VCI Entertainment pride themselves on being a boutique label filled with hidden gems, such as their very polished 2016 release of Lalo Benedek’s (The Wild One) The Night Visitor, on Blu-ray for the first time. Obscure to say the least, this unique Swedish psychological thriller stars Max von Sydow as insane asylum prisoner named Salem, […]
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I’m quite the dork when it comes to my musical taste, which includes 50s rock ‘n’ roll, the seed of which was planted from hearing the song La Bamba on a semi-regular basis throughout my early childhood. I didn’t speak Spanish nor did I know what “Spanish” was exactly. The song was simply so catchy
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While not a film one would expect to fall under Umbrella Entertainment’s home library, its status as underappreciated has made Cry Freedom a worthy selection for HD treatment. From director Richard Attenborough, this racially and politically charged drama tells the courageous true story of native South African activist Steve Biko and white journalist Donald Woods.
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Closing out 2018 in style, VCI Entertainment released Mario Bava’s giallo triumph Blood and Black Lace on Blu-ray in a complete 2-disc set fitted with numerous extras for hard-core fans. Translated as Six Women for the Murderer from its original Italian title of Sei donne per l’assassino, the foreign mystery-horror follows murder in a scandalous
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Umbrella Entertainment delivers its first ‘OzErotic’ double feature to Blu-ray in the form of John D. Lamond’s Felicity and Tony Paterson’s debut film Centrespread, two highly exploitative yet, profoundly different features. Felicity follows a young woman’s eagerness to live out her sexual fantasies but is confined to a monastic school, until a trip to Hong
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With boutique labels like Arrow Video and Scream Factory giving copious amounts of love to genre classics, it’s quite frankly a little stunning that Aprils Fool’s Day is without a Blu-ray release. Nevertheless, the staple 80s slasher can still be enjoyed via the ‘Old Faithful’ of disc formats, DVD, which is still floating around retail
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I’ve seen a lot of Charles Bronson movies, but not nearly all of them. Hard Times ranks among my favourites from the blue-collar actor and marks the directorial debut of Walter Hill (The Warriors). Punching its way to DVD from Via Vision Entertainment earlier this month, the mid-70s classic takes audiences back to the midst
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Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner were a formative duo who made several films together during the 70s and 80s. On the cusp of Dead Wish fame, the franchise that would ultimately end their professional relationship, The Stone Killer proved a modest hit as a big-city police feature in the wake of Dirty Harry. Out
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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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