No other company has done more of Australian cinema than Umbrella Entertainment – the home of Ozploitaion, but the Melbourne-based label is also responsible for some of the most random and outrageous Blu-ray releases on the market.
Anime titles are in no short supply here in Australia but are mostly distributed by a single label. However, the very genre-oriented, Umbrella Entertainment has a couple in their catalogues, such as Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers and the director’s final film, Paprika, which recently landed on shelves. We enter a reality where therapists have the …
Naturally, a blind purchase can be the best and worst way to discover new movies, but it was a weekend ritual of mine during my early 20s, months before I moved out of home. As people were upgrading to flat-screen televisions, I still used a TEAC 51cm tube-telly, which was heavier than a neutron star. …
After years of releasing various Ozploitaion Classics, the well is far from dry as Umbrella Entertainment has recently restored and unleashed one of the genre’s most seminal titles, Stone, under their re-branded sub-label. Directed, produced, and co-written by Sandy Harbutt, this anti-establishment two-wheel journey follows an outlaw motorbike gang, the Grave Diggers, the target of …
Umbrella Entertainment’s popular Beyond Genre sub-label has primary been dedicated to cult classics, but Steven Kostanski’s Psycho Goreman has proven to be a perfect fit due to its retro sentiments. Since its release in early March, the enticing Blu-ray edition has been in-demand, but now stocks have thankfully been replenished. When an evil being is …
I was very lucky to have a social studies teacher who took the time to teach us about the Holocaust, which involved a viewing of Schindler’s List. He made a point to drum into us the mindset and blind racism of Hitler’s Third Reich, that lead to the most catastrophic failure of civilization ever witnessed. …
Previously thought to be lost, Bill Leimbach’s BBC documentary David Gulpilil: Walkabout to Hollywood has made its DVD debut forty-two years after the film’s initial release thanks to Umbrella Entertainment, who have released many films in Gulpilil’s filmography. After his breakout performance in Nicolas Roeg’s spiritual drama Walkabout, aboriginal actor, dancer and musician, David Gulpilil, …
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I remember often singing the Aussie bush ballad, ‘Click Go the Shears’, when I was in primary school, which was often met with little enthusiasm from practically everyone. Thankfully, it’s nowhere to be heard in Sunday Too Far Away, the third volume in Umbrella Entertainment’s dedicated sub-label, Sunburnt Screens, out now on Blu-ray. Starring national …
After a two-year hiatus Beyond Genres has returned, one of three dedicated sub-labels being produced by Umbrella Entertainment on Blu-ray. To mark the anticipated seventh volume, Rolf de Heer’s Bad Boy Bubby has been repackaged with a new transfer, bonus content and colourfully expressive cover art by the label’s head of production and artist, Simon …
Joel and Ethan Coen have entertained film audiences for over 35 years by exploring the dark psyche of man in a wide variety of features that often come with a quirky and humorous bite, which has become the duo’s signature style. Barton Fink, a notable but sometimes overlooked early entry in their filmography, is out …
Ten years after directing the first ‘Summer Blockbuster’ Steven Spielberg was not only at the top of his game, he was a brand whose name was an unofficial seal of approval. Having started his career in television, Spielberg returned to the medium with the 45-episode anthology series, Amazing Stories, out now on DVD from Umbrella …