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StudioCanal Launch Appeal For Lost Wicker Man Materials

Robin Hardy's chilling classic, The Wicker Man, is forty years young. To celebrate the occasion - and to mark the film as one of Britain's greatest, and… [Continue Reading...]
In Review: Curandero: Dawn of the Demon on DVD

Written and executive produced by Robert Rodriguez, and directed by Eduardo Rodriguez (no relation), Curandero is a Mexican horror cop thriller starring… [Continue Reading...]
The New Empress Video Blog: Celebrating 2 Years in Print

This week New Empress Magazine is celebrating 2 years in print. Since our humble A5, quarterly beginnings in 2011 we've grown into an A4 bi-monthly publication… [Continue Reading...]
The New Empress Video Blog: Scarecrow is Rereleased

Here at New Empress we like to champion films that are often overlooked and forgotten and Jerry Schatzberg's Scarecrow is one such film. Schatzberg won… [Continue Reading...]
Films That Time Forgot: Hard Rain (1998)

Multiply a heist film by a disaster flick, divide by Christian Slater (and Morgan Freeman in brackets) and what’s your answer? Hard Rain. When this formula… [Continue Reading...]
Event: Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Special event klaxon! Do you fancy seeing a screening of music documentary Beats Rhymes and Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest at Clapham Picturehouse… [Continue Reading...]
Win A Copy Of Horror Film ‘The Collection’ On DVD

From the writers of Saw IV, V, VI and 3D comes the thrilling sequel to The Collector that works just as well as a standalone film. Tense, terrifying and… [Continue Reading...]
The Immortals: Florence Lawrence – The Star System Is Born

Florence Lawrence is largely forgotten today even among established icons of the early years. Yet she deserves hallowed status. Miss Lawrence was the first… [Continue Reading...]
Terracotta Far East Film Festival Announces 2013 Line-up

It's that time of year again: the annual Terracotta Far East Film Festival. London's yearly dose of far out, Far Eastern film returns for its fifth year… [Continue Reading...]

In Review: Black Sabbath on Blu-ray

by Martyn Conterio 13 May 2013

Black Sabbath (1963) highlights spectacularly well what an exquisite eye director Mario Bava had for composition and lighting. He often shot movies for peanuts, but that didn’t mean they had to look tatty and uninspired. After all, Italians are well-known for stylistic verve and top craftsmanship. Even their B pictures could look grand and elegant.

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In Review: Deadfall

by Mairéad Roche 10 May 2013

Deadfall is set in the snowy wilds of Michigan just before American Thanksgiving, where siblings Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde) have successfully robbed a nearby casino but are thrown off course by an accident.

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In Review: Village at the End of the World

by Kezia Tooby 9 May 2013

Set in northwest Greenland, the titular village is Niaqornat, which has a meagre population of 59. These people are Inuits, living in colourful wooden homes with dramatic icebergs in the background and freshly hunted animal carcasses in the foreground. They follow the traditions of their ancestors by hunting seals, narwhals and even polar bears but [...]

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In Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

by Mairéad Roche 8 May 2013

J.J. Abrams is an acknowledged non-Trekkie/Trekker. This surprising fact has allowed the writer-director to reassess and re-evaluate the world of Star Trek from a cool perspective. We all know he loves science fiction, in general, but he’s never pitched up to a film convention dressed in USS Enterprise garb, Spock ears, conversing in Klingon. He [...]

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In Interview: Joachim Lafosse, Director of Our Children

by Mairéad Roche 8 May 2013

Joachim Lafosse’s latest work, Our Children (À perdre la raison), is released in UK cinemas on 10th May. Starring critically acclaimed actress Émilie Dequenne, along with Tahar Rahim and Niels Asterup, the film is based on a real-life case involving a young mother who murdered her four children.

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Terracotta Far East Film Festival Announces 2013 Line-up

by Alan Simmons 8 May 2013

It’s that time of year again: the annual Terracotta Far East Film Festival . London’s yearly dose of far out, Far Eastern film returns for its fifth year bigger, bigger and much bigger than ever.

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Special Event: Cine-Excess To Screen ‘Society’ With Director Q&A

by Martyn Conterio 7 May 2013

Brian Yuzna’s 1980s horror satire, Society, is screening as part of a one-off Cine-Excess event in Brighton on 23rd May. The formerly London-based festival and academic symposium has upped sticks to the south coast and is now associated with University of Brighton. Bringing cult icons to UK shores is part of their raison d’être with [...]

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In Review: Knightriders on Blu-ray

by Neil Sheppard 7 May 2013

A man and a woman lay naked in the forest. They rise and bathe in a nearby stream and don medieval garb. The beautiful lady puts on a crown and her dashing knight straps on armour. They mount the knight’s noble steed and ride off into the forest. Only, the steed is a motorbike…

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In Review: Dead End Drive-In on DVD

by Neil Mitchell 6 May 2013

The name Brian Trenchard-Smith will forever be associated with the Ozploitation movies of the Australian New Wave. The English born producer, writer, sometime actor and director of such diverse fare as The Man From Hong Kong (1975), Stunt Rock (1978), Turkey Shoot (1982) and BMX Bandits (1983), sees his 1986 effort, Dead End Drive-In, get [...]

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In Review: Our Children

by Amanda Keats 3 May 2013

In Joachim Lafosse’s Our Children, Murielle (Émilie Dequenne) is swept off her feet by Mounir (Tahar Rahim). She happily moves in with him and his father André (Niels Arestrup), but as she starts to have children, the living situation that suited them all becomes increasingly tense and destructive.

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In Review: I’m So Excited!

by Mark Searby 2 May 2013

At 63 years of age Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar still shows no sign of conforming to Hollywood normality with his latest film, I’m So Excited! Instead he has reverted back to the sort of farcical comedy that he made his breakthrough with

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