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.
“What’s wrong with you kids today?” is one of life’s eternal questions: are youngsters worse than ever when it comes to violent crime and antisocial behaviour, or did society simply have a higher tolerance years ago? Youth Gone Wild! – 1950s Juvenile Delinquency (1955 – 1958), which is a new Blu-ray set from Imprint Films, […]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman made his screen debut in episode 14 of the very first season Law & Order, titled “The Violence of Summer”. His rise to stardom was gradual. He did make blockbusters, but his skill as an actor was impossible not to notice. In the upper echelon among his peers, almost every performance felt
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When my TV aerial failed in the summer heat of 2016, I parted ways with free-to-air television as streaming had become just as convenient and offered better content. Growing up in the 90s, however, I wouldn’t have managed without it and have fond memories of primetime events such as the numerous Stephen King adaptations. Imprint
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I dove deep into Titanic mania when James Cameron’s epic hit theatres back in 1997, which remains as one of my favourite big screen experiences. Everyone was on board, so to speak. During that once frustrating period of being between theatrical and home video release, I sought my fix for the unsinkable ship with a
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Who framed Joe Don Baker? That is the question in the gritty and aptly named cult classic, Framed, which is out now on Blu-ray for the first time in Australia thanks to Imprint Films. After a big win from a card game in Texas, keen gambler and Tennessee nightclub owner, Ron Lewis, winds up with a
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Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas was an untouchable gangster hit in 1990. While the Coen brothers produced a solid contender in Miller’s Crossing, everything else went home to get their shine box, like Phil Joanou’s criminal opus, State of Grace, which has since hit the streets on 4K Ultra HD for the first time. Available from Imprint
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Physical media is often on shaky ground Down Under, so it’s always reassuring when we Australians are treated to a worldwide debut release, which has most recently come in the hardbox form of the neo-noir classic, Dark Blue –Available now on 4K Ultra HD Whatcha gonna do when Kurt Russell comes for you? That’s the
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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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