Horace Ové’s Pressure, the first British feature film made by a Black director, comes out on Blu-ray from the BFI, following a 4K restoration. Review by Gary Couzens.
The December releases from Arrow subsidiary Toy Robot have been announced as Sharky's Machine, Passenger 57 and Detroit Rock City on dual format UHD & Blu-ray, and Korean revenge action-thriller Unstoppable on Blu-ray only.
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Another time capsule from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s from the Rediffusion archive, Daniel Farson’s Guide to Britain Volume 2 is a dual-format release from the BFI. Gary Couzens goes back in time.
Don Johnson stars as a drifter who wanders into a small Texas town and a whole heap of trouble in director and co-screenwriter Dennis Hopper’s steamy 1990 neo-noir, The Hot Spot. Genre fan Slarek catches up with a film that previously slipped him by and falls for a work that dares to take its time tying the fate of its lead character in Gordian knots.
Alain Resnais’s 1974 film about a real-life swindler who became headline news, Stavisky…, is released on Blu-ray by Indicator. Review by Gary Couzens.
Time slips in Mark Jenkin’s follow-up to Bait and Enys Men, Rose of Nevada, released in dual format by the BFI, also with the other two as a Blu-ray box set of the Cornish Trilogy. Review by Gary Couzens.
The third and final collection of silent short films from cinema’s most divine comedy pairing, Laurel & Hardy: The Silent Years – 1929 from Eureka is out now on two-disc Blu-ray. Devoted Stan and Ollie fan Slarek takes a deep and passionate dive into another glorious release, one that sees the boys cement their partnership and comedic style and make a smooth transition into the talkies.
“We want to see the zoo, she said, we want to see the zoo…” Mike Leigh’s Nuts in May, having had a 4K restoration, comes to Blu-ray from the BFI. Gary Couzens heads off to the countryside.