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Released by Optimum UK at the tail end of 2008, this boxset offers 8 Joseph Losey titles, many of them not otherwise readily available: Big Night (1951) - not available in the US. Sleeping Tiger (1954) - fully restored print over poor PD US disc. Criminal (1960) - OOP in the US, this...

Stanley Baker (Hell is a City (1960), Zulu (1964)) was one of Britain's biggest stars in the early 1960s, making his name in gritty crime films but proving that he could work in other genres, from biblical epics to Rocky Mountain adventures. Towards the end of the decade his star began to...

PLEASE NOTE: The majority of these films, and therefore the reviews, are of an adult nature and not suitable for work! I was surprised not to find a dedicated thread on this company, probably one of the best independent cult DVD firms in the market at present, especially since Anchor Bay...

The Yangtse Incident (1957) tells the true story of the British ship HMS Amethyst. In 1949, at the height of the Chinese Civil War that saw Communist rule come to China, the British ship was travelling, with full permission of the existing Chinese Government, to the city of Nanking, conveying...

Severin Films are one of the newer cult DVD firms in the trade, specialising in very obscure erotica. They continue their run of good work with this top notch DVD release of a little known but very good bit of softcore from the 1970s, best known because it was scripted by the writer of the...

Here's one for those of you who think you know every genre of cinema. Among the first of the European Westerns, inspiration to the Spaghetti Western boom and the series that brought German cinema back to life after the Second World War, the Karl May Westerns were 11 epic sized films based on the...

Good news for Jess Franco fans, and fans of ultra-obscure cinema. Severin-Film's Jess Franco collection will include a number of the infamous director's little known 1980s productions, beginning with Macumba Sexual (1983) and Mansion of the Living Dead (1985) on October 31st - restored from...

Starring Klaus Kinski in a small role, and with a very intellegent and thought provoking plot, Lifespan (1974) is one of the most unique movies ever released. A dark, documentary-like sci-fi film it is almost incomparable to any other picture - too real to be a Herzog/Franco film, too strange to...