One of the best presents I’ve gotten recently was Quatermass II, a staggering box set from British Hammer Studios (famous for bring blood and heaving breasts into cinemas in the late 60s, not to mention the Christopher Lee Dracula movies…
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From the rediscovery of a gritty 1980 New York thriller, to a four-pack of films from the legendary Greta Garbo, September Blu-ray releases reinforce the truth that home media is still going strong. There are also rare cult films offered,…
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Three deranged Asian supernatural-themed excesses from the golden days of Shaw Brothers cinema are unleashed in an impressive box set from Imprint. Founded by the wealthy Shanghai textile factory owner Run Run Shaw with his male siblings, Shaw Brothers became…
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A new 4K restoration of a criminally underappreciated 1971 film by the great French master Robert Bresson. Adapted from the short story White Nights by Dostoevsky it’s about Jacques (Guillaume des Forets), a lonely artist who wanders the streets of…
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This scrappy, gory 1982 sci-fi cult classic, locally made on a low budget but with phenomenal special effects, is about a meteorite that crashes to earth carrying toothy little alien horrors which take up residence in the watery basement of…
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Out now from Imprint is a stunning-looking Blu-ray of an oddball 1966 Tennessee Williams adaptation, This Property is Condemned, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson and Mary Badham. Studios at the time were strip-mining anything Tennessee Williams,…
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August isn’t just the 8th month of the year, the word conjures up the definition “majestic,” “impressive,” and that sure is the case for the new Blu-ray releases. From a rare, truly great Paul Morrissey film to the lunacy of a…
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Roman Polanski’s mesmerizing, exquisitely told account of the notorious “Dreyfus Affair” in France in 1894 when a 35-year-old Jewish French artillery officer- Alfred Dreyfus (Louis Garrel)- was wrongfully accused of treason, stripped of his rank and exiled to solitary confinement…
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“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderlay again,” was the evocative opening to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Well, last night I dreamt I was on Blood Island, after binging on the gloriously bonkers 4-film Blu-ray set from Severin: “Fear…
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Pauline Kael described Fritz Lang’s 1953 film The Big Heat as “A definitive film noir…it’s designed in light and shadows, and its underworld atmosphere glistens with the possibilities of sadism.” Criterion has just put out a stunning 4K UHD Blu-ray…
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