Many of us assumed the 2019 remake of Child’s Play would be a fresh start for the long-running franchise which began over 30 years ago, and while the story was adapted well for this overly digitised age, it’s now all but forgotten. Much like Jackie Earl Hayley as Freddy Krueger, fans were unwilling to embrace […]
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Nine years before the Wayans brothers delivered their relentless spoof of late 90s horror, Austin-based filmmaker, Daniel Erickson, made his feature-length directorial debut with what was probably the deliberately unimaginatively titled, Scary Movie. – Available now on Blu-ray from 101 Films in the UK, under their American Genre Film Archive line. Set on Halloween night
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Via Vision Entertainment bring the Seminal ‘Brat Pack’ drama to Blu-ray for the first time in Australia: St. Elmo’s Fire. The narrative of which turns out to basically be The Goonies, but for pretentious young adults. Fresh out of college, seven close-knit friends living relatively well in Georgetown, Washington DC, are in an unnecessary rush
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I don’t remember the first movie I watched, but there are a few distinct images that were burnt into my mind at a very young age; a miniaturised Dennis Quaid navigating his way through Martin Short’s body in Innerspace, Bruce Willis crawling through the air vents in Die Hard and a dead Bernie Lomax being
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Adapted from K.B. Gilden’s novel, Hurry Sundown is a racial pressure cooker set in rural Georgia and with Hollywood heavyweight, Otto Preminger at the helm as director, this epic drama of lust, greed and prejudice, comes to Blu-ray in Australia thanks to Imprint Films, spine number 202. Michael Caine and Jane Fonda star as a
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After a six-month hiatus from my local cinema, fear of missing out and wanting to see something not associated with the ‘Awards Season’ brought me to Cocaine Bear; an outdoorsy black comedy about an equally black bear that unintentionally ingests some Columbian nose candy. As a result, a subsequent bloody rampage ensures. Set in 1985
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Quite the literal title, but every word piques my interest, ‘70s Horror’ especially: Bloody 70s Horror Double Feature, available on Blu-ray & DVD from VCI Entertainment, presents two Mexican cult movies, Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary and Blood Feast, both of which live up to their name. Contrary to the folklore legend of the same name,
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When I was a kid, ABC was the place for all things British, from Worzel Gummidge to Keeping Up Appearances, and now we have dedicated labels like Via Vision Entertainment that bring the occasional staple of UK-based film and television to disc-based formats like it the early 2000s, and I mean that as a complement.
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I don’t know if there was ever a race to give A Rage to Live its first Blu-ray release but Imprint Films has beaten other labels to the punch, as they have numerous times in the past, with a debut that will no doubt inspire forthcoming editions. Suzanne Pleshette stars in this dated social drama
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Arcade machines have become a background fixture in nostalgia-based film and television, a timestamp of the 80s and 90s, but now, along with their humble custodians, they’re the focus of a new documentary, Still Standing; which charts the history of arcade and pinball in Australia – from its height in popularity to preservation and resurgence
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