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One of our favorite furious films, Peter R. Hunt’s 1981 action-adventure DEATH HUNT is coming to Blu Ray from Shout Factory August 20th. Special Features will include an Audio interview with stars Charles Bronson and Lee Marvin, German Trailer, Original US Trailer and a Photo Gallery. Based on true events Charles Bronson stars as Albert Johnson, a Canadian trapper who rescues an injured German Shepherd from Hazel (Ed Lauter) a [read...] 
One of the all time greatest war films, John Sturges’ THE GREAT ESCAPE (1963) is coming to Blu Ray May 7th. Based on a true story, the action packed adventure takes place in 1943 during World War II behind the fences of a German Stalag where British, American, Polish and Australian prisoners of war are being held. This particular prison was made specifically to prevent breakouts but what the Nazis [read...] 
For over 40 years Clint Eastwood has had a truly illustrious film career both in front of and behind the camera. On June 4th, Warner Home Video will be releasing a 20 film retrospective Blu Ray box set of some of the very best of his work. This will be a great opportunity for all the longtime Furious Eastwood fans who haven’t already bought these films separately to get them [read...] 
BURBANK, Calif., March 11, 2013 – As part of the studio’s 90th Anniversary celebration, eight of Warner Bros. Pictures’ greatest gangster films – from Edward G. Robinson’s 1931 classic Little Caesar to Martin Scorsese’s Oscar®-winning masterpiece The Departed– will now be available in two Blu-ray™ sets May 21. Released to coincide with Father’s Day gift-giving, the WB genre greats, along with one of Paramount’s best gangster films, will be offered [read...] 
“Boards don’t hit back” On June 11th Warner Home Video will be releasing a 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition of ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) the film that made the late Bruce Lee an international superstar. There will be several brand new features included so if you’ve already bought previous editions you may want to double dip (die hard fans will no doubt pick this up faster than one of Bruce’s [read...] 
The Australian dystopian/post-apocalyptic action/adventure classics that introduced the world to that furious force of nature Mel Gibson will be coming to Blu Ray June 4th from Warner Home Video in a special single release. If you’re a film geek you should surely already know who Mad Max is, if not, please get on that! This trilogy of mad as hell movies have become benchmarks of pop [read...] 
Criterion Collection’s May releases include three films I wanted to highlight since they haven’t been on the label until now. Delmer Daves was one of the most accomplished filmmakers of his time. His directorial debut was Destination Tokyo (1943) starring Cary Grant. He then made the film noir classic Dark Passage in 1947 with Humphrey Bogart. Throughout the 1950s he worked in several different genres but became best known for [read...] 
FILM REVIEW The film is titled The Master, but it focuses mainly on Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) a man who is anything but. He’s a damaged World War II veteran and alcoholic. When we meet him he is passing time by humping a woman made of sand and masturbating into the ocean. Freddie’s main hobby is inventing liquor potions out of anything he can find such as coconuts, paint thinner [read...] 
Leave it to the fine folks at Criterion to pull yet another hat trick in the new year with what I consider to be the ultimate home video release of Alex Cox’s 1984 cult sci-fi comedy-punk rock masterpiece REPO MAN. Now if you’re a film geek who grew up in the 80s, you probably know this movie well and have loved it ever since the first viewing. This movie holds [read...] 
FILM REVIEW Based on a 1961 book written by Kenneth Cook, Wake In Fright tells the story of John Grant (Gary Bond) a bonded British school teacher who has been stuck working in the desolate Outback town of Tiboonda. Grant hates his job and has made plans to visit his girlfriend who lives in the big city of Sydney on Christmas break. After his last class is finished, he grabs [read...] |
    
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