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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When I was a kid the neighbours behind us had three teenage sons, all of whom had bucked teeth. My father, who never missed the opportunity to single out one’s physical characteristics, nicknamed those three lads, “The Bucky Beavers”. I hadn’t thought about that for a long time, not until an email arrived about an
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Traditional ghost stories, particularly those that surround a haunting often have a comforting quality to them thanks to being accompanied by social gatherings or children’s activities and being set in snug locations. Lewis Allen’s The Uninvited and The Unseen are two such tales that contain many elements of the classically spooky and they’re available now
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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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Prior to stepping into the role of Agent 007 and after a seven-year run playing The Saint on television, Roger Moore enjoyed a brief middle chapter in his career. During this, he made what he considers to be one of his favourite films, The Man Who Haunted Himself – available now on Blu-ray from Imprint
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We’re already in June and the year so far has been especially demonic as far as the horror genre is concerned, but nothing new has been brought to the table, or pentagram. However, director and screenwriter Joshua John Miller makes a fair effort toward originality with The Exorcism – in which a troubled actor, played
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Before we became increasingly tethered to our phones and other smart devices, The Lawnmower Man gave a theoretical glimpse into what a world might look like if man and cyberspace merged. While the film is often lambasted, The Lawnmower Man Collection – available now on Blu-ray from 101 Films, invites viewers to re-evaluate the unique science-fiction/horror
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Straight outta nowhere, 101 Films dropped the slightly obscure Michael Caine classic, A Shock to the System, on a standard release Blu-ray, which became available on May 27th. – This darkly comedic crime-thriller follows an overlooked corporate employee, Graham Marshall, who develops a delusion of invincibility after a freak accident, enabling him to climb his
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Screen adaptations, particularly those of the science-fiction variety, tend to stand on their merit. However, the recent two-part rendering of Frank Herbert’s Dune has brushed aside the unique vision brought to the screen much earlier by David Lynch. Via Vision Entertainment have rightfully countered this sentiment with a monumental Blu-ray release of the 1984 epic.
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