Hammer’s classic horror films have been a mixed bag on Blu Ray, Titles such as Curse Of Frankenstein have been criticised for having a soft image and Devil Rides Out had new footage inserted into the film much to the Read more…
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Arrow video continue their excellent run of quality releases with this action/thriller Runaway Train starring Jon Voight and Eric Roberts. Manny(Voight) is known as the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck (Roberts), makes Read more…
David Cronenberg is a director who is not frightened to show you the horrors of the human body and his films are often called body horror because of the subject matter chosen, films like Scanners, Videodrome and this film, The Read more…
This unusual genre film passed me by when released and the numerous times it has been on TV (Terribly Pan and Scanned!) and to me, it looked and sounded like a low budget, badly acted horror hybrid but after watching Read more…
In Broken City Mark Wahlberg plays another cop, this time named Billy Taggart, who has a drinking problem and who gets into a lot of trouble after a shootout in which a young gangster gets shot and killed by him. Read more…
Chow Yun Fat and Sammo Hung may not be familiar names to fans who do not follow Hong Kong cinema but both have had huge hits in the past and this is one of the few times that both have Read more…
Django is a name that will be very familiar to Spaghetti Western fans and those who recently watched the excellent Tarantino epic Django Unchained. Sergio Corbucci’s original 1996 film starring Franco Nero was the first Django picture and Django Prepare Read more…
Brian De Palma has always been a favourite amongst film fans, he was at first passed off by critics as a Hitchcock wannabe but soon proved himself to be one of the best and unique director’s working in Hollywood. Blow Read more…
This year is the 50th anniversary of the BBC’s classic Science fiction show Dr Who and Studio Canal have released both Dr Who movies released in the 1960’s to Blu Ray. The great Peter Cushing stars as the doctor in Read more…
Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness was his most troubled production of the trilogy with the studio re-cutting his version and him having to re-shoot a ” happy ending” set in a supermarket. This is the version most saw when it Read more…
