Review: The Incredible Hulk – The Complete Collection (DVD)
DVD: The Incredible Hulk – The Complete Collection (1978 – 1982)“Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry“. 2 lines of dialogue that are as synonymous with the character that spoke them as “Go ahead. Make my day“, and “I’ll be back“. If Dr David Banner said that to you, then you’d […]
Review: Hammer Volume 6 – Night Shadows
Following on from Volume 1: Fear Warning, Volume 2: Criminal Intent, Volume 3: Blood & Terror, Volume 4: Faces of Fear, Volume 5: Death & Deceit, it was time once again to sit down with the latest Hammer Films boxset release from Powerhouse Films in their ‘Indicator’ series.The movies are:The Shadow of the Cat (1961)Following on […]
Review: Exciting Times
‘Exciting Times’ by Naoise Dolan.A review by Megan Robinson.Exciting Times is a Sunday Times bestseller and made the longlist for the Women’s Fiction Prize 2021. We follow Ava, a 22-year-old from Ireland, who moves to Hong Kong to ‘find herself.’ The novel is split into three parts entitled ‘Julian’, ‘Edith’ and ‘Edith and Julian’ people […]
Review: Dino King – Journey to Fire Mountain
DVD & Digital: Dino King – Journey to Fire Mountain (2019)Speckles the Tarbosaurus is very disappointed with his son Junior. Speckles wants Junior to be fierce and fearless, but in reality, he’s a little wuss. One day Junior is kidnapped and held captive by a group of nasty Raptors. Speckles goes on an adventure meeting […]
Review: The Babadook 4K UHD
Blu-ray & 4K UHD: The Babadook (2014)In Jennifer Kent’s feature directorial debut, based on her 2005 short film ‘Monster’, Essie Davis plays Amelia Vanek, mother to six-year-old son Samuel (Noah Wiseman).Amelia’s husband dies in the crash that occurs as they race to hospital because she is in labour with Samuel, and now living alone with […]
Review: Eye of the Cat
Blu-ray: Eye of the Cat (1969)Written by Psycho screenwriter Joseph Stefano and directed by David Lowell Rich, Eye of the Cat stars Michael Sarrazin and Gayle Hunnicutt as Wylie and Kassia: a scheming couple who plan to rob Wylie’s wealthy cat-loving Aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker).However, their plans begin to unravel when Wylie’s phobia of cats is put to […]
Review: Major Dundee
Blu-ray: Major Dundee (1965)Regular readers will know my favourite genre is the Western and I admit to feeling quite ashamed that I had never seen Major Dundee before this glorious 4k scan Arrow Films release. What a beautiful package it is, from the packaging to the film.During the Minnesota Dakota Indian War of 1862, Union forces […]
Review: Boycie in Belgrade
DVD & Digital: Boycie in Belgrade (2020) Aubrey ‘Boycie’ Boyce has been on our screens now for 40 years, and is one of the very popular characters in the worldwide hit sitcom Only Fools and Horses, as well as it’s spin-off series The Green Green Grass. Portrayed by John Challis, Boycie, along with his long […]
Review: Friendship’s Death
Blu-ray & DVD: Friendship’s Death (1987) I’ve never come across Friendship’s Death before and on reading the synopsis I immediately got the feeling it would be an hour long art-slog. And although it can be placed in the ‘arty’ box, it’s also an intriguingly good watch. Written and directed by the late English critic […]
Review: Years of Lead
Released by Arrow Films as a box set, Years of Lead consists of five 1970s Italian Crime dramas. At the time they were made Italy was going through a time of political instability, Political corruption was rife and there were many acts of left and right wing terrorism leading the population of Italy to unsurprisingly […]