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John White

John lurks in the shadows of Digital Fix reviewing films meant for people half his age and twice his intellect. The madder, the stranger and the more squalid a film the more likely he is to acclaim it the Citizen Kane of its kind...
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For Love's Sake

Who better to deal with the budding of young love than the director of Ichi the Killer? John reviews Miike's manga musical on BD......

Django Unchained

Without Tarantino's Django Unchained, it's hard to see how America could have liberated itself from slavery.......

Black Sabbath

Arrow take Bava's most celebrated film and pop it in your blu-ray player, John's along for the ride....

Van Veeteren Films Vol.1

Arrow serves up three of Hakan Nesser's Van Veetern books on DVD, for John, the game's afoot.....

Baron Blood

Arrow continue their high definition way through Bava's back catalogue. John reviews Baron Blood...

Book Review: Peter Cushing - A Life in Film

It's the centenary of Peter Cushing's birth, John reviews David Miller's Biography... ...

The Hunt

Mob law and malicious accusations in Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt starring Mads Mikkelsen. We review the UK blu-ray...

Scanners/Scanners II: The New Order/Scanners III: The Takeover

Cronenberg's head throbbing classic begat two sequels. We review the trilogy, new on BD...

Subspecies / Bloodstone: Subspecies II

Ted Nicolaou's Vampire series comes to blu-ray. John takes a bite of parts one and two...

Sightseers

Alice Lowe and Jacob Oram go properly nuts in may. John reviews the UK blu-ray...

Dracula

Hammer's finest Vampire flick was their first. John reviews the new UK blu-ray...

From Beyond

Second Sight release Stuart Gordon's follow-up to Reanimator on blu-ray, John feels that familiar throbbin'...

Claustrofobia

Snowed in, unable to get out? How about a captivity thriller? John reviews.....

American Mary

An aspiring surgical student finds a novel way of paying the bills. John reviews the UK blu-ray...

Berberian Sound Studio

Toby Jones stars in Peter Strickland's hymn to the art of sound and alienation. John reviews the UK blu-ray......

Excision

After a year of pants sequels and generic terror, will Excision prove there's life in the horror genre yet?...

Death Watch

Bertrand Tavernier's 1980 dystopian tragedy is eerily prescient. John reviews the UK blu-ray...

Cockneys vs Zombies

When the nation is threatened by an undead uprising, what we need is Cockernees.......

Kotoko

Shinya Tsukamoto's latest film reviewed by John...

Das Testament Des Dr. Mabuse

Lang's second Mabuse film gets the hi-def treatment from Masters of Cinema......

Outpost II: Black Sun

Rae Brunton and Steve Barker follow up their Nazi Zombies hit of a few years back with more of the same. John lumbers to the keyboard...

La Cérémonie

Chabrol's elegant and "revolutionary" adaptation of Ruth Rendell's A Judgement In Stone. John reviews the UK blu-ray...

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Grand Prize winner from Cannes 2011 hits blu-ray in the UK. We review......

The Squad

Up in the Andes, a Colombian soldier troop find themselves at war with themselves or something unseen. John reviews this Latin American horror..

Neon Flesh

Carrying on the bad taste tradition of Amodovar and Lunas, Neon Flesh is a dramedy with hookers, porn and gangsters.......

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