Out Now on BLU-RAY. Second Sight. Certificate: 18. “What’s in the basket?” The question on everyone’s lips as out-of-towner Duane Bradley (Kevin van Hentenryck) checks in to a fleapit 42nd street hotel clutching said receptacle under his arm. The answer…
DVD/BLU-RAY – Out Now. Universal Pictures. Certificate: 15. ‘Tarantino-esque’. A buzzword to bestow pop-cultural, hip-auteur cachet to a movie drenched in ice-cool violence and film-student references. Baytown Outlaws (working title P.S., I Love You Tarantino) must have brought the avid…
DVD Out Now. Artificial Eye. Certificate: 18. That icily precise dissector of arbitrary cruelty and how we attempt to understand it, Michael Haneke, is very much in the popular consciousness once again. Amour, his film about senile degeneration and the…
Out Now on DVD. Saffron Hill/Peccadillo Pictures. Certificate: 15. Mistrust and paranoia dog The Arrival Of Wang from the outset. A woman’s terrified eyes are seen in close-up, her breathing heavy. She sees shadows dart across the ventilation slats of…
Out Now DVD Mr. Bongo Films.Certificate: 18. Losing control of one’s limbs is something we all fear, from paralysis to getting paralytic during a night on the tiles. But far worse is when those appendages take on a life of…
Out Now DVD Monster Pictures. Certificate: 18. Puberty sucks. Ask Carrie White or Ginger Fitzgerald about the extreme hormonal imbalance, violent mood swings and assertion of independence. These two heroines had rather explicit ways of expressing their teenage angst, Carrie’s…
Out Now on DVD and Blu-ray. Kino Classics. Certificate: N We must have entered a Bizarro universe when films like this get the Blu-ray treatment. Surely one of the worst movies ever made, this ludicrous fantasy features future sexpot Pia…
Out Now on DVD. Warner Archive. Certificate: N The first and by far the best of the Fu Manchu movies made by producer Harry Alan Towers has some very decent production values, great widescreen photography by Ernest Steward, and a…
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…