Charles Bronson and director Michael Winner were a formative duo who made several films together during the 70s and 80s. On the cusp of Dead Wish fame, the franchise that would ultimately end their professional relationship, The Stone Killer proved a modest hit as a big-city police feature in the wake of Dirty Harry. Out […]
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Cinema has always been my go-to means of escapism and during the middle of a four-day stint of painfully slow internet speeds, Oliver Stone’s U Turn was the perfect detour thanks to its recent arrival on DVD & Blu-ray from Shock Entertainment. Sean Penn heads up a stacked cast as slick drifter, Bobby Cooper, who’s
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As many collectors and film fans bask in this 4K climate, the phrase “…first time on DVD.” probably sounds almost foreign to most. However, it’s very much the case for Lunatics: A Love Story, which recently made its surprise debut to the SD format under Umbrella Entertainment in Australia. Hank Stone (Theodore “Ted” Raimi) hasn’t
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Umbrella Entertainment’s announcement of Apt Pupil Blu-ray release to come out of left field but was met with a generally positive response from fans of the suburban thriller. Based on Stephen King’s novella of the same name, our story takes place in Southern California, 1984. Todd Bowden, a 16-year-old student discovers that his elderly neighbour
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I can still remember quite vividly the poster for The Serpent & the Rainbow hanging in the window of my town’s once prosperous video store. Call it my introduction to horror as the sight of a ghoulish Bill Pullman clawing out of a coffin was an image that fractured my fragile 4-year-old mind. It wouldn’t
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Cinema Cult wrapped up 2018’s slew of releases with two very distinctive horror classics; Wes Craven’s Haitian nightmare The Serpent & the Rainbow and Paul Schrader’s erotic fantasy Cat People. Based loosely on the Val Lewton original from forty-years earlier, screenwriter Alan Ormsby (Deranged) pens this re-imagining about a young woman’s sexual awakening. Driven by
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Trailing the exhaust fumes left in the wake of Mad Max, Australia’s brand of exploitation cinema reached new heights in the form of The Chain Reaction from veteran film and television director Ian Barry. Unearthed and fully remastered by Umbrella Entertainment, the obscure action sci-fi smashed its way onto Blu-ray last November, much to the
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Scottish-born director Lynne Ramsay only has a handful of films to her name, but is synonymous with well-crafted and hard-edged narratives. Her latest feature, You Were Never Really Here had come with much anticipation ahead of its brief run in Australian cinemas last September. Now available on Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment, the brutal crime-drama has
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Capping off 2018’s slate of ‘Ozploitation Classics’ Umbrella Entertainment have given Brian Trenchard-Smith’s childhood-centric Frog Dreaming (The Quest, The Go-Kids) a welcome HD upgrade, restored from a new 4K scan. Often dubbed a ‘VHS favourite’ among those who grew up during the mid-80s and early 90s, Cody is young American boy living in Australia, following
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Visions of Year 9 English spring to mind at the very mention John Steinbeck’s depression era novella, which has seen more than its fair share of screen adaptations over the years. Arguably the most prominent since the 1939 original starring Burgess Meredith and Lon Chaney Jr. is screenwriter Horton Foote’s 1992 retelling under the direction
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