‘Ciao! Manhattan’ on Blu-Ray
❉ Emerging onto Blu Ray for the very first time David Weisman and John Palmer’s Ciao! Manhattan is an odd, fragmentary, fitfully impressive patchwork quilt of a movie.
BLU-RAY REVIEW
‘Miss Leslie’s Dolls’ (1973) reviewed
❉ DON’T GO INTO THE CELLAR, as they said on Rentaghost.
‘Assault’ (1971) on Blu-Ray reviewed
❉ Sidney Hayers’ 1971 thriller boasts a number of familiar names in fresh-faced early roles, including James Cosmo, Lesley-Anne Down, and David Essex making his second screen appearance.
Going Underground: ‘Death Line’ (1972) on Blu-Ray reviewed
❉ Pure entertainment at its morbidly violent best, with a style and sense of place that no other British horror film since then has managed to capture. Mind the doors…
‘Derek Jarman Volume One: 1972-1986’ Blu-Ray reviewed
❉ Derek Jarman’s enduring legacy is celebrated in this lavish box set, containing his first six features alongside an exciting array of new and archival extras.
‘eXistenZ’ (1999) UK Blu-ray reviewed
❉ Cronenberg’s violent exploration of digital immersion has proved to be eerily prophetic, in its own skewed bio-technological way.
‘Wolf’ (1994) revisited
❉ We took at look back at 1994’s Wolf starring Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer, recently re-released on Blu-Ray by Indicator.
There’ll Always Be An England? ‘When The Wind Blows’
❉ We look back on the touching, terrifying and heartbreaking When The Wind Blows.
Twilight Time Movies: ‘Royal Flash’ (1975)
❉ Nick Clement reviews Twilight Time’s limited edition Blu-Ray titles.
Twilight Time Movies: ‘Cutter’s Way’ (1981)
❉ Nick Clement reviews Twilight Time’s limited edition Blu-Ray titles.