonous setting of many movies, namely comedies such as Nine to Five, the cult classic satire Office Space,
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101 Films dips into the Full Moon Features catalogue of exploitation cinema with the gory cult classic, Mansion of the Doomed – available on Blu-ray from May 6th, appropriately under their Black Label. Produced by prolific filmmaker Charles Band, who is comparable to Roger Corman in terms of his output and style, Mansion of the
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March was a genre-heavy month for Imprint Films, which offered something for everyone, and was capped with the label’s milestone 300th Limited Edition release, Ravagers – a post-apocalyptic journey set 12 years in the future from the film’s theatrical release, and available now on Blu-ray for the first time ever. Richard Harris stars as an
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Over the past five years, I’ve been introduced to a number of Paul Leni’s silent classics, a filmmaker whose style was decades ahead of its time. One example of the director’s innovation is seen in his tendency to blend genres, namely horror and comedy, with his most prominent example, The Cat and the Canary available
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When I was a kid there were a group of movie sequels I had on regular rotation or rewind. Among them were Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Jaws: The Revenge, and Conan the Destroyer. The films were more than just entertainment, they were moods; and when I was tired of pondering
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Not including the 2006 remake, 20th Century Fox laid The Omen series to rest in 1991 with the made-for-television feature, Omen IV: The Awakening, and in the year that followed, Whoopie Goldberg re-energized Catholicism with the musical comedy, Sister Act. Over the subsequent decades, studios have merged, nuns are now scary, and a franchise is
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