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	Life Is Beautiful Blu-ray Nominated first seven Oscars, winning three, Roberto Benigni’s bittersweet comedy-drama follows Guido, an Italian Jew whose whirlwind romance with his Princess and happy life is cut short when he and his five-year-old son are taken to video concentration camp.
	The Thing (2011) Blu-ray Set several weeks before the events in John Carpenter’s celebrated 1982 film of the same name, this takes place on the Norwegian base where the scientists discover an alien life form which escapes from its icy tomb and begins to replicate and kill.
	Don’t Go in the House DVD One of the many films caught up in the ‘video nasty’ witchhunt of the early 1980s, this low budget horror follows Donny, a professional incinerator whose overbearing mother dies and, prompted by the voices in his head, embarks on a killing spree with his victims ending up in flames!
	The Yellow Sea Blu-ray The second film from acclaimed Korean director Hong-Jin Na is set in Korea where a taxi driver from Yanbian, a small Korean prefecture in China, who crosses the Yellow Sea to kill a man in Seoul as the only way to pay his debts to a powerful gangster.
	Corman’s World DVD Roger Corman’s shadow looms large over American cinema and, in this documentary, those who worked with the maverick director and producer (and went on to fame and fortune) reminisce about their time working with Corman and how he helped launch their careers.
	Special Forces Blu-ray This French thriller follows a group of their elite soldiers who, when a French journalist is kidnapped by the Taliban, parachute into the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region to free her and take her home. When the rescue mission didn’t go as planned, the journey back is a treacherous one.
	Dracula: Prince of Darkness Blu-ray In this celebrated thriller, the unnamed titular character supplements his income as a stunt driver by using his talents as a getaway driver. When he tries to help his neighbours husband, who has just been released from jail, he ends up in the murky world of organised crime.

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The Exterminator John Eastland returns home from ‘Nam to a tough neighbourhood in New York and his loving family. But when some local thugs badly beat his best friend Mike, leaving him paralysed, something snaps. Did he fight the Vietcong for this?
Tokyo Decadence When Nancy tries to travel to California to escape her miserable home life, she is captured by a pair of wayward lawmen and their siblings who plan to sacrifice her to Satan.
Deadly Blessing Marked as a incubus by her fanatical neighbours, Martha, whose husband has already disappeared, realises time is running out for her and her visiting friends, as they face the violent fury and retribution of old time religion.

Articles

	My Unwatched Discs When not watching films for review, I spend pretty much all my spare time watching them for pleasure, whether at the cinema or at home, from TV or on DVD on BD. As a compulsive buyer, I have a sizeable pile of discs I haven’t seen.
	Top 10 Greatest British Films After watching several excellent British films recently including Ice Cold in Alex, The Cruel Sea and Witchfinder General, I set about whittling down all the great films produced in Britain to just ten.
	Ongoing Film Challenge Quite a while ago, I went through and made a list of the 500 films Empire Magazine considered the Greatest Movies Ever Made and recently challenged myself to watch all of them. The list is shrinking!