Who is Tom Berenger? That is the question I kept asking myself on the quiet Saturday afternoon that my father and I hired The Substitute. If a movie didn’t star the handful of actors I had on regular rotation, namely Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris and Jim Varney, I was very skeptical. At the
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Russell Crowe has just made the ultimate villainous turn, stopping just short of Hitler himself, playing the dictator’s chunky right-hand man, Herman Goering, in the new release courtroom drama, Nuremberg. However, he’s been the bad guy before, such as a West Melbourne skinhead in Romper Stomper and the somewhat ambiguous outlaw leader in James Mangold’s
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Six characters are in search of an exit after they become hopelessly lost in a labyrinth of underground tunnels while looking for fortune and glory. As Above So Below is a found-footage horror movie that inverts your perception, and ten years after its release, Via Vision Entertainment in Australia have brought it back to Blu-ray
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Widely regarded as the successor to The Twilight Zone, writer, producer, and former flyweight boxer, Rod Serling, plays curator to Night Gallery – a varied anthology series that’s again available on DVD from Via Vision Entertainment in Australia. As an avid fan of Night Gallery’s predecessor, I found it naturally difficult not to draw comparisons
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Most physical media collectors gravitate to Via Vision Entertainment due to the heavy output of various Blu-ray and 4K titles, particularly from their very popular sub-label, Imprint Films. However, I’ve always appreciated the effort behind releasing the content ‘you probably haven’t heard of’ such as Monsters – an anthology TV series which is out now
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Screen adaptations, particularly those of the science-fiction variety, tend to stand on their merit. However, the recent two-part rendering of Frank Herbert’s Dune has brushed aside the unique vision brought to the screen much earlier by David Lynch. Via Vision Entertainment have rightfully countered this sentiment with a monumental Blu-ray release of the 1984 epic.
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Akira Kurosawa is considered one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, and four years after his passing in 1998 his final original screenplay, The Sea is Watching, made it to the big screen – and just recently made its worldwide Blu-ray debut under the new dedicated sub-label “Imprint Asia.” I’ve come to watch and
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When I was a kid there were a group of movie sequels I had on regular rotation or rewind. Among them were Temple of Doom, Back to the Future Part II, Jaws: The Revenge, and Conan the Destroyer. The films were more than just entertainment, they were moods; and when I was tired of pondering
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I first came to hear of Baa Baa Black Sheep while watching a YouTube upload of Battle of the Network Stars. An episode in which its star and Captain of ‘Team NBC’, Robert Conrad, suffered irreversible damage to his legendary ego when Gabe Kaplin (Welcome Back, Kotter) impressively out-sprinted him. When I saw that Via
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As an Australian who has never ventured into the Outback, cinema has on many occasions provided the experience, whether it’s been the hyper-reality of Mad Max 2 or a sombre trek through cultural extremes like Wake in Fright. However, it was Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek in 2005 that advised us to manage our expectations as
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