Trains were the first major mode of mechanised transportation, but despite their practicality, they have a lot to contend with at the best of times. I base this on episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine I watched as a child. However, the titular blue locomotive never unwillingly carried a deadly airborne virus, risking the lives […]
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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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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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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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