2017: September 29 - October 8

Introduction for newcomers

Glossary

Given some of the concerns I've expressed recently about the way S&S enjoys an undeserved (and really quite aggravating) reputation as the UK's 'journal of record', I'd like to try something different over the next few weeks, just to see how people react. Below is a list of the very latest UK cinema and home video releases, covering the week until Sunday, 15 October. This is everything on release, not merely the trimmings covered by S&S. The weekly list will be published every Monday going forward. If readers find it useful, I'll make it a permanent fixture.

Be aware that the review Index for S&S will end with the December 2017 listing. Working on this blog has served to highlight how many films have NOT been covered by the magazine, and the situation today is as bad as it has ever been, especially their serious avoidance of most home video releases. My subscription will be cancelled after the December issue and that will be the end of it. However, the Index to date will remain online for those who want to use it.


Cinema

29 Sep - 5 Oct 2017

Feature films screened in UK cinemas for the first time:

Brimstone
Neth/Ger/Belg/Fr/Swd/UK - 2016 - 148m - col / scope
D: Martin Koolhoven
Audio: 5.1

Correspondant
Le correspondant
Fr/Belg - 2016 - 86m - col / scope
D: Jean-Michel Ben Soussan
Audio: 5.1

Daphne
UK - 2017 - 88m - col / scope
D: Peter Mackie Burns
Audio: 5.1

Flatliners
USA - 2017 - 110m - col / scope
D: Niels Arden Oplev
Dolby Atmos / Auro 11.1

Goodbye Christopher Robin
UK - 2017 - 107m - col
D: Simon Curtis
Audio: 5.1

Home Again
USA - 2017 - 97m - col
D: Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Audio: 5.1

Judwaa 2
जुड़वा 2
India - 2017 - 145m - col / scope
D: David Shawan
Audio: 5.1

Karuppan
கருப்பன்
India - 2017 - 142m - col / scope
D: R. Panneer Selvam
Audio: 5.1

Killing Ground
Aus - 2016 - 88m - col / scope
D: Damien Power
Audio: 5.1

Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards
UK - 2017 - 89m - col
D: Michael Roberts
Audio: 5.1

Never Say Die
羞羞的鐵拳
China - 2017 - 100m - col / scope
D: Yang Song, Zhang Chiyu
D-Cinema, IMAX-D/L and China Film Giant Screen release prints.
Dolby Atmos / IMAX 12-track / CFGS: 11.1

Njandukalude Naattil Oridavela
ഞണ്ടുകളുടെ നാട്ടിൽ ഒരിടവേള
India - 2017 - 131m - col / scope
D: Althaf Salim
Audio: 5.1

Pecking Order
NZ - 2017 - 88m - col
D: Slavko Martinov
Audio: Stereo

Spyder
ஸ்பைடர்
India - 2017 - 147m - col / scope
D: A.R. Murugadoss
Dolby Atmos

Tawai: A Voice From the Forest
UK/Brazil/India/Malaysia - 2017 - 101m - col / scope
D: Bruce Parry
Audio: 5.1

Valley of the Wolves: Homeland
Kurtlar Vadisi: Vatan
Turk - 2017 - 108m - col
D: Serdar Akar
Audio: 5.1

Zoology
Зоология
Russia/Fr/Ger - 2016 - 91m - col
D: Ivan I. Tverdovsky

Home Video (premiere)

2 - 8 Oct 2017

Feature films and TV movies released on UK home video for the first time, with no prior UK cinema release (excluding festival screenings):

Attack of the Killer Donuts
USA - 2016 - 85m - col
D: Scott Wheeler
Audio: 5.1

Dark Amazon
USA/Brazil - 2014 - 81m - col
D: Darcyana Moreno Izel
Audio: 5.1

Darkland
Underverden
Den - 2017 - 112m - col / scope
D: Fenar Ahmad
Dolby Atmos

Dream the Impossible
UK - 2017 - 96m - col
D: Tom Long
Audio: Stereo

Ghost Team
USA - 2016 - 83m - col / scope
D: Oliver Irving
Audio: 5.1

Hillsong: Let Hope Rise
USA - 2017 - 103m - col
D: Michael John Warren
Audio: 5.1

Jack the Ripper
Ger (TV) - 2016 - 101m - col
D: Sebastian Niemann
Audio: Stereo

Killing Hasselhoff
USA - 2017 - 80m - col
D: Darren Grant
Audio: 5.1

A Kind of Murder
USA - 2016 - 95m - col / scope
D: Andy Goddard
Audio: 5.1

Mune
Mune: Le gardien de la lune
Fr - 2014 - 86m - col / scope / 3-D
D: Benoît Philippon, Alexandre Heboyan
Audio: 5.1

The Oath
Eiðurinn
Ice - 2016 - 103m - col / scope
D: Baltasar Kormákur
Audio: 5.1

Warriors Gate
Fr/China/Cambodia - 2016 - 108m - col / scope
D: Matthias Hoene
Audio: 5.1

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Home Video (ex-cinema)

2 - 8 Oct 2017

Feature films and TV movies released on UK home video for the first time, having previously been screened in UK cinemas:

Berlin Syndrome
Aus/Fr - 2016 - 116m - col / scope
D: Cate Shortland
Audio: 5.1

Capture Kill Release

Can - 2016 - 96m - col
D: Nick McAnulty, Brian Allan Stewart
Audio: 5.1

City of Ghosts
USA - 2017 - 92m - col / scope
D: Matthew Heineman
Audio: 5.1

The Exception
USA/UK - 2016 - 107m - col / scope
D: David Leveaux
Audio: 5.1

Fireman Sam: Alien Alert
UK - 2016 - 62m - col
D: Gary Andrews
Audio: 5.1

The Ghoul
UK - 2017 - 85m - col / scope
D: Gareth Tunley
Audio: 5.1

Goon: Last of the Enforcers
Can - 2017 - 101m - col / scope
D: Jay Baruchel
Audio: 5.1

I Am Not Madame Bovary
我不是潘金蓮
China - 2016 - 140m/128m - col / Circular + 1.00:1 + 1.85:1 + scope
D: Feng Xiaogang
Dolby Atmos / CFGS: 11.1

The Journey
USA/UK - 2016 - 94m - col / scope
D: Nick Hamm
Audio: 5.1

Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
USA - 2017 - 129m - col / scope / 3-D
D: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Dolby Atmos / IMAX 12-track

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Ger/Fr/UK/USA - 2016 - 106m - col / scope / 3-D
D: Paul W.S. Anderson
Dolby Atmos / Auro 11.1 / IMAX 12-track

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Home Video (reissues)
2 - 8 Oct 2017

Feature films and home video:

10 Rillington Place
UK - 1970 - 111m - col
D: Richard Fleischer
Audio: Mono

20 Million Miles to Earth

USA - 1957 - 82m - bw
D: Nathan Juran
Audio: Mono

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver
USA/UK/Sp - 1960 - 99m - col
D: Jack Sher
Audio: Mono

Apollo 13
USA - 1995 - 140m - col / scope
D: Ron Howard
Audio: 5.1 / IMAX 6-track

Belle de jour
Fr/It - 1967 - 100m - col
D: Luis Buñuel
Audio: Mono

The Grinch
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
USA/Ger - 2000 - 105m - col
D: Ron Howard
Audio: 5.1

It Came From Beneath the Sea
USA - 1955 - 77m - bw
D: Robert Gordon
Audio: Mono

L.A. Confidential
USA - 1997 - 138m - col / scope
D: Curtis Hanson
Audio: 5.1

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
USA - 2007 - 168m - col / scope
D: Gore Verbinski
Audio: 5.1

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
USA - 2006 - 150m - col / scope
D: Gore Verbinski
Audio: 5.1

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
USA - 2011 - 136m - col / scope / 3-D
D: Rob Marshall
Audio: 7.1 / IMAX 6-track

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
USA - 2003 - 143m - col / scope
D: Gore Verbinski
Audio: 6.1

Pokémon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back
劇場版ポケットモンスターミュウツーの逆襲
Jpn/USA - 1999 - 96m/75m - col
D: Kunihiko Yuyama, Michael Haigney
Audio: 5.1

Pokémon: The Movie 2000
劇場版ポケットモンスター 幻のポケモン ルギア爆誕
Jpn - 1999 - 100m/80m - col
D: Kunihiko Yuyama
Audio: 5.1

Pokémon 3: The Movie
劇場版ポケットモンスター 結晶塔の帝王 ENTEI
Jpn - 2000 - 93m - col
D: Kunihiko Yuyama, Michael Haigney
Audio: 5.1

Serenity
USA - 2005 - 119m - col / scope
D: Joss Whedon
Audio: 5.1

Starman
USA - 1984 - 115m - col / scope
D: John Carpenter
4.2-channel Dolby Stereo

xXx
USA - 2002 - 124m - col / scope
D: Rob Cohen
Audio: 5.1

xXx: The Next Level
xXx: State of the Union
USA - 2005 - 101m - col / scope
D: Lee Tamahori
Audio: 5.1

Zombie Flesh-Eaters

Zombi 2
It - 1979 - 91m - col / scope
D: Lucio Fulci
Audio: Mono

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Note:

Be aware that scope or 3-D movies may not always be replicated that way on home video. Similarly, some video releases may offer a different audio configuration to the one originally intended (5.1, Dolby Atmos, etc.). In each case, the Index provides details of the primary audio-visual specifications, and any video version which deviates from these specs constitutes a revision of the original intentions, potentially compromising the effectiveness of the presentation.

Also, the given running time assumes a projected frame-rate of 24 frames per second (except for TV material in countries where the broadcast frame-rate is 25fps). Most VHS and DVD releases in the UK are replicated at 25fps, causing a subliminal speed-up that 'reduces' the running time by around 4 per cent. Most Blu-ray releases (including 4K) are replicated at the original 24fps.