When COVID-19 was closing everything in 2020, Imprint Films, a premium sub-label of Via Vision Entertainment, emerged and physical media in Australia has since been all the better for it.
In this age of prestige television that more often than not rivals cinema, it’s hard to remember that the small screen was once regarded as the lesser of two formats. However, American networks went to considerable efforts during the 70s and 80s to bring a theatrical flair to primetime. Imprint Television has put together a […]
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It’s often very hard to predict what Imprint will pull out of their hat each month. Still, I don’t think there was any foresight over the February release of King David on Blu-ray, starring Richard Gere and directed by Australia’s very own Bruce Beresford. It’s a biblical drama so random on the surface that it
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Five months before Kurt Russell had to ‘Escape from New York’, down south, Kim Basinger was trying to escape from Texas in the blue-collar drama, Hard Country, which was released on Blu-ray even further south in Australia back on February 25th. It’s about a small-town girl, a story not unfamiliar, with ambitions to get the
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Up until I first saw the trailer for High Road to China many years ago, I wasn’t very enlightened to genre clones, but this post-Raiders of the Lost Ark classic couldn’t be more obvious, and it’s available now on Blu-ray from Imprint Films. Produced by legendary Hong Kong-based production company Golden Harvest, this continent-hopping adventure
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Many people might struggle to recall their first encounter or introduction to a religious figure, but I vividly remember mine. It was the medieval fantasy Ladyhawke that acquainted me with the corrupt Bishop of Aquila, played immaculately by the late John Wood. However, a more shining example of the Catholic faith comes through Antonia Bird’s
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Next to the iconic shot of the Statue of Liberty in the original Planet of the Apes, the late Donald Sutherland letting out a deafening shriek while pointing ominously in the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, probably takes second place as the most spoiler-heavy image in science fiction. Despite its meme-level usage, Imprint
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If you were to ask Google about the “Gong Man” for the Rank Organisation, you’ll likely be presented with some extraordinary back story. Probably similar in vain to how Mr. Rogers wore long sleeves to cover his inappropriate tattoos that he had inked while serving as an elite sniper. I prefer mystery, so I just
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I first heard the timeless line, “I’m walkin’ here!” when I was five years old. Not from Dustin Hoffman, but from Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future Part II, playing his clumsy future son, Marty McFly Jr. It wasn’t until my final years of high school that I saw Midnight Cowboy via a
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Thirty-odd years before Stephen King did for clowns what Jaws did for sharks, these energetic acrobats of silliness gave laughter to many, often during darker times. Kirk Douglas stars as one such entertainer, Hans Müller, in the classic drama, The Juggler, which has made its worldwide debut on Blu-ray through Imprint Films in Australia. After
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Nothing keeps the action contained like an aerial hijacking movie, which I grew up watching during the early to mid-90s. I had an aisle seat right next to Passenger 57, and I loved all of them, even Turbulence starring Ray Liotta, which seems to have vanished off the radar. Jet Storm, however, might be the
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