Long awaited, trailing some controversy over casting and leaving out some aspects of the source material, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opened last weekend. Against all expectations, Camus is staggered by its sheer, vast cinematic ambition and emotional clout…
In October, Indicator is releasing two classic of 1970s Italian cinema on UHD and Blu-ray, Francesco Rosi's Lucky Luciano and Sergio Grieco's The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine.
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Three crimefighters for the price of one in Full House (Brelan d’as), directed by Henri Verneuil in 1952, having its first UK commercial release on an Indicator Blu-ray. Gary Couzens investigates.
A 1974 horror movie that unites genre stars Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Robert Quarry might sound like a winner from the get-go, but not everything completely clicks in director Jim Clark’s underseen Madhouse. Gort revisits the film for the first time in decades on Eureka’s new Blu-ray and experiences pleasures and frustrations in equal measure.
A woman returns from the dead with a thirst for blood and slowly rediscovers her identity with the help of her dearest friend in The Living Dead Girl, Jean Rollin’s violent but beautifully realised study of friendship and loss, now available as a glorious 4K UHD release from Indicator. An empathetic Slarek descends into the crypt.
Barely released in 1970 and long unseen, but having picked up a cult following, science fiction comedy musical Toomorrow, with an early starring role for Olivia Newton-John, comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.
After witnessing the death of his governess as a child, the now adult Archibaldo develops a taste for murder when reunited with the music box he believes caused her demise in Luis Buñuel’s blackly comic 1955 The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz. Slarek finally catches up with one of his favourite filmmaker’s most intriguing and enjoyable Mexican films on Second Run’s new Blu-ray.
James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus, a landmark in experimental gay cinema, has a Blu-ray release from the BFI. Review by Gary Couzens.