The sixth Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box, a three-disc DVD release from the BFI, includes nine films from 1954 to 1980. Review by Gary Couzens.
The June disc releases from Arrow have been revealed as 10-disc UHD box set Jackie Chan's Breakout Hits!, plus Bullet in the Head, Wake in Fright and Mortal Kombat Kollection on UHD & Blu-ray, Audition on UHD, and Marlowe on Blu-ray.
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At last, a mainstream movie with no antecedents (OK, OK, it was adapted from a novel by Andy Weir, author of The Martian) or affiliation with any known and probably exhausted intellectual properties, an original film to enjoy on its own merits. With only one tiny caveat, Camus is greatly entertained by Project Hail Mary…
A struggling artist buys a talisman that transforms his fortune without realising the true nature of the deal he has struck in the fascinating horror-tinged Faustian drama from 1943, The Devil’s Hand [La Main du diable]. Slarek keeps an appointment with a bureaucratic Old Nick with Eureka’s typically fine new Blu-ray.
Erotic gameplaying with Peter McEnery, Diane Cilento and Glenda Jackson in Negatives, the debut feature of Peter Medak, made in 1968. The BFI have released it on Blu-ray as Flipside number 53. Review by Gary Couzens.
A mild-mannered bookkeeper steals a valuable gem and is pursued across Europe by professional investigator Milo March in The Man Inside, director John Gilling’s adaptation of the novel of the same name by M.E. Chaber. Slarek finds himself in two minds about the film but has no such qualms about Indicator’s typically strong Blu-ray.
Being a film music aficionado can sometimes introduce you to some intriguing, never before heard of films. On Camus’ watchlist for decades was an oddly titled 1963 curio, scored by Jerry Goldsmith, called The List of Adrian Messenger directed by John Huston. Camus finally caught up with it… Release the hounds!
Richard Rush’s 1980 The Stunt Man was ten years in the making and almost went unreleased when the studio didn’t know what to make of the result, but it’s reputation as a key work of American 70s cinema is now set in stone. It arrives on 4K in a dual UHD/Blu-ray package from Radiance on the Transmission label, and is reviewed by long-time fan Camus, with Slarek handling the technical specs and the majority of the special features.