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Blu-ray Review – ‘Laura’ is a snappy, satisfying 1940s film noir

14/01/2019 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1944, 2019, Blu-ray, Certificate: PG, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Dorothy Adams, Gene Tierney, January 2019, Judith Anderson, Laura, Noir, Otto Preminger, Thriller, Vincent Price

Otto Preminger’s 90-minute noir Laura is an enthralling and entertaining film noir that never outstays its welcome.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Festival’ remains an anarchic comedy highlight of 2018

10/12/201809/12/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Claudia O'Doherty, Comedy, December 2018, Emma Rigby, Hammed Animashaun, Hannah Tointon, Hugh Coles, Iain Morris, Jemaine Clement, Joe Thomas, Kurt Yaeger, Lizzy Connolly, Nick Frost, Noel Fielding, Rating: Pop, The Festival, Theo Barklem-Biggs

Joe Thomas reunites with Inbetweeners creator Iain Morris for the anarchic comedy The Festival, which is now out on DVD and Blu-ray.

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Blu-ray Review – John Carpenter’s ‘The Fog’ is creeping back in a 4K restoration

28/10/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adrienne Barbeau, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Hal Holbrook, Horror, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Carpenter, Nancy Loomis, October 2018, Rating: Pop, The Fog, Tom Atkins

John Carpenter’s horror classic The Fog is back in UK cinemas in a new 4K restoration ahead of a new collector’s edition release on Blu-ray.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Baby’ is an oddball horror that gets unexpectedly nasty

22/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 1973, 2018, Anjanette Comer, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, David Mooney, Horror, Marianna Hill, Rating: Pop, Ruth Roman, September 2018, Suzanne Zenor, Ted Post, The Baby

As it arrives on UK Blu-ray in a new package from Arrow Video, 1973 horror movie The Baby remains an incredibly bizarre tale.

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Blu-ray Review – Screwball classic ‘My Man Godfrey’ moves like a comedy whirlwind

18/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Alan Mowbray, Alice Brady, Blu-ray, Carole Lombard, Certificate: U, Comedy, Eugene Pallette, Gail Patrick, Gregory La Cava, Jean Dixon, Mischa Auer, My Man Godfrey, Rating: Pop, September 2018, William Powell

Depression-era comedy My Man Godfrey is a powerful class satire that embraces all of the farcical quickstep of the screwball sub-genre.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘The Pyjama Girl Case’ takes the giallo Down Under

16/09/201816/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Flavio Mogherini, Giallo, Howard Ross, Michele Placido, Ramiro Oliveros, Rating: Poop, Ray Milland, Rod Mullinar, September 2018, The Pyjama Girl Case, Thriller

The giallo moves across to Australia for the 1970s thriller The Pyjama Girl Case, which tells the true story of a mysterious murder.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Horrors of Malformed Men’ is clumsy, but knows how to chill to the bone

15/09/201818/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Horror, Horrors of Malformed Men, Michiko Kobata, Minoru Ôki, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Tatsumi Hijikata, Teruko Yumi, Teruo Ishii, Teruo Yoshida, Yukie Kagawa

Teruo Ishii’s adaptation of a Japanese mystery story is a frequently disturbing, occasionally frustrating chiller.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Salvador’ is an unflinching look at political hypocrisy

15/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 18, Cindy Gibb, Elpidia Carrillo, James Woods, Jim Belushi, John Savage, Oliver Stone, Rating: Pop, Salvador, September 2018

Oliver Stone takes on the politics of Central America in the 1980s with the down and dirty war drama Salvador.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ marries Wilder and Christie for courtroom thrills

11/09/201813/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Agatha Christie, Billy Wilder, Blu-ray, Certificate: U, Charles Laughton, Drama, Elsa Lanchester, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Varden, September 2018, Thriller, Torin Thatcher, Tyrone Power, Witness for the Prosecution

Billy Wilder adapts Agatha Christie in the classic courtroom drama Witness for the Prosecution, creating a dream team for the ages.

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Blu-ray Review – Olivier Assayas’s autobiographical teen tale ‘Cold Water’ still hits hard

09/09/201818/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Cold Water, Cyprien Fouquet, Dominique Faysse, Drama, Jackie Berroyer, László Szabó, Olivier Assayas, Rating: Pop, September 2018, Smaïl Mekki, Virginie Ledoyen

Olivier Assayas mines his own teenage years for a bracing portrayal of teenage love in Cold Water.

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Blu-ray Review – ‘Racer and the Jailbird’ squanders the killer chemistry between its stars

08/09/2018 Tom Beasley 0 Comment 2018, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blu-ray, Certificate: 15, Crime, Eric De Staercke, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michaël R Roskam, Nabil Missoumi, Nathalie Van Tongelen, Racer and the Jailbird, Rating: Poop, September 2018, Thriller

Matthias Schoenaerts and Adèle Exarchopoulos have real chemistry in thriller Racer and the Jailbird, but the plot really gets in their way.

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