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When is a Poe not a Poe? Released in 1963, The Haunted Palace was positioned by American International Pictures as the fifth in the series of successful adaptations

It opens with a sombre funeral, but as soon as the mourners depart Waldo Trumbull (Vincent Price) and his assistant Felix Gillie (Peter Lorre) of Hinchley and Trumbull’s

“The Canadian film industry of the 1970s was… rudimentary,” recalls producer Ivan Reitman in one of the interviews accompanying Arrow’s newly restored Blu-ray of Canadian writer/director David Cronenberg’s

With most of Stanley Kubrick’s thirteen feature films now available on Blu-ray, Arrow are plugging the last gap in the list by releasing two of his earliest, The

So finally Peter Jackson’s odyssey comes to an end, with momentum and the noise of five stampeding armies, but the emotions which accompany the grand finale of The

There are films with ambition, films with a message, films crafted to inspire and elate, to inform, to enlighten, to horrify, to criticise corporations and condemn regimes, to

It’s not a typical apocalypse, nor was the inspiration as obvious as the inescapable cold war angst during the escalating tensions between Reagan’s America and the revolving political

“When we were making the first Edgar Allan Poe film, House of Usher… I had no idea that I would be making a series of them,” recalls Roger

With a resume which includes Scarface, The Untouchables, Casualties of War, Carlito’s Way, The Black Dahlia and the first cinematic Mission: Impossible, the name Brian De Palma is

It is no secret that Hollywood is the Ouroboros, the snake that consumes itself, endlessly remaking and reinventing, hoping to create itself anew so the audience doesn’t realise