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In Review: Streets Of Fire (1984) on Blu-ray

by Michael Ewins 15 November 2013

A long-standing cult favourite, Walter Hill’s Streets Of Fire is a formalist exercise in the language of movie cliché, a mélange of 1950s and 1980s aesthetics designed to fulfil the director’s boyhood dreams. “Kissing in the rain, neon, trains in the night”… Hill’s list, taken from the original 1984 press kit, lays down the blueprint […]

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In Review: Man of Steel

by Maryann O'Connor 15 June 2013

So, Superman is back again, this time sponsored by Batman puppetmaster Christopher Nolan. Fed up with all the homegrown looking attempts at Superman, director Zack Snyder has gone for a very snazzy looking version of Krypton and equally snazzy looking inhabitants of said planet. And some slight alterations to the traditional story.

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