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Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza, The Big Valley and Have Gun Will Travel on the TV dial. In Italy, TV was still a bit of a mess and so the people of Rome, Naples and Milan preferred to get their primetime entertainment in the local cinemas. Instead of begging Hollywood to give them more tales of the Wild West, the Italian producers found international actors that could ride horses and they rode off to Spain to create a hundreds of films that entertained the Western fans all over of Europe. Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood became a big enough hit that it conquered America i...

Japanese cinema has been a bit of a mystery. It’s not that it didn’t exist, but what arrived in America was rather specific offerings. When I was a kid, Japanese cinema consisted of large monsters stomping Tokyo. Around college time, things expanded a little bit beyond Godzilla and Gamera with the films of Akira Kurosawa showing up at art houses. Although his movies would get referenced in terms of the movies that were remade from his work such as Seven Samurai into The Hidden Fortress for Star Wars. Even during the era of Mom & Pop VHS shops, the foreign section didn’t contain much...

Thanks to Arrow Video, we’ve got a copy of the limited edition Blu-ray release of Battle Royale, which features a brand new 4K restoration of the classic cult shocker. Read on for details of how to enter… The kids of Third Year Class-B Shiroiwa Junior High School are back, in a brand new UHD restoration of the classic cult shocker adapted from the controversial novel by Koushun Takami. Presenting an alternate dystopian vision of turn-of-the-millennium Japan, Battle Royale follows the 42 junior high school students selected to take part in the government’s annual Battle Royale programme...

Exclusive: Supernatural Thriller Threshold Clip Threshold, which releases May 3 on Arrow Video’s subscription streaming service. The second film from co-directors Powell Robinson and Patrick R. Young, Threshold follows a pair of estranged siblings that go on a haunted road trip after being cursed by a cult. The inventive thriller was shot on two iPhones with a crew of only three people. Lauren Bates produced the film, which stars Joey Millin and Madison West. Arrow will also feature a number of bonuses for the film including a directors’ intro, multiple commentary tracks and behind-the...

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku/Kenta Fukasaku. Starring Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Tarô Yamamoto, Ai Maeda, and Shûgo Oshinari. SYNOPSIS: 4K UHD box set featuring the violent and hugely influential Japanese action shocker, along with its not-so-influential sequel. It would take the hardiest of armchair grouches to grumble at the quality of the 4K releases that Arrow Video have been putting out since their loaded release of Pitch Black last summer, and that trend continues with the upgrade of one of their flagship Blu-ray titles from a few years back, which also happens to be one of the most ...