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The inscrutable and horrific dystopian bugfest that is Naked Lunch comes to 4K UHD in a typically lavish set from Arrow  

Horror-movie royalty and a cinematic game changer that ushered in a new age of grindhouse grot and art-house smarts, Tobe Hooper’s seminal classic gets one of Second Sight’s ultra-lavish 4K UHD sets and delivers one of the likely physical media sets of the year…  

Damien Chazelle's brazenly debauched Box Office bomb, Babylon, is an extravagantly excessive exercise in excess, but it cleans up nicely in 4KDV with Atmos.  

Wes Craven's 2005 thriller has perhaps dated a little more than many fans might have hoped for, still providing a decent 85 minutes of taut night-in entertainment, and shaping up well in 4K.  

Somewhat impossibly shot over 12 years, using the same cast, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is another authentic, moving and compelling piece from the writer/director, reminiscent of his "Before" trilogy, only even more audacious in its ambitions.  

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s fantasy steampunk masterpiece finally comes to disc in a manner that does justice to its sublime art and award-winning production design - UPDATED FOR STUDIOCANAL'S UK RELEASE  

Between Night and Dawn, there was Martin. A confused young man who may or may not be a vampire. George A Romero’s haunting character study finds a new lease of life on a lavish new 4K limited edition boxset from boutique superstars Second Sight…and it’s been well worth the wait.  

Batman's latest imaginative animated outing adapts the 1920s-esque DC Elseworlds comic by Mike "Hellboy" Mignola for some H.P. Lovecraft-inspired gothic mutant madness.  

David Bowie and Nic Roeg dream team on Walter Tevis’ scathing attack on everything from cold war paranoia to existential loneliness to the nihilistic acceptance that to be human is an ever downward spiral of addiction, and deliver a wonderful cult-classic that gets more prescient as time goes on…  

‘Family’ is seemingly the theme of March’s Blu-ray release schedule – be they loved (syrupy Sirk melodramas), hated (post-War British social taboo explorations), awkwardly distanced from (elegant remakes of classic humanist introspections) or even just dead (grotty LA revenge jams), there’s something for everyone this month, regardless of how you feel about your own… EDIT - Updated with new competitions!  

The best Emmerich disaster flick that Emmerich didn't direct (and better than some of the ones he did), 2003's The Core is blissful so-bad-it's-good hokum.  

Antoine Fuqua's 2001 crime thriller earned a powerhouse Denzel Washington his first and only Best Actor Oscar, and remains an intoxicating, tense 24 hours on the violent streets of LA, landing on a stunning native 4K disc with outstanding Atmos.  

Concluding our look The Knockout Collection we come to the final instalment but this time in two flavours - seconds out - Rocky IV and Rocky Vs Drago.  

Martin Campbell's 1998 swashbuckling action romp does a damn fine job at bringing Zorro back to the Big Screen, with Anthony Hopkins, Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones on fine form.  

The names Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso are synonymous with a whole range of Italian schlock trashterpieces from the 80s and 90s and this cut-and-paste zombie effort of recycled footage, ideas and music is a perfect example of how something so terrible can be so uproariously entertaining…  

Sofia Coppola's mesmerising directorial debut takes an ethereal look at the unthinkable, putting her on the indie road map for life, gifted a US Criterion-rivalling set from Studiocanal in the UK.  

Continuing our look at The Knockout Collection we 'hit' the third in line and a breakout film for Mr T, seconds out - Rocky III  

A great little companion piece to the Tommy Lee Jones double-bill of The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals, Double Jeopardy sees Ashley Judd on fierce form as a woman framed for the murder of her husband.  

Jacques Audiard’s gritty yet elegant Venice Film Festival Award-winning Western offers up much in the way of constructing AND deconstructing the classic genre, helped in no uncertain terms by a quartet of beautifully empathetic characterisations from some of Hollywood’s starriest of stars…  

Continuing our look at The Knockout Collection we turn our attention to the first sequel - seconds out - Rocky II.  

We get in the ring for the Knockout Collection of Rocky films, starting with the best: Seconds out - Rocky  

Sweeping the boards at the 1987 Oscars, Bernardo Bertolucci’s sumptuously epic biography of China’s final Emperor is a dazzling visual spectacular given a new lease of life in Arrow’s gorgeous new 4K restoration and release.  

A powerhouse cast led by the magnificent Viola Davis take us on a thoroughly entertaining historical epic that whilst being thunderously average as an action spectacle nevertheless does exactly what it sets out to do…  

A richly atmospheric period chiller that combines the very best of Hammer thrills, golden era Universal Monsters chills and a deeply intelligent take on an existing monster mythos that should mark writer/director Sean Ellis as one of the genre’s most exciting talents…  

Nailing a fitting farewell to Boseman, Wakanda Forever struggles in most every other respect, turning into almost 3 hours' worth of "I don't give a damn", in a 4K disc rendered largely pointless by a lack of Dolby Vision or IMAX enhancement and a release date after its Disney+ bow.  

Which of February’s releases are worth considering for your bulging wallets and straining shelves? Let’s take a look shall we...  

The forty-year journey of horror icon Laurie Strode and the original bogeyman Michael Myers ended in cinemas last autumn with a terrifying whimper instead of the bang fans everywhere wanted and demanded. As the dust settles on David Gordon Green’s franchise trilogy, is it time for a reappraisal of the possibly misunderstood and hugely divisive final entry on 4K UHD disc?  

Luca "Bones and All" Guadagnino's first collaboration with Timothée "Dune" Chalamet marked the actor's breakthrough role, and completed the director's thematic Desire Trilogy, following the preceding I Am Love and A Bigger Splash.  

Guillermo Del Toro’s sublime Spanish Civil War-set chiller now dazzles even more on this ravishing 4K release as part of the Sony Classics 30th Anniversary 4K Collection from Sony in the US.  

A month of truly eclectic renowned international film makers – from John Hughes to Terry Gilliam to Lukas Moodysson – and some young up starts making their cinematic debuts give us our January release blu-ray schedule and as ever, there’s some wonderful films and releases coming our way that are worthy of your consideration… UPDATED WITH NINE COMPETITIONS  

Charlie "Eternal Sunshine" Kaufman's ambitious directorial debut is a magnum opus within a magnum opus, with Philip Seymour Hoffman never better.  

Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's heartbreaking 2014 drama draws a painfully poignant portrait of early onset Alzheimer's, with an Oscar winning powerhouse performance from Julianne Moore.  

Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run is a propulsively scored experimental thriller, with a blistering lead performance by Franka Potente, earning pride of place in the Sony Pictures Classics 11-film 30th Anniversary 4K Collection.  

The Sony Pictures Classics 11-film 30th Anniversary 4K Collection kick-starts with Sally Potter's lavish period fantasy Orlando, starring a marvellously dynamic Tilda Swinton.  

Patrick Swayze’s gloriously white trash western B-movie masterpiece comes to 4K from Vinegar Syndrome in a package that looks almost as good as Sam Elliott’s hair.  

The movies team takes a look back at 2022, highlighting some of the best theatrical and streaming movie release, TV shows, and 4K discs, as well as the studios behind them.  

Keep on smilin', 'Cause when you're smilin', The whole world smiles with you  

Eureka's Yeoh, Second Sight's Tangerine, Criterion's Chaplin, BFI's Oldman and Lionsgate's Clerks provide us with both tears and joy at Christmas time - Updated with competitions to win EIGHT titles.  

Takashi Shimizu’s classic J-horror franchise is given a lavish and near complete boxset release from genre legend label Arrow Films. And it goes to show that unadulterated terror isn’t reliant on anything as trifling as video resolution…  

Introducing The Film Vault Collection - a brand-new collector’s range featuring titles across the Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal Pictures catalogues, with our video unboxing of 1917.