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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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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?
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…
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…
Derivative but effective, Gareth "Rogue One" Edwards' understated sci-fi gem does everything that Snyder's Rebel Moon couldn't, fashioning familiar elements into a pretty compelling new whole.
Slow Horses: Season 3 - Real Tigers (Apple TV+) TV Show Review
by Cas Harlow
Apple's gloriously grungy spy show returns for its third season in two years, with Gary Oldman still flatulating his way around being the best spy that nobody ever noticed - UPDATED for full review.
The film from Hollywood icon James Dean that fully cemented his mythical legacy is a surprisingly nuanced look at the ever-present generational gap that continues to permeate so much of our culture nearly 70 years later. And on WB's 4K restoration, Dean’s star shines brighter and bolder than it has before…
Fashioned from an impossible set of seemingly incongruous ingredients, Young Guns is a cracking Western that earns a stateside 4K release that you may just want to consider importing...
Tobin Bell and Jigsaw return after a couple of recent misfires, taking us almost back to the very beginning. And while offering up one of the best entries in the twenty-year-old franchise, the disc from Lionsgate also offers up a most welcome surprise all of its own…
Sergio Corbucci and Franco Nero created one of the Spaghetti Western’s most indelible characters with this 1966 seminal and ultra-violent entry into the genre. And Cult Films bring it to 4K in the UK with this special limited numbered edition that includes a feature length appreciation of the Italian cowboy film by one Quentin Tarantino…
Jane Fonda’s ultra-kitsch space heroine returns to save the universe with nothing but love and an array of ever decreasing clothing in Arrow’s stunning new 4K limited edition set, released over the pond in the US but readily importable for fans… and well worth doing so it is too…
Best Movies, TV and 4K Blu-rays of 2023 - Editor's Choice Awards
by Cas Harlow
The movies team takes a look back at 2023, highlighting some of the best theatrical and streaming movie releases TV shows, and 4K discs, as well as the studios behind them.
A flawed, frequently tense, fitfully fervent, overly ambitious but mostly modestly satisfying and atmospheric effort from Michael Mann, Blackhat still remains an odd choice for his next 4K release, a Limited Edition bells-and-whistles set from Arrow - UPDATED FOR DIRECTOR'S CUT REVIEW
Arrow Video bring the full Chucky movie collection to our favourite home video format with an almost full set of Shout Factory 4K ports gathered in a single franchise set. Great transfers, new Atmos soundtracks and a boatload of extras? Who wouldn’t wanna play…?