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Encounter of the Spooky Kind (15) | Home Ents Review

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 Colin Dibben Chan Lung, Chung Fat, Encounter of the Spooky Kind, Lam Ching-Ying, Sammo Hung

A pitch-perfect blend of horror, comedy and martial arts, Sammo Hung’s classic gets a 2K restoration and Blu-ray release.

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The Hands of Orlac (PG) |Home Ents Review

June 13, 2021June 13, 2021 Colin Dibben Alexandra Sorina, Conrad Veidt, Fritz Strassny, The Hands of Orlac

A shlocky silent thriller becomes one of cinema’s most striking expressions of psychological and body horror, due to Conrad Veidt’s extremely physical performance.

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One Armed Boxer (18) | Home Ents Review

May 23, 2021May 23, 2021 Colin Dibben Hsin Tang, Jimmy Wang Yu, One Armed Boxer, Yeh Tien

A much-loved 70s martial arts Hong Kong “grindhouse” film gets the restored Blu-ray treatment. It’s fight-packed, unintentionally funny and looks as good as it is ever going to.

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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (PG) | Home Ents Review

May 16, 2021May 16, 2021 Colin Dibben Claire Bloom, Cyril Cusack, Oskar Werner, Richard Burton, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Richard Burton’s disgruntled, dishevelled and under-employed ex-spy is the best thing about The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, a gritty thriller based on a novel by John le Carre.

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I Start Counting (15) | Home Ents Review

April 18, 2021April 18, 2021 Colin Dibben Bryan Marshall, Clare Sutcliffe, I Start Counting, Jenny Agutter, Simon Ward

An intense, natural performance by 16-year-old Jenny Agutter makes this coming-of-age thriller something special. It has been restored in 2K and look as spick and span as Hemel Hempstead in the 60s.

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Karloff at Columbia (12) | Home Ents Review

April 18, 2021April 18, 2021 Colin Dibben Boris Karloff, Karloff at Columbia, Marian Marsh, Roger Pryor

Boris Karloff ditches most of the make-up and gets his teeth into a series of roles – variations on the ‘mad doctor’ theme – in this collection of six, hour-long films.

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Silent Action (15) | Home Ents Review

April 11, 2021April 11, 2021 Colin Dibben Luc Merenda, Mel Ferrer, Silent Action, Tomas Milian

Sergio Martino’s intriguing political thriller sheds light on the dark machinations that traumatised Italy in the 1970s. Inspector Giorgio Solmi (Merenda) has just signed off the deaths of three army colonels as suicide when a suspiciously wealthy electrician is murdered in his villa.

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I Was at Home, But … (12) | Home Ents Review

March 28, 2021March 28, 2021 Colin Dibben Clara Moller, I Was at Home But …, Jakob Lassalle, Maren Eggert

The winner of the Silver Bear Best Director award at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival makes one Berliner’s cultured middle-class life seem calm, focused and yet utterly lacking in control.

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The Banishing (15) | Close-Up Film Review

March 25, 2021March 25, 2021 Colin Dibben Anya McKenna-Bruce, Jessica Brown Findlay, John Heffernan, John Lynch, Sean Harris, The Banishing

An effective costume drama haunted house horror film that is derailed – or transfigured, depending on your taste for the bizarre – by Sean Harris’ performance as real-life ghost hunter Harry Price.

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Violation (18/E) | Close-Up Film Review

March 24, 2021March 25, 2021 Colin Dibben Anna Maguire, Jesse LeVercombe, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Obi Abili, Violation

By turns woozily immersive and starkly violent, this is a nuanced if visceral tale of sexual assault and the practicalities of revenge.