Think of any movie and chances are it was released by Eureka Entertainment at one point or another; from Wake in Fright to Mr. Vampire. Based in the UK, the quality and presentation of Eureka’s contribution to physical media are unmatched.
Eagle Entertainment has no shortage of schlock this October as their slate is lined with nocturnal horror from Ted Bundy to The Mummy. In between is the non-traditional vampire tale, Sunrise – available on DVD & Digital from October 2nd. Set in the Pacific Northwest, an ex-policeman, Fallon (Alex Pettyfer), returns to a small town […]
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What do you do when Queen Elizabeth II pays a ceremonial visit to your capital city? That’s right, capture as much cheeky footage as possible and then weave it into a haywire action-filled crime-adventure starring one-time James Bond actor, George Lazenby – and the result will be A Queen’s Ransom, available now on Blu-ray from
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Among the first movies to “borrow” heavily from Star Wars, the Japanese science-fiction spectacular Message from Space – from Battle Royale director, Kinji Fukasaku, is available now on Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment, appropriately under the label’s Masters of Cinema Series. When a utopian planet falls under the control of the evil Gavanas Empire, the oppressed
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Eureka Entertainment has been my cinematic passport to Asia for the past several years. After enjoying their Hong Kong output, I’m excited to explore Japan’s Yakuza genre with The Valiant Red Peony: Red Peony Gambler I-III available now on Blu-ray. While the first part of the series’ title seems a bit redundant in English, it’s
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Woo-Ping Yuen has contributed enormously to martial arts cinema in the West as a stunt advisor and choreographer on films such as The Matrix Trilogy and Kill Bill (both volumes), but his work as a filmmaker is not to be overlooked and one of his most haywire classics, The Miracle Fighters is now available on
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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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There’s been no shortage of martial arts cinema coming from Eureka Entertainment over the past 18 months, and among the label’s latest titles is the obscure Golden Harvest classic, Slaughter in San Francisco, also known by its original and very dated title of Yellow Faced Tiger – available on Blu-ray from February 19th. Martial arts
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When we think of 80s America, images of California often spring to mind. The west-coast American state seemed to exist in an almost hyperreality, especially when viewed through the lens of cinema. Los Angeles, in particular, served as a pop culture epicentre during the rad decade. One of my earliest brushes with the Golden State
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Eureka Entertainment treated us to the Hong Kong classic, Mr Vampire in 2020, introducing a whole new generation of home viewers to ‘Hopping Vampires’ or Jiangshi to use the official term (as opposed to the more limber bloodsuckers from the West). Upon a quick Google search on the subject, you’ll learn there are countless titles,
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When we think of horror movies from the 1930s and ‘40s, our minds immediately go to Universal’s ‘Classic Monsters’, namely Dracula and Frankenstein along with the cinematic universe that followed. Whereas the reality was, the genre entered somewhat of a production line state, with major studios like Universal and Paramount churning numerous 60-plus minutes features,
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