If you’re only going to buy one disc this month……buy Top Gun: Maverick. But if you can buy TWO discs this month, let’s see what else may tickle your fancy in our November release round-up… UPDATED WITH MORE TITLES AND MORE COMPETITIONS!
From the sublime – a century old silent classic – to the ridiculous – another Jeepers Creepers? Really? – and everywhere in between, it can only be a genre fans favourite release month of the year! UPDATED - 10 COMPETITIONS NOW ADDED
Hammer, Cannibals and Man-Eating Space Brains sees August's release schedule seemingly warming up for this year’s Halloween. But there’s plenty to offer those non-horror fans out there this month as gritty Italian socio-realism, hard-boiled noir and amusing cowboy fare are also served up for our delicious consumption… UPDATED with competitions for NINE Blu-rays!
Another tremendous batch of Blu-rays lands in June including Criterion's Shaft, Dazzler's The Card Counter, and Studiocanal's Extreme Prejudice - ALSO enter competitions to win half of them on Blu-ray!
The year is now a third gone and the release schedules are settling down into familiar patterns. So with Arrow, Criterion, 88 Films, Studiocanal and even a couple of smaller studios all releasing this month, which ones are worthy of your time? Also, we've competitions to win over half of them on Blu-ray!
Having seen off its upstart 4K little brother, pesky streamers and digital retailers and even the small matter of a global pandemic to retain its physical media crown, how does a stellar year for blu end? Plus competitions to win over half of this month's releases.
What's new on Blu-ray Special - The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li
by Mark Costello
We explore one of cinema’s greatest artist/muse relationships between two of China’s most well-known faces thanks to Australian label Imprint and its new Collaborations boxset.
A pleasing genre blend of romantic drama and Hong Kong police actioner from Hong Kong action legend Ringo Lam, fronted by a hugely likeable Chow Yun Fat.
The kind of premise that - while getting the playground in all kinds of a tizzy, “the whole film is one long action scene, with one samurai fighting 400, shot in a single take!” – is sadly better left as a concept rather than a reality.
One Cut of the Dead (Hollywood Edition) Blu-ray Review
by Cas Harlow
This ingeniously inventive meta-zom-com whips out a succession of reveals to make for an engaging romp through amateur zombie filmmaking, earning a Limited Edition set from Third Window Films.
Lovecraft Country: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review
by Cas Harlow
Following suit from their excellent Watchmen follow-up, HBO's Lovecraft Country effortlessly blends Lovecraftian horror-fantasy with arguably even more terrifying hate and race-crimes still shockingly as relevant as ever.
David Cronenberg's son Brandon unleashes an impressive sophomore directorial effort with this dark sci-fi that trades in Ex Machina and Ghost in the Shell vibes, by way of classic Cronenberg body horror.
This year's answer to The Babadook isn't quite as adept at trading in metaphorical (and actual) horror, but nonetheless affords welcome depth to the dementia-driven drama.
HBO's Perry Mason is a challenging slow-burn; a blend of Chinatown and a period-set Goliath which just about comes together in the end, and makes for a solid Blu-ray release.
Train to Busan's sequel loses some of the emotion but doubles down on the intense ferocity, blending elements of Fast and Furious, The Raid and Mad Max to trashy but pretty entertaining effect.
The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone Blu-ray Review
by Cas Harlow
Attempting to reposition the third movie as less a sequel and more an epilogue, Coppola's new 'Coda' cut isn't drastically different, but does afford an opportunity to revisit this often maligned entry.