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Video Vault: Alien

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With Ridley Scott’s Prometheus looming on the horizon HeyUGuys are reprinting their 2010 look back at the entire Alien series. One a day until Prometheus finally enters cinemas around the world and we all find out if it’s been worth the wait. Here’s Em Breen to take you all the way back. The time has [...]




Video Vault: The Searchers

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There are few more tragic losses in the history of Hollywood film than the disappearance of the western. Once one of the most popular genres in cinema, the myth of the west has been replaced with box-office focused action movies which dedicate more time to explosions than to character development or setting the scene. The [...]




Video Vault: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

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Written by Hannah McCarthy Sitting down to a bit of New Year’s telly, I started to watch one of my mum’s favourite films, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and realised to my surprise that I’d never actually seen it before. I remembered some dancing and brightly coloured shirts, but that was about it. Watching it [...]




Video Vault: Goodfellas

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For a director as venerable as Martin Scorsese, arguably the greatest living filmmaker, pinpointing one of his cinematic masterpieces as his best will always be essentially impossible. Having covered such a wide range of genres over his career, there will never be a definitive consensus, however his 1990 film GoodFellas presents possibly the most compelling [...]




Halloween Video Vault: Ghostwatch

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Long time readers of the site will have seen this before as I’m reposting my love letter to Stephen Volk’s Ghostwatch on the occasion of Hallowe’en. A year shy of its twentieth anniversary it remains a landmark of paranormal drama and has just been reissued on DVD at a ridiculously low price. Things have changed [...]




Video Vault: The ‘Burbs

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Today’s Video Vault has Hayley Stovold showing off the neighbourhood. Although it was first released in 1989, The ‘Burbs is still as exciting and watchable as ever. Over two decades later, the film still confronts current issues, albeit slightly dramatised. A black comedy/thriller, The ‘Burbs is set in a small suburban town, Hinkley Hills, and [...]




Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray Review

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Reviewing this box set when it is out in stores and in all probability snapped up by eager Star Wars fans seems a little unnecessary. The promise of a shiny high def transfer and the long awaited deleted scenes from the Original Trilogy conspire to tempt you to part with your cash once more, to [...]




Video Vault – Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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A long time ago, in a living room far, far away (well, Elgin), I remember sitting down to watch Star Wars for the very first time. Now, twenty-odd years, a full franchise and hundreds of pounds worth of merchandise later, I am sitting down to watch it again in anticipation of the saga’s encroaching release [...]




Studio Ghibli Video Vault – Howl’s Moving Castle

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While I now, of course, appreciate the full genius of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli – I’m only human – it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. Having caught Spirited Away as a teenager, complete with pig parents and a rather spiritless American voice-over, I was clearly ill-equipped to take it in – distracted as [...]




Studio Ghibli Video Vault: Grave of the Fireflies

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To celebrate the release of Studio Ghibli’s latest film, Arrietty, in UK cinemas we’re taking a look back at some of the studio’s classic with a Video Vault series. Patrick Gamble takes a look back at the 1988 war film written and directed by Isao Takahata, Grave of the Fireflies. Check back over the next [...]




Video Vault – 25 Years of Pixar Retrospective – Toy Story

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Building on their years of work in sfx when part of the computer division of LucasFilm, and their subsequent incarnation as a pioneering hardware company with an animation department that produced computer-animated commercials for other companies, Pixar’s Toy Story was their first feature-length film and the first in a three-picture $26 million deal with Walt [...]




Video Vault: 25 Years of Pixar Retrospective – “Finding Nemo”

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My overriding memory of Finding Nemo is one of uncontrollable laughter. As Dory endeavours to communicate with a resident whale, I put my need for oxygen on hold and proceeded to crack up, guffaw and generally LOL hysterically. While I adore all of Pixar’s movies (yes, even Cars), and might hold Wall-E as the height [...]




Video Vault – Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation

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In 1981 Raiders of The Lost Ark was released and like many young boys Eric Zala, Chris Strompolos and Jayson Lamb saw the film and were enraptured by it. Like many kids Chris wanted to be Indiana Jones, to have his own adventure, to fight nazis, hunt for treasure and get the girl. He therefore decided [...]




Video Vault – Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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We’ve raided the lost ark, escaped from a temple of doom and even embarked on what now transpires to be the penultimate crusade. Now we consider the final (for the time being at least) entry in the Indy canon, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. ***** 1957. After he helps a group [...]




Video Vault – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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We’ve traveled with Indy through Peru, Cairo, Nepal, Shanghai and India. After finding the Ark and surviving the Temple of Doom, it was time for his Last Crusade (until the next one). ***** It is 1938 and Indiana Jones finally retrieves the Cross of Francisco De Coronado, which he had first come across in a [...]




Video Vault – Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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Having looked at the series-launching and genre-defining Raiders of the Lost Ark,yesterday, it is now time to “go a little darker” and consider 1984′s Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which re-united Steven Spielberg as director, Harrison Ford as the man with the hat and George Lucas once again coming up with the story. [...]




Video Vault – Raiders of the Lost Ark

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With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull finally taking its bow on UK terrestrial television, care of a New Years’ Day screening on BBC1, it feels like a convenient juncture at which to take a look back at the series as a whole. I make no apologies for being a dyed in [...]




Video Vault – Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

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With the Blu-ray release of the Alien Anthology on the 25th of October HeyUGuys are taking a look at the entire Alien and Predator series. From Facehuggers to trophy hunting Predators, from the iconic and classic to the dubious crossovers – this is your ultimate retrospective. So remember, even if you ain’t got time to bleed, [...]




Video Vault – Alien vs. Predator

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With the Blu-ray release of the Alien Anthology on the 25th of October HeyUGuys are taking a look at the entire Alien and Predator series. From Facehuggers to trophy hunting Predators, from the iconic and classic to the dubious crossovers – this is your ultimate retrospective. So remember, even if you ain’t got time to bleed, [...]




Video Vault – Predator 2 (1990)

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With the Blu-ray release of the Alien Anthology on the 25th of October HeyUGuys are taking a look at the entire Alien and Predator series. From Facehuggers to trophy hunting Predators, from the iconic and classic to the dubious crossovers – this is your ultimate retrospective. So remember, even if you ain’t got time to bleed, [...]