Cert 12 | 135 mins | 2022
4 star restoration of a classic B movie remake.
This retelling of the King Kong story was originally released in 1976, produced by Dino De Laurentiis (Conan the Barbarian, Dune) and directed by John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno, Death on the Nile).
This 2022 restoration is presented for the first time in 4K courtesy of Studiocanal and Paramount Pictures.
“In 1749, a waterlogged…more
Cert 12 | 650 mins | 2004
4 Star
Akira Kurosaw’s Classic
Reborn.
The story of a village plagued by bandits takes a futuristic twist with Samurai 7. The country has been plagued with war for years and the Samurai were the fighting force, until the mechanical Samurai came along. But in the end it was the merchants that came out on top, and the mechanical Samurai ‘the Nobuseri’, turn…more
Cert U | 77 mins | 2022
5 star conversion of this iconic horror film.
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari is a German silent film, first released in 1920. It was written by Carl Mayer (The Last Laugh) and Hans Janowitz (Der Januskopf) and directed by Robert Weine (The Night of the Rose).
It is now presented as part of the Masters of Cinema Series, #92. Bringing this highly influential film up to standard was…more
Cert 18 | 83 mins | 2022
4 star horrifyingly good stop-motion feature.
Mad God is an undeniably brilliant piece of work from iconic Oscar and Emmy award-winning stop-motion artist Phil Tippett (Robocop, Starship Troopers, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back).
A labour of love thirty years in the making, this magnum opus is a Shudder original, available on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Platforms from 5th December 2022 courtesy…more
Cert 12 | 54 mins | 2022
4 star, the saga continues in the palace.
Princess Principal: Crown Handler Part 2 is a Japanese anime film, written by Noburu Kimura and directed by Masaki Tachibana (Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex). Produced by studio Actas (Girls und Panzer) it is the second film in a series of 6 films which are the sequel to the 2017 series Princess Principal.
It is presented…more
Cert 12 | 97 mins | 1982
4 Star
The Good, The Bad, and the Dead.
Once again, Eureka Classics brings us one of Sammo Hung’s (Three Films With Sammo Hung, Wheels on Meals, Zu Warriors From the Magic Mountain, The Fate of Lee Khan, Mr Vampire, Jackie Chan’s PROJECT A & PROJECT A PART II) dark comedies. Directed by Martial Arts master Wu Ma (Kung Fu of 8…more
Cert 15 | 1415 mins | 1978-1993
5 Star
Shaolin on the Rampage.
ARROW VIDEO have done it again, but even bigger this time as we see volume 2 of the masters of Martial Arts film making the Shaw Brothers. Ten, yes, ten disks. Fourteen action packed films (See below) and two disks of soundtracks. Brilliant stuff. Volume two should be the Christmas present for any Kung Fu fan…more
