Out Now on DVD. BFI. Certificate: 15 A Ghost Story For Christmas was a series of annual short films aiming to bring a chill into every festive household and, with the BFI’s recently released, excitement-slaking five disc boxed set, one…
Out Now. Tokyo Shock/Media Blasters. Certificate: N Take your seats for another monster slugfest, this time between the fire-breathing Godzilla and a giant cockroach with huge, drill-like arms who answers to the name of Megalon. The latter is in the…
Out Now on DVD. High Fliers. Certificate: 15 The relatively recent news stories of Josef Fritzl and Natascha Kamputsch have provided horror cinema grim ground to rest upon. Any film that features an underground cellar and younger victim exploited by…
Out Now on DVD. Anchor Bay. Certificate: 15. Perhaps to cash in somewhat on StudioCanal’s recent releases of certain iconic Hammer films in jaw-dropping high definition, Anchor Bay have put together The Peter Cushing Collection, celebrating the grave dignity and…
Out Now on DVD Arrow. Certificate: 18. For those sick of goodwill, seasonal cheer and enforced optimism over the year ahead, let Lucio Fulci ride into your living rooms in a blitzkrieg of ruination. With its opening image of a…
Out Now. Kino Lorber. Cert: N Redemption continue their fruitful Stateside collaboration with Kino Lorber by releasing this box set of four exploitation flicks by Pete Walker, a director stoutly lashed by the critics and the moral majority in the…
Out Now in DVD Metrodome. Certificate: 15. Good golly Miss Molly: you’ve left us in a bit of a pickle. Since moving into your childhood home with the newlywed, you’ve gradually gone a bit loco, obsessively filming yourself, using again,…
Out Now on DVD. Entertainment One. Certificate: 18 All of us having just survived the predicted Mayan apocalypse, The Day seems pretty redundant. Another group of desperate survivors trudge a bleached and desolate land trying to stay alive.
Out Now. Artificial Eye. Certificate: 15 Sound mixing is a potent art. Having the power to physically change somebody at one’s fingertips, make them sound heavenly or ridiculous with sonic technology (or literally shut them up): their legacy is in…
Out Now on DVD.Momentum Pictures. Certificate: 15 For a vampire, a night of heavy drinking must be the ultimate rush of blood to the head. What hedonism, endless late nights of revelry and debauchery with sunrise saunas to finish for…
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.…