All apologies to Bruce Willis for what I’m about to write. Despite his firm stance on the matter, I can’t help but classify Die Hard as a Christmas movie. It takes place at a company holiday party, features festive music, and has Bruce Willis himself whistling “Jingle Bells” in the opening act. The end credits roll to “Let it Snow”, bookending the film in festive music. That checks all the boxes I need to justify putting on this classic action-thriller during the season.
Now available from MVD
A man who thought he was done with war is pulled back in as part of a mercenary group brought to a Thai island for a greedy boss.
Now available from Eureka Classics
This set collects four historically inspired films from Shaw Brothers Studio and director Cheh Chang.
Now available from Arrow Video
And now for part two of one of the biggest and best box sets of the year:
Now available from Arrow Video
This box set is a big one, almost THE big one (but that may actually go to Volume Three, review of that one posting shortly). This set has 14, yes 14, Shaw Brothers martial arts films and 2 discs of music from these films, all in this beautiful box. The number of special features in this set is staggering and will take any dedicated fan days, weeks even, to watch through. Here are our thoughts on this set: