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.
I often look at Imprint’s simplistic and durable style of packaging and think to myself, “Where was this magnificent label during the boom years of box sets?”. Nevertheless, they’re here now giving us collections that are raising the bar, like The Odd Couple Collection which features both films and eleven randomly selected episodes of the […]
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Assassinations plagued America’s political landscape during the 1960s with three public slayings, President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential hopeful, Robert F. Kennedy. Each was dismissed as the act of a “lone gunman”, but a nation’s grief and growing resentment towers the establishment and glaring questions, particularly over JFK’s death, fuelled numerous
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Imprint has brought many overlooked classics into the HD fold since launching in mid-2020, and one of their latest is Ida Lupino’s obscure drama Outrage, making its worldwide debut on Blu-ray. Newly engaged with the world at her feet, young woman, Ann Walton (Mala Powers), is raped while on her way home from work. Unable
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When the boutique label Imprint Films’ announced they were releasing Tam Lin, there was a collective “What?” uttered across social media by physical media collectors, but that’s by no means a knock against the film, just an indication of its level of obscurity. Based on the old fairy ballad from Scotland, Tam Lin or The Ballad
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Imprint has taken a while with dishing out their horror titles, granted they did hit the ground running with a string of exclusive releases, but now in 2022 Australia’s flagship label are catering more and more to fans of the most popular genre. Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, an eerier and sleepy classic from Paramount,
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Whether you believe in it or not, the very notion of being taken over by a malevolent force, the recently departed or demonic, is terrifying. The Exorcist, of course, took the idea to its most extreme, shocking audiences the world over but The Possession of Joel Delaney, released one year prior, is a more grounded
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We in Australia didn’t get to see Stir of Echoes until the fourth month into the new millennium whereas US audiences were enjoying it the previous year in September, which in retrospect feels like a jarring wait compared to today’s release cycle. With the more popular Sixth Sense still on the minds of horror fans,
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I’m sure many will agree that Sondra Locke never really got her due as an actress despite being nominated for an Oscar for her debut role in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Prior to hitching her wagon to Clint Eastwood, who would ultimately destroy her career with the help of his pals at Warner
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I first saw Richard Farnsworth in Misery as the seasoned small-town sheriff, Buster, a role that’s since become regarded as one of actor’s best and most enjoyable. Farnsworth worked as a Hollywood stuntman for thirty years before trying his hand at acting, a career change that would culminate with The Straight Story, before his passing
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I was quite put off by Terrence Malick’s style of cinema, which was introduced to me via the very experimental Tree of Life, but I’ve since then I’ve warmed to the director after watching two of his early classics, the more straight-forward, Badlands, and most recently Days of Heaven, which is out now on Blu-ray
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