Review: Eve
Blu-ray: Eve (1962)Joseph Losey made some of the most interesting films of the 60s (The Servant…if you haven’t seen this film go out and buy it immediately, The Go Between, Criminal, Mr Klein) after being forced out of Hollywood.Although I’ve seen the famous cover of Jeanne Moreau as Eve/Eva, I’d never seen this film before […]
Review: Uncle Buck
Blu-ray: Uncle Buck (1989)The Middle class, affluent Bob & Cindy Russell (Garret Brown & Elaine Bromka) along with their three kids: 15 year old and angry with her parents for uprooting her from her friends Tia (Jean Louisa Kelly), 8 year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), and 6 year old Maisy, have recently moved to Chicago because of […]
Review: The Meaning of Life
Blu-ray & DVD: The Meaning of Life (1983)Monty Python’s final feature film is essentially a series of extended comedy sketches based around the theme of “The Meaning of Life”, covering everything from birth, sex, war, food, and ultimately our final demise as the Grim Reaper comes for us…at a dinner party…never use canned fish!Much like […]
Review: A Trip to the Moon
Blu-ray: A Trip to the Moon (1902)One of the few surviving short films by innovative French film maker Georges Méliès, A Trip to the Moon is a magical tale of a group of astronomers who board a rocket ship and are fired like a bullet out of a gun towards the moon.Arriving at their destination […]
Review: Becky
Digital HD: Becky (2020) Directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion, from a screenplay by Nick Morris, Lane Skye and Ruckus Skye. Starring Lulu Wilson as Becky, Joel Mchale as her dad and ‘comedian’ Kevin James as the main bad guy, Becky is a little bit different to most thrillers. I do try to review films on […]
Review: The Bay of Silence
DVD & Digital HD: The Bay of Silence (2020)Beginning and ending in the Bay of Silence in Italy, this film (based on Lisa St. Aubin de Terán’s book) is an arthouse chiller/thriller where a husband tries to untangle his schizophrenic wife’s past life.Starring former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko as Rosalind and Claes Bang (sexiest Dracula ever) as […]
Review: Out of Africa
Blu-ray: Out of Africa (1985)Out of Africa is one of those barnstorming multi-Oscar winning films that everyone loves and was a huge success both financially and critically.Featuring Meryl Streep (whose accent is of course impeccable and her acting first class) as Karen Blixen, she recalls her life in Africa where in 1913 where she accepts […]
Review: The Tunnel
Digital HD: The Tunnel (2019)The Tunnel (or in its native language – Tunnelen) is another Norwegian disaster movie. “Oh” I hear you say “Another one”? Yes it seems a to be a ‘thing’ on Amazon Prime in the UK, hidden in the depths of its terrible GUI are some gems, a few of which Dave […]
Review: Small Soldiers
DVD: Small Soldiers (1998) When a toy company gets taken over by a megalomanic new owner, 2 of its employees are tasked with creating a new line of toys that will dominate the market. Pushed for time and under constant pressure from the new boss, protocols are ignored and state of the art military computer […]
Review: DTF
VOD: DTF (2020) Some of my favourite documentaries are the ones that initially drew me in with their subject matter and then made unexpected (and usually very dark) tuns which left me open mouthed and exclaiming “WTF!?” (an acronym I do know the meaning of). A prime example being Abducted in Plain Sight, which myself and […]