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8th April 2016, 03:04 PM
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NEW UK/US TITLE: The Swinging Cheerleaders (Arrow Video) Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD A favourite of Quentin Tarantino makes its Blu-ray debut! Pre-order your UK copy here: http://bit.ly/25PphPi North American pre-orders links should be live soon! UK Release Date: 4th July 2016 US Release Date: 5th July 2016 Region: FREE THEY GAVE THEIR ALL FOR THE TEAM! Jack Hill spent the seventies specialising in tough female characters. He made movies about girl gangs (Switchblade Sisters) and women in prison (The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage), turned Pam Grier a star with Coffy and Foxy Brown, and contributed to the Cheerleaders line of drive-in favourites with The Swinging Cheerleaders. Kate, an undergraduate at Mesa University, goes undercover as a cheerleader for her college newspaper in order to expose ‘female exploitation in contemporary society’. But instead of oppression she finds love, friendship and a bigger fish to fry: corruption in the football team, headed up by the coach and his pals. A favourite of Quentin Tarantino, who screened it at the very first Tarantino Film Fest, The Swinging Cheerleaders features a cast of cult favourites including Colleen Camp (Wayne’s World, Game of Death), Rainbeaux Smith (Caged Heat, The Incredible Melting Man) and future Playmate of the Month Rosanne Katon. DIRECTOR- APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS • Brand new 2K restoration from original film materials • High Definition (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD Presentations • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing • Audio commentary by writer-director Jack Hill, recorded exclusively for this release • Brand new interview with Jack Hill • Archive interview with cinematographer Alfred Taylor • Archive interview with Hill and Johnny Legend • Q&A with Hill, and actors Colleen Camp and Rosanne Katon recorded at the New Beverly Cinema in 2012 • TV spots • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys ImageUploadedByTapatalk1460127844.760501.jpg keirarts and fuzzymctiger like this.
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#8002
8th April 2016, 03:04 PM
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NEW UK/US TITLE: Crimes of Passion (Arrow Video) Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD Maybe the most outrageous film Ken Russell ever made! Pre-order your UK copy here: http://bit.ly/1qA8bVB North American pre-orders links should be live soon! UK Release Date: 11th July 2016 US Release Date: 12th July 2016 Region: A+B / 1+2 SHE IS WATCHED. SHE IS WORSHIPPED. AND SHE MUST REMAIN A MYSTERY. In the early eighties British enfant terrible Ken Russell travelled to America and placed his unorthodox imprint on a pair of US movies. The first was the Altered States, so out-there its screenwriter disowned it. The second was the equally crazy Crimes of Passion, starring Kathleen Turner (Body Heat, Serial Mom) at the height of her powers. Fashion designer Joanna Crane (Turner) leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who’s attracted the unwanted attention of two men. One is a sexually frustrated private detective hired by her employees. The other is psychopathic priest (played by Norman Bates himself, Anthony Perkins) in possession of a murderous sex toy. With its outré screenplay by Barry Sandler and over the top score by Rick Wakeman, Crimes of Passion may just be the most outrageous Ken Russell film ever made – and that’s quite some feat! SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS • Brand new 2K restoration of the film from original film materials • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations of the director’s cut and unrated versions of the film • Optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • Audio commentary with director Ken Russell and producer-screenwriter Barry Sandler • Seven deleted/extended scenes with optional commentary by Sandler • Brand-new interview with Sandler recorded especially for this release • Home movie footage of Ken Russell visiting Florida for a retrospective screening of Crimes of Passion at the 2009 Orlando Film Festival • Theatrical trailer • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Twins of Evil • Illustrated booklet containing new writing by Ken Russell’s biographer, Paul Sutton, correspondence between Russell and Kathleen Turner, and an on-set interview with Russell ImageUploadedByTapatalk1460127891.262678.jpg
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#8003
8th April 2016, 03:06 PM
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NEW UK/US TITLE: Female Prisoner Scorpion Collection (Arrow Video) Dual-Format Blu-ray and DVD The pinnacle of early 1970s exploitation cinema from Japanese grindhouse studio Toei Pre-order your UK copy here: http://bit.ly/1qy6PdU North American pre-orders links should be live soon! UK Release Date: 25th July 2016 US Release Date: 26th July 2016 Region: A+B / 1+2 Starring the iconic and beautiful Meiko Kaji (Lady Snowblood, Stray Cat Rock) in a role that came to define her career, the four-film Female Prisoner Scorpion series charts the vengeance of Nami Matsushima, who assumes the mantle of "Scorpion," becoming an avatar of vengeance and survival, and an unlikely symbol of female resistance in a male-dominated world. Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion introduces Nami, a gullible young woman unjustly imprisoned, who must find a way to escape in order to exact revenge upon the man who betrayed her. The visually avant-garde Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 sees director Shunya Ito and star Meiko Kaji re-unite as Nami and six other female convicts escape prison once more. The Gothic horror-inspired Beast Stable finds Nami branded public enemy #1 and on the run. She soon finds refuge with a sympathetic prostitute, but runs afoul of a local gang. The final film in the series, #701's Grudge Song (from director Yasuharu Hasebe, Retaliation, Massacre Gun), shows a gentler side of Nami as she falls in with Kudo, an ex-radical suffering from physical and psychological trauma caused by police torture. Spiritual kin to Ms. 45, Coffy and The Bride Wore Black, the Female Prisoner Scorpion is the pinnacle of early 1970s exploitation cinema from Japanese grindhouse studio Toei, and one of the greatest female revenge sagas ever told. LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS • Limited Edition Blu-ray collection (3000 copies) • Brand new 2K restorations of all four films in the series presented on High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD • Original mono audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays) for all films • Optional English subtitles for all films • Double-sided fold out poster of two original artworks • Reversible sleeves for all films featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ian MacEwan • Booklet featuring an extract from Unchained Melody: The Films of Meiko Kaji, an upcoming book on the star by critic and author Tom Mes, an archive interview with Meiko Kaji, and a brand new interview with Toru Shinohara, creator of the original Female Prisoner Scorpion manga FEMALE PRISONER #701: SCORPION • Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Gareth Evans (The Raid) • Archive interview with director Shunya Ito • New interview with assistant director Yutaka Kohira • Theatrical Trailers for all films in the series FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: JAILHOUSE 41 • Newly filmed appreciation by critic Kier-La Janisse • Japanese cinema critic Jasper Sharp looks over the career of Shunya Ito • New interview with production designer Tadayuki Kuwana • Original Theatrical Trailer FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: BEAST STABLE • Newly filmed appreciation by critic Kat Ellinger • Archive interview with director Shunya Ito • New visual essay on the career of star and icon Meiko Kaji by critic Tom Mes • Original Theatrical Trailer FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION: #701’s GRUDGE SONG • Newly filmed appreciation by filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Kichiku: Banquet of the Beasts) • Archive interview with director Yasuharu Hasebe • Japanese cinema critic Jasper Sharp looks over the career of Yasuharu Hasebe • Visual essay on the Scorpion series by critic Tom Mes • Original Theatrical Trailer ImageUploadedByTapatalk1460127964.305069.jpg
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#8004
8th April 2016, 03:09 PM
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#8006
8th April 2016, 03:14 PM
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8th April 2016, 03:16 PM
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#8008
8th April 2016, 03:21 PM
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I have the Eureka DVD release of Female Prisoner: Scorpion as a review set, but I don't think I paid for it, so don't mind parting with money for the Blu-ray set. This also has four films not just three, because the Eureka release include Grudge Song. A logical future release would be the Hanzo the Razor collection. g053584398 and keirarts like this.
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#8009
8th April 2016, 03:34 PM
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This is a treat for fans of eighties slice and dice! keirarts likes this.
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#8010
8th April 2016, 03:37 PM
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