In a lengthy piece that has been seriously delayed by unfortunate personal circumstances, Slarek looks back at a few of his favourite films from 2025, goes on a political rant about why he has put his usual political rant on hold, has a heartfelt moan about the impact of AI, and fesses up to the biggest mistake he’s yet made as a reviewer.
Two more films from legendary European horror auteur Jean Rollin, The Grapes of Death and The Living Dead Girl, are coming to UHD and Blu-ray from Indicator in April.
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In a capsule review, occasional contributor SilverBlueSnow offers a brief appreciation of last year's Radiance Blu-ray release of director Valerio Zurlini 's 1961 Girl with a Suitcase [La ragazza con la valigia].
François Truffaut’s 1969 thriller Mississippi Mermaid [La sirène du Mississipi], starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve, is released on Blu-ray by Radiance. Review by Gary Couzens.
François Truffaut strays into Hitchcock territory with The Bride Wore Black, in which Jeanne Moreau avenges the killing of her husband on their wedding day. Review by Gary Couzens.
After a small but potent wave of adoration from mostly all sides, Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie Farrell’s Hamnet arrives in UK cinemas. An overwhelming emotional flipside of Shakespeare in Love, this is the tale of the darkest muse (not Gwyneth Paltrow then) inspiring the bard’s art. Camus treads the boards lightly…
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?
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.