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.…
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…