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City of the Living Dead 4K Blu-ray Review
by Mark Costello
The second of Lucio Fulci’s classic Gates of Hell splatter trilogy to get a UK 4K release, Arrow deliver their usual strong technical presentation with an almost overwhelmingly excellent array of extras…
Never have the words ‘Based on a True Story’ had such a profound effect on a generation…and never have they been such a lie, with the controversy around Stuart Rosenberg’s seminal haunted house classic proving to be almost as interesting as the story of the Lutz Family themselves. And with 88 films releasing the 1979 classic on a brand new 4K UHD, we can decide for ourselves what actually happened and what didn’t…
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor's Version) (Disney+) Movie Review
by Cas Harlow
The concert epic that shook the blockbuster landscape to the tune of a quarter of a billion, Eras is a thoroughly grand and impressively choreographed celebration of the sheer star power of Taylor Swift.
Continuing her run of Netflix starring vehicles, Stranger Things' Millie Bobby Brown takes on a competently designed CG dragon in a flabby, frivolous piece of perfectly tolerable night-in entertainment.
Starman (Columbia Classics Vol. 4) 4K Blu-ray Review
by Mark Costello
John Carpenter’s most emotional film still radiates charm and warmth despite its underlying tone of sadness and loss. And it's all the more beautiful on this stunning new 4K restoration from Sony as part of their ongoing Columbia Classics boxsets…
Somewhat insanely, Guy Ritchie's created/written/directed TV spin-off to his 2019 movie of the same name is great fun, chock full of colourful characters, bursting with witty dialogue, and utterly bingeworthy.
A loose adaptation of Alasdair Gray's novel, Poor Things is a perfect confluence of art and message, idea and execution, writing and design, Yorgos Lanthimos follows up his Oscar winning film 'The Favourite' with a bona fide masterpiece. UPDATE - Now on Disney+ in 4KDV/DA
After a slew of defining 80s action classics, Schwarzenegger shifted to a decade of alternating action with comedy, with mixed results on both sides. But at least Arnie fans get to come one step closer to completing their 4K collection courtesy of Kino's US disc.
Want to know how to transport highly explosive nitro-glycerine over treacherous terrain safely? BFI's wonderful native 4K restoration of The Wages of Fear shows you how (not to).
Francis Ford Coppola’s audacious musical failure still doesn’t right all of its wrongs after over 40 years… but there’s no failure like a Coppola failure, especially now in a dazzling 4K restoration from Studiocanal, complete with a huge number of extras to at least soften the blow somewhat… 4K COMPETITION LINK ADDED.
A Holiday Special of a Marvel movie, it's unsurprising to find the 33rd MCU entry amidst the three lowest rated, and once again Disney display a complete disdain towards the very physical media that might help this flop break even, releasing it on 4K HDR after its streaming bow, and without the Disney+ trappings of Dolby Vision and IMAX Enhancement.
Indie director John Sayles' finest feature, the Neo-Western, Lone Star, is a richly crafted mystery drama, and a fine addition to the Criterion Collection.
Launching as a Gravity-esque space survival flick, this new Apple TV+ Noomi Rapace sci-fi vehicle soon flashes its mystery box teeth with heady notions of quantum physics and a lot more going on under the hood than you might expect.
New analysis and previous history point to a late Q3 or Q4 launch window, but just what we can expect from an upgraded PlayStation 5? And what could Microsoft and Nintendo have in response?
Frank ‘Basket Case’ Henenlotter’s first film in 17 years takes his penchant for the scuzzy extreme but sadly removes any of the emotional pathos that became his trademark. Doesn’t stop Severin from pulling out all the stops though with a new 4K rebuild and solid set of extras for its new UHD Blu-ray release…
Romano Scavolini’s grindhouse slasher with delusions of grandeur drags itself out of video nasty infamy and bizarrely onto 4K from genre boutique extraordinaire Severin for their first UHD blu-ray release in the UK. And it looks exactly as it should…grotty.
Ditching the more whimsical McG-style excesses of the 2005 Brangelina action comedy, this Amazon reboot - created by and starring Atlanta's Donald Glover - immediately feels like it's trying to do something different with a familiar concept. UPDATED for full season review.
Alligator & Alligator II: The Mutation 4K Blu-ray Review
by Mark Costello
Beloved creature feature with bite, John Sayles and Lewis Teague’s urban legend writ large and very bloody is a fun old time. Especially in this new 4K release from 101 Films that only makes one mistake…bundling its sequel in with it…
The bland and watered down sequel to its more grown-up predecessor, Conan the Destroyer delivers more effects driven set pieces, more humour and less of absolutely everything else. Including quality. It doesn’t stop Arrow from delivering another superb 4K presentation and solid roster of supplemental features for its new UHD release…
The brilliantly brutal sword and sorcery romp that kick started Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ruling of 1980s Hollywood is given a lavish and superb 4K presentation and release from the US arm of Arrow Video…
Furiously late to the party, we tune in to discover that Culprits is a slick, brutal, and unbearably tense heist thriller that's a surprise choice for one of the best shows of the tail end of 2023.
One of the finest pure action movies of all time, Gareth Evans' 2011 breakthrough assaulted audiences upon release, but gets an utterly unexpected new lease of life courtesy of the kind of complete-makeover 4K remaster nobody ever expected it to get.
Charlie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Kaufman writes a Dreamworks animation for Netflix based on a kid's book about confronting your worst fears?
Video game sensation gets big screen adaptation…we all know how this goes, right? But the latest from the Blumhouse production line is both exactly and nothing like what you expect it to be…so is checking it out on Universal’s new 4K release as much a terrible idea as you first may have thought?
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Ginny & Georgia Season 1 (Netflix) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Digging into what makes Netflix viewers click, we roll out on the Top 10 most viewed productions with one of their all-time most popular shows to see what the fuss is about.
Messrs Spielberg and Hanks return to the epic WWII mini-series twenty-three years after Band of Brothers ushered in a new era of event TV, only this time they take to the skies, following the 100th Bomb Group as they take the fight to Germany…
John Woo's assault on Hollywood may not have quite delivered in the same way as his HK masterpieces, but damn if it didn't peak with the gleefully ridiculous and relentlessly entertaining Face/Off.
Another WB classic, this time a counter-culture prison film that utilises Paul Newman’s iconic star power to skewer authoritarian conceits that were on the verge of collapse across the whole of society during the turbulent 1960s. And it’s another wonderful 4K restoration, so authentic you can practically still smell those eggs…
Reacher's back! The poster of his back exclaims, in perfect tone with the character, and boy is he, with a fabulous kick-start to Amazon's TV show adaptation of the 11th book, Bad Luck and Trouble. UPDATED FOR FULL SEASON REVIEW.
Alexandra Aja burst onto the world horror stage with this wildly entertaining and hugely divisive home invasioner that became one of the cornerstones of the New French Extremity subgenre that shone so brightly at the start of the new Millenium. And it looks strangely better than it probably ever should have done with a wonderful new 4K restoration from Second Sight who seem to be carrying on in 2024 exactly as they left off in 2023…