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The Comeback
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Read more: The ComebackThis was one of the titles we picked up from Enterprise for both Super 8 and video. We issued the title on both VHS and Beta, other titles in the package were ‘Kingdom of the Spiders’, ‘The Redeemer’, ‘Dogs’, ‘Bruce Lee: The Man, The Myth’ and ‘Leopard in the Snow’. It was a nice entry…
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Film For The Collector #3
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Read more: Film For The Collector #3As the magazine grew and matured it attracted regular articles and reports from the likes of Barry Littlechild: His ‘Littlechild Report’ was witty and at the same time there was a little bite. Tony Shapps: Who had a regular two page feature devoted to Scope and 3D, entitled ‘Shappervescence’. David Oxland: Film Soundtracks. David Fulton,…
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The Band Wagon
Read more: The Band WagonA two page article from a January 1954 film magazine. This 1953 musical receives an 7.4 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Vincente Minnelli it stars Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse and Oscar Levant. Gorgeous MGM feature about an aging movie star uncertain of his future teaming up with a ballerina to headline a new Broadway…
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Die Screaming Marianne
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Read more: Die Screaming MarianneA horror thriller from Pete Walker starring Susan George and Barry Evans from 1971. The plot was fairly simple with sisters fighting over an inheritance, which ends in deadly consequences. We’d picked up a number of Pete’s titles, of which this was perhaps the weakest. However the name Susan George helped us shift a few…
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Film For The Collector #2
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Read more: Film For The Collector #2Originally only available as part of the membership to ‘The Derann Club’, a group who also had access to exclusive super 8 offers, it was launched in September 1985, a magazine of just 20 pages and looking like a large fanzine! Try as we might we couldn’t find writers who had the expertise or time…
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Robocop
Read more: RobocopA two page article from a February 1988 magazine: This 1987 Sci-Fi thriller receives an 7.0 rating on the IMDb. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen and Dan O’Herlihy. This was one of a number of Orion Pictures titles we were able to obtain from Rank Film Distributors. In a crime-ridden…
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Haunts
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Read more: HauntsThe video cassette market was booming with customers constantly looking for new horror, ‘sex’ and action titles, so it’s easy to understand why we would release this hooror that in reality is a slow-paced thriller that has a real sense of impending doom. The names of May Britt, Cameron Mitchell and Aldo Ray, adorn the…
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Film For The Collector #1
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Read more: Film For The Collector #1I have to thank Dave Hinett for giving me the idea for this short series. When ‘Film Making’ and ‘Movie Maker’, the UKs two small film gauge magazines disappeared from the news stands, everyone at Derann agreed that their passing was only going to be detrimental to the ‘Home Movie’ market, whether it be package…