Think of any movie and chances are it was released by Eureka Entertainment at one point or another; from Wake in Fright to Mr. Vampire. Based in the UK, the quality and presentation of Eureka’s contribution to physical media are unmatched.
It’s a pleasure to be reviewing another title from Flicker Alley, following up on my coverage of Paul Leni’s The Last Warning and The Man Who Laughs in 2019, with an earlier classic from the silent film auteur. Waxworks is a light anthology piece that displays unbridled imagination and the most elaborately creative set-design; released […]
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Wuxia, meaning ‘martial heroes’, is a genre of Chinese fiction the revolves around adventures set in ancient times. Capitalized by the film industry, you’re likely familiar with the style even if you haven’t seen one of the many titles that were most prevalent during the 80s and 90s. The Bride with White Hair gave me
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Maximum Overdrive was the first and last film Stephen King directed, but his contribution to cinema did not end there. He later penned the screenplay for Sleepwalkers, the first of its kind not based on any of his pre-existing material, but one that still contains the all the quirks and lunacy of the acclaimed author.
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At the height of “Freddy Mania”, actor Robert England capitalised on his widespread fame among the mainstream horror scene by trying his hand at directing. Offer a unique premise, 976-EVIL, is a late-night fantasy-horror centred around satanic “horror-scope” hotline, which when dialled, has a very transformative effect on the curious callers. Now the land-line classic
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Out now on Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment for the first time in the UK, This Gun for Hire, is a thrilling film-noir that marked the big-screen debut of Alan Ladd; in a role that immortalised the actor for a generation of filmgoers. When assassin Philip Raven (Ladd) is paid in marked bills by a shady
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I had seen ten out of the twenty-seven features directed by six-time Oscar winner, Billy Wilder; his third film, Five Graves to Cairo brings my total to eleven. Out now on Blu-ray in the UK from Eureka Entertainment, this war-time classic follows a British soldier stuck in a remote hotel in Egypt who comes to
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Between the Draculas and Frankensteins, Bela Lugosi made a number of horror films for Universal, three of which were suggested by the gothic and poetic works of Edgar Allen Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat and The Raven. Eureka Entertainment in the UK has presented them as a unique ‘Triple Feature’ Blu-ray
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If you’ve seen one vampire film you’ve seen them all, right? Well, it may often feel that way, but if you look to Hong Kong cinema you’ll find the relentless horror-comedy Mr. Vampire; which has caught wind from the breath of movie-goers, coming to Blu-ray on July 20th from Eureka Entertainment. An influential classic to
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Burt Lancaster cut his teeth as an actor while making his screen debut in Robert Siodmak’s noir classic The Killers in 1946. As a result of this successful collaboration, the pair reunited for the relatively lesser-known, Criss Cross, which is now available in the UK on Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment under the label’s “Masters of
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Billy Wilder is someone with a vast filmography which spans several decades, and it’s good to know some of those titles stared people other than Jack Lemmon. One such film, A Foreign Affair, is a romantic comedy set in post-war Berlin where a U.S. Army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi night club singer and
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