When COVID-19 was closing everything in 2020, Imprint Films, a premium sub-label of Via Vision Entertainment, emerged and physical media in Australia has since been all the better for it.
It’s difficult to express how much you like or enjoy a particular film when the subject matter is as controversial as it is here, to put it mildly, but as apprehensive as I am, I’ll do my very best to convey what I appreciate and take from Lolita, now available on Blu-ray from Imprint Films. […]
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When Imprint dropped hints for their August batch, I was almost certain we were about to be treated to the Vincent Price classic, The Last Man on Earth, but the local label did one better with the “last people on earth”, all of whom are coincidentally residing in Melbourne. Stanley Kramer’s big screen production of
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Imprint Films released The Naked Jungle in December last year, which has since sold out and was one of two films Charlton Heston made in 1954, the second being, Secret of the Incas, available now from the boutique label as of August 31st. Five years before he became bigger than Ben-Hur, Heston portrayed would-be adventurer,
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Contrary to what the title suggests, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, is not a morbid advertisement for the ‘Mile-High City’, but rather a slick crime/drama made in post-Pulp Fiction Hollywood that’s currently available on Blu-ray from the boutique label, Imprint Films, title number 144. Andy Garcia stars as Jimmy the Saint, an
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With streaming becoming the dominant means of delivering content into our homes, the chance of certain classic titles seeing a physical release slowly decreases. However, boutique label, Imprint Films, continues to buck the trend, so to speak, with the release of the obscure indie drama/mystery, The Music of Chance, which only saw a DVD release
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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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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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Quentin Tarantino opened his dialogue-heavy and street-crime opus, Jackie Brown, with the song, Across 110th Street, originally written by singer/songwriter Bobby Womack for the film of the same name. Out now on Blu-ray from Imprint Films, this seminal and influential genre classic is being celebrated once again by critics and fans alike. When a mafia
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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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