Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (DVD Details)
10 years have passed since war changed the face of Japan, a Japan which now burns with the fire of civil unrest. Fueled by rampant crime and poverty, a well armed anti-government group has risen amongst the people, with the intent of topping the government through its terrorist plots. To combat this group, an elite group of heavily-armored soldiers was formed, trained like dogs, these men were to...
The Signal (Blu-ray Details)
It's New Year's Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year's resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as...
Belle de Jour: 40th Anniversary Edition (DVD Details)
Undoubtedly Luis Buñuel’s most accessible film, Belle de Jour is an elegant and erotic masterpiece that maintains as hypnotic a grip on modern audiences as it did on its debut 30 years ago.
Screen icon Catherine Deneuve (Repulsion) plays Severine, the glacially beautiful, sexually unfulfilled wife of a surgeon, whose blood runs icy with ennui until she takes a day-job in a brothel. There she...
Hardware (Blu-ray Details)
In the post-apocalyptic, post-nuclear world of Hardware, our worst environmental fears have come true. Temperatures hover at a balmy 110 degrees in the shade and the omnipresent radiation has wreaked havoc with the societal gene pool. For your entertainment there is a 24-hour television broadcasting porno films and heavy-metal music videos. Radio offers the rantings and ravings of Angry Bob (Iggy...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Skynet Edition (Blu-ray Details)
Arnold Schwazenegger returns to his most iconic role as an advanced cyborg from the future in the most successful sequel of all time.
In has been 10 years since the events of 'Terminator'. Sarah Connor's ordeal is only just beginning as she struggles to protect her son John, the future leader of the human resistance against the machines, from a new Terminator, sent back in time to eliminate...
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Blu-ray Details)
The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada is ultimately a human drama that, in its conclusion, offers forgiveness for wrongs committed and a striking note of empathy for lives irrevocably changed. The body of Melquiades Estrada (Julio César Cedillo) is found in a shallow grave in the desert where it was hastily buried after his murder. Making no attempt to solve the crime, the local authorities...
The Red Riding Trilogy (DVD Details)
The Red Riding Trilogy follows controversial stories revolving around the manhunt for the brutal Yorkshire Ripper. After a failed attempt to crack Fleet Street, a cynical journalist returns to his homeland of Yorkshire and finds himself assigned to report on the case of a local girl who has gone missing. But after her bizarrely mutilated body is discovered, he is thrown into a sleaze infested,...
Lady in White: The Director's Cut (DVD Details)
Frankie Scarlatti (Lukas Haas) has grown up safe and loved in the sleepy town of Willowpoint, with his loving father Angelo, older brother Geno and surrogate Uncle Phil. However, Frankie’s idyllic childhood is about to violently interupted by murder, mystery and intrigue. On Halloween, Frankie is locked in the school closet as a practical joke by his classmates. Trapped inside, he has a terrifying...
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (DVD Details)
GONZO is directed by Alex Gibney, the director of the Academy Award winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side and Academy Award nominated Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room. While Gibney shaped the screen story, every narrated word in the film springs from the typewriters of Thompson himself. Those words are given life by Johnny Depp, the actor who once shadowed Thompson’s every move for the...
After... (DVD Details)
Grief-striken over the death of their young son, Nate (Daniel Caltagirone) jets off with his wife Adrian (Flora Montgomery) and her brother Jay (Nicholas Aaron) to immerse himself in urban exploration - the investigation of areas not designed for public use. But as their journey plunges them deep into underground Moscow, through Ivan the Terrible’s torture chambers and Stalin’s mythical Metro-2...
The Signal (DVD Details)
It’s New Year’s Eve in the city of Terminus and chaos is this year’s resolution. All forms of communication have been jammed by an enigmatic transmission that preys on fear and desire, driving everyone in the city to murder and madness. In a place once marked by conformity but now sent into complete anarchy, the rebellious Ben must save the woman he loves from the bedlam in the streets as well as...
Cass (Blu-ray Details)
CASS is the incredible true story of one man’s identity struggle and ultimate redemption. The film follows how a Jamaican orphan baby, adopted by an elderly white couple in 1950's London, changed from being the most feared hooligan in the country to Britain’s best selling black author. CASS grew up in a time before political correctness and as a young child, was forced to endure racist bullying on...
Rashomon (DVD Details)
A woodcutter experiences a horrific series of events - an ambush, rape and murder. In the telling of the tale however, each of the four participants give different views of what actually happened - is any of them telling the truth?
Kurosawa's masterful film plays on the subjective nature of truth while unfurling a riveting tale of violence and greed.
The film was the first to alert western...
Brave Story (DVD Details)
When eleven-year-old Wataru is told he can change his destiny by entering a magic gateway into another world, he jumps at the chance. But on his quest to find the Tower of Fortune and be granted any wish, he must conjure up all his bravery to battle a world of demons, his own friends and ultimately himself.
Appleseed (2004) (2-disc) (DVD Details)
The brainchild of leading anime creator Masamune Shirow (Ghost in the Shell), 'Appleseed' is a post-apocalyptic science fiction epic brimming with fast-paced action and awe-inspiring visuals!
It's 2131 AD and the future of the human race hangs in the balance. Female soldier Deunan Knute has survived a major war that has pushed the earth to the brink of destruction. Located in a bombed-out urban...
Total Recall (Optimum Reissue) (DVD Details)
In a futuristic world, construction worker Doug Quaid obsesses about taking a vacation on the planet Mars. His wife objects, so Doug instead opts to have an artificial memory of a Martian holiday implanted into his mind. The trouble is, during the implantation procedure, Quaid suffers a strange reaction. Why? It seems as though he has already been to Mars, but his memories of his journey have been...
Red Sonja (DVD Details)
A sword and sorcery tale of a female warrior whose destiny is to become a glorious new hero. Only one man on Earth is man enough to win her. Two legends unite to defeat the greatest evil on earth. Includes music composed by Ennio Morricone.
Fixed Bayonets!: Sam Fuller Collection (UK) (DVD Details)
As freezing snow blasts the mountain peaks of wartime Korea. A small platoon of army grunts are ordered to stay behind to protect a 15,000-man division as it moves out under heavy communist fire. One corporal, whom the platoon has mistakenly come to believe is a hero, is left with the responsibility of protecting the men. It`s a mistake that is about to come back to haunt them.
Hell and High Water: Sam Fuller Collection (UK) (DVD Details)
Hired by a secret group of scientists and ex-military men, retired submarine commander Adam Jones (Widmark) takes to the helm again on a mission to investigate a possible communist nuclear base on an island in the Arctic. But danger lurks in the deep for Jones` crew, and the closer they get to their destination, the deeper their predicament gets. Hostile subs and tensions on board are only the...
House of Bamboo: Sam Fuller Collection (UK) (DVD Details)
Sandy Dawson (Robert Ryan) has assembled a platoon of ex-army thugs to run pachinko parlors while pulling off bloody heists and armed robbery. The murder of a friend brings Eddie Spanier (Robert Stack) into the group, along with his beautiful mistress (Shirley Yamaguchi). But Spanier`s behavior grows treacherous, and his loyalties become questionable, leading to a breathless, murderous conclusion...
Sid James Collection (UK) (DVD Details)
Sid James, of Carry On fame and the possessor of the dirtiest laugh in movie history, gets the Comic Icons Collection treatment.
The Big Job stars James as George the Brain, leader of a gang of inept bank robbers who end up in prison for 15 years, with only the thought of the stolen money that remains hidden keeping them going until their release. However, when the time comes, it seems the...
Switchblade Romance (UK) (DVD Details)
College friends Marie and Alex encouter bucketloads of trouble (and blood) while on holiday at Alex`s parent`s country home...
Devils Backbone, The (UK) (DVD Details)
From acclaimed Mexican horror maestro Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, Mimic and Blade 2) comes `The Devil`s Backbone`, a truly terrifying spine-tingler combining state of the art special effects with towering performances from a combination of Latin legends (Federico Luppi, `Cronos` and Marisa Paredes, `All About My Mother`) and rising stars (Eduardo Noriega, `Open Your Eyes`).
A deliciously dark...
Raw Deal (UK) (DVD Details)
Three FBI agents are guarding a key witness whose testimony will end the Chicago crime organisation, led by Luigi Patrovita (Sam Wanamaker). When the witness and the bodyguards are brutally murdered in an early morning raid, FBI agent Harry Shannon (Darren McGavin) seeks out the services of former agent Mark Kaminsky (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Eloge De L`Amour (UK) (DVD Details)
From Jean-Luc Godard, possibly the most respected and influential European film director of all time comes `Eloge de l`amour`, an intelligent, visually ravishing, witty meditation on life, love and popular culture.
Shot in a dazzling combination of luminous black and white celluloid and state of the art colour saturated digital video, `Eloge de l`amour` - selected for Official Competition at the 2...
Amores Perros (Love`s A Bitch) (UK) (DVD Details)
Since exploding on to the scene as a winner at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu`s Amores Perros has gone on to achieve universal acclaim and admiration from critics, cinemagoers and directors alike. The film undoubtedly heralds the arrival of a major new talent in world cinema.
Beginning with a kinetic, bone-crushing car accident, Amos Perros imaginatively interweaves...
Red Heat (UK) (DVD Details)
Red Heat, the sizzling theatrical blockbuster smash, is the first American movie ever to film in Russia`s famed Red Square.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is Captain Ivan Danko, a highly disciplined Russian detective. James Belushi is Detective Art Ridzik, a fearless but undisciplined cop. They`re a pair of mismatched cops hot on the trail of Russia`s deadliest drug smuggler throughout the mean streets...
Digitally restored classics including Kind Hearts and Coronets on DVD and Blu-ray this Summer
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS
“Quintessential British comedy... a jewel in the crown of the finest comedy production line
Britain ever saw” *****
EMPIRE
Directed by Robert Hamer
Starring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness,
Valerie Hobson & Joan...
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Anime Review Roundup
Beck The Movie
Last week it was Gantz, this time it's the turn of Beck, another manga turned anime that is getting the big screen live action treatment. I loved the series when I saw it, a tale of an unlikely band following their bumpy destiny to...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
The romcom Leap Year with Amy Adams hits DVD and Blu-ray in July
LEAP YEAR
OUT ON DVD, BLU-RAY & EST FROM 12TH JULY 2010
WHEN LIFE SURPRISES YOU DON’T BE AFRAID TO TAKE A LEAP OF FAITH
Amy Adams (Enchanted, Julie and Julia) is Anna Brady in the charming romantic comedy Leap Year out to own on...
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Queen of Spades out in Cinemas Boxing Day and DVD January
opens nationwide on boxing day 2009
With Special Introduction by Martin Scorsese
available to buy on dvd january 18th 2010
Optimum Releasing is proud to present a special digital re-issue of Thorold Dickinson’s classic supernatural drama THE...
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Anime Review Roundup
October 3rd is the date of Sci-Fi-London’s,first Oktoberfest, a one-night event showcasing a selection of sci-fi,horror, fantasy and anime. Manga Entertainment UK has signed on as official partners, and will be bringing Strait Jacket and Hellsing...
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The Signal (Review) (Blu-ray)
The Signal begins like a 1970s exploitation slasher, but the picture gradually becomes more and more disturbed by flashes of bright colour...
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Duh duh, duh duh duh
So goes the iconic drum pattern from Terminator 2. And it's likely that you've heard it a few...
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Belle de Jour (Review) (DVD)
Luis Buñuel is one of the great directors, a master of surrealism and, when he delves into psychoanalysis, things can get very odd but...
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Hardware (Review) (Blu-ray)
Based on the SHOK! story from the 2000AD comic books and Richard Stanley’s short film Incidents in an Expanding Universe, Hardware is set in...
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Terminator 2: Skynet Edition (Review) (Blu-ray)
Seven years after James Cameron introduced the world to that big Austrian with a strange Teutonic accent and the ‘Terminatorverse’ with one...
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
It was released here back in 2007, but I guess it must have been a low key release, or at least it only really registered on...
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
I love this movie! I've got a 3-disc special edition of this with a 12 page booklet - it was released by Bandai Entertainment on...
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Review of Amores Perros (Love`s A Bitch)
A car accident, dogfights and the rough Mexican city are the three common things in these three-stories-made-into-a-single-movie....
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Review of Amores Perros (Love`s A Bitch)
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