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Juliet of the Spirits (1965) | HD restoration – Fellini’s breathtakingly beautiful carnival ride
‘A major film examining Fellini’s fascination with dreams, women and sex’ Alexander Walker…
Death Line (1972) | Mind the doors! – The cult Brit horror makes it UK Blu-ray debut
When a philandering politician (Fawlty Towers‘ James Cossins) goes missing on the London…
Daddy’s Home 2 | Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell’s comic chemistry still raises a smile
More Daddies. More Problems. The 2015 comedy Daddy’s Home concocted good-natured fun out…
Horrors of Malformed Men (1969) | The Japanese cult cinema oddity on Blu-ray
Medical student Hirosuke Hitomi (Teruo Yoshida) escapes the asylum in which he has been…
Modern Life Is Rubbish | Josh Whitehouse and Freya Mavor star in a Hornby-esque rom-com
Copying its title from Blur’s second album, London-set romantic comedy drama Modern Life…
The Pyjama Girl Case (1977) | Blu-ray release – Ray Milland hunts a killer Down Under in the haunting Italian-made thriller
Throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Italian giallo movement transported viewers…
The Oddsockeaters | Winsome Czech animated film reveals the secret of the missing socks
Unravelling a secret. At last! The mystery of the missing socks is solved…
Hatred (Wolyn) | Harrowing Polish drama disinters World War Two atrocities in western Ukraine
About love in inhuman times. Little known in the West, the massacre of…
Heathers | Blu-ray/DVD release – The cult 1980s classic gets a 30th-anniversary 4K restoration
In an Ohio high school, the Heathers (Shannen Doherty, Kim Walker and Lisanne…
Witness for the Prosecution (1957) | Blu-ray release – Billy Wilder’s all-star courtroom drama is still the king among screen whodunits
When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Tyrone…
Final Score | Dave Bautista gives this football-stadium set action thriller his best shot
35,000 lives. 90 minutes. No extra time. Ever since Bruce Willis’s John McClane…
Lost in Paris | Burlesque beanpoles Abel & Gordon go to town with whimsical slapstick
A touch of Tati. Eccentric comic duo Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon, aka…
The Bachelors | JK Simmons and Josh Wiggins star in moving comedy-drama about loss and recovery
A journey from grief. Devastated by the early death of his wife, maths…
Waiting for You | Atmospheric mystery drama starring Fanny Ardant and Colin Morgan
Buried secrets. A grief-stricken young Englishman encounters an enigmatic older woman in the…
I Vitelloni (1953) | Blu-ray/DVD release – Federico Fellini’s masterpiece gets a striking HD restoration
‘Arguably Fellini’s masterpiece’ Leonard Maltin ‘One of the top dozen films of all…
Patti Cake$ | Danielle Macdonald’s hip-hop wannabe spits bars with the best
Big girl with a big mouth. Hip-hop wannabe Patti doesn’t look like a…
The Resistance | Drama-documentary chronicles a remarkable tale of World War Two survival
Hiding in plain sight. Among the many films about the Holocaust, there are…
Canaries | A feather in his cap: Peter Stray’s low-budget Welsh horror flick
Offbeat alien invasion horror. Small-town Wales is probably the last spot you…
Quackerz | Bizarre Russian-American-Chinese animated adventure fails to fly
They’ll quack you up. Feathers fly when a skein of mallards mistakenly invades…