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Mute Witness by Eric Cotenas (26th July 2024)

Saturn Award (Best Horror Film): Mute Witness (nominee) and Best Actress: Marina Zudina (nominee) - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1996 Sitges (Best Film): Anthony Waller (nominee) - Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival, 1995 Special Jury Prize: Anthony Waller (winner) and Special Mention: Marina Zudina (winner) - Gérardmer Film Festival, 1996 Nika (Best Producer): Grigory Ryazhsky and Alexander Atanesyan (winner) - Nika Awards, 1995 Mute make-up effects artist Billie Hughes (Gold Diggers' Marina Sudina) is working on a low budget horror film in Moscow with her script superviso...


Ransom by James-Masaki Ryan (26th July 2024)

"Ransom" (1974) British Ambassador to Scandinavia Mr. Palmer (played by Robert Harris) is held hostage in his home by a group of stocking masked terrorists led by Shepherd (played by John Quentin). At the same time, there is a plane hijacking led by Petrie (played by Ian McShane) who holds and crew and passengers hostage at the airport tarmac until the ambassador is escorted on board in exchange. Called in to diffuse the situation is Scandinavian head of security Colonel Nils Tahlvik (played by Sean Connery), as they have a time limit on how to proceed, or the explosives that were carried on board would be detonated with all on board. It is a race against the clock, and though Tahlvik might be dealing with something much more than he anticipated... "Ransom" is in line with a number of thrillers of the 1970s in which plots involving corrupt politics and international terrorism mirrored a number of real-life counterparts in the daily headlines. With the mysteries ...


To Kill with Intrigue by Eric Cotenas (22nd July 2024)

Fortress maiden Qian-qian (The Killer Meteors' Yu Ling-Lung) slips away from the birthday celebration of her master Jinfeng (The One-Armed Boxer's Ma Chi) for an assignation with his son and heir Lei (Operation Condor's Jackie Chan); however, he rejects her when she tells him she is pregnant and she runs off into the night. Returning to his father's home Lei behaves boorishly with his father's esteemed guests and they take their leave. Jinfeng demands an explanation only for Lei to present him with a severed hand tattooed with a honey bee which tells him that the "Killer Bee Gang" have come to exact revenge upon him for trying to wipe them out fifteen years before. Jinfeng implores his son and wife (The Sword's


Fearless Hyena II by Eric Cotenas (22nd July 2024)

After their elder brother is killed by the Luk Hop Bagua Klan's Heaven and Earth Devils (Once Upon a Time in China's Yen Shi-Kwan and Miami Connection's Best Kwon Yeong-Moon), Ching Tsun-pei (Raining in the Mountain's Chen Hui-Lou) and Ching Tsun-nam (The Big Boss's James Tien) flee with the former's two sons Ching Lung and Ah Tung but they get separated and Tsun-nam and Ah Tung are sheltered by Master Siu (The Killer Meteors' Ma Chiang) of the Beggar Clan who finds them a safe place to hid...


The Music Lovers by James-Masaki Ryan (21st July 2024)

"The Music Lovers" (1971) Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (played by Richard Chamberlain) makes a drastic change to his life that would ultimately become a dangerous downward spiral. His compositions have created both praise and controversy with people and critics, with some rejoicing in the music's powerful force, while others criticize the stances and tones against conventions. He marries Nina (played by Glenda Jackson) to further his social status, though he is hiding his homosexuality, and his longtime friend and confidant Anton Chiluvsky (played by Christopher Gable) sees this as a betrayal to their personal and professional friendship. While Nina is ecstatic that she has become the wife of a dignified artist, Pyotr is unable to satisfy her sexual urges, and it affects the marriage to a violent breaking point as well as purring a strain on his creativity. Classical music has been a favorite subject of filmmaker Ken Russell whether as documentaries or biopics....


To Kill with Intrigue by Eric Cotenas (21st July 2024)

Fortress maiden Qian-qian (The Killer Meteors' Yu Ling-Lung) slips away from the birthday celebration of her master Jinfeng (The One-Armed Boxer's Ma Chi) for an assignation with his son and heir Lei (Operation Condor's Jackie Chan); however, he rejects her when she tells him she is pregnant and she runs off into the night. Returning to his father's home Lei behaves boorishly with his father's esteemed guests and they take their leave. Jinfeng demands an explanation only for Lei to present him with a severed hand tattooed with a honey bee which tells him that the "Killer Bee Gang" have come to exact revenge upon him for trying to wipe them out fifteen years before. Jinfeng implores his son and wife (The Sword's


Pumpkinhead II: Blood Wings by Eric Cotenas (20th July 2024)

In 1955, the local badasses of Ferren Woods brutally murdered deformed backwoods orphan Tommy (The Day After Tomorrow's J.P. Manoux) who was believed to be the hell spawn of a demon and a woman. In present day 1993, Sean Braddock (Hellraiser's Andrew Robinson) returns home from New York with his wife (Teen Witch's Caren Caye) to take over the job of sheriff, hoping the small town life will keep his resentful teenage daughter Jenny (Ticks' Ami Dolenz) out of trouble. Unfortunately, she's already hanging out with the town's new generation of badasses: Danny Dixon (...


Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum by Eric Cotenas (19th July 2024)

Grand Bell Award (Best New Actor): Wi Ha-joon (nominee), Best Planning: Won-guk Kim (nominee), and Best Editing: Hyung-ju Kim and Yang Dong-yub (nominees) - Grand Bell Awards, South Korea, 2018 Blue Dragon Award (Best New Actor): Wi Ha-joon (nominee), Best New Actress: Park Ji-hyun (nominee), Best Editing : Hyung-ju Kim and Yang Dong-yub (winners), and Best Technical Award (sound): Ju-kang Park and Yong Ki Park (nominees) - Blue Dragon Awards, 2018 Chunsa Film Art Award (Best New Actor): Wi Ha-joon (nominee) and Best New Actress: ...


Madman AKA Legend Lives (The) AKA Madman Marz (Blu-ray 4K) by Paul Lewis (18th July 2024)

Madman (Joe Giannone, 1982) Like John Carpenter’s The Fog (1979), Joe Giannone’s bodycount picture Madman (1982) opens with a tale of terror being told around a campfire. As in The Fog, the use of this device, which frames the narrative that follows, gives the film a strong sense of reflexivity. At a camp for gifted children, the organiser of the camp, Max (Frederick Neumann, acting under the name of Carl Fredericks), tells the guests the tale of ‘Madman’ Marz (Paul Ehlers): a local man who, legend has it, killed his family with an axe before being lynched himself by the townsfolk. If Marz’s name is spoken aloud in the woods near his now-dilapidated former home, it is said that he will come back to life to kill the speaker either with an axe or by hanging. Of course, Max’s tall story seems like nothing more than a campfire tale – tha...


Victims of Sin: The Criterion Collection by Noor Razzak (17th July 2024)

"Victims of Sin" (1951), directed by Emilio Fernández, stands as a testament to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, renowned for its dramatic intensity and social commentary. Set against the backdrop of post-revolutionary Mexico, the film delves deep into the lives of its characters, exploring themes of poverty, exploitation, and societal injustices. The narrative unfolds with Carmen, played by the captivating Ninón Sevilla, a nightclub dancer whose life is a labyrinth of struggles. Carmen’s character is compellingly portrayed as she navigates a world where men wield power and women are often relegated to roles of subservience and objectification. Sevilla’s performance is a tour-de-force, embodying both vulnerability and resilience, making Carmen a sympathetic yet complex figure. Fernández’s direction is masterful in capturing the gritty realism of urban Mexico City, juxtaposing the glamour of the nightclub scenes with the harsh realities faced by Carmen and those around her. The cinematography by Gabriel Figueroa is striking, using chiaroscuro lighting to heighten the emotional int...


The Crippled Masters by Eric Cotenas (16th July 2024)

After running afoul of his ruthless master Lin Chang Kung (Li Chung-Chien), escort Lee Ho (Shun Chung-Chuen billed as "Frank Shum") is punished by having both of his arms chopped off by order of the master's current favorite Tang (Thomas Hong Chiu-Ming, billed in some territories as "Jackie Conn" and others as "Bruce Leei") and is tossed onto the street with orders to get out of town fast. When Lee Ho begs his way into a restaurant, he is unable to feed himself and is further humiliated by the waiter (Pei De-Yun) and then nearly beaten to death by the bouncer (Pang San). Lee Ho is nursed back to health by the local undertaker who is aware of Lin Chang Kung's brutality having regularly provided him with coffins. When Lin Chang Kung's sadistic second-in-command Mr. Pow (Hsiang Mei-Lung) discovers Lee Ho is still in town, he sends Lin Chang Ku...


Shinobi: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (16th July 2024)

"Starring “the Japanese James Dean” Raizo Ichikawa (Sleepy Eyes of Death, Conflagration) alongside Tomisaburo Wakayama (Lone Wolf and Cub, the Bounty Hunter trilogy) and Ayako Wakao (Elegant Beast, Red Angel), the Shinobi series was an epoch-making success and became a social phenomenon that left deep marks on Japan of the 1960s, from children’s playgrounds to the leftist counter-culture. Packed with spectacular and oft-copied action scenes, it also established the ground rules for all ninja movies that followed, introducing such classic tropes as the shuriken throwing star and the iconic black mask and suit." Band of Assassins: In his ambitious ascent to become Shōgun, Oda Nobunaga (Shogun Assassin's Tomisaburô Wakayama) has made victories by persecuting and eradicating clans of the ninja class, but it is his burning down of the temple at Mount Hiei and the resulting deaths of sixteen-hundred clergyman that has made him an enemy to Buddha, and thus, an enemy to all ninja. Upon l...


Shinobi: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (16th July 2024)

"Starring “the Japanese James Dean” Raizo Ichikawa (Sleepy Eyes of Death, Conflagration) alongside Tomisaburo Wakayama (Lone Wolf and Cub, the Bounty Hunter trilogy) and Ayako Wakao (Elegant Beast, Red Angel), the Shinobi series was an epoch-making success and became a social phenomenon that left deep marks on Japan of the 1960s, from children’s playgrounds to the leftist counter-culture. Packed with spectacular and oft-copied action scenes, it also established the ground rules for all ninja movies that followed, introducing such classic tropes as the shuriken throwing star and the iconic black mask and suit." Band of Assassins: In his ambitious ascent to become Shōgun, Oda Nobunaga (Shogun Assassin's Tomisaburô Wakayama) has made victories by persecuting and eradicating clans of the ninja class, but it is his burning down of the temple at Mount Hiei and the resulting deaths of sixteen-hundred clergyman that has made him an enemy to Buddha, and thus, an enemy to all ninja. Upon l...


Shinobi: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (16th July 2024)

"Starring “the Japanese James Dean” Raizo Ichikawa (Sleepy Eyes of Death, Conflagration) alongside Tomisaburo Wakayama (Lone Wolf and Cub, the Bounty Hunter trilogy) and Ayako Wakao (Elegant Beast, Red Angel), the Shinobi series was an epoch-making success and became a social phenomenon that left deep marks on Japan of the 1960s, from children’s playgrounds to the leftist counter-culture. Packed with spectacular and oft-copied action scenes, it also established the ground rules for all ninja movies that followed, introducing such classic tropes as the shuriken throwing star and the iconic black mask and suit." Band of Assassins: In his ambitious ascent to become Shōgun, Oda Nobunaga (Shogun Assassin's Tomisaburô Wakayama) has made victories by persecuting and eradicating clans of the ninja class, but it is his burning down of the temple at Mount Hiei and the resulting deaths of sixteen-hundred clergyman that has made him an enemy to Buddha, and thus, an enemy to all ninja. Upon l...


Stopmotion by Eric Cotenas (11th July 2024)

Ella Blake (The Nightingale's Aisling Franciosi) has lived in the shadow of her stop motion animated mother Suzanne (Nicholas Nickleby's Stella Gonet), creatively- and emotionally-stunted – to intimidated into silence whenever she tries to voice her own ideas – merely the hands to her mother's brain as she endeavors to finish her last film before dying. When her mother falls into a coma, Ella vows to finish her mother's project, moving into a loft in a warehouse scheduled for demolition with the help of her part-time musician boyfriend Tom (Poldark's Tom York). Ella's progress is frustrated not only by her own lack of confidence in her creative abilities but also by visits from an inquisitive young girl (Caoilinn Springall


Homework by Eric Cotenas (11th July 2024)

Seventeen-year-old high school senior Tommy (Michael Morgan) has been impeached as school president, his grades have slipped significantly, and his attitude towards his teachers leaves much to be desired; the reason: he is still a virgin when it seems that everyone else around him is getting laid. He has a girlfriend in Sheila (Mack the Knife's Erin Donovan) but her failure to place in the swimming team trials has caused her to neglect her relationships with Tommy and her best friend Lisa (Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend's Shell Kepler); in fact, Tommy finds himself spending more time with Sheila's mother Diane (Revenge's Joan Collins). Discussing the dearth of substance in today's music, Tommy and his pal Ralph (...


You'll Never Find Me by James-Masaki Ryan (7th July 2024)

"You'll Never Find Me" (2023) Patrick (played by Brendan Rock) lives alone in his caravan in a rural trailer park. On one stormy evening, a young woman (played by Jordan Cowan) knocks at his door, looking for shelter as her car broke down. While slightly reluctant, he offers her some tea and dry clothes until the storm clears. But as they talk throughout the evening, some things don't quite add up, with Patrick questioning how the woman came into the closed off trailer park, and some of Patrick's stories that he is telling her may or may not be true. "You'll Never Find Me" is a chamber film taking place almost entirely in one enclosed location, this being the caravan of the character Patrick. In addition, there are basically only two characters for most of the feature with the unnamed woman and Patrick. It can be difficult to sustain audiences for a feature length runtime with such constrictions placed as there is no change in scenery and no change in characters on screen. While it has its flaws and imperfections, it does a good job in leading audiences down ...


The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker by Eric Cotenas (4th July 2024)

"Celebrated as the 'Godfather of British Horror', Pete Walker is one of the most controversial exploitation filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Graduating from saucy sex comedies and gangland dramas, Walker finally found tabloid infamy making gore-splattered horror movies (or "terror movies" as he preferred to call them)... Die Screaming, Marianne: Marianne “The Hips” MacDonald (Straw Dogs' Susan George) lives life on the run, from go-go dancing in Portugal to shacking up and intending to marry Sebastian (Deep End's Christopher Sandford) after he picks her up hitchhiking and spirits her away to the relative safety of London. In spite of a two-week courtship, Marianne is suddenly having misgivings about marrying Sebastian and negotiates a clerical error that finds Sebastian’s best man Eli (...


The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker by Eric Cotenas (3rd July 2024)

"Celebrated as the 'Godfather of British Horror', Pete Walker is one of the most controversial exploitation filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Graduating from saucy sex comedies and gangland dramas, Walker finally found tabloid infamy making gore-splattered horror movies (or "terror movies" as he preferred to call them)... Die Screaming, Marianne: Marianne “The Hips” MacDonald (Straw Dogs' Susan George) lives life on the run, from go-go dancing in Portugal to shacking up and intending to marry Sebastian (Deep End's Christopher Sandford) after he picks her up hitchhiking and spirits her away to the relative safety of London. In spite of a two-week courtship, Marianne is suddenly having misgivings about marrying Sebastian and negotiates a clerical error that finds Sebastian’s best man Eli (...


The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker by Eric Cotenas (3rd July 2024)

"Celebrated as the 'Godfather of British Horror', Pete Walker is one of the most controversial exploitation filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Graduating from saucy sex comedies and gangland dramas, Walker finally found tabloid infamy making gore-splattered horror movies (or "terror movies" as he preferred to call them)... Die Screaming, Marianne: Marianne “The Hips” MacDonald (Straw Dogs' Susan George) lives life on the run, from go-go dancing in Portugal to shacking up and intending to marry Sebastian (Deep End's Christopher Sandford) after he picks her up hitchhiking and spirits her away to the relative safety of London. In spite of a two-week courtship, Marianne is suddenly having misgivings about marrying Sebastian and negotiates a clerical error that finds Sebastian’s best man Eli (...


The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker by Eric Cotenas (3rd July 2024)

"Celebrated as the 'Godfather of British Horror', Pete Walker is one of the most controversial exploitation filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Graduating from saucy sex comedies and gangland dramas, Walker finally found tabloid infamy making gore-splattered horror movies (or "terror movies" as he preferred to call them)... Die Screaming, Marianne: Marianne “The Hips” MacDonald (Straw Dogs' Susan George) lives life on the run, from go-go dancing in Portugal to shacking up and intending to marry Sebastian (Deep End's Christopher Sandford) after he picks her up hitchhiking and spirits her away to the relative safety of London. In spite of a two-week courtship, Marianne is suddenly having misgivings about marrying Sebastian and negotiates a clerical error that finds Sebastian’s best man Eli (...


The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker by Eric Cotenas (3rd July 2024)

"Celebrated as the 'Godfather of British Horror', Pete Walker is one of the most controversial exploitation filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Graduating from saucy sex comedies and gangland dramas, Walker finally found tabloid infamy making gore-splattered horror movies (or "terror movies" as he preferred to call them)... Die Screaming, Marianne: Marianne “The Hips” MacDonald (Straw Dogs' Susan George) lives life on the run, from go-go dancing in Portugal to shacking up and intending to marry Sebastian (Deep End's Christopher Sandford) after he picks her up hitchhiking and spirits her away to the relative safety of London. In spite of a two-week courtship, Marianne is suddenly having misgivings about marrying Sebastian and negotiates a clerical error that finds Sebastian’s best man Eli (...


The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker by Eric Cotenas (3rd July 2024)

"Celebrated as the 'Godfather of British Horror', Pete Walker is one of the most controversial exploitation filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Graduating from saucy sex comedies and gangland dramas, Walker finally found tabloid infamy making gore-splattered horror movies (or "terror movies" as he preferred to call them)... Die Screaming, Marianne: Marianne “The Hips” MacDonald (Straw Dogs' Susan George) lives life on the run, from go-go dancing in Portugal to shacking up and intending to marry Sebastian (Deep End's Christopher Sandford) after he picks her up hitchhiking and spirits her away to the relative safety of London. In spite of a two-week courtship, Marianne is suddenly having misgivings about marrying Sebastian and negotiates a clerical error that finds Sebastian’s best man Eli (...


The Flesh and Blood Show - The Horror Films of Pete Walker by Eric Cotenas (3rd July 2024)

"Celebrated as the 'Godfather of British Horror', Pete Walker is one of the most controversial exploitation filmmakers of the '60s and '70s. Graduating from saucy sex comedies and gangland dramas, Walker finally found tabloid infamy making gore-splattered horror movies (or "terror movies" as he preferred to call them)... Die Screaming, Marianne: Marianne “The Hips” MacDonald (Straw Dogs' Susan George) lives life on the run, from go-go dancing in Portugal to shacking up and intending to marry Sebastian (Deep End's Christopher Sandford) after he picks her up hitchhiking and spirits her away to the relative safety of London. In spite of a two-week courtship, Marianne is suddenly having misgivings about marrying Sebastian and negotiates a clerical error that finds Sebastian’s best man Eli (...


Floating Clouds by James-Masaki Ryan (1st July 2024)

"Floating Clouds" 「浮雲」 (1955) Following the end of WWII, Yukiko (played by Hideko Takamine) returns to Japan from Indochina, where she was working as a secretary for the colonizing Japanese government. She first goes to the home of Kengo (played by Masayuki Mori) who worked with her in Indochina. Though he was married at the time, the two had an affair during their time overseas, but upon returning to Japan, he was obligated to take care of his wife who had become ill. Yukiko’s prospects in the postwar country is limited, as is for Kengo who is also finding it difficult with a sickly wife to take care of and not having a steady job. Their lives move in separate directions, yet they are continuously drawn back to each other, looking to find the spark they had. But timing is not on their side... Famed writer and journalist Fumiko Hayashi started publishing the dramatic postwar story of "Ukigumo" in serialized form from November 1949 and concluding in April of 1951. Her fictional work on many ...


Amsterdamned by Eric Cotenas (1st July 2024)

When the gutted body of a hooker is discovered hanging from a bridge, the mayor is worried about the impact on tourism of a "psycho killer in Amsterdam's famed canals," especially once the shredded bodies of two fisherman turn up on the docks, a Salvation Army officer turns up in the canal garbage, and a bathing beauty is eviscerated in broad daylight. All Detective Eric Visser (Knockin' on Heaven's Door's Huub Stapel) and his partner Vermeer (Soldier of Orange's Serge-Henri Valcke) have to go on is a bag lady's claim that it was a "monster who came out of the water." A fragment of rubber, a depth gauge, and the wounds on the victims suggest to Visser and river police colleague John (Wim Zomer) that the killer is a diver, and the twenty-five miles of canal crisscrossing the city provide him ideal cover and access to victims. With more than eight-thousand registered div...


Man of Violence/The Big Switch by Eric Cotenas (26th June 2024)

Man of Violence: When gangster Hunt (Snake Dancer's Kenneth Hendel) smashes up one of a handful of dive clubs on London's West End recently bought up by "respectable" businessman Sam Bryant (The Wicked Lady's Derek Francis), he suspects his partner Charles Grayson (Die! Die! My Darling!'s Maurice Kaufmann) from his past days of dodgier dealings of being behind it. Rather than expose his past to the public, Bryant has his right-hand man Nixon (Come Play with Me's Derek Aylward) hire the titular "man of violence" Moon (...


A Queen's Ransom by Eric Cotenas (24th June 2024)

In the aftermath of the Indo-Chinese, the Royal Hong Kong Police have had their resources stretched with the influx of refugees from various Asian territories. With Queen Elizabeth II set to make a landmark visit to Hong Kong, British security forces alerts the police chief (The Frogmen's Ko Chun-Hsiung) of an IRA plot to assassinate the Queen during her visit with the help of the Chinese Red Army. The British security officer identifies the chief operatives – Irishman George Morgan (On Her Majesty's Secret Service's George Lazenby), demolition expert Miyamoto (The Assassin's Chang Pei-Shan), Thai boxer Ram (Double Impact's Bolo Yeung Sze), Chinese sharp...


Man of Violence/The Big Switch by Eric Cotenas (24th June 2024)

Man of Violence: When gangster Hunt (Snake Dancer's Kenneth Hendel) smashes up one of a handful of dive clubs on London's West End recently bought up by "respectable" businessman Sam Bryant (The Wicked Lady's Derek Francis), he suspects his partner Charles Grayson (Die! Die! My Darling!'s Maurice Kaufmann) from his past days of dodgier dealings of being behind it. Rather than expose his past to the public, Bryant has his right-hand man Nixon (Come Play with Me's Derek Aylward) hire the titular "man of violence" Moon (...


The Valiant Ones by Eric Cotenas (21st June 2024)

For three centuries, Japanese ronin have teamed up with local bandits to ravage the Chinese coasts of Fujian and Zejiang, smuggling, robbing, and raping wherever they go. Entire armies sent by the Chinese government to annihilate the threat have never returned while efforts on the part of the King Court to the Japanese emperor have also failed due to the collusion of the Japanese consulate and Chinese officials with the pirates. Chinese Emperor Jiajing (The Beauty of Beauties' Chao Lei) complacently rules over a court rife with corruption but his treasury is suffering from the plundering of the pirates, so he appoints General Zhu Wan (filmmaker Tu Kuang-Chi) as Governor of Zejiang and tasks him with eliminating the pirates known to be lead by Hakatatsu (Eastern Condors' Sammo Hung in one of his first assignments as action director), Xu Dong (...


TECHNICAL REVIEWS
Single White Female (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (4th July 2024)

Bridget Fonda (Jackie Brown, A Simple Plan) and Jennifer Jason Leigh (The Hitcher, The Hateful Eight) star in Barbet Schroeder’s (Reversal of Fortune, Mad Men) erotic psychological thriller Single White Female. When Allie (Fonda) breaks off her engagement, she is delighted to find a supportive new roommate in Hedy (Leigh). But when Hedy's behaviour becomes increasingly obsessive, and a series of violent events begin to occur, Allie fears that Hedy is not all she claims to be. Beautifully photographed by Luciano Tovoli (The Passenger, Suspiria), and with a powerful score by Howard Shore (The Silence of the Lambs, Videodrome), Single White Female is one of the most stylish suspense thrillers of the nineties....


Bruiser AKA Devil's Mask (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (4th July 2024)

Horror legend George A Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead) directs Jason Flemyng (Snatch, Pennyworth), Peter Stormare (Fargo), and Leslie Hope (24) in the devastating and deranged Bruiser. Unhappy with both his homelife and his career, Henry (Flemyng) is plagued by violent fantasies. When he wakes up to find his face replaced by a featureless mask, he sets about exacting violent punishment on those who have wronged him. Featuring music by celebrated composer Donald Rubinstein (Martin, Knightriders), and including an appearance by legendary punk band the Misfits, Bruiser was hailed by critics and fans alike as a triumphant return to independent filmmaking for Romero....


Malcolm X (Blu-ray 4K) by Rick Curzon (28th June 2024)

Spike Lee’s double Oscar nominated biographical epic, Malcolm X, arrives in the UK for the first time in stunning 4K. The 4K Ultra HD special collector’s edition, packaged with a premium O-ring, will contain an exclusive, limited-edition poster and four art cards, and includes more than 20 minutes of deleted scenes introduced by Spike Lee, and the film’s original trailer. Academy Award winner Denzel Washington stars in a career-best performance as Malcolm X, one of the most charismatic and divisive political voices in American history. From poverty to prominence, from hustler to humanist, Malcolm X and his ideologies touched the lives of millions and continue to inspire and enlighten. The complex life of this endlessly fascinating civil rights leader is traced in magnificent detail, held together by the vision of director Spike Lee, who masterfully combines historical and contemporary perspectives to create one of the most ambitious, expansive, and acclaimed biographical dramas of all time. ★★★★★ “A masterpiece” Next Best Picture ★★★★ “One of the great screen biographies … this is an extraordinary life, and Spike Lee has told it in an extraordinary film” Roger Ebert...


Patrick (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (30th May 2024)

From director Richard Franklin (Roadgames) comes Patrick, a terrifying fusion of science fiction and Hitchcockian thriller, starring Susan Penhaligon (House of Mortal Sin), Robert Helpmann (The Red Shoes), and Robert Thompson (Thirst). Murderer Patrick (Thompson) is kept in a comatose state between life and death, under the watchful eye of the eccentric Dr Roget (Helpmann). When he is assigned a caring new nurse, Kathy (Penhaligon), he becomes possessive, and uses telekinetic powers to torment anyone who comes between them. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane (Snapshot), written by Everett De Roche (Harlequin) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Patrick’s unprecedented international success made it a landmark of the Australian New Wave....


Patrick (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (30th May 2024)

From director Richard Franklin (Roadgames) comes Patrick, a terrifying fusion of science fiction and Hitchcockian thriller, starring Susan Penhaligon (House of Mortal Sin), Robert Helpmann (The Red Shoes), and Robert Thompson (Thirst). Murderer Patrick (Thompson) is kept in a comatose state between life and death, under the watchful eye of the eccentric Dr Roget (Helpmann). When he is assigned a caring new nurse, Kathy (Penhaligon), he becomes possessive, and uses telekinetic powers to torment anyone who comes between them. Produced by Antony I Ginnane (Snapshot), written by Everett De Roche (Harlequin) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Patrick’s unprecedented international success made it a landmark of the Australian New Wave....


Snapshot AKA One More Minute AKA The Day After Halloween AKA The Night After Halloween (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (28th May 2024)

Chantal Contouri (Thirst), Robert Bruning (Ned Kelly) and Sigrid Thornton (Prisoner: Cell Block H) star in Snapshot, a tense Australian thriller that marked the feature debut of director Simon Wincer (Harlequin, Free Willy). When naïve hairdresser Angela (Thornton) is persuaded by her model friend Madeline (Contouri) to try glamour modelling, she dreams of escaping her humdrum life and the clutches of her over-protective mother. Instead, she is thrust into a decadent world of jealousy, exploitation ... and death. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane (Patrick), co-written by Everett De Roche (Roadgames) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Snapshot – released internationally under the titles One More Minute and The Day After Halloween – is a classic of Ozploitation cinema....


Snapshot AKA One More Minute AKA The Day After Halloween AKA The Night After Halloween (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (28th May 2024)

Chantal Contouri (Thirst), Robert Bruning (Ned Kelly) and Sigrid Thornton (Prisoner: Cell Block H) star in Snapshot, a tense Australian thriller that marked the feature debut of director Simon Wincer (Harlequin, Free Willy). When naïve hairdresser Angela (Thornton) is persuaded by her model friend Madeline (Contouri) to try glamour modelling, she dreams of escaping her humdrum life and the clutches of her over-protective mother. Instead, she is thrust into a decadent world of jealousy, exploitation ... and death. Produced by Antony I. Ginnane (Patrick), co-written by Everett De Roche (Roadgames) and scored by Brian May (Mad Max), Snapshot – released internationally under the titles One More Minute and The Day After Halloween – is a classic of Ozploitation cinema....


Whistler (The) (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Power of the Whistler (The) (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Voice of the Whistler (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Mysterious Intruder (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Secret of the Whistler (The) (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Thirteenth Hour (The) (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Return of the Whistler (The) (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Mark of the Whistler (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th May 2024)

Our sixth journey into Columbia Pictures’ film noir output walks a different path, taking a detour into the mysterious world of the Whistler, as we present all eight films in the popular series. Adapted from a hit radio series, each episode has the Whistler emerge from the shadows to introduce a nightmarish, twisting tale in his own sardonic manner, with the first seven films starring Richard Dix (It Happened in Hollywood). In The Whistler, a guilt-stricken man hires a contract killer to end his life… but finds he cannot pull out of the deal. The Mark of the Whistler sees a homeless man claim the money in an abandoned bank account, only to find the rightful owners on his tail. In The Power of the Whistler, an amnesiac must reconstruct his dark past using only the items in his pockets. Voice of the Whistler finds a poor nurse marry her wealthy, terminally ill patient, only for him to defy the odds and recover. In Mysterious Intruder, a private eye becomes embroiled in a murderous race to track down a missing girl and a lost fortune. The Secret of the Whistler sees a young bride suspect that her new husband may have murdered his first wife. In Dix’s final film, The Thirteenth Hour, the owner of a trucking company is framed for a ...


Footprints AKA Le orme AKA Footprints on the Moon AKA Primal Impulse (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (16th April 2024)

FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON 4K-RESTORED BLU-RAY ALL REGION COLLECTORS LTD EDITION Director Luigi Bazzoni’s unique vision of ‘FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON‘ is brought to life by the striking cinematography of Vittorio Storaro (three-time Oscar winner including ‘Apocalypse Now’). Florinda Bolkan (‘Flavia The Heretic‘) delivers a masterful, nuanced performance bringing captivating depth to the character of Alice – a young translator grappling with memory loss. Tormented by nightmare visions of a sinister scientist (Klaus Kinski) deliberately abandoning astronauts to die on the Moon, Alice is struggling to recall three missing days. A mysterious postcard beckons her to the enigmatic island of Garma. Once there, an unsettling revelation unfolds: the inhabitants recognise her presence during the unaccounted-for days, not as Alice, but as another person named Nicole. Confronting uncomfortable truths, Alice embarks on a quest to unravel the mystery shrouding her identity and the events of those missing days – a quest which culminates in murder and an extraordinarily surreal finale. Touching on mental health issues as well as on climate change, it resonates with today’s challenges while immersing viewers in an emotionally charged experience th...


Panther Women (The) AKA Las mujeres panteras (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (16th April 2024)

Gothic horror and lucha libre collide in The Panther Women (Las mujeres panteras), which showcases a host of Mexico’s top female stars, including Elizabeth Campbell, Ariadne Welter, and Yolanda Montes aka Tongolele. The Panther Women are a witch cult who resurrect their leader by sacrificing the descendants of the family which murdered him. As the cult seeks to kill the youngest descendent, they are taken on by fearless luchadoras Loreta Venus (Welter) and the Golden Rubí (Campbell). Directed by René Cardona (Night of the Bloody Apes), scripted by Alfredo Salazar (The Bat Woman), and produced by Guillermo Calderón (Santo vs. the Riders of Terror), The Panther Women is an action-packed and influential classic of the cine de luchadoras....


Panther Women (The) AKA Las mujeres panteras (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (16th April 2024)

Gothic horror and lucha libre collide in The Panther Women (Las mujeres panteras), which showcases a host of Mexico’s top female stars, including Elizabeth Campbell, Ariadne Welter, and Yolanda Montes aka Tongolele. The Panther Women are a witch cult who resurrect their leader by sacrificing the descendants of the family which murdered him. As the cult seeks to kill the youngest descendent, they are taken on by fearless luchadoras Loreta Venus (Welter) and the Golden Rubí (Campbell). Directed by René Cardona (Night of the Bloody Apes), scripted by Alfredo Salazar (The Bat Woman), and produced by Guillermo Calderón (Santo vs. the Riders of Terror), The Panther Women is an action-packed and influential classic of the cine de luchadoras....


Demoniacs AKA Les Démoniaques AKA Curse of the Living Dead (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (11th April 2024)

The Demoniacs (Les Démoniaques) sees director Jean Rollin eschew his regular subject of vampirism for a brutal nautical tale of ritual horror and supernatural vengeance. A gang of ruthless pirates, known as ‘the wreckers’, rape two survivors of a shipwreck. The women, now mute, are guided by a mysterious clown to a ruined castle, where they receive magical powers with which to exact their revenge on the gang. Starring Joëlle Coeur (Schoolgirl Hitchhikers), John Rico (Blood Orgy of the She-Devils), Willy Braque (Lips of Blood), and Mireille Dargent (The Iron Rose), The Demoniacs is one of its director’s most shocking and violent tales of the fantastique....


Demoniacs AKA Les Démoniaques AKA Curse of the Living Dead (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (11th April 2024)

The Demoniacs (Les Démoniaques) sees director Jean Rollin eschew his regular subject of vampirism for a brutal nautical tale of ritual horror and supernatural vengeance. A gang of ruthless pirates, known as ‘the wreckers’, rape two survivors of a shipwreck. The women, now mute, are guided by a mysterious clown to a ruined castle, where they receive magical powers with which to exact their revenge on the gang. Starring Joëlle Coeur (Schoolgirl Hitchhikers), John Rico (Blood Orgy of the She-Devils), Willy Braque (Lips of Blood), and Mireille Dargent (The Iron Rose), The Demoniacs is one of its director’s most shocking and violent tales of the fantastique....


Santo vs. the Terror Riders AKA Santo contra los jinetes del terror AKA Santo vs. the Riders of Terr by Rick Curzon (24th March 2024)

El Santo, the Silver-Masked Man, rides into the Wild West in Santo vs. the Riders of Terror (Santo contra los jinetes del terror), a unique blend of gunplay and lucha libre action. When a group of lepers escape from their asylum, they fall under the influence of a band of outlaws who are terrorising a small western town. The desperate sheriff calls for El Santo to defeat the bandits, defend the townsfolk, and help the exploited lepers. Produced by Guillermo Calderón (The Bat Woman) and directed by René Cardona (The Panther Women), Santo vs. the Riders of Terror sees the cine de luchadores meet the ‘chili western’ and adds dashes of horror and romance along the way. This striking 4K restoration is also coupled with Lepers and Sex (Los leprosos y el sexo), the recently rediscovered ‘sexy’ reworking of Santo vs. the Riders of Terror, which was created by the producers for the export market – all without the knowledge of the family friendly El Santo!...


Santo vs. the Terror Riders AKA Santo contra los jinetes del terror AKA Santo vs. the Riders of Terr by Rick Curzon (24th March 2024)

El Santo, the Silver-Masked Man, rides into the Wild West in Santo vs. the Riders of Terror (Santo contra los jinetes del terror), a unique blend of gunplay and lucha libre action. When a group of lepers escape from their asylum, they fall under the influence of a band of outlaws who are terrorising a small western town. The desperate sheriff calls for El Santo to defeat the bandits, defend the townsfolk, and help the exploited lepers. Produced by Guillermo Calderón (The Bat Woman) and directed by René Cardona (The Panther Women), Santo vs. the Riders of Terror sees the cine de luchadores meet the ‘chili western’ and adds dashes of horror and romance along the way. This striking 4K restoration is also coupled with Lepers and Sex (Los leprosos y el sexo), the recently rediscovered ‘sexy’ reworking of Santo vs. the Riders of Terror, which was created by the producers for the export market – all without the knowledge of the family friendly El Santo!...


Bat Woman (The) AKA La mujer murcielago (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (24th March 2024)

Wrestlers, mad doctors, and human-fish hybrids abound in The Bat Woman (La mujer murciélago), a colourful showcase for the talents of Italian Mexican sex symbol Maura Monti. When Acapulco’s wrestlers start being murdered and their pineal glands mysteriously extracted, the wealthy luchadora Gloria (Monti) adopts her crime-fighting persona of the Bat Woman. Donning her disguise of shiny blue mask, cape, and micro-bikini, she teams up with agent Mario (Héctor Godoy) to foil the evil Dr Williams (Roberto Cañedo) in his dastardly plan to create an army of amphibious ‘fish-men’. Produced by Guillermo Calderón (Santo vs. the Riders of Terror) and directed by René Cardona (The Panther Women), The Bat Woman is an eye-popping, high-camp blend of lucha libre and superhero action....


Bat Woman (The) AKA La mujer murcielago (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (24th March 2024)

Wrestlers, mad doctors, and human-fish hybrids abound in The Bat Woman (La mujer murciélago), a colourful showcase for the talents of Italian Mexican sex symbol Maura Monti. When Acapulco’s wrestlers start being murdered and their pineal glands mysteriously extracted, the wealthy luchadora Gloria (Monti) adopts her crime-fighting persona of the Bat Woman. Donning her disguise of shiny blue mask, cape, and micro-bikini, she teams up with agent Mario (Héctor Godoy) to foil the evil Dr Williams (Roberto Cañedo) in his dastardly plan to create an army of amphibious ‘fish-men’. Produced by Guillermo Calderón (Santo vs. the Riders of Terror) and directed by René Cardona (The Panther Women), The Bat Woman is an eye-popping, high-camp blend of lucha libre and superhero action....


Jinnah AKA Mohammed Ali Jinnah (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (10th January 2024)

Christopher Lee (I, Monster) stars in Jinnah, an epic drama about the life of Pakistan’s founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, directed by Jamil Dehlavi (Born of Fire, Immaculate Conception). Exploring Jinnah’s journey, from political isolation in the Indian National Congress to his leadership of the Muslim League, and from his controversial fight for a Muslim homeland to the Partition of India, this ravishing and enthralling film examines the founding of Pakistan, as well as the bloody aftermath. Co-starring Indian screen icon Shashi Kapoor (Shakespeare Wallah), and with support from James Fox (Performance), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Sam Dastor (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers), and Maria Aitken (A Fish Called Wanda), Jinnah features a commanding performance from Lee – one which he himself considered to be the best of his career....


Jinnah AKA Mohammed Ali Jinnah (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (10th January 2024)

Christopher Lee (I, Monster) stars in Jinnah, an epic drama about the life of Pakistan’s founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, directed by Jamil Dehlavi (Born of Fire, Immaculate Conception). Exploring Jinnah’s journey, from political isolation in the Indian National Congress to his leadership of the Muslim League, and from his controversial fight for a Muslim homeland to the Partition of India, this ravishing and enthralling film examines the founding of Pakistan, as well as the bloody aftermath. Co-starring Indian screen icon Shashi Kapoor (Shakespeare Wallah), and with support from James Fox (Performance), Indira Varma (Game of Thrones), Sam Dastor (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers), and Maria Aitken (A Fish Called Wanda), Jinnah features a commanding performance from Lee – one which he himself considered to be the best of his career....


Impossible Object AKA L'impossible objet AKA Story of a Love Story (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (2nd January 2024)

Directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), Impossible Object (also released as Story of a Love Story) is a surreal drama starring Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), Michel Auclair (The Day of the Jackal), Dominique Sanda (The Conformist), and Lea Massari (L’avventura). Harry (Bates), a British author living in France with his wife and family, begins an affair with Natalie (Sanda), who herself is unhappily married to Georges (Auclair). However, Harry is unable to untangle the facts of his life from the fictions which he creates, and the line between fantasy and reality become blurred. Adapted by Nicholas Mosley (Accident) from his own Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, photographed by Claude Renoir (Barbarella), and scored by Michel Legrand (Eve), Impossible Object is a long-overlooked classic of seventies European cinema....


Impossible Object AKA L'impossible objet AKA Story of a Love Story (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (2nd January 2024)

Directed by John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Candidate), Impossible Object (also released as Story of a Love Story) is a surreal drama starring Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), Michel Auclair (The Day of the Jackal), Dominique Sanda (The Conformist), and Lea Massari (L’avventura). Harry (Bates), a British author living in France with his wife and family, begins an affair with Natalie (Sanda), who herself is unhappily married to Georges (Auclair). However, Harry is unable to untangle the facts of his life from the fictions which he creates, and the line between fantasy and reality become blurred. Adapted by Nicholas Mosley (Accident) from his own Booker Prize-shortlisted novel, photographed by Claude Renoir (Barbarella), and scored by Michel Legrand (Eve), Impossible Object is a long-overlooked classic of seventies European cinema....


Man Who Had Power Over Women (The) (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (2nd January 2024)

The dark side of Swinging London is explored in The Man Who Had Power Over Women, starring Rod Taylor (Zabriskie Point), Carol White (Cathy Come Home), James Booth (90° in the Shade) and Keith Barron (The Land That Time Forgot). Womanising talent agent Peter Reaney (Taylor) splits from his long-suffering wife, moves in with his best friend Val (Booth), and promptly starts an affair with Val's wife Jody (White). Added to the complexities of his personal life is his client, wayward popstar Barry Black (Clive Francis), for whom he is asked to cover up a dark secret ... Directed by John Krish (Unearthly Stranger), this release includes extensive interview material with Krish, as well as newly restored versions of two of Krish’s acclaimed short films – Break-In (1956) and the powerful anti-apartheid drama-documentary Let My People Go (1961)....


Desire AKA The Pearl Necklace (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (28th December 2023)

Marlene Dietrich (The Scarlet Empress) and Gary Cooper (Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife) star in Desire, a romantic crime caper directed by Frank Borzage (A Farewell to Arms). When jewel thief Madeleine (Dietrich) leaves Paris with a string of pearls, she conspires to smuggle them across the Spanish border with the unwitting assistance of American mechanic Tom (Cooper). But retrieving the jewels turns out to be harder than she thinks, and she finds herself falling for Tom. Reuniting the leads of Josef von Sternberg’s smash hit Morocco, and co-produced by the great Ernst Lubitsch, Desire was acclaimed by author Graham Greene as the best of Dietrich’s American films....


Frightened Woman (The) AKA Femina ridens AKA The Laughing Woman (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th December 2023)

The director of THE FRIGHTENED WOMAN, Piero Schivazappa, praised the version released by Shameless - saying: “... this is the version which you should watch” - when Shameless initially reconstructed and released this version, revealing the film as he’d originally intended. This is the version which is now presented on Blu-ray - pristinely restored from a 4K scan - finally doing justice to the exuberant 60s pop-art images and set design. This definitive edition is further enhanced by a unique new interview with the iconic Dagmar Lassander where she relates the groundbreaking and provocative nature of the film. The captivating Dagmar Lassander shines as Maria, a young journalist working for Dr. Sayer (Philippe Leroy), the head of a philanthropic foundation with peculiar views on humanity's issues. When Maria is drugged and imprisoned by Dr. Sayer, she is subjected to increasingly sadistic acts by her captor, but she endures the horrors of her ordeal and unravels her boss's twisted beliefs and vulnerabilities. Using her intelligence and cunning, she shifts the power balance between them in a scintillatingly stylish game of cat and mouse. This hypnotic exploration of passion and power blurs boundaries delving into gender dyn...


Django (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th December 2023)

Three seminal Cult Spaghetti Westerns in one definitive Collector’s Boxset + Artcards, all restored & first time on UK Blu-ray. DJANGO One of the greatest and most influential Spaghetti Westerns ever, Sergio Corbucci’s iconic masterpiece is revered by film critics and fans - none more so than Quentin Tarantino who declares the deep influence that Corbucci had on all his films. Banned for decades, Corbucci’s ground-breaking ultra-violent western stars the legendary Franco Nero as Django, the mysterious lone gunslinger who - dragging a coffin behind him - arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town where he’ll face two gangs of sadistic evil killers. Presented complete and uncut, from new 4K-restored elements - pristinely faithful to the original film vision. KEOMA, THE VIOLENT BREED Acknowledged as the genre swansong, this late Western masterpiece is directed by Enzo G. Castellari whom Tarantino calls his maestro and regards as a cinematic icon. Screen-legend Franco Nero reprises his relentless deadly gunslinger persona, now as the eponymous Keoma who, returning to his hometown, finds that it is now ruled by a gang of sadistic killers. Aided by an old friend (Woody Strode), Keoma fights the ruthless bunch to the bitter, la...


Bullet for the General (A) AKA Quien Sabe? AKA El Chucho quien sabe? (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th December 2023)

Three seminal Cult Spaghetti Westerns in one definitive Collector’s Boxset + Artcards, all restored & first time on UK Blu-ray. DJANGO One of the greatest and most influential Spaghetti Westerns ever, Sergio Corbucci’s iconic masterpiece is revered by film critics and fans - none more so than Quentin Tarantino who declares the deep influence that Corbucci had on all his films. Banned for decades, Corbucci’s ground-breaking ultra-violent western stars the legendary Franco Nero as Django, the mysterious lone gunslinger who - dragging a coffin behind him - arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town where he’ll face two gangs of sadistic evil killers. Presented complete and uncut, from new 4K-restored elements - pristinely faithful to the original film vision. KEOMA, THE VIOLENT BREED Acknowledged as the genre swansong, this late Western masterpiece is directed by Enzo G. Castellari whom Tarantino calls his maestro and regards as a cinematic icon. Screen-legend Franco Nero reprises his relentless deadly gunslinger persona, now as the eponymous Keoma who, returning to his hometown, finds that it is now ruled by a gang of sadistic killers. Aided by an old friend (Woody Strode), Keoma fights the ruthless bunch to the bitter, la...


Keoma AKA Django Rides Again AKA Desperado (Blu-ray) by Rick Curzon (12th December 2023)

Three seminal Cult Spaghetti Westerns in one definitive Collector’s Boxset + Artcards, all restored & first time on UK Blu-ray. DJANGO One of the greatest and most influential Spaghetti Westerns ever, Sergio Corbucci’s iconic masterpiece is revered by film critics and fans - none more so than Quentin Tarantino who declares the deep influence that Corbucci had on all his films. Banned for decades, Corbucci’s ground-breaking ultra-violent western stars the legendary Franco Nero as Django, the mysterious lone gunslinger who - dragging a coffin behind him - arrives in a bleak, mud-drenched town where he’ll face two gangs of sadistic evil killers. Presented complete and uncut, from new 4K-restored elements - pristinely faithful to the original film vision. KEOMA, THE VIOLENT BREED Acknowledged as the genre swansong, this late Western masterpiece is directed by Enzo G. Castellari whom Tarantino calls his maestro and regards as a cinematic icon. Screen-legend Franco Nero reprises his relentless deadly gunslinger persona, now as the eponymous Keoma who, returning to his hometown, finds that it is now ruled by a gang of sadistic killers. Aided by an old friend (Woody Strode), Keoma fights the ruthless bunch to the bitter, la...


Doctors (The): Sylvester McCoy Years (The): Behind the Scenes by Rick Curzon (16th November 2023)

This is the definitive set of interviews with the production team who brought Doctor Who to life and sent you “behind the sofa”! These six documentaries are the best in-depth interviews with Ben Aaronovitch (Writer), Ian Briggs (Writer), Stephen Wyatt (Writer), Andrew Morgan (Director), Mike Tucker (Visual Effects Supervisor) and Keff McCulloch (Composer) ever undertaken! Presented by Robert Dick, “Ace” Sophie Aldred and “voice of the Daleks” Nicholas Briggs. For all Doctor Who fans, this special collector’s edition is over 5 hours of pure nostalgia, which will give you a whole new insight into the making of your favourite science fiction series!...


 


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