Anime titles are in no short supply here in Australia but are mostly distributed by a single label. However, the very genre-oriented, Umbrella Entertainment has a couple in their catalogues, such as Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers and the director’s final film, Paprika, which recently landed on shelves. We enter a reality where therapists have the […]
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I haven’t seen enough silent films to fairly cite a favourite actor from the period, but I’m going to say Conrad Veidt, even if it’s technically by default. Mostly known for his performances in influential The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Man Who Laughs, Veidt could personify madness like no other, and between these two
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To say I have never heard of Sammo Hung will probably come as a shock to many, but I’ve just been given a crash course on who is undeniably Hong Kong’s most prolific actors and directors. Hung’s wacky cult classic, Encounter of the Spooky Kind, is now available on Blu-ray in the United Kingdom under
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Naturally, a blind purchase can be the best and worst way to discover new movies, but it was a weekend ritual of mine during my early 20s, months before I moved out of home. As people were upgrading to flat-screen televisions, I still used a TEAC 51cm tube-telly, which was heavier than a neutron star.
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Law and Order set the standard of police procedural shows while creating an entire generation of armchair experts, but it was the Baltimore-based cop drama, Homicide Life on the Street, that pushed the envelope and boundaries of network television. Now the landmark series has returned to DVD in one impressively sized box set from Via
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I personally don’t rate 2003 as a very good year in film, although I do remember going to the cinema a lot during what was my final year of high school, and being especially excited for the long-awaited clash, Freddy vs. Jason. However, the fantasy genre-mash, Timeline, was one I passed on along with everyone
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It seemed only appropriate that I usher in the winter months with the bitter Cold War thriller, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, based on the best-selling novel by John le Carré. Available for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK from Eureka Entertainment, seven-time Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton, is at
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I grew up watching Don Knotts in fragments, mostly while wandering through the channels during weekend afternoons. He’s an actor who’s hard to miss; an almost living cartoon and his performance in The Reluctant Astronaut was my introduction to his signature ‘Nervous Man’ character. Last night I sat down to watch The Ghost and Mr.
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After years of releasing various Ozploitaion Classics, the well is far from dry as Umbrella Entertainment has recently restored and unleashed one of the genre’s most seminal titles, Stone, under their re-branded sub-label. Directed, produced, and co-written by Sandy Harbutt, this anti-establishment two-wheel journey follows an outlaw motorbike gang, the Grave Diggers, the target of
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If there’s anyone film the epitomizes the DVD era, or Dee Vee Dee as the ‘trailer guy’ would say, it’s The Mothman Prophecies, a staple of early 2000s paranormal filmmaking that’s resurfaced again in this HD world thanks to a new Blu-ray release from Imprint Films. Following the tragic passing of his wife, a journalist
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