Out Now on DVD Second Sight. Certificate: U. This is the family movie that everyone cherishes, the innocent story of twelve year-old David disappearing on space ship ‘Max’ and returning eight years later to his parents, having never aged. Shucks.
Out Now.Eclipse Series 37. www.movietyme.com. Certificate: N Founded in 1924, Shochiku have the distinction of being the second oldest movie production company in Japan, and over the years have been responsible for such classics as Yasujiro Ozu’s 1953 Tokyo Story.…
Out Now on DVD Entertainment One. Certificate: 15. Electric storms ripping the vast black skies, motels and trailer parks soused in blue from sordid neon, oil drums ablaze in the sheeting rain. This is the nocturnal wilderness of Killer Joe,…
Out Now on DVD. Arrow. Certificate: 15. Excessive weight gain, a rise in domestic violence, and alcoholism justified by a Santa hat. As geographical brother Neville John Holder would say, “It’s CHRIIIISSSSTTMAAASS!” And just as this festive time would not…
Out Now on Blu-ray and DVD. Olive Films. Certificate: N The title of this might more appropriately be Richard Bachman’s Thinner, since that’s the pseudonym Stephen King released the original story under. Watching this 1996 release again I was…
Out Now on DVD. Warner Archive. Certificate: N The third of writer-producer Harry Alan Towers’ Fu Manchu movies finds Chris Lee’s Fu and his devilish daughter Tsai Chin returning to their Mongolian homeland to plan a suitable vengeance against their…
Out Now. Kino Lorber. Certificate: N/A Cult favourite Mario Bava never managed to equal the impact of his first feature, the excellent Black Sunday, but most of his movies are enlivened by moments of inspired visual stylishness.
DVD. Out Now. Sony Pictures Choice Collection. Certificate: N Hoping to repeat the amazing success of House Of Wax (1953), Columbia signed up Vincent Price for another 3-D shocker, with villainous Vince playing The Great Gallico, a master illusionist who…
Blu-ray. Out Now. Scream Factory. www.movietyme. com. Certificate: N John Carpenter took his popular stalk and slash series off in a new direction with this one, but since it’s no relation to its predecessors one wonders why he didn’t just…
Blu-ray. Out Now. MGM. www.movietyme.com. Certificate: N The seriously disturbed Chioto brothers provided the crazy special effects for this madcap spoof of alien invasion movies, and along with John Vernon’s droll performance as a paranoid cop they’re by far the…