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With the Us and Israel insisting that "all options remain open, including military action, if Iran continues with its uranium enrichment program" and Iran snapping back that it'll stage "a reciprocal attack" if provoked, as the AP reports today, a little speed-bump in the Oscar race looks pretty damn trivial. Nonetheless, in today's Observer, Saeed Kamali Dehghan reports that "Masoud Ferasati, an Iranian writer whose views are close to those of the Islamic regime, said [recently on state-run television]: 'The image of our society that A Separation depicts is the dirty picture westerners are wishing for.' Ferasati added that political motivations were behind the many awards for Iranian films in the past two decades, and said an Oscar for A Separation should not be welcomed by Iranians." According to Dehghan, though, many "ordinary Iranians," have indeed welcomed the slew of awards Asghar Farhadi's film has garnered, beginning with the Golden and...

The Tuesday before Halloween is bound to have a lot of genre titles. There are some good ones too like Attack the Block, Blue Underground releases Fulci in High-Definition with Zombie and The House by the Cemetery, also Criterion releases The Island of Lost Souls on DVD & Blu-Ray and the most talked about film of last year, A Serbian Film finally hits the shelves. Read below, if you dare, for all your DVD and Blu-Ray releases for this week and if you plan on purchasing any films through Amazon, click on the buttons provided as they help us out with paying the bills around here.

Animal Attack Two Pack (Maneaters Are Loose/ Shark Kill)

Two savage and rare TV movies in the 1970s “Animal Attack” genre that have rarely been seen since their initial release, now back in print and together at last on DVD.

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Release Date: Oct. 25, 2011

Price: DVD $24.95

Studio: Wolfe Video

Hunky British TV personality David Paisley (TV’s Holby’s City) stars in the sexy 2010 horror-suspense movie Unhappy Birthday.

The British film tells the tale of a young man and his secret gay lover who conspire to surprise their friend Sadie on her birthday. Arriving for their getaway on the remote isle of Amen, Rick (Paisley), Jonny (Jonathan Keane) and Sadie (Christine De Vallee) meet the mysterious Corinne (Jill Riddiford of Our Friends in the North ), only to realize that things aren’t going quite the way they had planned…

The first movie co-written and co-directed by Mark Harriott and Mike Matthews, Unhappy Birthday is inspired by such classic British horror films as The Wicker Man. It was filmed on location in Northumberland in the North East of England and on the picturesque tidal island of Lindisfarne.

Unhappy Birthday is a familiar...