Category Archives: Blu-ray Releases

Blu-ray/DVD review | Cría cuervos (Raise Ravens) | Carlos Saura’s haunting celebration of childhood in fascist Spain gets a UK BFI release

THE STORY Thirtysomething mother Ana (Geraldine Chaplin) reflects on her childhood in 1970s Madrid when, as an eight-year-old (Ana Torrent), she witnessed the death of her adulterous military father, whom she blames for the death of her mother (also played … Continue reading

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Film review | Django Unchained – Quentin Tarantino’s Bloody (& wordy!) Blaxploitation Western

Quentin Tarantino’s audacious blaxploitation Western Django Unchained is a brazen, bloodily violent revenge fantasy and it creates an instant cinematic icon out of Jamie Foxx’s whip-scarred slave turned strikingly cool avenger. His name borrowed from the iconic Spaghetti Western character, … Continue reading

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Blu-ray review | Black Sabbath | Boris Karloff’s 1960s trilogy of terror gets the Arrow Video treatment

THE STORY Boris Karloff plays master of ceremonies in 1963′s Black Sabbath, an Italian trilogy of terror from director Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Lisa and the Devil). The Telephone, set in the 1960s, is a giallo-inspired story in which a … Continue reading

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Win Quentin Tarantino Western Django Unchained on Blu-ray!

Django Unchained, the action-packed, Oscar-winning Spaghetti Western from writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds) is coming out on Blu-ray and DVD with UltraViolet on Monday 20th May. Django Unchained is a classic Tarantino revenge story about a slave (Jamie Foxx) who, … Continue reading

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Film review | Les Misérables – Bowled over by the barnstorming gusto of Jackman, Crowe & co

Director Tom Hooper and a full-throated cast led by Hugh Jackman as Victor Hugo’s ex-convict hero Jean Valjean bring the world’s longest-running stage musical, Les Misérables, to the screen with barnstorming gusto. From the majestic opening shots of storm-lashed prisoners … Continue reading

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DVD review | The Impossible – When disaster strikes, Naomi Watts & Ewan McGregor rise to the challenge

Based on the harrowing experiences of a family caught up in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, real-life disaster movie The Impossible will leave you awestruck. In the leading roles, Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor dial down their Hollywood glamour … Continue reading

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Win fantasy adventure Life of Pi on Blu-ray!

Ang Lee directs this Academy Award-winning fantasy adventure based on Yann Martel‘s Booker Prize-winning novel. Suraj Sharma stars as Pi Patel, a 16-year-old zookeeper’s son from Pondicherry who finds himself stranded on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean in … Continue reading

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DVD review | Life of Pi – Beauty and the Beast: Ang Lee’s dazzling fable of boy adrift with hungry tiger

Putting Yann Martel’s bestselling 2001 novel Life of Pi on screen seemed an impossible task, but it’s one that director Ang Lee pulls off spectacularly with this awesome adventure tale of shipwreck and survival. The story’s resilient young hero, Pi … Continue reading

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Win a deluxe edition of George A Romero’s action classic Knightriders!

George A Romero’s lost action classic KNIGHTRIDERS has been specially restored by Arrow Video’s acclaimed team of experts. The deluxe edition of Knightriders include both DVD & Blu-ray copies of the film along with a host of special features and … Continue reading

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Pete’s Peek | Baron Blood – Enter the torture chamber of Mario Bava’s grisly 1970s horror on Blu-ray

THE STORY In 1970s Austria, 400-year-old warlock, Baron Otto von Kleist is resurrected during a séance conducted by his descendant’s girlfriend, Eva (Elke Sommer). The hideously disfigured Baron then disguises himself as Alfred Becker (Joseph Cotton), the elderly buyer of … Continue reading

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