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'Dead Man’s Shoes' Shane Meadows’s tour-de-force starring Paddy Considine gets Limited Edition Blu-ray Release on August 2026,

DEAD MAN'S SHOES (2004)

Limited Edition Blu-ray

Standard Edition Blu-ray

Arrive August 10, 2026

‘Disturbing, uncompromising and completely gripping’ ★★★★

- Empire

‘Death Wish comes to the streets of Derbyshire... Shane

Meadows' pared-down tale of vigilante vengeance... the violence – nasty and unglamourised – delivers a short, sharp shock to the moral nether regions, as it demands: what would you do?’ ★★★★

- BBC.com

'Alarming political incorrectness reaps cinematic dividends... keeps us in a state of anxious unease. Considine is particularly adept at navigating the fine line between humour and horror'

- Mark Kermode, Sight & Sound

‘Shane Meadows’s best film… a short sharp shock of revenge horror, film noir, social realism and black comedy with a classic twist… earns his “Scorsese of the Midlands” tag with eruptions of striking brutality. And the supremely unnerving Considine is his De Niro’

★★★★★

- The Times

Shane Meadows’s tour-de-force Dead Man’s Shoes is one of the best British films ever made and features one of the most powerful and fearsome performances ever seen on screen from Paddy Considine. Now, the film finally gets the release it deserves as Second Sight Films announces the highly anticipated Dead Man’s Shoes Limited Edition Blu-ray Box Set, set for release this Summer.

Lauded as one of the grittiest and most visceral British revenge dramas ever made, this tense and uncompromising psychological thriller stars Considine – who also co-wrote the film – as Richard, a former soldier who returns to his hometown in Derbyshire. But why has he come back?

Filled with violence, vengeance and simmering menace, Richard embarks on a chilling campaign of revenge

against those responsible for devastating past atrocities.

What begins as psychological intimidation gradually escalates into a brutal reckoning as he hunts down the gang

members one by one.

Featuring an exceptional cast including Toby Kebbell (RocknRolla, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) and boxing

champion turned actor Gary Stretch (Alexander), who both give outstanding performances, the acclaimed film

is set to arrive in this must-own collector’s edition on 10 August 2026.

The set is presented in a stunning rigid slipcase with new artwork by Krishna Shenoi, a 120-page book with new

essays, a Graphic Novel and features a slew of fantastic additional content including new audio commentaries

and new interviews. Please see full details below.

Fill your boots with the Dead Man’s Shoes Limited Edition release, for the ultimate vengeance thriller

showcasing the best in British cinema.

Special Features:

• New audio commentary with director Shane Meadows and producer Mark Herbert

• New audio commentary by Andrew Graves and Jon Towlson

• Audio commentary with Shane Meadows, actor Paddy Considine and Mark Herbert

• Quite a Journey: a new interview with Shane Meadows and Mark Herbert

• A Very Fine Line: a new interview with actor Toby Kebbell

• The Right Horses: a new interview with actor Gary Stretch

• Made an Impact: an interview with director of photography Danny Cohen

• Deleted and Alternate Scenes

• In Shane's Shoes

• Short Film: Northern Soul

• Danger Mouse and Jemini Music Video

Limited Edition Contents

• Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Krishna Shenoi

• 120-page book with new essays by Anna Cale, Tim Coleman, Matt Glasby, Joel Harley, Ella Kemp and

Hannah Strong

• Dead Man's Shoes Graphic Novel

• Six collectors' art cards

Title: Dead Man’s Shoes Limited Edition Blu-ray

Release Date: 10 August 2026

Run Time: 90 mins

Cert: 18

Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/DeadMansShoesLTD

Region: B

Title: Dead Man’s Shoes Standard Edition Blu-ray

Release Date: 10 August 2026

Run Time: 90 mins

Cert: 18

Pre-order here: https://bit.ly/DeadMansShoesStd

Region: B

PICTURE OF A NYMPH (1987) 88 Films Blu-ray Review + Screenshots

PICTURE OF A NYMPH (1987)

Deluxe Limited Edition Blu-ray

Label: 88 Films

Region Code: Region-Free

Rating: Unrated

Duration: 97 Minutes 58 Seconds

Audio: Cantonese PCM 2.0 Dual-Mono with Optional English Subtitles

Video: 1080p HD Widescreen (1.85:1)

Director: Wu Ma

Cast: Yuen Biao, Wu Ma, Lawrence Ng, Elizabeth Lee, Joey Wang, Wah Yuen, May Mei-Mei Lo, Wai Lam, Zhilun Xue

The Wuxia infused Chinese ghost story Picture of a Nymph (1987) is dorected by Wu Ma (Kickboxer), in it we have Taoist monk disciple Shih Erh (Yuen Biao, Righting Wrongs) who inadvertently burns down the home of a scholar named Tsui Hung-Chuen (Lawrence Ng, Sex and Zen) after battling a long-haired elderly demon (Yuen Wah, Kung Fu Hustle). His demon-battling master Wu Men-Chu (Ma Wu, Kickboxer) is none to pleased when he returns home and finds that his young disciple has been disobeying his demon-hunting rules, and even worse, has brought a stranger into their home. The film opens with a prologue with a stoic unnamed swordsman (Wai Lam, A Chinese Ghost Story) depositing his infant son Tsui into a basket and sending him down river after their village had been decimated and burned by an unknown enemy. From here things get weird pretty quick, we are taken down stream where the Taoist monk Wu Men-Chu is taking a bath in the river, we get a pretty upbeat song about cleaning yourself, which sort of gives the sequence a weird TV commercial vibe, especially in the way it's shot, I kept expecting it to it end with a plug for a bath soap pop up, but it did not. Instead the monk finds the child in the basket and declaring it the will of the gods takes him in. We also get another prologue of a young bride-to-be Mo Chui (Joey Wong, A Chinese Ghost Story) who is attacked by the Ghost King (Elizabeth Lee, Long Arm of the Law: Part 3), sacrificing herself by jumping off a waterfall to her death, becoming a ghost spirit. What transpires is the scholar Tsui, who initially does not believe in the supernatural world, falls in love with the spirit Moi Chui, painting a portrait of her, in which she can hide from the Ghost King, which incurs the wrath of malevolent spirt. The angered spirit unleashes demons upon them, with Tsui being protected by Shih Erh and his master Tsui Hung-Chuen to thwart the Ghost King.

The film is very echoey of A Chinese Ghost Story, sharing storylines and even some of the same actors playing the same characters, but it is delivered with even more humor and bonkers weirdness throughout. The was produced by Sammo Hung's production company and is chock full of Hung's signature fight choreography and wire-work, it's a dazzling and kinetic flick in that respect. The ghostly and supernatural elements are also top-notch, managing to handle both the humor, whimsy, and fantasy-romance and tragic elements rather well, striking that perfect balance, with terrific turns from the main cast as well, this is a solidly entertaining and quite humorous watch from start to finish.

Audio/Video: Picture of Nymph (1987) arrives on Blu-ray from 88 Films with a new 2K restoration derived from the original camera negative presented in 1080p HD in 1.85:1 widescreen. The source looks wonderful with nicely resolved grain throughout; the period texture and details look very pleasing throughout. A highlight of this release is the abundance of vibrant colors seen in the colored lighting gels during the supernatural sequences with eerie blues, red and greens, it's very moody and shadowy, with strong black levels and appreciable depth to it. Audio comes by way of remastered Cantonese PCM 2.0 dual-mono with optional newly translated English subtitles. I did detect some distortion in the higher registers but generally found it quite nice we get plenty of cool sound design flourishes, be it the sound of fighting, the soft babble of a brook, or the sounds of a demon, plus a synth score. Character dialogue is nicely prioritized as well and nicely prioritized in the mix.

Extras include an Audio Commentary by Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival), plus a second Audio Commentary by David West. Disc extras are finished up with a 2-min Image Gallery with stills and movie posters, and the 4-min Original Trailer.

This Deluxe Limited Edition set includes a stunning Limited Edition Rigid Slipcase and Slipcover with new artwork by Sean Longmore, plus a Reversible Wrap with the Longmore artwork, plus the Original Hong Kong Artwork. Inside there is a Limited Edition 40-Page Perfect Bound Book with writings by Paul Bramhall and Fraser Elliot, which examine the Golden Harvest fantasy folk horror era and the rich Chinese folk horror that inform the film, as well as plenty of pictures, plus cast and crew credits. Also tucked away inside the slipbox is a Limited Edition Premium Artcard.