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Rated: 5/5. Bottom line: A joy. Cast: Buster Keaton, Margaret Keahy, Joe Roberts, Wallace Beery. Directors: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline. Format: Special edition blu-ray. Certificate: U. Run time: 70 minutes. Languages:
Bottom line: With glorious visuals and stand-out performances, Revenge is as bloody as it is brilliant. Rating: 5/5. Format: Masters of Cinema special edition blu-ray. Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura, Yoshiko Mita, Eitaro Shindo.
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According to his daughter, he was “the least scary human being in the world”. But to fans, William Henry Pratt—AKA Boris Karloff—was the undisputed king of horror. The veteran actor had already
If you’ve been following Eureka’s kung fu releases, then their latest blu-ray will have you whooping for joy. Directed by legendary action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Dreadnaught is an absolute classic
Arguably the lasting power of the Universal Horror owes as much to their subtext as they do to their iconic imagery. Frankenstein, for instance, explores what it means to be human—and what
From Hotel Del Luna, to All of Us Are Dead, from Uncanny Counter, to Space Sweepers, the Republic of Korea has produced some of the most innovative, daring, and out-and-out cute films and
Who doesn’t love a bit of classic Hong Kong mayhem? And when that includes the inimitable Sammo Hung (Mr Vampire) and Karl Maka (the Aces Go Places series) you know you’re in for a
It’s hard today to imagine the impact an actress like Joan Crawford had on the entertainment scene. Fiercely independent, she refused to play the ‘studio system’ game, forging a career that saw