One of Luc Besson’s earliest cinematic accomplishments, Nikita went on to spawn
an American and a Hong Kong remake, as well as various television shows in
different forms, the most recent featuring Maggie Q as the tit…Read More...
In a change of pace for art house heavyweight Susanne Biers, this light-hearted
family wedding comedy transplants its characters from their everyday humdrum
lives in Copenhagen to the lush prettiness of the Amalfi coast…Read More...
Region 1/import title. After Cinema Paradiso – one the greatest films ever
made about the magic of cinema – Giuseppe Tornatore not only returns to the
topic and his beloved Sicily in the achingly beautiful drama T…Read More...
Alexander The Great is included as part of The Theo Angelopoulos Collection:
Volume II box set by Artificial Eye. A sprawling period drama, Alexander The
Great (O Megalexandros, 1980) explores themes that resonate st…Read More...
Federico Fellini was one of the best filmmakers in the world – particularly due
to his ability to make purely cinematic films without plots and many of the other
things that lesser directors might fall back on. Fellini was n…Read More...
In the early-70s, anyone with a vague awareness of cinematic horror would have
been interested in one thing – The Exorcist. Meanwhile, Italian director Mario
Bava and producer Alfredo Leone were completing a surrealist a…Read More...
La Maschera del Demonio (The Mask Of Satan, or Black Sunday as it’s commonly
known) is a 1960 gothic Italian horror film from cult filmmaker Mario Bava.
Having gained something of a large following over time and an…Read More...
Crowds taking to the street in revolutionary voice? It’s not a certain other
musical behemoth, but a remastered rerelease of Jancsó’s 1968 dramatisation of
political confrontation, set in Hungary shortly after the end…Read More...
Unleashed for the first time ever in the UK is Ferdinando Baldi’s lost sequel
to Sergio Corbucci’s classic Django (1966). Coinciding with the cinematic
release of Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained (QT placed D…Read More...
The third collection of Inspector Montalbano brings us four new episodes of the
charming Italian detective, two from the novels and two original teleplays. Do
they measure up to the quality of the show seen thus far?…Read More...
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