A man visits his terminally ill father at an isolated sanatorium, where the fragmentation of time and space takes him on a journey into his own subconscious in Wojciech Has’s mind-bending and visually striking 1973 The Hourglass Sanatorium. An initially bemused but consistently mesmerised Slarek is pulled happily into the dream world by Radiance’s new UHD/Blu-ray dual format release.
One of the most vital films about the Cambodian genocide, Roland Joffé's 1984 The Killing Fields is coming to Limited Edition 4K UHD+Blu-ray and standard Edition UHD and Blu-ray from Second Sight in September.
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The end of the world is nigh in On the Beach, directed by Stanley Kramer from the novel by Nevil Shute, starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire and Anthony Perkins. Gary Couzens reviews the Blu-ray release from the BFI.
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…
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.