No other company has done more of Australian cinema than Umbrella Entertainment – the home of Ozploitaion, but the Melbourne-based label is also responsible for some of the most random and outrageous Blu-ray releases on the market.
Umbrella Entertainment launched a modest new series late last year to champion the old-timey action flicks in their library, Combat Classics – War Stories on Film, beginning with Destroyer, starring Edward G. Robinson, Glenn Ford and Marguerite Chapman. Produced by Columbia Pictures during World War II, this naval adventure follows shipyard worker, Steve Boleslavski (Robinson), […]
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Clint Eastwood’s first Hollywood western follows upon the actor’s whirlwind success in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy, delivering a hard-fought story of vengeance and justice set in the Oklahoma Territory of 1889. Directed by workhorse film and television director, Ted Post, Hang ‘Em High is out now on DVD from Umbrella Entertainment, in which innocent man,
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I remember renting Cut on VHS upon its release but not so much the film itself, although it did become a marker for nostalgia towards the new millennium, back when I was a budding movie collector; well-practiced at filling tapes to the brim with movies recorded off TV thanks to Long Play mode. Here we
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A24 is the indie film house that’s all the rage among movie-goers, particular those of a younger demographic. One of the studio’s most recent low-key features is Under the Silver Lake, which had a brief run in cinemas earlier this year through Umbrella Entertainment and has since arrived on DVD. In the style for classic
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Out now on Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment, Drive-In Delirium: With a Vengeance offers up a fine blend of 157 action and sci-fi trailers, uncensored and remastered in high definition. Divided into two parts Cruise Control and The Year We Make Contact, the six-hour plus runtime speeds by faster than Roy Scheider in The French Connection’s
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Dive-In Delirium is back, the staple trailer compilation series from Umbrella Entertainment, who have two new massive volumes for genre fans to sink their fangs into, starting with Dive-In Delirium: Dead by Dawn, uncensored and remastered in two parts, The Final Chapter and A New Beginning. We once again we begin this latest volume in
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VHS cover-art, while amazing as it was, often oversold its respective title, but in the case of Reform School Girls, what you see it what you get. Now on DVD from Umbrella Entertainment, Tom DeSimone’s women-behind-bars staple follows a young woman, Jenny, who is sent to a reform school, ran by the corrupt warden Sutter
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Carl Laemmle, the big studio producer responsible for numerous ‘Universal Monster Classics’ presents The Black Cat, a very loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story out now on DVD from Umbrella Entertainment. Starring both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, the first of eight movies to pair the two horror icons, the story follows
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It never ceases to amaze me what Umbrella Entertainment manage to unearth when it comes to Ozploitation cinema. One of their latest acquisitions is the little-known classic Sidecar Racers, which made its debut on DVD back in May. Offering a casual yet thrilling glimpse into the world of sidecar motorcycle racing, a seasoned racer, Dave
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With the highly anticipated Three From Hell on the horizon, Rob Zombie’s long-awaited third instalment in his Firefly series; Umbrella Entertainment have packaged both House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects together as a double bill, appropriately titled Two From Hell. Out now on Blu-ray with a stack of extras and exclusive artwork. Can
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