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 […]
Review: The Captain
The Captain (German: Der Hauptmann) filmed in black and white, made in 2017 and directed by Robert Schwentke, is a film that you think is going to go one way, and hits you over the heads and goes the other. It tells the true story of German war criminal Willi Herold, who assumed the stolen identity of a German […]
Review: The Deep
Blu-ray: The Deep (1977)David Saunders (Nick Nolte) and Gail Burke (Jaqueline Bisset) scuba dive while on holiday together in Bermuda. During the dive Gail finds an ampule of something and David finds a barnacle-encrusted pendant. They seek the advice of resident treasure hunter Romer Treece (Robert Shaw) on the origin of the pendant, and on […]
Review: “Walkabout” Ltd Ed
Blu-ray: Walkabout (1971)In 1970’s urban Australia a father (a worryingly unhinged John Meillon) takes his children on an adventure to the outback with the intention of murder/suicide. The children, a girl (Jenny Agutter) and her brother (Luc Roeg the director’s son) are literally left in the sheering heat of the Australian outback. Thankfully they come across […]
Review: Paydirt
DVD & Digital HD: Paydirt (2020)Damien Brooks (Luke Goss) is released from prison after being incarcerated for 5 years and immediately finds that the world has changed a hell of a lot during that time.However, one thing that hasn’t changed is his determination to find a buried bag of cash that went missing five years ago […]