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Weathering with You (12) Home Ents Review

September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 Colin Dibben Chieko Baishô, Kana Hanazawa, Kentaro Araki, Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Sei Hiraizumi, WEATHERING WITH YOU

With a beauty that is patronising and an intensity that’s vacuous and frankly rather annoying, this is a film so cute you want to punch it.

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The Tomb: Devil’s Revenge – Out Monday

September 12, 2020September 12, 2020 News Editor Jason Brooks, Jeri Ryan, The Tomb: Devil’s Revenge, William Shatner

All hell is about to break loose as Shatner takes on Satan, when 4Digital unleashes The Tomb: Devil’s Revenge, on DVD and digital platforms from 14th September.

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Misbehaviour (12A) | Close-Up Film Review

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Carol Allen Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Keeley Hawes, Keira Knightley, Misbehaviour, Rhys Ifans

Misbehaviour is in the tradition of other cinema versions of idiosyncratically British events in our social and political history such as The Full Monty, Calendar Girls and Pride.

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WEATHERING WITH YOU – available on DVD, Blu-ray and Collectors Edition 28th September.

August 25, 2020August 30, 2020 News Editor Blu-ray, dvd, Makoto Shinkai, WEATHERING WITH YOU

The creators of “Your Name” return with the UK box office hit drama that earlier in the year became Japan’s first anime entry for the Academy Awards’ Best International Feature Film in over 20 years.

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Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection (18) | Home Ents Review

August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 Colin Dibben Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky Collection: Fando y Lis, Brontis Jodorowsky, El Topo, Horacio Salinas, Mara Lorenzio, Psychomagic, The Holy Mountain

Shamanic film-making of the highest order from Mexico’s answer to Federico Fellini and Luis Bunuel. This set includes The Holy Mountain, one of the greatest films of the 1970s in a 4K restoration, as well as a much-loved cult western, also in 4K.

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Buster Keaton: 3 Films, Volume 3: Our Hospitality, Go West, College (U) | Home Ents Review

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Colin Dibben Brown Eyes, Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton, Natalie Talmadge

Buster Keaton is a physical enigma, a hyperactive riddle made flesh. The gags in his films are all about his body interacting with the world in a frenzied, athletic manner that is weighty with the incipient pointlessness of his actions.

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The Man Who Laughs (PG) |Home Ents Review

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Colin Dibben Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, The Man Who Laughs

This great big historical roustabout looks great in 4K. But it is Conrad Veidt’s intensely anguished rictus that makes the film.

A Rainy Day In New York (12) | Close-Up Film Review

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A Rainy Day In New York (12) |Home Ents Review

July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 Carlie Newman A Rainy Day In New York, Elle Fanning, Jude Law, Liev Schreiber, Rebecca Hall, Selena Gomez, Timothee Chalamet, Woody Allen

In most of his films, the writer/director has a Woody Allen character. In the early films, Allen himself took on that role. Now he is much older, he generally has a young actor speaking Woody Allen type lines.

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Murders in the Rue Morgue/ The Black Cat / The Raven (15) |Home Ents Review

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 Colin Dibben Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Raven

These three 1930s horror films from Universal Pictures are great vehicles for the creepy, leering Bela Lugosi, who spits out some wonderful camp-horror one liners. Just don’t expect too much from the Edgar Allan Poe association.

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Mr. Vampire (15) |Home Ents Review

July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 Colin Dibben Chin Siu-Ho, Lam Ching-Ying, Moon Lee, Mr. Vampire, Ricky Hui

A welcome re-release for this likeable Chinese martial arts comedy horror. It is the film that made hopping vampires popular. That’s right, hopping vampires are a thing.