Blu-ray

Southern Comfort

I first came to this film during my university days, in the wake of John Boorman’s Deliverance – a film I love to this day. I knew Walter Hill from… Read More
The Cabin in the Woods

I still have problems with this film. I really don’t think it takes its premise far enough to be worthy of the praise it has garnered. It might sound curmudgeonly,… Read More
Happy Together

I finally caught up with Wong Kar Wai’s much-lauded 1997 film, starring Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung Chiu Wai as tempestuous lovers living in Buenos Aires. To find out what… Read More
Sleeper

Certainly one of Woody Allen’s funniest films, Sleeper sees the comedian play a jazz musician/health food store owner, who reawakens into a bizarre totalitarian state after a routine operation sees… Read More
Zombie Flesh Eaters

A notorious film for any number of reasons, from its numerous titles, spectacularly gruesome effects, ridiculous moments of action or inclusion on the Video Nasties list, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie Flesh… Read More
The Raid

I’ve seen Gareth Evans’ blistering Indonesian action movie a few times before, but on discovering that last night’s dinner guests were in the mood for a movie and unaware of… Read More
Identification of a Woman

While I wouldn’t class myself as much of a fan of Michelangelo Antonioni, I have enjoyed all of his films that I have seen. However, until today that consists solely… Read More
Yi Yi

One of the founding members of the New Taiwanese Cinema movement that sprung up on the island in the early 1980s, Edward Yang was responsible for some of the best… Read More
Oedipus Rex

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s retelling of Sophocles’ classical tragedy is a typically vivid and visually arresting affair, featuring bold performances from Franco Citti and Silvana Mangano, outrageous costumes and stunning photography.… Read More
REVIEW: Oedipus Rex

Pier Paolo Pasolini is a fascinating, if challenging filmmaker, who I have only fairly recently begun to fully appreciate. As is probably the case with numerous other critics of my… Read More
The Grey

Liam Neeson gives one his best performances in recent years as a toughened, grizzled hunter working in Alaska as a security guard for a team of roughnecks. When their plane… Read More
Lifeboat

In the midst of World War II, Alfred Hitchcock directed this high-concept chamber piece for 20th Century Fox, based on a specially-commissioned treatment from John Steinbeck. After their cruise ship… Read More
Universal Soldier: Regeneration

After enjoying the hell out of the fourth installment in this resurrected franchise, Day of Reckoning, I was advised to check out the previous chapter. Also directed by John Hyams,… Read More
Three Colours: Red

I was relieved to discover that Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy ends as strongly as it begins, with a deceptively surreal story of a catwalk model who befriends an aging,… Read More
Prometheus

After months of hope and anticipation were replaced by aching disappointment when Prometheus first opened, I though it only fair to give the film a re-watch on Blu-ray. Sadly it… Read More
The Blue Angel

Josef von Sternberg’s cautionary tale is best-remembered for Marlene Dietrich’s risque performance as a small-town showgirl, but in truth the film is really about Emil Jannings’ bewitched school professor. When… Read More
Three Colours: White

A surprising change of pace after the profound intoxicating power of Blue, this second chapter in Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is a lighter, goofier affair. Karol (Zbigniew… Read More