These Classic Ghost Stories by M. R. James are perfect for cold winter nights
Barnaby Walter reviews the BFI’s new collection of classic Christmas Ghost Stories
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Archive: Shot on a shoe-string budget, Aranofsky’s film Pi enigmatic indie hits a new peak of low-budget, original film-making
Jack Harding explains his love for this weird, brilliant film.
BluChristmas #11: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
If you’ve seen some of the awful DVD editions of this film you probably think it doesn’t deserve a Blu-ray release. It certainly does.
BluChristmas #10: Lifeboat (1944)
This Alfred Hitchcock movie is a fascinating Second World War drama. It is entirely set…
BluChristmas #9: Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Life is hopeslesly tangled with fiction in this highly original offering from In Bruges director…
BluChristmas #6: Weekend (2011)
Some have described Weekend as the British answer to Before Sunrise, and to some extent…
BluChristmas #5: Life of Pi (2012)
Before I saw the film, friends had told me that Yann Martel’s novel, The Life…
BluChristmas #4: Touch of Evil (1958)
This was a film ahead of its time. It contains radical decisions in filmmaking and…
BluChristmas #3: Casablanca (1942) – Steelbook Edition
Some argue that this is the perfect romantic film. If it isn’t, it certainly comes…
Archive: Satire and horror collide to chilling effect in Saxon Logan’s movie Sleepwalker
Grace and David travel to the country to visit their friends, brother and sister Marianne…
BluChristmas #1: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Paedophobic cinema has become a fairly classic staple of the horror genre. The Omen, The Exorcist and The Shining have…
The Edge presents… BluChristmas! 100 Blu-rays over 100 days!
The Edge unveil’s this year’s festive countdown: a celebration of the high definition Blu-ray format, featuring the 100 discs you must put on your Christmas list.
DVD review: Thérèse Desqueyroux is a suffocating and dreadfully dull adaptation of François Mauriac’s novel
I’ve never been particularly impressed with Audrey Tautou and this suffocating and miserable French drama…
Archive: The Last American Virgin looks dated, but its heart is in the right place
This teen movie from the 80s is given a welcome release on Blu-ray by cult distributors Arrow Video