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In many ways it's fitting that Robin Hardy and Anthony Schaffer's film about death and rebirth should itself have been reborn so many times.

The final film by Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki steps away from the supernatural and fantasy elements that has typified his best known work for a bittersweet tale based on the life-story of aeronautical engineer Jiro Horikoshi.

It may be 75 years since it first played on the big screen, but this lavish musical based on L. Frank Baum's children's book remains charming and utterly unmissable. And now Warner Bros. has only gone and given it a brand new 8K restoration and a 3D ret-con. So, let’s head off along the yellow brick road and see how this new release holds up…

Set after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, this latest spin-off sees Wolverine head off to Japan in a tale inspired by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller's celebrated 1982 comic book series.

Enjoyably silly creature-feature It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) kicks off this three-film boxset in fine style with its story of a giant radioactive octopus attacking San Francisco. While the human characters are as dull as you'd expect, Harryhausen's beast is an absolute triumph – even if it does only have six tentacles because the budget wouldn't stretch to animating eight of them.

An epic pub crawl becomes a battle against body-stealing aliens in this third and final part of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's unofficial 'Three Colours Cornetto' trilogy.

Behind all of the poetic language, William Shakespeare clearly had a bit of a sadistic streak. Almost all of his plays feature brutal murders and other transgressive acts of violence – something this wickedly funny 1973 black comedy celebrates with its tale of a hammy actor taking his revenge on the theatre critics who belittled him, murdering them using methods lifted directly from The Bard's plays.