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Soylent Green is a telling, relevant and at times troubling dystopian thriller from the early 1970’s. It shows us a future where humankind has well and truly ruined the planet- temperatures are constantly boiling, and the air is hazed/ polluted. Vegetation, plants, and trees have all but gone- as have most animals. The general public have to queue to get rationed portions of Soylent in various colours) a bland processed food, and hope in general is in very short supply. The film centres around a weary/ jaded detective played by Charlton Heston (The Omega Man, Ben-Hur) who’s investigating the death of a very wealthy man, which ends up revealing an awful truth. Here from Arrow Video- both in the UK & Stateside- is a release of the film. It comes as either a UHD or Blu-Ray, with a new 4k scan of the picture, new commentary, and archive extras.
22 Jul 2026
Vacant Align Interview
Active since October 2025, Wisconsin’s Vacant Align is one of the more atmospheric and texturally inventive wall noise projects to appear in some time. It’s a project that takes its time in releasing work, and you can certainly hear it, as each of their releases so far is a perfectly crafted blend of expressive and engaging textures. Behind the project is John Engman, who very kindly agreed to give us an email interview
24 Jun 2026
Falling Down stands as one of the more memorable, impactful, and thought-provoking thrillers/ action films of the 1990’s. It stars buzz- cut & bespeckled Michael Douglas ( Wall Street, Fatal Attraction, The China Syndrome) as a snapped everyman ironing/ shooting out the flaws he sees in society. It’s a blend of salary-man breakdown psycho drama, societal satire, jet-back comedy, and action thriller. Here from the fine folks at Arrow Video, both in the UK & US, is a new release of the film. It’s available as either a UHD or Blu-Ray- which take in a new 4k scan, and a mix of new/ archive extras.
Exploring the interaction between a physical Ondes Martenot and a virtual reconstruction, Kr-Krr (Nathalie Forget and Gilles Aubry) fuse the haunting waves of the instrument with electronic experimentation, creating an intriguing mixture of texture and tone. Based around improvisation, the duo work together to bring this early electronic instrument into a new age, allowing its voice to shine but also giving it provenance within a modern experimental setting. Its warm, wavering voice is somewhere between a theremin and a bowed instrument; this semi-alien quality gives it a head start in melding with the more experimental electronics that make up the bulk of Nebulage's sound.
RDKPL — Bouf Noise Wall
21 Jul 2026Kadaveric Kommando — Teeth
21 Jul 2026Raté — Manque
21 Jul 2026Train Cemetery/ Sleep Column — Split
21 Jul 2026Demons Of The Mind — Demons Of The Mind( UHD)
21 Jul 2026The Ogre of Athens — The Ogre of Athens(Blu Ray)
20 Jul 2026I Married a Strange Person! — I Married a Strange Person!(Blu Ray)
20 Jul 2026Purgate — Leavings
20 Jul 2026
Jasper Sharp interview
In the year 1971, Nikkatsu, the oldest/ at one point, the biggest film production company in Japan. Did something quite daring/ some would say crazy- they completely switched over their production to softcore adult films, which would become known as Roman Porno. Between 1971 and 1988, the company produced around 850 of these titles. The thing that made these films stand out from general softcore films is the often creative & inventive choices made- yes, the films primal focus is sleaze, but great examples of the genre are so much more than that. In the last year or so, there has been a spate of reissues of films in the genre from labels such as 88 Films, Third Window Films, and Klubb Super 8. One of the key figures/contributors behind these releases is Jasper Sharp- one of the world's experts on the genre, and the wider Pink genre it’s connected to. Jasper kindly agreed to give us an email interview discussing his history with the genre, his contributions to releases, and the new/updated edition of his book Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema on Fab Press.
King Futile Interview
King Futile is the new project from Scotland-based Lea Cummings( Kylie Minoise, Official Music Team, etc), and it’s a big departure from his normal noise or retro sample & electronica sound. It's lo-fi acoustic music, with an outsider feel, and often quite tongue-in-cheek/ sharply sarcastic tone to the lyrics. So far, the project has put out three albums- Casual Misery, How To Have Fun, and Zen As Fuck. I tracked down Lea for an email interview.
Cliff Twemlow On Severin
One of last year’s real big surprises in the world of Blu-ray box sets was Bloody Legend: The Complete Twemlow Collection, as it was a wholly entertaining, fascinating, and at times heart-warming set. The Severin released boxset brought together the work of one of the UK’s unlikeliest movie moguls- Cliff Twemlow, a Mancunian bouncer/ body builder, who went on to write/star in/produce a series of low-budget/ largely SOV films in the early 80s to early 90s- these moved between action, thriller, sci-fi, and horror. His most notable/notorious film was 1983’s G.B.H., which landed on the video nasty list, though he was connected to other ten feature films, many of which got their first real full/proper release on the boxset. Opening up the set was the excellent 2023 documentary Mancunian Man: The Legendary Life of Cliff Twemlow, which really pulls you into the set. I caught up with Severn’s David Gregory and Jake West, director of Mancunian Man, to discuss the boxset and all things cliff.
The Fall
MES( Mark E Smith- The Falls main creator) possessed the ability to cram phrases into impossible spaces - “I’m hunting and I’m trying to find” delivered as “hut’na tryna find”; the eight-syllable “mere pseud mag editor’s father” hastily squeezed into a manipulation of time and space, heralded by the prior line “twice each at least”, the latter naturally repeated thrice.
