Director Edgar Wright’s long gestating, more faithful version of Stephen King’s The Running Man sneaks in to the last weeks of the far flung future year the story was set in, 2025. Camus is almost afraid to ask but is this what we’re heading for or are we already there?
The 1959 religious epic Ben-Hur and the 1976 political thriller All the President’s Men, are coming to 4K UHD and Digital in February from Warner.
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When his daughter is mistakenly targeted by a kidnapper looking to punish a greedy property developer, her father risks life and limb to locate and rescue her in the criminally underseen 1980 crime thriller Night of the Juggler. Slarek is transported back to a golden age for American genre cinema on Radiance’s first release under the new Transmission label.
István Szabó’s three films made with the actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, the Oscar-winning Mephisto, Colonel Redl and Hanussen, are released on Blu-ray as a box set by Second Run. Reviewed by Gary Couzens.
Southern gentleman and master detective Benoit Blanc is back in Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man, A Knives Out Mystery. Camus is a sucker for a damn fine whodunnit and this one has the added bonus of some great performances from an outstanding cast…
Robert Bresson’s 1969 film Une femme douce [A Gentle Creature], his first in colour, is released on Blu-ray from Radiance. Review by Gary Couzens.
Luchino Visconti’s Le notti bianche [White Nights], from 1957, comes to Blu-ray from Radiance. Gary Couzens waits by a bridge.
A Union colonel teams up with two former Confederate officers in post-Civil War Texas to battle a crooked landowner and the corrupt lawmen in his pay in Rio Lobo, director Howard Hawks’ nostalgic second reworking of his 1959 Rio Bravo. Slarek slips into the saddle for Hawks’ final film, newly released on Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label.