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Anton van Beek  |  Dec 19, 2013  |  0 comments

Arrow's Blu-ray release of Brian de Palma's 1978 horror The Fury (which explores similar themes to Carrie) is one of the most impressive discs the label has released to date. Restored from the original camera negative under the watchful eye of the supremely talented James White, the AVC 1.85:1 1080p picture is, in a word, revelatory, with authentic colours and copious fine details. The DTS-HD 4.0 and LPCM dual-mono soundtracks also hold up surprisingly well given the source material. Interviews and a 'lossless' isolated score are among the disc's excellent array of extras.

Anton van Beek  |  Jul 12, 2012  |  0 comments

Having staked a claim as Hollywood’s modern master of crime cinema with 2007’s Zodiac, David Fincher returns to the genre for this English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s bestseller.

Anton van Beek  |  Oct 26, 2014  |  0 comments

Set in the fictional European country of Zubrowska, Wes Anderson's latest quirky comedy relates the tale of how a lobby boy called Zero would one day end up as the multimillionaire owner of the lavish hotel of the title.

Anton van Beek  |  Aug 07, 2013  |  0 comments

No matter how many times you've sat through it on TV on Boxing Day afternoons, The Great Escape's combination of an unbeatable ensemble cast, inspirational true-story origin and that motorbike stunt ensure its place as one of the greatest WWII adventures ever filmed. Don't argue.

Anton van Beek  |  Nov 27, 2013  |  0 comments

Baz Luhrmann was asking for trouble when he decided to throw his hat in the ring as the latest filmmaker to try and adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald's literary, but rather short, classic for the big screen. Could a director best known for showmanship and emotions writ large really get to grips with the poetry and nuances of Fitzgerald's Jazz Age cautionary tale?

Anton van Beek  |  Jul 22, 2017  |  0 comments

More than 2,300 years old and running some 13,000 miles in length at its prime, The Great Wall of China was – as everyone knows – built to protect the country from invasions by nomadic tribes and bloodthirsty alien space lizards. Wait… What?

Anton van Beek  |  May 07, 2012  |  0 comments

The Green Hornet is undoubtedly a disappointment for fans of both the masked vigilante himself and of inventive filmmaker Michel ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ Gondry. With Gondry at the helm and a slimmed down Seth Rogen playing the Hornet, you might at least have hoped for something truly unusual. But instead what we have is a pretty standard mix of comic book action and tired comedy antics, with virtually none of the visual flair or creativity we’d been hoping for.

Anton van Beek  |  Jul 20, 2012  |  0 comments

The past few years have seen Liam Neeson transformed into Hollywood’s most unexpected action hero. While The Grey is more thoughtful and meditative than, say Taken, it still gives the actor plenty of tough-guy dialogue to work with, playing one of seven survivors of a plane crash trying to avoid being eaten by a pack of wolves in the Alaskan wilderness. Even if it isn’t quite the wolf-punching action flick the trailer promised, this is still a superior thriller with yet another star turn from its leading man.

Anton van Beek  |  Feb 02, 2015  |  0 comments

You're Next writer Simon Barrett and director Adam Wingard serve up another slice of home invasion horror with this superb genre mash-up.

Anton van Beek  |  Sep 18, 2015  |  0 comments

Eight years ago black ops specialist Jim Terrier (Sean Penn) had to flee the Democratic Republic of the Congo after being involved in the assassination of the Minister of Mining. However, the past has finally caught up with Terrier and somebody from his old organisation appears to want him dead. Forced to go on the run across Europe, he tries to discover who is out to get him while unexpectedly reconnecting with the lover (Jasmine Trinca) he was forced to abandon all those years ago. 

Anton van Beek  |  Jan 19, 2018  |  0 comments

Loosely based on Sarah Waters' 2002 Victorian crime novel Fingersmith (previously adapted for TV by the BBC in 2005), The Handmaiden relocates the story to the Japanese-ruled Korea of the 1930s and transforms it into an outrageously sexy yet curiously heartfelt thriller that is surely director Park Chan-wook's most accomplished work to date.

Team HCC  |  Jan 16, 2020  |  First Published: Jan 15, 2020  |  0 comments
Which 2019 disc release rocked the best audio mix? What should you spin when you want a choice 4K HDR image demo? In our annual movie awards, Team HCC celebrates the Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray releases of the year, from new blockbusters and TV series to restored classics and bumper boxsets...
Anton van Beek  |  Oct 25, 2016  |  0 comments

A caterer specialising in exotic foods starts targeting buxom beauties in a series of ritualistic killings. An innocent student is lured into a world of smutty photography in order to pay her college tuition. Biker babes run amok. Yankee tourists stumble upon a strange Southern town where they are brutally murdered. Welcome to the world of the late Herschell Gordon Lewis and his particular brand of exploitation cinema.

Anton van Beek  |  Nov 15, 2016  |  0 comments

The vacationing Carter family find themselves in a world of pain when car trouble leaves them stranded in the middle of the Nevada desert and targeted by barbaric cannibals. Cue the violence…

Anton van Beek  |  Dec 20, 2013  |  0 comments

The first part of Peter Jackson's three-film adaptation of The Hobbit returns to Blu-ray with 13 minutes of additional footage.

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