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Performance is a 1970 UK crime drama by Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg.
With James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg.    

The film has a history of censorship at the hands of the BBFC and Its own distributor, Warner. BBFC cuts wre later waived but the extensive footage removed by Warners is still missing.

Summary Notes

A violent East London gangster undergoes a transformation of identity while hiding from his former colleagues in the home of a jaded Bohemian rock star and his two girlfriends.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2025 The Criterion Collection R0 4K Blu-ray/(RA) Blu-ray Combo at US Amazon #ad released on 25th February 2025
• 2025 The Criterion Collection (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon #ad released on 25th February 2025

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The grimy criminal underworld and hedonistic rock-and-roll counterculture of late-1960s London collide in this mind-scrambling, kaleidoscopic freak-out. On the run from his vengeful boss, a ruthless gangster (James Fox) hides out in the Notting Hill home of a reclusive rock star (Mick Jagger) and his companions (Anita Pallenberg and Michele Breton), who open the doors of his perception as the lines between reality and fantasy, male and female, persona and self, dissolve in a hallucinogenic haze. Built around Jaggers most magnetic narrative-film performance, this visionary collaboration between enigmatic artist Donald Cammell and first-time director Nicolas Roeg is a daringly transgressive, endlessly influential journey to the dark side of bohemia.

4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• New 4K digital restoration, approved by producer Sandy Lieberson, with uncompressed monaural original-UK-version soundtrack
• One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
• Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998), a documentary by Kevin Macdonald and Chris Rodley
• Influence and Controversy: Making 'Performance' (2007), a documentary about the making of the film
• The True Story of David Litvinoff, a new visual essay by Keiron Pim, biographer of dialogue coach and technical adviser David Litvinoff
• Performers on 'Performance,' a documentary featuring actors James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and others
• The Two Cockneys of Harry Flowers, a program on the dialogue overdubbing done for the U.S. version of the film
• Memo from Turner, a program featuring behind-the-scenes footage
• Trailer
• English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Ryan Gilbey and a 1995 article by filmmaker and scholar Peter Wollen

Erotic Ghost Story Trilogy is a film set
Starring Amy Yip, Hitomi Kudo and So Man

There are no censorship issues with this release beyond noting that there are shorter Mandarin versions

UK: BBFC aggregate 18 rated:

• 2025 88 Films Trilogy (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad released on 3rd March 2025
• 2025 88 Films Trilogy R2 DVD at UK Amazon #ad released on 3rd March 2025

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This triple-bill of paranormal perversion delivers everything you'd want from a Category III movie, plus a bit more besides. In the first tale from Story of Ricki director Ngai Choi Lam, a trio of sexy spirits fall for the same hunk. The second movie, the directorial debut of Peter Ngor has the God of Carnal Desire, God Wu Tung on a quest for revenge after his favourite conquest is zapped by other god like beings and in the third piece from Kai-Ming Lai, a man journeys into the afterlife only to be greeted by a very powerful woman. A trilogy like no other, this one hits the spirited saucy spot.

Blackhat is a 2015 USA action crime mystery by Michael Mann.
Starring Chris Hemsworth and Viola Davis and Manny Montana.

Exists as a US Version, a cut International/European Version and a Director's Cut.

Summary Notes

Set within the world of global cybercrime, Legendary's "blackhat" follows a furloughed convict and his American and Chinese partners as they hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta.

UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for strong violence:

• 2025 Arrow Video [International + US Versions] R0 4K Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad released on 24th February 2025
• 2025 Arrow Video Amazon VoD [UK] at UK Amazon #ad

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WE ARE NO LONGER IN CONTROL.

Michael Mann ( Thief , Collateral ), the acclaimed auteur celebrated for his action panache and commitment to cinematic realism, turns his hand to depicting the high-stakes world of global cybercrime in Blackhat , a contemporary, ripped-from-the-headlines twist on the espionage thriller.

Chris Hemsworth ( The Avengers , Extraction ) stars as Nick Hathaway, a gifted hacker currently serving a lengthy prison sentence. When a Hong Kong nuclear plant goes into meltdown after its security is penetrated, Chinese army cybersecurity captain Chen Dawai (Leehom Wang, Lust, Caution ) offers his old college roommate a deal: help identify and apprehend the culprit in exchange for his own freedom. What follows is a frenetic, globe-trotting race against time to avert disaster, fraught with hidden agendas and ever-shifting loyalties.

Praised for its unusually accurate portrayal of cybersecurity, Blackhat boasts an impressive international cast, including Tang Wei ( Decision to Leave ), Viola Davis ( The Woman King ) and Yorick van Wageningen ( The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ), and showcases one of cinemas finest filmmakers bringing the skills he honed during a long and storied career to bear on a distinctly 21st-century phenomenon.

SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS

• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentations in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) of both the US and international versions of the film
• Original lossless 5.1 audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Audio commentary by critics Bryan Reesman and Max Evry
• Firewall -- video interview with cinematographer Stuart Dryburgh
• Zero Day Threat -- video interview with production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas
• The Cyber Threat , On Location Around the World and Creating Reality -- three archival behind-the-scenes featurettes on the making of the film
• Image gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Doug John Miller

The Mask Of Satan is a 1960 Italy horror by Mario Bava.
Starring Barbara Steele and John Richardson and Andrea Checchi.

Banned by the BBFC in 1961. The European Version (Mask of Satan) was uncut but the US Version (Black Sunday) was cut.

Summary Notes

In the Seventeenth Century, in Maldavia, Princess Asa Vajda and her lover Javutich (Arturo Dominici) are killed by the local population, accused of witchcraft. A mask of Satan is attached to their faces. Princess Asa curses her brother, promising revenge to his descents. The body of Javutich is buried outside the cemetery, and the coffin of Princess Asa is placed in the family's tomb with a cross over it for protection. Two hundred years later, Professor Thomas Kruvajan and his assistant, Dr. Andre Gorobec, are going to a congress in Russia and they accidentally find the tomb. Dr. Thomas breaks the cross, releasing the evil witch. When they are leaving the place, Dr. Andre meets Princess Katia Vajda, descendant of Princess Asa, and falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Katia is threatened by the witch, who wants to use her body to live again.

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2025 Severin Films (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon #ad released on 25th February 2025

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THE NORTH AMERICAN BLU-RAY PREMIERE From writer/director Lamberto Bava (DEMONS) comes a modern-day reimagining of his father's classic BLACK SUNDAY featuring FX by Sergio Stivaletti (CEMETERY MAN), music by Simon Boswell (SANTA SANGRE) and hailed as an impressive evolution of '80s Italian horror that not enough fans have seen (At The Mansion Of Madness): When a group of skiers becomes trapped in a crevasse, their discovery of a long-frozen female corpse will unmask an ancient evil, unlock a portal of the damned and unleash a nightmare of Satanic vengeance. Mary Sellers (STAGEFRIGHT), Debora Caprioglio (Klaus Kinski's PAGANINI) and Michele Soavi (director of THE CHURCH and THE SECT) star in this visual roller coaster (Ninja Dixon) - also known as DEMONS 5: THE DEVIL'S VEIL - now scanned in 2K from the original camera negative for the first time ever in North America.

Special Features The Curse Of The Mask - Interview With Director Lamberto Bava Una Americana A Roma - Interview With Actress Mary Sellers Sabina The Teenage Witch - Interview With Actress Debora Caprioglio

The US right leaning forum website GAB has blocked internet users located in Britain. UK users can now only see a landing page explaining that UK internet censorship laws are unacceptable to the free speech loving forum. The website explains its actions as follows:

ATTENTION: UK Visitor Detected

The following notice applies specifically to users accessing from the United Kingdom.

Access Restricted by Provider

After receiving yet another demand from the UK's speech police, Ofcom, Gab has made the decision to block the entire United Kingdom from accessing our website.

This latest email from Ofcom ordered us to disclose information about our users and operations. We know where this leads: compelled censorship and British citizens thrown in jail for hate speech. We refuse to comply with this tyranny.

Gab is an American company with zero presence in the UK. Ofcom's demands have no legal force here. To enforce anything in the United States, they'd need to go through a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request or letters rogatory. No U.S. court is going to enforce a foreign censorship regime. The First Amendment forbids it.

Ofcom will likely try to make an example of us anyway. That's because the UK's Online Safety Act isn't about protecting children. It's about suppressing dissent.

They're welcome to try. The idea that a British regulator can pressure a U.S. company that's IP-blocking the entire UK is as farcical as it is futile. If anything, it proves our point: censorship doesn't work. It only reveals the truth about the censors.

We proudly join platforms like Bitchute in boycotting the United Kingdom. American companies should follow suit. The power of the UK's parliament ends where the First Amendment begins.

The only way to vote against the tyranny of the UK's present regime is to walk away from it, refuse to comply, and take refuge under the impervious shelter of the First Amendment.

The UK's rulers want their people kept in the dark. Let them see how long the public tolerates it as their Internet vanishes, one website at a time.