The Consumer Experience Is King
HMV’s Rudy Osorio is a long-time champion of the industry, both in his role as head of film and TV at the retailer, and in his involvement in industry organisations, not least as one of the senior retailers...
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Doctor In The House
It’s not every day that an actual time traveller turns up in store, but the original Timelord, aka the Doctor, probably knows a thing or two about the history of the HMV flagship store at 363 Oxford Street,...
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We’ve Been Ex-Spectring You, Mr Bond
It may not sound like the most thrilling James Bond adventure ever – a mission to takeover retailers around the country – but the military precision with which Fox and its partners took on the covert task would have...
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The Week In Video Part LV
A round-up of our recent viewing across the home entertainment spectrum, taking in recent, current and forthcoming releases, paying particular attention to their trade potential…
Tangerine finally arrives on physical formats on March 28, and while it...
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Putting On The Ritz
The Duke Mitchell Film Club, a monthly shindig dedicated to all things weird and wonderful from around the world, never fails to disappoint. From helping host DVD launches and working closely with distributors and events such as Film4...
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The Week In Video Part LIV
Our regular look at our recent viewing, paying particular attention to a film's potential on home entertainment releases…
We’ll start with a brace of wildly differing titles from Soda Pictures now, which, as we noted on...
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Islands In The Streams
Lucy Savage has got plenty of experience in both the independent sector and beyond, with a CV that takes in senior roles at the likes of Studiocanal, Kaleidoscope and Revolver. Now set up as a consultant working across all...
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Book Corner
So what, we’re talking about books now? The Raygun is not necessarily noted for its literary prowess or discussion, but an intense burst of reading activity over the holiday season, catching up with a pile of books on...
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The Week In Video Part LIII
After a Christmas break, we’re back with another batch of our rent viewing, paying particular attention to a film’s commercial prospects…
Let’s start with some titles from the Artificial Eye and Curzon set-up, which has got off...
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2015 – The Year In Numbers
The year’s over, the counting’s done and the figures are all in… Rather than a straightforward feature we’ve pored over stats and numbers from the video industry and other spheres of the entertainment business to pul together a...
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Who’s Best
It's pretty much the first thing one sees as you exit the car park at East London's vast Excel centre - a Doctor Who clone, dressed as one of the incarnations of the Time Lord.
It's...
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The Week In Video Part LII
We’ve been busy with a few other projects in recent weeks, or home viewing has been curtailed not just by that, but also by something of a paucity of titles sent to us recently; the postman has hardly...
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Jurassic World In Numbers
With its week one now firmly under its belt, Universal is planning to keep the latest Jurassic era going right through until Christmas. And here’s what it’s done so far and some of the plans for the next...
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Ron Benson Remembered
I’ve lost a friend
Labelled With Love
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the launch of the FrightFest Presents imprint, a boutique label bearing the horror film festival's trusted name, is not that it's happening, but more a case of why did it take so...
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The Week In Video Part LI
Our latest round up of titles we've been watching, complete with a look at their commercial potential and trade prospects…
Kevin Bacon is on fine form as a bent copper in Cop Car, as solid and as...
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Turbo Charged
The annual horrorthon (and genrethon, if you’re going to be pedantic) that is Film4 FrightFest offers up a taste not just of the best in forthcoming titles taking in the entire spectrum of the field, but it’s also...
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The Week In Video Part L
Back with out regular look at our recent home viewing, paying close attention to its trade potential… And as noted on The Raygun newsletter last week, we’re still playing catch up with some of our Film 4 FrightFest...
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The Week In Video Part XLIX
A round up of some of our recent home viewing, with a keen eye on the assorted titles’ trade potential…
We'll start with a bumper package of titles from eOne, with the company graciously sending us...
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“We Start Industries…”
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