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Blu-ray Review: You Need To Hunt Down THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME

Joel McCrea and King Kong‘s Faye Wray play the leads in The Most Dangerous Game, a lean and mean 63 minute adventure produced by the legendary RKO Pictures in 1932. Directed by Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack, The Most Dangerous Game is [...]

October 10, 2022

100 Years Of NOSFERATU: F.W. Murnau’s Legendary Vampire Film Back On The Big Screen In 2022

F. W. Murnau’s silent masterpiece, Nosferatu turns 100 in 2022. Unofficially based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Murnau’s film sees Max Shreck’s vampire, Count Orlock as he becomes involved with estate agent, Thomas Hutter (Gustav von [...]

February 24, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Fred Dekker’s NIGHT OF THE CREEPS

Fred Dekker’s 1986 directorial debut, Night Of The Creeps is a gloriously bonkers horror-comedy which blends 1950s B-movie/sci-fi with 1980s frat-boy comedy. You’d think the whole thing would buckle under the silliness of it all, but Dekker [...]

September 5, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Peter Yates’ THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE

Director Peter Yates’ 1973 film, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle is the type of movie that perfectly sums up the 1970s on a cinematic level. Robert Mitchum plays the titular Eddie Coyle, an ageing low level crook caught-up in a Boston gun-running [...]

July 21, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Classic Silent Expressionist Horror THE HANDS OF ORLAC

The 1924 horror film The Hands of Orlac (Orlac’s Hände) reunited the star (Conrad Veidt) and director (Robert Wiene) of the 1920 masterpiece, The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari for yet another classic silent genre piece. Based on the novel [...]

June 24, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Billy Wilder’s WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

Released in 1957, Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution is an exceptional courtroom drama based on the play by Agatha Christie. Tyrone Power is the man accused of murder, Charles Laughton is the Barrister trying to get him off and Marlene [...]

May 6, 2021

German Expressionism Classic THE HANDS OF ORLAC Gets A New Release & A Fantastic New Trailer

The 1924 chiller The Hands of Orlac (Orlac’s Hände) reunited the star (Conrad Veidt) and director (Robert Wiene) of The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) for yet another silent German Expressionism horror. The film is [...]

March 31, 2021

Blu-ray Review: VIY Is A Stunning Soviet-Era Supernatural Fantasy

A Russian film from 1967, Viy is a supernatural horror set in the 19th Century which sees a young priest watching over the dead body of a supposed witch for three nights. It’s something which sounds much easier than it actually is, and the [...]

March 21, 2021

Blu-ray Review: Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, THE BLACK CAT & THE RAVEN Starring Bela Lugosi

After the success of Dracula in 1931, Bel Lugosi took the lead in a trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations for Universal Pictures. The Murders In The Rue Morgue, The Black Cat and The Raven feature Lugosi at his best and the latter two also feature [...]

August 26, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Joe Begos’ Hallucinogenic Horror BLISS

Bliss is a wonderfully crazy gonzo horror film from cult director Joe Begos. It’s a gritty piece of punk rock cinema, a hallucinogenic vampire film which isn’t afraid to go to weird places (very weird places). It’s dark, nasty and it packs one [...]

February 18, 2020

Trailer For Masters of Cinema’s New Blu-ray Release Of John Ford’s RIO GRANDE Starring John Wayne & Maureen O’Hara

The mighty Masters Of Cinema series is delivering the first ever Region 2 blu-ray release of John Ford‘s iconic western, Rio Grande. The release has a street date set for 6 April 2020. Starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara [...]

February 11, 2020

Blu-ray & DVD Review Round-Up: SUSPIRIA, SKINNER, THE DARK HALF, MIDSOMMAR, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS & THE QUEST

This time around: Dakota Johnson feels like dancing in the remake of Suspiria, Ted Raimi is Skinner, Stephen King and George A. Romero tackle The Dark Half, we learn that Godzilla is King of The Monsters, Florence Pugh gets caught-up in a [...]

October 21, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Do Not Forsake Classic Western HIGH NOON

With one of the greatest opening sequences in film history, High Noon kicks-off in an outstanding fashion and this 1952 film just gets better and better as it builds towards its climax. Director Fred Zinnemann delivers one of the great westerns of [...]

October 5, 2019

Blu-ray Review: NOVEMBER Is A Weird & Wonderful Estonian Fairy Tale

Rainer Sarnet’s November, is a film which feels as if it purposely goes out of its way to defy categorisation. The black and white film is a dark comedy, a fairy tale fantasy, a twisted family drama and a doomed romance about star-crossed [...]

May 7, 2019

Blu-ray Review: Martin Scorsese Joins Forces With The Band For Musical Masterpiece THE LAST WALTZ

Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz opens with the declaration that ‘This film should be played loud!’. And it really should. Scorsese’s film charting The Band’s farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland [...]

November 7, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Fred Dekker’s Horror Homage NIGHT OF THE CREEPS Is Gloriously Bonkers

October 20, 2018

Blu-ray Review: Billy Wilder’s WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Is A Classic Agatha Christie Courtroom Thriller

September 8, 2018

Blu-ray & DVD Review Round-Up: READY PLAYER ONE, ISLE OF DOGS, JOURNEYMAN, A QUIET PLACE & More

This time around: Steven Spielberg goes inside the Oasis in Ready Player One, Wes Anderson takes us to the Isle of Dogs, Paddy Considine is a Journeyman, Emily Blunt and John Krasinski go to A Quiet Place, Dwayne Johnson goes on a Rampage and Paul [...]

August 19, 2018

Ernest Borgnine Classic MARTY Gets The Eureka Treatment

Delbert Mann’s classic Marty is getting a release by one of Movies In Focus favourite boutique home entertainment labels, Eureka Entertainment. The Ernest Borgnine/Betsy Blair drama hits shelves on 9 April 2018 and it comes with a host of [...]

February 9, 2018

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: BABY DRIVER, CAGE DIVE, BELLE DU JOUR, CHANNEL ZERO & More

This time around we take a Journey To The Centre Of The Earth; discover a Resurrection Of Evil; Cage Dive gives a new meaning to going ‘down under’; Belle Du Jour is the order of the day; A Kind Of Murder is suspect in more ways than [...]

October 28, 2017

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