I loved fantasy adventure as a child, but mostly the live-action variety and providing it starred Arnold Schwarzenegger, so naturally, I never crossed paths with The Last Unicorn, which has since galloped to DVD here in Australia thanks to Via Vision Entertainment, who have been broadening my horizons since 2016. Written in the late 60s, […]
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Miniseries haven’t decreased in popularity, but like most television these days, they’re designed for binge-watching. However, Via Vision has recently unearthed a traditional classic two-parter, The Murder of Mary Phagan, available now on DVD for the very first time in Australia. Based on a true story, Leo Frank (Peter Gallagher) a factory manager in Atlanta,
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I’ve been an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan for as long as I’ve been watching movies. At the risk of sounding melodramatic, watching Conan the Barbarian for the first time, at the very inappropriate age of 6, was a life-changing moment due to its unconventional hero and deep philosophical subtext. Little did I know at the time
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Via Vision Entertainment bring the Seminal ‘Brat Pack’ drama to Blu-ray for the first time in Australia: St. Elmo’s Fire. The narrative of which turns out to basically be The Goonies, but for pretentious young adults. Fresh out of college, seven close-knit friends living relatively well in Georgetown, Washington DC, are in an unnecessary rush
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I don’t remember the first movie I watched, but there are a few distinct images that were burnt into my mind at a very young age; a miniaturised Dennis Quaid navigating his way through Martin Short’s body in Innerspace, Bruce Willis crawling through the air vents in Die Hard and a dead Bernie Lomax being
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When I was a kid, ABC was the place for all things British, from Worzel Gummidge to Keeping Up Appearances, and now we have dedicated labels like Via Vision Entertainment that bring the occasional staple of UK-based film and television to disc-based formats like it the early 2000s, and I mean that as a complement.
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South Park satirized it and the internet mocked it, – the ‘Emo’ boom of the early 2000s, a sub-culture that found a kindred spirit in the form of Ginger Snaps. Three movies about two sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, who become entangled with lycanthropy, better known as werewolves; a vessel for teenage angst and an outsider
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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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War movies are often told from the “good guys” perspective, depicting tales of triumph and courage in a very black and white fashion. Although, a more balanced take was attempted with the Hollywood epic, The Longest Day, in which the monumental D-Day landing portrayed a gung-ho Allied force against an over-confident German war machine. Another
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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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