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.
I remember there being much fanfare for The Warriors Director’s Cut ahead of its DVD debut in 2005, which included a PlayStation 2 video game adaptation. Subscribing to the hype, I purchased a copy from my local Kmart during the Easter long weekend of that year; spending Saturday afternoon bopping vicariously all the way back […]
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When actor John Heard passed away in 2017, there was a surprisingly moving reaction from fans. Not just of Home Alone, but Heard’s body of work in general, from his days as a New York thespian to his memorable appearance in The Sopranos. However, it was a little film named Cutter’s Way that people were
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Quentin Tarantino opened his dialogue-heavy and street-crime opus, Jackie Brown, with the song, Across 110th Street, originally written by singer/songwriter Bobby Womack for the film of the same name. Out now on Blu-ray from Imprint Films, this seminal and influential genre classic is being celebrated once again by critics and fans alike. When a mafia
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Murder was the theme of Imprint Films’ April bundle, from the overwhelmingly popular The Wicker Man to the previously hard-to-find cult thriller, Man on a Swing; starring Joel Grey in a chilling post-Oscar performance opposite all-American leading man, Cliff Robertson. Lifted for the grisly annals of true crime, more specifically The Girl on the Volkswagen
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Dalton Trumbo was a prolific screenwriter famously blacklisted with nine other industry professionals by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Many years after his exile, and understandably jaded, but no less talented Trumbo, adapted his 1939 anti-war novel, Johnny Got His Gun for the big screen, sitting in the director’s chair for the first time. No,
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Space exploration presented an exciting and hopeful new endeavour for mankind, but with any new frontier, comes danger and risk. Marooned offers the possible scenario of being trapped high above in Earth’s breathtaking orbit when three astronauts are unable to return due to a mechanical failure onboard their spacecraft. With their oxygen-limited to only 48
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Imprint Films gave us a Neil Simon double whammy in February with The Odd Couple Collection and The Out-of-Towners, the latter of which is making its worldwide Blu-ray debut. Gwen and George Kellerman, a married couple from rural Ohio, have the ideal weekend planned in New York City where George is offered a promotion to
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I often look at Imprint’s simplistic and durable style of packaging and think to myself, “Where was this magnificent label during the boom years of box sets?”. Nevertheless, they’re here now giving us collections that are raising the bar, like The Odd Couple Collection which features both films and eleven randomly selected episodes of the
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Assassinations plagued America’s political landscape during the 1960s with three public slayings, President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential hopeful, Robert F. Kennedy. Each was dismissed as the act of a “lone gunman”, but a nation’s grief and growing resentment towers the establishment and glaring questions, particularly over JFK’s death, fuelled numerous
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Imprint has brought many overlooked classics into the HD fold since launching in mid-2020, and one of their latest is Ida Lupino’s obscure drama Outrage, making its worldwide debut on Blu-ray. Newly engaged with the world at her feet, young woman, Ann Walton (Mala Powers), is raped while on her way home from work. Unable
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