The Masters Of Cinema Summer Slate
We’ve been a little tardy with this quarters Masters Of Cinema schedule, alas a combination of festivals and behind the scenes work has seen us slack off a little in the past week. Alas, we’re back up to speed now, and have a couple of very exciting releases to take a look at from the … Read more
Monday Blu(e)s and DVD
As the world comes to terms with the dawn of a new year DVD and Blu-ray releases remain slow off the ground. As with last week though, the films that are released are pretty great. Except for Troll Hunter, that’s just rubbish. Please feel free to use the comments section below to let us know … Read more
Monday Blu(e)s and DVD
It’s a Coppola centric day for home video fans, with several of his American Zoetrope productions finally making their way on to digital formats for the first time. DVD rules the roost too, with nary a glimmer of greatness on Blu-ray this week, yet several essential titles coming to the older format. Please feel free … Read more
Monday Blu(e)s and DVD
Today might just be the most exciting week of the year for new releases. Two Palme d’Or winning masterpieces lead a week that also features a new Arrow Video title, one of the best blockbusters of 2011, and a Coppola film that previously hasn’t been deemed worthy of a UK disc release. Enjoy. Please feel … Read more
The Wednesday Debate – To Redux, Or Not Redux? That Is The Question.
This week’s Wednesday Debate topically connects itself to recent speculation regarding changes that may or may not have been made to the Star Wars Saga in anticipation of the films upcoming re-release. The internet is alive with the sound of anti-George Lucas rage. Early reports concerning the latest iteration of his Star Wars saga (due … Read more
The Sunday Sermon : Sermon II – Sermon Harder
Wizards, Autobots, apes, avengers, cars, x-men, hangovers, pandas, pirates, musketeers, sparkly vampires, things, barbarians… Our summers are full of familiar faces. Next year sees a new Spider-Man, a new Superman, the next Bond, and the final Batman. So what is it – above and beyond a base need to make money which, obviously, all films … Read more
Whatever Happened to Big Budget Horror?
Hope Lies welcomes a new contributor to the fold, with Robert Girvan here profiling the spate of horror movues produced during the late 1970′s through to the mid-80′s. With the recent news that Universal was not willing to plop down the cash to allow Guillermo Del Toro, with the backing of both James Cameron and Tom … Read more
Birthday Blu(e)s
Apparently today marks five years of the Blu-ray format. In light of that here are Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second’s five favourite releases of a format that we love dearly. The Thin Red Line Initially released by the magnificent Criterion, but recently replicated by 20th Century Fox in the UK (with supposed Criterion … Read more
Monday Blu(e)s and DVD
A couple of great titles make their way to Blu-ray this week, including one of this years finest Best Picture Oscar nominees, a box-set collecting the films of one of the silver screen’s most beloved superhero’s, and a lavish release of the greatest war film of all time. Disc Of The Week Part 1 True … Read more
Monday Blu(e)s and DVD
It’s a solid week for home video releases, with the magnificent 35th anniversary restoration of Taxi Driver leading a proverbial pack made up of Coppola, Besson and Peckinpah, amongst others. Disc Of The Week Taxi Driver This release of Martin Scorsese’s film was the subject of much scrutiny a couple of months ago, upon its … Read more
