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Archive for September, 2008

INGLORIOUS BASTARDS

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

The recent DVD release of Italian 70s exploitation movie Inglorious Bastards is not exclusively due to its artistic merits but also to the publicity given to the film by that cinema archaeologist, Quentin Tarantino, who is currently working on a remake.
Review by Celluloid Liberation Front

TRIANGLE

Monday, September 1st, 2008

When Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To – three heavy-weights of the Hong Kong film industry, who respectively gave us Once Upon a Time in China, City on Fire and Exiled – got together to make a film, it unsurprisingly became one of the most hotly anticipated titles.
Review by Joey Leung

THE SEEING DOUBLE REVIEW: DARK CITY

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Rarely seen but surprisingly influential, Dark City is a 1940s-style murder mystery set in an eerie futuristic city where it is perennially night and mysterious black-clad Strangers control the lives of the inhabitants. It has recently been released on DVD and Blu-ray disc in the form of a new ‘director’s cut’.
Review by Alex Fitch and Tom Humberstone