When COVID-19 hit our shores earlier this year, formats for the already struggling physical media market were grim, especially regarding new release films. However, it seems some distributors are enjoying a wave of prosperity, including Umbrella Entertainment, who surprised many with the announcement of a new sub-label, Sunburnt Screens, which is intended to focus on […]
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Adolf Hitler had his grubby little fingers in a lot of pies; one being the occult. An obsession for which has been the source of many legends, myths and ghost stories. Mostly internet-based. What drove this fixation is unclear, but it’s likely that Hitler was driven by the prospect of giving his armies a paranormal
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I remember there being a lot of buzz surrounding The Haunting as its release in cinemas grew closer. Much of the hype was built around the use of “cutting edge” digital effects and that fact it was from director, Jan de Bont, who previously gave us the action spectacles of Speed and Twister. After being
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Umbrella Entertainment launched a modest new series late last year to champion the old-timey action flicks in their library, Combat Classics – War Stories on Film, beginning with Destroyer, starring Edward G. Robinson, Glenn Ford and Marguerite Chapman. Produced by Columbia Pictures during World War II, this naval adventure follows shipyard worker, Steve Boleslavski (Robinson),
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HP. Lovecraft died in 1937, famed “American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction” as described in Wikipedia. Over eighty years later, his name remains a major selling point for film fans, many of whom have been eagerly awaiting the release of Color Out of Space, now in cinemas across Australia through Umbrella Entertainment partnered
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Clint Eastwood’s first Hollywood western follows upon the actor’s whirlwind success in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars” trilogy, delivering a hard-fought story of vengeance and justice set in the Oklahoma Territory of 1889. Directed by workhorse film and television director, Ted Post, Hang ‘Em High is out now on DVD from Umbrella Entertainment, in which innocent man,
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A24 is the indie film house that’s all the rage among movie-goers, particular those of a younger demographic. One of the studio’s most recent low-key features is Under the Silver Lake, which had a brief run in cinemas earlier this year through Umbrella Entertainment and has since arrived on DVD. In the style for classic
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Out now on Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment, Drive-In Delirium: With a Vengeance offers up a fine blend of 157 action and sci-fi trailers, uncensored and remastered in high definition. Divided into two parts Cruise Control and The Year We Make Contact, the six-hour plus runtime speeds by faster than Roy Scheider in The French Connection’s
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Dive-In Delirium is back, the staple trailer compilation series from Umbrella Entertainment, who have two new massive volumes for genre fans to sink their fangs into, starting with Dive-In Delirium: Dead by Dawn, uncensored and remastered in two parts, The Final Chapter and A New Beginning. We once again we begin this latest volume in
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VHS cover-art, while amazing as it was, often oversold its respective title, but in the case of Reform School Girls, what you see it what you get. Now on DVD from Umbrella Entertainment, Tom DeSimone’s women-behind-bars staple follows a young woman, Jenny, who is sent to a reform school, ran by the corrupt warden Sutter
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