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Tag Archives: Blu-Ray
The rise of boutique DVDs: The Flipside
Even with the tens of thousands of movies released on DVD since the format debuted in the late ’90s, vast amounts of film history remain untouched. Of course, home video has always been a commercial enterprise, the preservation and dissemination … Continue reading
Stanley Kubrick part 1: Becoming Kubrick
My first encounter with Stanley Kubrick’s work came before I was ten years old. Sometime in the early ’60s, my parents took me to see Spartacus, probably at the Odeon in Chelmsford. For years afterwards, two things stuck with me: … Continue reading
DVD of the week: Shopping (1994)
In my rather long film-going life, I have often been out of sync with generally held opinions. I didn’t much like the Star Wars movies when they transformed popular culture, I found myself laughing at Titanic while surrounded in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Action, Actors, Blu-Ray, British Film, Directors, DVD, Paul W .S. Anderson, Science Fiction
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DVD of the Week: Loving Memory (1970)
Of the two Scott brothers, I’ve always had a preference for Ridley. No doubt the writers of Cinema Scope would attribute this to my innate middle-brow pretensions, but I’ve never managed to grasp their argument for Tony’s superiority (editor Mark … Continue reading
DVD of the Week: Vampire Circus (1972)
Although Britain’s Hammer Films was first formed in the 1930s, initially in an attempt to expand a theatre chain into areas of production and distribution, only five films were made before the war – comedies and mysteries. Production resumed after … Continue reading
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Tagged Blu-Ray, British Film, Directors, DVD, Fantasy, Hammer Films, Horror, Peter Sykes, Review, Robert Young, Roy Ward Baker, Terence Fisher, Val Guest, Vampires
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DVD (actually Blu-Ray) of the Week: Battle Royale (2000)
It was unfortunate that until the very end of his career, the Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku was known in North America mostly for his worst film: The Green Slime. This was an “international” production, shot in Japanese studios with an … Continue reading
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Tagged Blu-Ray, DVD, Fantasy, Japanese Film, Kinji Fukasaku, Review, Science Fiction, Violence, Yakuza
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